Chopsticks

[Mikazuki]

I think people who eat with chopsticks where forks are available are just looking for attention.

:rolleyes2:

Your opinion, like mine would be, people who make such comments are ignorant.

Did it ever occur to you that people who use chopsticks might be doing it in order not to use the use of their hands? I have Rheumatoid arthritis (inherited from my grandmother) pretty much every where (hands, feet, elbows, knees, shoulders). My hands swell up if I don't use chopsticks to keep my fingers limber. I teach my children to use chopsticks due to the fact two of them have motor difficulties and need to learn how to be limber. Their teachers and therapists recommended that they learn how to paint or sew or draw or throw pottery - something that requires nimble hands. Using chopsticks requires that mobility and isn't done for attention.

 

[Bolt]

Your opinion, like mine would be, people who make such comments are ignorant.

Well, then your opinion would be wrong.

Did it ever occur to you that people who use chopsticks might be doing it in order not to use the use of their hands? I have Rheumatoid arthritis (inherited from my grandmother) pretty much every where (hands, feet, elbows, knees, shoulders). My hands swell up if I don't use chopsticks to keep my fingers limber. I teach my children to use chopsticks due to the fact two of them have motor difficulties and need to learn how to be limber. Their teachers and therapists recommended that they learn how to paint or sew or draw or throw pottery - something that requires nimble hands. Using chopsticks requires that mobility and isn't done for attention.

It did occur to me, but I figured that most of your artsy college types that go out of their way to ask for chopsticks at Asian restaurants and then talk about loudly about how much more money the one makes than the next are just looking for attention.

 

[Mikazuki]

Well, then your opinion would be wrong.

I'm never wrong. Misguided from time to time, yes but never wrong. I'm female after all. :laugh: So what's your excuse for being wrong?

 

[JFC]

I think people who eat with chopsticks where forks are available are just looking for attention.

So when I go to Chinatown to eat at my favourite Chinese restaurant, which is full of Chinese/Filipino/Thai/Vietnamese/Asian people (most of whom are immigrants who have been used to eating with chopsticks their whole lives instead of a knife and fork) who are eating their food with chopsticks instead of the knife and fork that's already available at the table, that means that they're NOT enjoying their food. They're looking for attention...I see. :eyebrow: By that logic, they must be thinking the same way when people in Japan eat with a knife and fork at a French restaurant. :redface2:


[/sarcasm]


Oh, and opinions are never wrong. You can disagree with them, you can say that you disagree with them. But when it comes to opinions, no matter how farfetched they may seem to you, there is no right or wrong. No black and white. It's all grey.

 

[Bolt]

Sorry, what I meant to say is that you're wrong in general.

 

[Z-Unit]

I think people who eat with chopsticks where forks are available are just looking for attention.

:laugh:
**** yeah. It's America folks, most people eat with forks. So to see some one pull out a pair of chopsticks at a diner in America is very unusual. As it's like to walk into a resturant in Japan and see a guy eat his noodles with a fork.



So don't argue people.

 

[MaraJade]

:laugh:
**** yeah. It's America folks, most people eat with forks. So to see some one pull out a pair of chopsticks at a diner in America is very unusual. As it's like to walk into a resturant in Japan and see a guy eat his noodles with a fork.

So don't argue people.

Lol. Wait, at an American restaurant? hahaha. I thought we were talking about places where chopsticks ARE the norm and FORKS are the abnorm...ie. Asian restaurants. Heck, in those places, we're just given them - no questions asked.

Wait, that would mean people carry on themselves a pair of chopsticks? LOL. Do people actually do that? :laugh:

 

[Bolt]

Yeah I mean like, there's a sushi restaurant pretty near to me that I frequent, and there's always, always some snooty-type people in there that go out of their way to ask for chopsticks and make sure everyone sees that they can use them, like they're trying to impress the staff or something. That's what I'm talking about, it's different if you have like arthritis or something.

 

[Judge Faiz]

This story really has NOTHING do to w/ chopsticks...but it DOES contain silverware, so I'll tell it anyway.

Once upon a time, in the nutty country called Scotland. I was visting the fair city of Edinburgh about 8 or so years ago.
Anyway, my traveling buddy and I decided to stop into a Pizza Hut location after catching a movie.
Well after being seated, we notcied everyone was eating their pizza w/ knife & fork. We then leaned over to two ladies next to us, and asked if we had to eat pizza using a knife and fork. They responded w/ a "Well how ELSE would you eat it?". To which we replyed "With our hands". So after ordering our pizza and chatting w/ the very nice ladies beside us, our pizza arrived. So we proceeded to dig in w/ our hands and eat it, the way our mother's raised us. Not only did the ladies hang around to see us eat w/ our hands, but so did the waitress and also we got a lot of looks from a 9 or 10 person bday party a few tables down.

Ahhh...good times.

 

[Z-Unit]

Hey, it IS possible to eat a burger with chopsitcks. I did it.


I win.:anime: