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Article #4170Re: eating with fork tines up or down
From: Robert Bannister
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 01:22
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 01:22
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On 30/05/13 9:53 PM, Peter Brooks wrote: > On May 30, 2:10 pm, Ian Jackson > <ianREMOVETHISjack...@g3ohx.demon.co.uk> wrote: >> In message <rjkj7axr4b....@news.ducksburg.com>, Adam Funk >> <a24...@ducksburg.com> writes >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> On 2013-05-30, fabzorba wrote: >> >>>> On 27 May, 05:21, Skitt <skit...@comcast.net> wrote: >> >>>>> In some (Asian, I think) cultures, eating is done using forks and >>>>> spoons. No knives are present. The spoon doubles as a crude cutting >>>>> instrument, when required. >> >>>> I thought they used chopsticks, which might seem even less sensible >>>> than tine-down use of the fork. A chopstick is the handle of a fork >>>> with tines removed, and a spoon with no ladle at the end. But it does >>>> work. People even eat rice with it. Try doing that with a tine-down >>>> fork! >> >>> AFAICT, chopstick-using cultures also prepare food so as to be >>> suitable for chopsticks (bite-sized pieces; rice varieties that work >>> well in clumps). >> >> And if the food cannot be picked up by the chopsticks, the bowl is >> raised to the lips, and the food is shovelled into the mouth. >> > 'Chop-sticked', 'chopped' or 'conveyed', rather than 'shovelled', I'd > have thought - shovelling would involve a spoon of shovel-like design > or proportions. > Which would be a lot more sensible. -- Robert Bannister
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From: Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com>
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Subject: Re: eating with fork tines up or down
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