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Article #4174Re: eating with fork tines up or down
From: Ian Jackson
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 12:10
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 12:10
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In message <rjkj7axr4b.ln2@news.ducksburg.com>, Adam Funk <a24061@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. ๏ฟฝNo knives are present. ๏ฟฝThe 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. -- Ian
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