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Many people try and fail at using chopsticks, if they were a bit more pointy at the end, people who get frustrated could stab at their food instead of pick it up with the sticks.
Chopsticks Pics
http://www.ichizen....psticks_2001_01.htm
[Amos Kito, Oct 06 2002]
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Hi Yoda!
It's worthwhile to get good at using chopsticks. It can take a few minutes, or in my case a couple years. But you'll be able to pick up a single grain of rice, and most anything else on the plate with a little practice. Ask a your waiter at a restaurant that has chopsticks to show you how. |
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I would kinda suggest that people with chopstick difficulties just use a "fork", although another separate stabbing utensil is fine with me. But eons of experimentation has given chopsticks a dull point. So "do as the Romans do", and in this case the Romans are Japanese. |
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//in this case the Romans are Japanese//
And here I thought that Chopsticks were a chinese invention.
One of the reasons why chopsticks were supposedly developed is so that peasants didn't have sharp or pointed implements. That way they could be less effective in a revolt. This possibly lead to better martial arts too. All surmise mind you. |
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CrumbsDM, yes, they started in China. I'm told Chinese chopsticks are rounded, Japanese "pointy", [link] but neither look appropriate for stabbing a noodle. |
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And Chinese. And Korean. And Malay. And Indonesian. And Thai. And Mongolian. And Taiwanese. And Laosian. Not to mention some Indians. |
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Anyway, you get the picture. |
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I believe in Thailand they use a fork and a spoon. |
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yamahito, what about Vietnamese? :) |
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Sorry, I didn't mean to rain on everyone's chopstick. The information I found, referred to Japanese chopsticks in particular, as "pointy". But, of course anyone could sharpen their own. And thus produce the desired stabbing characteristics of this idea. |
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Now, what do you do if someone attacks you with a pointed stick? |
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If you are the most favored, you win by virtue of a better religion that frees you from believing that the pointed stick upon which your opponent has stumbled and impaled himself has now been exorcised of its ability to harm a man, a belief you would have been forced by your peers to test by falling upon it yourself. |
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