Bob Terwilliger wrote:
> Becca wrote (I started a new thread):
>
>> My mother never allowed us children to eat with our hands. We had to
>> use utensils, if we wanted to eat. Her mother was the same way, and
>> she was French. I wondered where this came from. It is still
>> difficult for me to eat foods like hot dogs or pizza, without using
>> a fork.
>
> Ribs, tacos, egg rolls, and hot dogs are NOT AS GOOD if you don't eat
> them with your hands. Sushi is MEANT to be finger food; eating sushi
> with chopsticks is a sign of cultural ignorance. Many Indians will
> express a similar feeling regarding eating curry with rice: It's
> *better* if you eat with your hands.
>
> I'd never heard of the Italian aversion to eating with their hands
> before. Is the attitude taken because Italians don't want to get
> their hands dirty, or because they believe their hands *are* dirty,
> and they don't want to contaminate the food? (I note that hands are
> often the most pathogen-laden parts of the body, so I don't mean any
> ethnic slur by the second part of that question.)
>
> Bob, remembering that kili uses chopsticks to eat egg rolls

I've used chopsticks to eat just about everything - even ribs! <g>

kili