"Robert Miles" > wrote in message
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> On 9/8/2011 1:25 AM, RodS wrote:
>> On 7/09/2011 9:11 AM, Ozgirl wrote:
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>>> I eat chicken with my hands, also salad with my hands I pick up chop
>>> and steak bones too to get the last of the meat off
>>
>> I have trouble using chopsticks, they really need a pointed end :-)
>> One of the funniest things was some Chinese friends who had tried to
>> teach me how to use chopsticks trying to eat pizza with a knife and fork
>> they were relieved when I told them it was traditionally eaten with your
>> hands :-)
>>
>> (- -)
>> =m=(_)=m=
>> RodS T2
>> Australia
>
> I've read that chopsticks were invented by some Chinese emperor
> who was afraid of being harmed by the older dining tools, such
> as knives, and therefore created something that allowed eating
> but made it especially difficult to cause harm.

I don't know about that! Some of the decorative ones are pretty pointy!