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"notbob" > wrote in message
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> Do you use them? For what?
> Are you proficient with them?
> How often? For non-Asian foods?
>
> The history can be found on wiki, so I'll bypass that. I've been
> using them, regularly, for about 6 yrs. I still don't consider myself
> anywhere near having mastered them. More comfortable and use 'em more
> and more, but still not my primary eating implement.
>
> I notice my old geezer honky friend, who uses chopsticks exclusively,
> has mastered them to a point where it's natural. He even does what I
> call the scissors method --which is choreographed nowhere on the web.
> Instead of the narrow isosceles trianble hold, most common with
> novice/intermediate users, he crosses the sticks and pinches the food
> item in a backward cross pinch. This is not unusual, having seen
> scores of old geezers at pho houses using the exact same scissors-like
> method. My buddy can't even articulate what he's doing, having done
> it so long. But, I see the distinction.
>
> BTW, nothing ****es me off like the lame-O retard TV producers who
> consistently, to the point of boredom, always show ppl eating Chinese
> take-out from the box with chopsticks, like every single living
> individual in NYC is born with the inate ability to eat with
> chopsticks. The only exception to this insane stereotype is
> Christopher Noth on Law and Order, who once actually ate Chinese
> take-out from the box with a plastic fork, like most real ppl! Mark
> this day!!
>
> nb


I use them for Asian food. I have some really pretty ones. We bought a ton
of them one year for my daughter's birthday party. It was Sagwa the Chinese
Siamese kitten party. So of course we had Chinese food and we gave out
fancy chopsticks for all the guests to eat with and keep.