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On 1/20/2012 2:04 AM, notbob wrote:
> 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
>


What does our local electric utility (ppl) have to do with chopsticks?