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Default A Strange Way To Eat That Was Once Common

On Oct 17, 10:17 am, javawizard > wrote:
> It's hard to imagine that until about four hundred years ago, European
> people ate everything with their fingers. When a few people started
> using forks in England, everyone else thought the idea of using tools
> to eat was totally ridiculous. - from the Food History section ofwww.odd-info.com


It's fun eating mashed potatoes and gravy with (scrupulously clean)
fingers
I'd never do it in public though.

--Bryan