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[Daigoro]

this was one of the most inane topics to begin with.

50x so with the bump.

 

[Gentleman Jack]

I'm just saying almost every situation where I'm eating something, a fork is easier and simpler to use instead of using chopsticks especially when a person is unfamiliar with them. They don't really bring anything to the table that other utensils can't also do.

That's fine, but it doesn't make them universally superior because the criteria for better/worse requires a lot more personal context than you grant. Celebrate the differences, don't look down at them.

 

[Gvaz]

That's fine, but it doesn't make them universally superior because the criteria for better/worse requires a lot more personal context than you grant. Celebrate the differences, don't look down at them.

I'm not going to try and force someone to use something else if they are comfortable using the thing they like, but that doesn't mean I can't scoff at them for using what I'd consider substandard

Regardless if it works for you, that's fine, though I personally don't have any use for them when I can get around just fine without them.

 

[Gentleman Jack]

I can't scoff at them for using what I'd consider substandard

I also can't really stop people from being self-centered and superficial but it doesn't stop me pointing it out when it's this obvious.

 

[Wazzim]

Efficiency before etiquette.

It isn't even fucking efficient, I'm done with this shit and just say it: most of the western people using chopsticks are just weaboo's.
Hell, I have met tons of korean/chinese people using spoon instead of chopsticks when eating rice, even when chopsticks where one of the options.

 

[Pandaman]

It isn't even fucking efficient, I'm done with this shit and just say it: most of the western people using chopsticks are just weaboo's.
Hell, I have met tons of korean/chinese people using spoon instead of chopsticks when eating rice, even when chopsticks where one of the options.

You seem pretty angry. It's just utensils bro.

 

[Wazzim]

You seem pretty angry. It's just utensils bro.

No just woke up and am angry at my incompetence to step out of bed.

 

[TheKaeptain]

It isn't even fucking efficient, I'm done with this shit and just say it: most of the western people using chopsticks are just weaboo's.
Hell, I have met tons of korean/chinese people using spoon instead of chopsticks when eating rice, even when chopsticks where one of the options.

Why does that make them a weeaboo? My father is an 73 year old white guy that eats with them anytime he eats at a place where they are called for.

 

[Steelrain]

Notto dish shitto agin.

 

[ULTROS!]

Chopsticks = Noodles/East Asian cuisine
Hands = Filipino cuisine
Spoon + Fork + Knife = Everything else

I rarely use hands though.

 

[TheKaeptain]

and thanks for bumping this thread. I WANT SOUP DUMPLINGS NOW!!!!


*Avatar quote.

 

[hteng]

who the hell bumped this thread? i used chopsticks and spoons combo !

 

[BocoDragon]

It isn't even fucking efficient, I'm done with this shit and just say it: most of the western people using chopsticks are just weaboo's.
Hell, I have met tons of korean/chinese people using spoon instead of chopsticks when eating rice, even when chopsticks where one of the options.

Koreans use spoons on rice as part of culture.

I agree about spoon = rice, but for foods that are best "plucked", chopsticks are better.

who the hell bumped this thread? i used chopsticks and spoons combo !

 

[areal]

Like eating rice with chopsticks, aww fuck no

This thread is so bad.

 

[Vaporak]

Do you people not know how to twirl your noodles around a fork or something?

Of course I do, I grew up eating speghetti that way. But it's just easier to eat with chopsticks; I can eat it faster with chopsticks than I can with a fork. I bet everyone who's proficient with chopsticks could actually eat spaghetti faster that way to, spinning that fork wastes a lot of time that you could be eating.

It isn't even fucking efficient, I'm done with this shit and just say it: most of the western people using chopsticks are just weaboo's.
Hell, I have met tons of korean/chinese people using spoon instead of chopsticks when eating rice, even when chopsticks where one of the options.

Or you know, maybe you just didn't grow up in an area with a large Asian-american population?

 

[Shin Kojima]

I'm not Asian but for some reason I did learn to eat with chopsticks as a kid. I prefer them for the foods I can eat with them because I enjoy the feeling of the sticks in my mouth more than I do the feeling of a larger metal object. It's hard to describe but it makes the food taste more natural to me or something.

 

[Momo]

I went to a restaurant last week and it reminded me of this thread. Eating grilled asparagus with knife and fork was stupid, especially because the dinner fork that was given had the space between the prongs just slightly wider.

You're an awful person for reigniting this thread

 

[Quick]

I'm not Asian but for some reason I did learn to eat with chopsticks as a kid. I prefer them for the foods I can eat with them because I enjoy the feeling of the sticks in my mouth more than I do the feeling of a larger metal object. It's hard to describe but it makes the food taste more natural to me or something.

So you're saying you like wood in your mouth.

 

[thetrin]

So you're saying you like wood in your mouth.

What poverty-stricken chopsticks are you using?

 

[xelios]

What poverty-stricken chopsticks are you using?

The euphemism kind!

 

[Blackace]

Yes, it works pretty well, you just fucking stab the dumpling and you're g2g.

I don't understand why anyone would use chopsticks since utensils are better 9/10 times.

Like eating rice with chopsticks, aww fuck no


If you're eating popcorn with butter you're doing it wrong. Especially microwave popcorn.

lol... so much fail in here

 

[ampere]

Chopsticks work well for sticky rice, sushi, and I'm sure other foods as well.

By no means would it be most pragmatic to only use chopsticks in modern times, but there are still some foods that are best eaten with chopsticks.

Tradition is also a factor of course.

 

[Jimrpg]

malaysians like to eat with their fingers but i don't get why they eat with their fingers when they have rice and curry. they mix it in well, but seems redundant when spoons are so cheap these days.

 

[Brofist]

People in countries which traditionally use chopsticks to eat even eat using fork/knife/spoon when it's more convenient. Not sure why we are having such a raging debate over this.

 

[Phantast2k]

It's the same thing. You haters are just a bunch of clutzes. Stop imposing your disability on others.

 

[Zaptruder]

malaysians like to eat with their fingers but i don't get why they eat with their fingers when they have rice and curry. they mix it in well, but seems redundant when spoons are so cheap these days.

I have a malaysian chinese heritage...

I'm not aware of many malaysians eating curry without a spoon.

We're certainly happy to use our hands to eat stuff when it calls for it - but we're also just as accustomed to forks, spoons and chopsticks (although as a culture, probably not knives so much).

 

[Zaptruder]

People in countries which traditionally use chopsticks to eat even eat using fork/knife/spoon when it's more convenient. Not sure why we are having such a raging debate over this.

Pretty much this.

I can definetly use a pair of chopsticks fine, but if you present to me utensils for me to select, I'll gravitate towards spoon/fork/knives 99 out of 100 times

the 1/100 time is when I'm feeling weird.

 

[Finaika]

malaysians like to eat with their fingers but i don't get why they eat with their fingers when they have rice and curry. they mix it in well, but seems redundant when spoons are so cheap these days.

They taste better using fingers.

 

[hteng]

malaysians like to eat with their fingers but i don't get why they eat with their fingers when they have rice and curry. they mix it in well, but seems redundant when spoons are so cheap these days.

it's part of a tradition here, if you aren't accustomed to it, you'll won't be proficient at it, yea it's just using your hands but try grabbing it with rice + curry + whatever vege without dropping all over the place.

I have a malaysian chinese heritage...

I'm not aware of many malaysians eating curry without a spoon.

We're certainly happy to use our hands to eat stuff when it calls for it - but we're also just as accustomed to forks, spoons and chopsticks (although as a culture, probably not knives so much).

he's probably confused with sambal/belacan

 

[Kyoufu]

Rice and chopsticks is the worst thing I have ever experienced in my life. Took forever trying to get a grain from the bowl to my mouth. Ended up giving up after a while.

 

[Eight Diagram Bat Fighter]

WHY WAS THIS BROUGHT BACK FROM THE DEAD?! YOU FOOL!!!!












chopsticksarebetterthanforks

 

[Zaptruder]

chopsticksarebetterthanforks

NO!!

*scoops your heart out with a spoon*