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Post by peano on Feb 9, 2016 19:01:47 GMT
Yes, but I find them annoying along with Chinese cuisine, which I think pretends to be healthy food, but really is a mess of fried food and high-glycemic starch and sugar. Also, if I'm gonna eat rice, bring me a damn fork!
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Post by anniefb on Feb 9, 2016 19:02:08 GMT
Yep, I can use them and manage pretty well - even on small items.
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Post by cadoodlebug on Feb 9, 2016 20:03:29 GMT
I gave a speech in high school demonstrating how to use them. It was a speech where you had to use props so I gave everyone in the class a set and proceeded to teach. Got an A+.
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Post by leannec on Feb 9, 2016 20:13:50 GMT
I can use them for relatively large chunks of food ... For rice ... forget it
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Post by oh yvonne on Feb 9, 2016 21:00:57 GMT
I can and can use them well, I lived in a predominately Japanese neighborhood for a time when I was young and learned. I just prefer not to, I prefer Western manners. I feel uncomfortable slurping my noodles up, and I don't like holding up the bowl when I eat rice. It just feels sloppy to me so I always use a fork. Plus, I'm more of a food combiner type, meaning I like a little of everything on my plate in one mouthful, and with chopsticks, you kinda have to pick something, and eat it solo. A piece of chicken, and then a vegetable, and then a bite of rice. I Like it all together in the same bite.
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Post by newlywoods03 on Feb 9, 2016 23:09:13 GMT
Not even a little bit. My husband can and has tried to teach me, but... Oh well, fork it is
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Feb 9, 2016 23:25:29 GMT
I can.
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Post by pierogi on Feb 9, 2016 23:28:34 GMT
Yes. It's a little like riding a bicycle. Once you've got the hang of it, you never forget and it becomes second nature.
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Post by caangel on Feb 9, 2016 23:28:48 GMT
Yes, even with rice BUT I don't have the proper form even though I grew up using them. Works for me though.
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Post by The Great Carpezio on Feb 9, 2016 23:40:55 GMT
Eagerness:9-10 I can eat with them pretty well. I couldn't use them until I started eating sushi regularly. They are pretty easy when you start big---then, over time, I could use them for most food.
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Post by gale w on Feb 9, 2016 23:56:59 GMT
I can but not very well. My mom is Japanese and she rarely uses anything but chopsticks.
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Post by shanniebananie on Feb 10, 2016 0:02:57 GMT
I lived with 6 Asian roommates in college. We had more chopsticks than forks in the drawer. I made myself learn how to use them after going to a restaurant that didn't offer forks, only chopsticks to eat with. I was so embarrassed, I vowed to learn immediately!
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Post by winogirl on Feb 10, 2016 0:03:57 GMT
No, they are usually made of wood aren't they? I don't like that. I used to scrape the last of the ice cream off with my finger because I didn't like the wood Popsicle stick in my mouth.
4 or 5 on eagerness. I'm a light eater and I like to savor my food slowly.
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Post by alexa11 on Feb 10, 2016 0:07:49 GMT
No and my DD laughs at me for cutting sushi with a knife and then eating it with a fork. Even if I could use them, a whole piece of sushi is too big for my mouth! I would say about a 6 on the eagerness scale.
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Post by gmcwife1 on Feb 10, 2016 0:12:51 GMT
No, they are usually made of wood aren't they? I don't like that. I used to scrape the last of the ice cream off with my finger because I didn't like the wood Popsicle stick in my mouth. 4 or 5 on eagerness. I'm a light eater and I like to savor my food slowly. My dd dislikes wooden utensils too. She can't even use a wooden spoon.
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Post by birukitty on Feb 10, 2016 0:17:00 GMT
Eons ago back in 1984 I spent 6 months living in Japan visiting my fiance who was stationed there with the Navy. He had a small apartment off base so that's where we lived (I lived when he went out to sea). Anyway, my first night there we went out to dinner for sushi (this was before sushi became a big thing here in the USA) and of course you eat that with chopsticks. I learned how to eat with chopsticks while living there in Japan. I also loved sushi from the first taste, although the thought of raw fish when I heard about made me squeamish. I suppose everyone feels like that.
So yes, I can eat with chopsticks. I find the wooden ones easier to use than the polished round Chinese chopsticks. Japanese chopsticks have more of a square sort of shape.
Debbie in MD.
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Post by gale w on Feb 10, 2016 0:27:32 GMT
No, they are usually made of wood aren't they? I don't like that. I used to scrape the last of the ice cream off with my finger because I didn't like the wood Popsicle stick in my mouth. 4 or 5 on eagerness. I'm a light eater and I like to savor my food slowly. You can buy plastic ones and ones that are lacquered wood or some other kind of plastic-y coating. I think in restaurants, though, they offer the disposable wood ones most of the time. You know how there's a compartment in the drawer for each type of silverware? We had a compartment that was completely full of plastic and lacquered wood chopsticks. My mom calls them hashi.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Feb 10, 2016 0:48:38 GMT
I'm fairly proficient with chopsticks and use them anytime they are offered in restaurants. We have several pair of the lacquered ones at home, but I rarely pull them out there. I love being adventurous with food and consider the method of eating said food to be part of the adventure.
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Post by linda~lou on Feb 10, 2016 2:14:45 GMT
Actually I use them a lot. I find it helps me eat slower and take smaller bites. It's a great dieting tool so you don't shovel food down so fast and helps you realize you're full by taking longer to eat and letting food settle between bites.
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Post by Eddie-n-Harley on Feb 10, 2016 2:48:36 GMT
I can use them. I'm not terribly proficient, but if that's all I had to eat with, I wouldn't starve.
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Post by Native New Yorker on Feb 10, 2016 2:59:12 GMT
Only use them for sushi.
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Post by wiipii2 on Feb 10, 2016 3:26:45 GMT
Yes, I can and do use them.
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Post by georgiapea on Feb 10, 2016 3:32:23 GMT
No, and I've gone to Asian restaurants where they only bought you chop sticks. I've had to ask for a fork. At least nobody has ever said "Eat with chop sticks or go somewhere else"!
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Post by katlady on Feb 10, 2016 4:52:17 GMT
Yes, I can use chopsticks, probably not correctly. My grandmother once had some friends come visit from Japan and we all went out to eat. They laughed at the way I used my chopsticks. I thought I was doing just fine! Chinese rice and fried rice give me problems, maybe that is why they serve their rice in bowls. Makes scooping it in the pie hole easier. Yes, I can and do use them. It is funny, when I eat Chinese food, I'm fine with just using a fork but when I eat Japanese food, I prefer to use chopsticks. I'm not sure why but I just would rather use them. That is me too! It feels weird to eat Japanese food with a fork, but Chinese food I usually use a fork. I think it is partly because the Chinese restaurants tend to have those bigger clunky plastic chopsticks.
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Post by bothmykidsrbrats on Feb 10, 2016 5:03:46 GMT
I can use them. My eagerness for what is at the bottom of the chopsticks is usually about a 5, and my skills are equal to the task.
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Post by holly on Feb 10, 2016 5:37:56 GMT
We lived in Okinawa for 3 years so I learned there. I have good dexterity with them, I can eat pretty much anything with them and about as fast as with a fork. DH knows how to but prefers a fork. Kids are slacking in the department. They know how to so they could probably slog through if they had to but other than rice, they don't eat much Asian food.
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Post by artbabe on Feb 10, 2016 11:09:08 GMT
I'm awkward with them. I used to be better when I was younger.
I had a Chinese-Malaysian boyfriend for 3 years in college. He, of course, could use chopsticks but almost always used a fork, even for Chinese food. I don't know why- maybe when in America, eat like Americans?
I still talk to him sometimes. I'll have to ask him why he used a fork.
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Post by miominmio on Feb 10, 2016 12:39:44 GMT
No, nor do I have any desire to try them. I would probably end up poking my eyes out or something.
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Post by eastcoastpea on Feb 10, 2016 17:19:01 GMT
I could if I had to. It's more work than I'm interested in and would make me more likely to wear some of my food. 7-10 on the eagerness scale.
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Post by melanell on Feb 10, 2016 18:05:35 GMT
I can muddle through a meal if I absolutely have to, but it's not pretty. My kids are pretty good with them, though. It all comes down to just having them around and using them. We didn't have any when I was a kid, but my kids know that we have them, and anytime we eat anything that lends itself to chopsticks, they get them out. Sometimes they only use them for awhile, and sometimes for the whole meal. There is truth in the old cliche-----practice makes perfect.
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