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[b.lumpkin]

Awesome.

[sdsichero]

Not as efficient of sticking a fork through it.

Chopsticks... not as clumsy or random as a fork. An elegant utensil, for a more civilized age...

[sdsichero]

Chinese food...

I've never had a chinese girl...

I've been with a half Chinese girl...

Got hungry again after half an hour.

[toolverine]

As for why they were used, because people didn't trust other people with eating knives.


As for why people over here use them now?

For me, I use them because it is part of the dining experience, if I want to eat Asian food, I want to eat it the way it was meant to be eaten. Just like when I go to a ren-fair, and eat the bread bowl soup without any utensil at all or tearing the meat off the turkey leg with just my teeth.

It's not every ones answer, but that is my reason.

And fuck napkins!

[Kitty_tc_69]

I've been with a half Chinese girl...

Got hungry again after half an hour.

So? Eat her again! That's my philosophy. It's not like she'd mind.

[Chris]

Sushi is disgusting.

[muddyglass]

1) Why do Westerners use chopsticks when they eat Asian food? Don't get me wrong, certain foods fall apart when using a fork like sushi, but do you really need to eat sesame chicken with chopsticks? Give me a fork and let me eat my food.

I don't get it.

2) I like sushi, but it is the Obama of food. If you say you don't like it, someone will bite your head off (for all you conservatives on the board ).

Is there a more pretentious food than sushi? It's good on occasion, but give me a nice juicy burger or pizza.

I laugh at all the morons who get sushi as a fast food meal at lunch. You see them struggling with their chopsticks while they balance their uncooked fish on their laps. Just give me a sandwich.

1) i'm pretty sure the sushi people are not forcing you to use chopsticks. use chopsticks, use a fork, use your fingers, use whatever. it's your choice. why complain about others choosing to use chopsticks? shouldn't they be as free to make up their own minds on their choice of utensils?

2) sushi is just food. it can't be pretentious. you are thinking of the qualities of a subset of the people who enjoy sushi, and then overreaching. there are plenty of folks who simply enjoying eating sushi and who wouldn't be characterized as pretentious. you know. because sushi is just food.

3) it's really not all that hard to learn to use chopsticks. it's a skill that's taught to children, which in and of itself says something of the difficulty level we're dealing with here. you make it sound as if using chopsticks was on par with, say, number theory. as people get older, some are curious about other cultures and new ideas, and enjoy learning new things, even if they can already do things one way. that's generally considered a good thing. why laugh at people struggling with chopsticks? they will eventually learn it if they have enough dedication to see it through. and they can always quit if they feel frustrated enough. no big deal. i see it as a sign of progress that some folks are willing to even learn an alternative utensil to the one they were raised on. this shouldn't need defending. what a crazy forked up world.

[habitual]

Frag it is clearly a pregnant woman denied the joy of sushi.

Hab

[genetic freak]

I just discovered a few weeks ago that I really dont like sushi that much. So I started discarding the rice and just went for sashimi and I enjoyed it more. Sashimi plus wasabi plus soy sauce plus beer = fat but happy genetic freak.

[habitual]

I never knew that rice farmers were "destitute".

Hab

[genetic freak]

I never knew that rice farmers were "destitute".

Hab

Logic Police!

[Apache Chef]

Growing up, my father was a was a liason between his company and a Chinese group they were working with. For some reason related to that, he was also involved in local Chinese civic groups. As a result, as a kid, I often had to tag along to social gatherings where food was being served. And they served real Chinese food. Not the kind you get in restaurants made to appeal to Americans, but the kind they would eat at home. For my 8-9 year old self, it was a lot like the scene in Temple of Doom with the eye ball soup and the chilled monkey brains. Between the 1000 year eggs and all the other crazy stuff, one thing really stands out in my memory: a very large platter of chicken feet.

Anyway, as a result, I've had an aversion to Asian food ever since. I realize it's unfair of me to lump it all together, but that's just the way my taste buds have processed it.

Whenever I get roped in to going to a sushi place, I get something like tempura shrimp, and the people I'd normally call my friends look at me like I'm a douchebag for not pretending to like fish eggs wrapped in seaweed. So I definitely agree with the idea that sushi is the most pretentious food you can eat in the US. Not because of the actual food or the people who make it, but because of the people who eat it and act like they are having a multicultural experience with the hot towels, chopsticks, and the rest of the white people acting like they are multicultural.

[S.F. Jude Terror]

It's not that the Sushi itself is pretentious, literoolverine, but that a lot of people eat it because they're pretentious.

[S.F. Jude Terror]

Growing up, my father was a was a liason between his company and a Chinese group they were working with. For some reason related to that, he was also involved in local Chinese civic groups. As a result, as a kid, I often had to tag along to social gatherings where food was being served. And they served real Chinese food. Not the kind you get in restaurants made to appeal to Americans, but the kind they would eat at home. For my 8-9 year old self, it was a lot like the scene in Temple of Doom with the eye ball soup and the chilled monkey brains. Between the 1000 year eggs and all the other crazy stuff, one thing really stands out in my memory: a very large platter of chicken feet.

Anyway, as a result, I've had an aversion to Asian food ever since. I realize it's unfair of me to lump it all together, but that's just the way my taste buds have processed it.

Whenever I get roped in to going to a sushi place, I get something like tempura shrimp, and the people I'd normally call my friends look at me like I'm a douchebag for not pretending to like fish eggs wrapped in seaweed. So I definitely agree with the idea that sushi is the most pretentious food you can eat in the US. Not because of the actual food or the people who make it, but because of the people who eat it and act like they are having a multicultural experience with the hot towels, chopsticks, and the rest of the white people acting like they are multicultural.

[Deux]

I've really been craving some sushi lately.