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Aw, C'MON!!! Now you're just showing off!!! (Original Post) MiddleFingerMom Mar 2013 OP
As someone who has never mastered chopsticks... Sekhmets Daughter Mar 2013 #1
I spent a month in Taiwan and almost another in Tokyo when I was a kid Kali Mar 2013 #2
Could you have caught a fly with them? Paulie Mar 2013 #7
"Owwie", said Li'l MFM. "Just owwie. And that goes double for that waxing stuff." MiddleFingerMom Mar 2013 #9
Chork! marzipanni Mar 2013 #3
Hell, even I can do that pinboy3niner Mar 2013 #4
Don't ever ask for chop sticks at Denny's olddots Mar 2013 #5
Someone should learn to eat their food. Not play with it. In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #6
I just woke up from a nightmare where I was at Olive Garden... MiddleFingerMom Mar 2013 #8
Okay, that's a cute trick. I'm going to have to use it soon. talkingmime Mar 2013 #10

Sekhmets Daughter

(7,515 posts)
1. As someone who has never mastered chopsticks...
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 06:56 PM
Mar 2013

I would be soooo tempted to just push down on the end of the fork, as I passed by, and watch the contents launch!

Kali

(55,007 posts)
2. I spent a month in Taiwan and almost another in Tokyo when I was a kid
Tue Mar 19, 2013, 12:01 AM
Mar 2013

then we rented an unfurnished apartment for 7 months in Anchorage so rather than buy a lot of kitchen stuff we bought spoons and chopsticks so continued using them for almost a year, got pretty good - I could totally have done that, may still be able to with a couple tries (and you just know I will the next time I have them out). Can't eat Asian type food without them.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
4. Hell, even I can do that
Tue Mar 19, 2013, 02:43 AM
Mar 2013

When I was in the Army, some Vietnamese officers who were training here invited me for lunch. Lunch was a huge pile of rice, which I struggled to make a dent in using my chopsticks.

Eventualy, I looked around--and discovered that my Vietnamese friends had all been using spoons and they were done while I still had a mountain of rice on my plate. The joke was on me!

But I learned to be very good with chopsticks. And could pick up a single kernel of rice with no problem. If only my Vietnamese pranksters could see me now...

MiddleFingerMom

(25,163 posts)
8. I just woke up from a nightmare where I was at Olive Garden...
Tue Mar 19, 2013, 07:53 AM
Mar 2013

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