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   Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jun-2024 10:11:16 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

   A question I need answered. Why do U Western folks eat rice with a fork? Is it cos it's unclassy to use a spoon? Is it because you like the physical and mental challenge? Is it because you need to slow down your consumption of the carb? Such a mystery

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     Jeff Turner (jetsoft@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jun-2024 15:45:52 JST Jeff Turner

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     @liztai I almost always use chop sticks when it's Chinese style food. But Indian and Thai is a fork most of the time. Would only use a spoon if it's too liquid for a fork.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 09:38:10 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • riidom

     @riidom 🤭

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     riidom (riidom@metalhead.club)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 09:38:12 JST riidom

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     @liztai A fork is 3-4 sticks mounted to a handle. Rice is meant to be eaten with sticks, I always thought.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 09:39:00 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • neocolonial malcontent chic

     @toridas_ in a whole other part of the world. We need to transform this 🤣

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     neocolonial malcontent chic (toridas_@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 09:39:02 JST neocolonial malcontent chic

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     @liztai people eat rice with forks??

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 09:39:21 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Zorro

     @zorrobandito who made the rules?? 🤣

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     Zorro (zorrobandito@aus.social)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 09:39:22 JST Zorro

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     @liztai because spoons are for soup or dessert, now that you've made me think about it.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 09:39:41 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Michael Martinez :verified:

     @michael_martinez slowing down is a good excuse to use a fork imo!

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     Michael Martinez :verified: (michael_martinez@c.im)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 09:39:42 JST Michael Martinez :verified:

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     @liztai For me it comes down to whatever I have in my hand and if I can mix the rice with something else. It's also a way of slowing down how much rice I eat, since I love a good rice-based meal.

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     Jerome (He/Him) (jeromechoo@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 09:39:55 JST Jerome (He/Him)

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     @liztai secondary question — why isn’t it more normal outside of SEA to eat rice meals with a spoon AND fork?

     How do you push every grain of rice on your plate into your spoon?

     My takeaway is that Americans just don’t clean their plates.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 09:40:11 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Jerome (He/Him)

     @jeromechoo hahaha omg totally. Fork and spoon is the way to go!

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 09:41:04 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Sasha

     @Smrki this may horrify you but we eat that means with fork and spoon 🤭

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     Sasha (smrki@mastodon.nz)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 09:41:05 JST Sasha

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     @liztai I don't see myself as 'western folk', but yes an european. I presume the idea is that I see rice as addition to the main meal which is meat. Like potato and meat, rice and meat and so on. I never eat rice with spoon, and the sticks 'eastern folks' use seems complicated. There, mystery solved. Hopefully.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 09:41:34 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     @jens @AWolfInCheapClothing try it with chopsticks! Higher challenge lol

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     Jens Finkhäuser (jens@social.finkhaeuser.de)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 09:41:39 JST Jens Finkhäuser

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     • A Wolf in Cheap Clothing

     @AWolfInCheapClothing @liztai I guess the reasoning is that if you're not capable of mastering this kind of challenge, you're not worthy of greater things.

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     Jens Finkhäuser (jens@social.finkhaeuser.de)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 09:41:43 JST Jens Finkhäuser

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     • A Wolf in Cheap Clothing

     @AWolfInCheapClothing @liztai I think that's probably right, but Western table manners are weird anyway. And they do involve a certain amount of challenge, yes.

     The "proper" way to eat soup is to sit straight up and bring the spoon to your mouth (without spilling anything!). And then you don't put the spoon in your mouth, but sip the soup (noiselessly!), from it's side (!), not the front. Again, without spilling.

     It's about the most difficult way you can use a spoon .

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     A Wolf in Cheap Clothing (awolfincheapclothing@calckey.world)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 09:41:44 JST A Wolf in Cheap Clothing

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     @liztai@hachyderm.io
     I would guess it's because usually we see rice as a side dish, and since we're using a fork for the main fish we're to lazy to change

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 09:52:11 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Jerome (He/Him)

     @grumpasaurus @emmaaum @jeromechoo I usually just tip the plate into my mouth 🤣

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     Allan Chow (grumpasaurus@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 09:52:12 JST Allan Chow

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     • Jerome (He/Him)

     @emmaaum @jeromechoo @liztai this is what bread is for. To literally wipe your plate clean

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     Elisheva Meira ✡︎ 🌈 (emmaaum@zirk.us)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 09:52:13 JST Elisheva Meira ✡︎ 🌈

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     • Jerome (He/Him)

     @jeromechoo I've always found a way to clean my plate, though rice and peas were tricky. A fork was easier for that than chopsticks.
     (Now that I have neurological problems I just use a large bowl & soup spoon for everything. Am in awe of SEA two-utensil mastery 🙂)
     Some of it is just what we're taught as kids, handed down through generations. Rice was more common in mine but what I learned came from older meat & potatoes generations and what was most efficient for them, so knives & forks

     @liztai

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 09:52:47 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Anita Lewis

     @ajlewis2 you have been converted! I totally support this

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     Anita Lewis (ajlewis2@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 09:52:48 JST Anita Lewis

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     @liztai

     This Westerner eats almost everything with a spoon or fingers. I sometimes have the first couple bites with a fork while the stir fry or pasta is still very hot and I want to take an itsy bitsy bite not to burn my mouth, but then shift to the spoon, and it is a larger spoon, not a teaspoon.