If you can't properly use a fork you have to be a dumbass.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Let me explain why before I seem like a total twat. A fork is a one piece utensil, chopsticks are two. A fork has one side that is obviously used for eating because the other side is a handle. Chopsticks require you to use your hands for two sticks and work them at the same time to pick up your food. While a fork is pretty much a cavemans utensil, you stab your food and then shove the food into your mouth.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I live in China, and when I go out to the countryside to do volunteer work, a lot of the people in the poorer, less developed areas can't use knives and forks. They find it confusing because it's two separate, totally differently shaped utensils, that you use in different hands and have to co-ordinate at once. And they find forks difficult because they're a fixed shape and you can't manipulate them to create different angles like you can with chopsticks. Oh, and in Chinese culture it can be seen as very rude to stab food with chopsticks, something to do with wishing death on the person who prepared the food. So some people would be uncomfortable with stabbing food with a fork.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Really? I'd think that if you can manipulate something like chopsticks you could do wonders with a fork. I guess I learned something new today.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

They grew up with chopsticks so that's what they're used to. And chopsticks are a pretty simple shape so to them they're easy to use.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Ah, I see.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Ever since I've been a kid I'd manage to somehow drop a chopstick every time we went to this one Chinese restaurant, so I always ended up stabbing my shit like there was no tomorrow. I guess that's why they glared at me.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Haha, I can't argue with that. I didn't exactly mean that Asians couldn't figure out how forks worked; I more or less meant that they found them perplexing (perhaps too simple, like you said).

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Actually my friend hates using forks. She's Korean and she gets annoyed using forks because chopsticks are so much easier for her.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm an asian. I don't know even how to use a chopstick. Another reason to add on my 'Why I Hate Being an Asian'. It's like using chopsticks is an unspoke rule among every asian person. Not every asian is a chinese or japanese, you know...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm 2% Chinese. I can use chopsticks. I out-Asian you.

by Anonymous 12 years ago