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User avatar #178 - MakiChan (09/24/2012) [-]
most rice sticks together in clumps so you put the mass majority of it on the top of the sticks like a scoop, or times you can just pick it up like normal. it takes practice but once you get a hold of it its not that hard to do.
#200 to #178 - bluelight (09/24/2012) [-]
yep thats true you win good sir
User avatar #177 - somenerd (09/24/2012) [-]
The chinese used to use forks, knives, spoons, etc. Then comes the Ming dynasty and they fear an uprising. They take away all weapons and materials to make weapons. This includes the metal in silver ware. The poor chinese people can't eat and make products as well as they do now. Forks are hard to make out of wood and are very time consuming. These are easy to make and also very cheap. So that is why they use these.
User avatar #172 - ghosttrainhaze (09/24/2012) [-]
Its actually really easy. Make the two sticks parallel like 2 prongs on a fork and scoop. Rice is kind of sticky, so it works.
#166 - childcatcher (09/24/2012) [-]
one stick no work
User avatar #165 - loneranger (09/24/2012) [-]
Because of reasons irrelevant to logic...
User avatar #164 - fatcartman (09/24/2012) [-]
They eat with chopsticks because then you will be only focusing on the food and forgetting everything else and you can enjoy your meal
#163 - songofstorms **User deleted account** (09/24/2012) [-]
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#161 - notklaviko **User deleted account** (09/24/2012) [-]
Rice clumps together, it's not hard to pick up. Anyway, you usually just bring the bowl to your mouth and shovel it in.
#193 to #161 - saxophan (09/24/2012) [-]
Why not just use your hands or something else more convenient at that point?
User avatar #160 - justadude (09/24/2012) [-]
i find it easier to eat rice and ramen with chopsticks. its actually to the point where i almost cant eat them with a fork.
#167 to #160 - N. Korean citizen (09/24/2012) [-]
That doesn't say much for you.
#158 - repel (09/24/2012) [-]
Im pretty sure they were made so that they would slowly eat the meal, such as in Italy nowadays, for example. They do so to enjoy the food, which is a part of their culture, not engulf it like some people do.
User avatar #157 - Nihatclodra (09/24/2012) [-]
It's not hard to eat rice with chopsticks...
User avatar #159 to #157 - ZenMacros (09/24/2012) [-]
But it's still easier with other utensils.
User avatar #162 to #159 - Nihatclodra (09/24/2012) [-]
not really, It's about the same.
#156 - Matengel (09/24/2012) [-]
traditional rice sticks together, forming clumps, its not like they use chopsticks to eat an individual grain of rice at a time...
User avatar #171 to #156 - iaminfactawizard (09/24/2012) [-]
i've been doing it wrong my entire life...
#154 - Psychoturtle (09/24/2012) [-]
I read something about chopsticks somewhere and they said that they used chopsticks because it doesn't show any barabaric characteristics as a fork or knife would. Or something like that...
User avatar #153 - gongthehawkeye (09/24/2012) [-]
I think we should just eat everything with our hands.
And drink stuff out of bowls.
#151 - thisotherdude (09/24/2012) [-]
If I ever go to Japan or China (or any Asian country that uses chopstick really) I'm always gonna keep a fork in my pocket. I shall call it my pocketfork!
User avatar #170 to #151 - thunderkrux (09/24/2012) [-]
That would actually be rude in japan. It would be saying to them that their utensils are cheap, or they're not good enough, then you'd be spearing there food which is also rude, you shouldn't even spear food with chopsticks either. To them, spearing the food shows you have a barbaric nature and you might not actually be enjoying the food and you are instead just eating just to eat.
User avatar #173 to #170 - thisotherdude (09/24/2012) [-]
I think using a fork and seeming kind of rude would be a better alternative to trying to use chopstick, getting frustrated because I can't pick up anything with them, tossing them, and then using my bare hands to ram the food down my throat in a horrifyingly violent manner that might even give some of the children and more squeamish people around me nightmares.
User avatar #176 to #173 - thunderkrux (09/24/2012) [-]
No rude is still rude. Besides, chopsticks are easy to use unless there is an actual physical reason why you can't use them such as fused fingers, no fingers, severe arthritis, or broken hands.
User avatar #179 to #176 - thisotherdude (09/24/2012) [-]
"chopsticks are easy to use"

Yeah... If that was true I wouldn't need to carry a fork in my pocket while in and Asian country (that uses chopsticks of course), also I don't care if I seem rude if it means I actually have the ability to put food in my mouth.
User avatar #184 to #179 - thunderkrux (09/24/2012) [-]
They really are easy. It's kind of like learning to drive stick, you don't get it at first, you have problems, you can't get it to go anywhere, then suddenly after practice it becomes as easy as driving an automatic. Seriously I don't even have to think about changing gears anymore.
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#144 - N. Korean citizen (09/24/2012) [-]
i believe the chopsticks also had an elegance to them which the Chinese were fond of. food was to be prepared so it could be eaten easily with chopsticks. i.e. sushi.(bite sized). you also werent allowed to touch the food with your hands while you were eating it.
#139 - jeengak (09/24/2012) [-]
two sticks has more potential than any utensils only if u know how to use them property... ill stick with my fingers lol
User avatar #137 - MotorstormLegend (09/24/2012) [-]
Maybe that's why most Asians are so skinny...
User avatar #136 - zoidz (09/24/2012) [-]
Weren't the chopsticks made for quick and simple 'food utensils' access for soldiers during the Meiji War period?
User avatar #152 to #136 - minecraftborn ONLINE (09/24/2012) [-]
well couldn't they just put a fork in thier backpacks before going to war?
User avatar #260 to #152 - zoidz (09/24/2012) [-]
The cost of making a fork is a lot, and Im talking about the meiji era, and before, so I think thats about 'medieval times' also having something metallic would be like taking $2000 into the middle of a war. Not sure about the facts but from what I read its something like that.
User avatar #262 to #260 - minecraftborn ONLINE (09/25/2012) [-]
well that's a good point, or points whatever... it was kinda of a joke xD but anyhow it ansewred a doubt so I thank you
User avatar #264 to #262 - zoidz (09/25/2012) [-]
No problem, here to help as much as I can.
#145 to #136 - chawlsBITCH (09/24/2012) [-]
uhhh yeah....surrre...let's go with that...
uhhh yeah....surrre...let's go with that...
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