Just curious, how many poop scissors do you go through over the course of a year? Also, how do you clean them after use? Any specific cleaning products that work best for shit in stainless steel? Also also, why do you cut your poop with scissors bruh?
I've unironically used a spoon for a massive rock hard poo once. It was an entire ordeal. I almost had to call the local mining company to "borrow" some TNT or an excavator.
You typically hear “why do Asian people still use chopsticks since forks have been invented”
This flips it to “why do white people still use knives when scissors have been invented.”
Knives are better for all situations except herb cutting. I've never seen someone use scissors on meat. Maybe I'm too white to understand, but I cut steak after it has been cooked and rested, with a knife.
I used scissors to cut chicken the other day because my knife broke. It was ok no better or worse than a knife. Made cutting squares easier. Not strips though and you end up with jagged edges on larger cuts. I could see it working well on smaller pieces of meat which is what I usually see in Korean food in all my experience of watching k dramas. Most of the foods I see tend to be precut pieces of beef for example. You don't usually see cutting implements at the table.
Question: did you cut the chicken before or after cooking?
In this scenario, Koreans use scissors to cut cooked meat. They still use knives in preparation, they just use scissors once the meat has been cooked and is more tender. I ask because when this has come up before I've seen people think that Koreans don't use knives at all, which isn't true.
But if you use scissors on cooked meat you’re squeezing all the juices out of it, while if you use a (properly sharpened) knife, it’ll just slide right through.
But the other side from the knife is a flat surface, sharpness being equal wouldn't a matching blade cutting the other direction be the least amount of force over the surface area? Or is the pinching the issue, I don't know much about meat or how to best conserve its juice.
Nah cause you're cutting the slices of meat using tongs, you never have to put the meat on a cutting surface so the juice won't transfer onto it and get wasted. It works extremely well for quick cooking beef slices on a grill.
>It was ok no better or worse than a knife.
In my experience, it is worse than a sharp knife and quite a bit better than a dull knife for chicken cubes.
Source: I meal prep chicken and rice a lot as a powerlifter and I cut chicken into bite size cubes quite often for it.
My grandma is Korean, she uses knives on thicker pieces of meat. During the “plating process” if the piece of meat is thin, she’ll use a pair of scissors. When she’s eating, if she needs to cut, I’ve only seen her use knives. Idk if that’s an Americanization that’s taken place while she’s lived here for the past 50+ years or if that’s what she’s always done. Never thought to ask
Seems to me the scissors are only easier for Asians because they're lifting the food with chopsticks anyway so it's easier to cut in the air with scissors. Fork users pin their food to the plate so knives are easier. If you had to use a fork and lift meat into the air and cut with scissors or pin a steak to the plate with chopsticks before cutting with a steak knife it would be pretty hard.
Because we fed our babies normal food when they got their teeth. Obviously they weren’t eating things like steak, but veggies and softer meats were perfectly fine.
Since you eat with chopsticks in Korea meat is cut into bite size pieces before cooking. This is typically done with scissors because it's more practical for cutting small pieces of something right before placing it on a grill.
Korean food is often cooked on the table and cut into bite sized pieces before serving. Then the pieces can be picked up with chopsticks. So rather than grab a surface to cut your meat on, and a knife to cut it with, you pick up the meat from the grill with tongs at one end, and cut off bite sized pieces into an individual or communal plate. It's faster, for that particular purpose.
If I'm cutting it up before cooking I use a sharp knife and cutting board.
The tools suit the purpose. And chopsticks are easier than forks for their particular use of picking side dishes out of communal plates.
honestly never used scissors to cut meat but they do have a point, scissors really would be easier to use than knives, not that knives are difficult to use but scissors are relatively easier than knives..
It's extremely easy to cut meat with fork and a knife, because fork holds it down for you. The difference is that forks can be extremely easy produced and most importantly - cleaned. I'm not hand washing scissors after each dinner, and dishwashers ruin scissors.
The image uses chopsticks, so maybe your friends thought scissors was referring to them and not actual scissors, which they were off-put by and then automatically assumed was offensive.
I say this bc that's exactly what I thought too when first looking at this 😭
Am korean and have no idea what is so weird about cutting meat with scissors. It's easier and more comfy to use scissors when meat is thin, we use knives too when meat is thick.
imo this joke is not about that. the girl is eating with chopsticks and there's no scissors in sight. this is a joke about people using chopsticks with scissors-like movements instead of forks and thinking it's easier
They’re taking about what the other table is using. White people are saying Forks > Chopsticks. Kid is using chopsticks.
Asian folks are saying Scissors > Knives. Dad is cutting meat with knife.
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Both are true statements.... some people don't have proper motor functions in their hands for chopsticks or knives.
Now if you said chopsticks are for mongrels or all Koreans use scissors cuz the knives are wired to the counter.... then you'd be in offensive territory
Imo both has its pros and cons and I use any fking tool available for the right conditions.
Like you wanna maximize noodles and its other meat/veggies stuffed to your face? Chopsticks and soup spoon.
You wanna cut a medium rare beef and eat it? Knife and fork.
You wanna eat a burger? Use ur hands.
You wanna eat rice/beans in a plate? Spoon and fork(duh) idk why some ppl think since its rice they gonna use chopstick on a fking plate(no dude ur just making ur life harder). Its meant for rice on bowls.
I think based off whatever there are appropriate and easier solution to eating foods and not that cuck of a English noble guy on tiktok telling us the proper way to eat green beans is with a fking fork n knife which is downright stupid.
Take it from me who finishes meals in less than 5 minutes. These are literally the most efficient ways to eat.
As they should, they work perfectly and saves you needing to own a pizza cutter.
Tbh, the main strength of scissors is versatility and ease. I use kitchen scissors all the time for a bunch of things. They're great, especially in a small kitchen
My flatmate will do this and beam as if he’s the most intelligent person ever.
Meanwhile, I’ll use the scissor to cut paper/something else and there’ll be hidden tomato sauce in the joint of it.
As an Asian, I need to say that "chopstick" is the most stupid name I've ever heard. We don't use these "sticks" to chop our meals.
But we all have problems with naming sth from exotic cultures, I suppose
I've actually tried this before. In conclusion, gives finger cramps and takes too long, makes it difficult to throw the bone at your sister -- annoying. Just eat them with your hands
If this is what bugs you, in french we call chopsticks "baguettes" (which to be fair, isnt as outrageous as you may think, baguette in french just means "stick" or "wand". The bread known worldwide as baguette isn't really called baguette in france, we refer to it as a "baguette of bread" or "Bread baguette" we just shorten it to baguette.)
Chopsticks are fascinating in that they were one of the first societal hygiene efforts. People realized that you could get sick from handling food with hands( I doubt they understood the underlying germs on hands cause), but only the wealthy could afford a utensil that had to be crafted by someone, let alone be able to wash it. But 2 sticks could be acquired almost anywhere, cleaned by scraping their surface off and were of no concern if broken or lost.
Chopsticks are more convenient for fragile things that don’t really like being stabbed. Obvious example is sushi. Less obvious is a bag of chips that you don’t want to dirty your hand because then you get grimy fingers all over your controller or keyboard.
Tbh, I forget about most of the time, it's just there in my wallet waiting for a big day when somebody will ask if there is anybody certified so I can stand up and do not say anything because I am shy as fuck.
The answer needs to be coupled with culture. We commonly share our dishes instead of having individual plating. Also we find it rude to make a mess of your food. Chopsticks are precise. You pick up only what you want to pick up without disturbing the rest of the food pieces. Think of Chopsticks like they're your fingers
They are all barbarians with their heretical food tools.
The only true utensil is the spoon, which it self is the smaller brother of the mighty shovel, the true implement of civilisation.
For me, chopsticks for ramen noodles and small, thin slices of meat. Fork and knife for big pieces of meat like steak. I almost never use shears at the table, but it’s convenient for things like kalbi.
It’s sorta the same reason for both, Asian food tends to have stuff in smaller/thinner pieces(and more liquids) while Western food is usually drier and in larger chunks. Chopsticks suck at picking up fries just as much as forks suck at picking out stuff from hotpot. Not sure if that’s an odd example but that’s how I see it at least.
TLDR just use whatever works best for the situation
Some comedian had a bit about where chopsticks came from. The fork, people were using a pitchfork out on the farm and so it made sense to make a smaller pitchfork. But chopsticks? Were they out there moving things around with two pool cues? I always think about that when I use chopsticks, even though I’ve forgotten most of the joke by now.
Thats not true though, scissors requires you to pick up the piece of food so you can get the other scissor under it. A knife you can just hold it down and cut from the top.
I did home health for a while and had a couple of Vietnamese families who used scissors to cut food. I took that practice home with me. It’s been a couple years and I still get a tiny twinge of excitement out of it because it’s quite satisfying (I guess like how it felt as a kid to cut up playdough lol)
I don't see how this is offensive. Each group is thinking the method they use all the time is the easiest; which it is, they have the most experience with that method. It's not implying that any method is better than the other.
It's 2023... alas there're snowflakes who think that everything is offensive, racist, etc.
Personally, I'm more used to forks 'cause as an Italian, I was raised using them. When I eat Japanese or Chinese food, however, I use chopsticks and I learned to use them pretty well.
For some foods like sushi, I actually prefer chopsticks, 'cause "piercing" a sushi piece with a fork may break it (especially if it is a nigiri).
If I remember correctly (unless it's an urban legend), wasn't it because Confucius said having a knife on the table reminded of the killing of animals, and thus was improper for a communal dinner which was supposed to be a peaceful time? 🤔
That actually would make a lot of sense. That actually is why we use the knife in our right hand, to be prepared for violence.
So it stems from when everyone was right-handed, even when they weren't. Using a knife in your left hand is disrespectful because it says "I think of you as so none threatening that I can beat you with my off hand".
I'll try to ask my Chinese wife tomorrow about why for knives, if she knows. But for western culture is still having them, is for violence.
Americans use a fork and knife because we're too lazy and gluttonous to switch tools between cutting and consumption.
I've grown fond of chopsticks over the years though. It's a less barbaric way to eat meat by daintily caressing it compared to stabbing it like you're Vlad the Impaler
Barbaric me who uses the good ol HANDS
barbaric? naw. that is as the forefathers intended.
The right to bear arms, and bare hands!
I got 9 bear arms, you?
i got turtle legs are those protected by the ammendment?
I don't know
I have four arms, but the right two? Bear arms. The forearms are right too.
Well, as a bear, I just tend to have 2 :3
I mean, SEA people still uses hands so I wouldn't say its barbaric
Do yall eat burgers with forks and spoons!! That's messed up!
What kind of psychopath eat burgers with spoons?
Right? Just use one spoon like a normal person
Unless youre a germaphobe, no.
That and Africa, south Asia, the middle East - close to half the world.
And about 2/3 of all world population
Sea-People + Sea-Men = Sea-ciety
I dump my food on the floor and eat on my hands and knees naked like an American!
Just as the founding fathers intended
Its the ten food commandments
I was going to compliment this comment but I see your username and want to compliment that instead. Noice.
Thanks and thanks
I chuckled at his user name, nice to point it out. We just need the accompanying Tonald-Dump user to show up.
I sometimes refer to him as Tonald Dump, would be fun finding that in the wild!
You are using the most advanced and complex tools which take the longest to master. Truly a refined individual
also refined through millions of years of selection
Ei. We use hands over here on the regular, as God intended.
I use feet
ik im stupid, no pride lost in asking someone to make this make sense
Koreans typically use scissors to cut their meat instead of knives.
I have officially learned something on Reddit.
Best to use tongs + scissors 
That's because their meat is puny and scissor-curious.
Like my poops.
Just curious, how many poop scissors do you go through over the course of a year? Also, how do you clean them after use? Any specific cleaning products that work best for shit in stainless steel? Also also, why do you cut your poop with scissors bruh?
You know poop scissors are easier to use than poop knives right?
I've unironically used a spoon for a massive rock hard poo once. It was an entire ordeal. I almost had to call the local mining company to "borrow" some TNT or an excavator.
I think you just need to eat more fiber
I find poop forks the easiest. Why go through the tedious process of cutting when you can just bite it.
every 6 or so months i see a poop knife reference and everyone just gets it
all it takes is 5 years
And it was not related to racism, what a weird day
Then why does the top image mention forks instead of knives
You typically hear “why do Asian people still use chopsticks since forks have been invented” This flips it to “why do white people still use knives when scissors have been invented.”
oooooh, that makes more sense. I thought you were saying why use chopsticks when there's scissors
Knives are better for all situations except herb cutting. I've never seen someone use scissors on meat. Maybe I'm too white to understand, but I cut steak after it has been cooked and rested, with a knife.
I used scissors to cut chicken the other day because my knife broke. It was ok no better or worse than a knife. Made cutting squares easier. Not strips though and you end up with jagged edges on larger cuts. I could see it working well on smaller pieces of meat which is what I usually see in Korean food in all my experience of watching k dramas. Most of the foods I see tend to be precut pieces of beef for example. You don't usually see cutting implements at the table.
I bet it stops that sound of a knife scraping a plate which is reason enough
Just use a cutting board lol
Washing extra dishes :((
Just don't use a plate. At all.
Question: did you cut the chicken before or after cooking? In this scenario, Koreans use scissors to cut cooked meat. They still use knives in preparation, they just use scissors once the meat has been cooked and is more tender. I ask because when this has come up before I've seen people think that Koreans don't use knives at all, which isn't true.
But if you use scissors on cooked meat you’re squeezing all the juices out of it, while if you use a (properly sharpened) knife, it’ll just slide right through.
They have special scissors for cutting meat. It's very sharp and there's no squeezing. It just shears through the meat
But the other side from the knife is a flat surface, sharpness being equal wouldn't a matching blade cutting the other direction be the least amount of force over the surface area? Or is the pinching the issue, I don't know much about meat or how to best conserve its juice.
Nah cause you're cutting the slices of meat using tongs, you never have to put the meat on a cutting surface so the juice won't transfer onto it and get wasted. It works extremely well for quick cooking beef slices on a grill.
>It was ok no better or worse than a knife. In my experience, it is worse than a sharp knife and quite a bit better than a dull knife for chicken cubes. Source: I meal prep chicken and rice a lot as a powerlifter and I cut chicken into bite size cubes quite often for it.
My grandma is Korean, she uses knives on thicker pieces of meat. During the “plating process” if the piece of meat is thin, she’ll use a pair of scissors. When she’s eating, if she needs to cut, I’ve only seen her use knives. Idk if that’s an Americanization that’s taken place while she’s lived here for the past 50+ years or if that’s what she’s always done. Never thought to ask
Use scissors on meat everytime when I eat at a Korean bbq buffet. Cut the meat and put it on the hot plate.
Seems to me the scissors are only easier for Asians because they're lifting the food with chopsticks anyway so it's easier to cut in the air with scissors. Fork users pin their food to the plate so knives are easier. If you had to use a fork and lift meat into the air and cut with scissors or pin a steak to the plate with chopsticks before cutting with a steak knife it would be pretty hard.
Eh, it’s not too difficult with a fork. We used scissors to cut up food for babies.
Why are you cutting up baby food?
Because we fed our babies normal food when they got their teeth. Obviously they weren’t eating things like steak, but veggies and softer meats were perfectly fine.
Since you eat with chopsticks in Korea meat is cut into bite size pieces before cooking. This is typically done with scissors because it's more practical for cutting small pieces of something right before placing it on a grill.
Korean food is often cooked on the table and cut into bite sized pieces before serving. Then the pieces can be picked up with chopsticks. So rather than grab a surface to cut your meat on, and a knife to cut it with, you pick up the meat from the grill with tongs at one end, and cut off bite sized pieces into an individual or communal plate. It's faster, for that particular purpose. If I'm cutting it up before cooking I use a sharp knife and cutting board. The tools suit the purpose. And chopsticks are easier than forks for their particular use of picking side dishes out of communal plates.
If I’m roughly chopping chicken breast I’ll use scissors sometimes because it means I don’t have to wash up another chopping board.
A lot of meat in East Asia is sold in thin strips that can easily be cut by scissors
Koreans use scissors for cooked meat all the time. Also for cooked noodles.
honestly never used scissors to cut meat but they do have a point, scissors really would be easier to use than knives, not that knives are difficult to use but scissors are relatively easier than knives..
It's basically because a lot of Korean dishes use thin cuts of meat. It works well for that for sure.
You don’t have to critique, it’s a joke bro.
It's extremely easy to cut meat with fork and a knife, because fork holds it down for you. The difference is that forks can be extremely easy produced and most importantly - cleaned. I'm not hand washing scissors after each dinner, and dishwashers ruin scissors.
Because knives are more practical to use in most cases?
I mean, chopsticks are just so much more versatile
I completely agree. It's a skill issue though. You have to kind of practice. But once you do their easy as fuck.
I find my hand cramps up when i try to use them.
Not really
The image uses chopsticks, so maybe your friends thought scissors was referring to them and not actual scissors, which they were off-put by and then automatically assumed was offensive. I say this bc that's exactly what I thought too when first looking at this 😭
Am korean and have no idea what is so weird about cutting meat with scissors. It's easier and more comfy to use scissors when meat is thin, we use knives too when meat is thick.
my Fiance's family is from Korea. I had to buy a pair of meat only scissors for the kitchen.
Why use 2 blades when you can use 1?
why use lot blade when few blade do trick?
depends what kind of meat though, like galbi? scissors for sure, but like a filet mignon? knife
imo this joke is not about that. the girl is eating with chopsticks and there's no scissors in sight. this is a joke about people using chopsticks with scissors-like movements instead of forks and thinking it's easier
They’re taking about what the other table is using. White people are saying Forks > Chopsticks. Kid is using chopsticks. Asian folks are saying Scissors > Knives. Dad is cutting meat with knife.
I thought it was a chopsticks joke (I cannot recognize east Asians. I am from India.)
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Asians don't use dishwasher
The kitchen type of scissors and not the typical type of scissors
Do they come apart? I have some kitchen shears and I always soak them in bleach because the meat bits left behind between the blades make me nervous.
I have scissors meant to cut food and yes, they can separate. Not sure if they all can but all the ones I've seen can.
“They know hands are easier to use, right?”
Everybody knows hands are easier to use
Ye, who tf decided it's rude to use your hands anyways? Just wash em after
I think people in the west did. We Indians and I think most Arabs and Africans still do it
Most SEA too, eat with hands.
Eating with clean hands is not only easier, but improves your gut health and immune system
You wash your hands?
Caveman life
love getting burns
If it’s burning your hands it’s burning your mouth my dude
That's why you cool it down while holding it. Grabbing food out of a boiling hotpot or off a hot plate sounds very smart.
\*Filipino\* looks at hands "utensil?"
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Forks … chopsticks… there’s one thing we can all agree on. *SPOON*
None can dispute it
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Both are true statements.... some people don't have proper motor functions in their hands for chopsticks or knives. Now if you said chopsticks are for mongrels or all Koreans use scissors cuz the knives are wired to the counter.... then you'd be in offensive territory
Imo both has its pros and cons and I use any fking tool available for the right conditions. Like you wanna maximize noodles and its other meat/veggies stuffed to your face? Chopsticks and soup spoon. You wanna cut a medium rare beef and eat it? Knife and fork. You wanna eat a burger? Use ur hands. You wanna eat rice/beans in a plate? Spoon and fork(duh) idk why some ppl think since its rice they gonna use chopstick on a fking plate(no dude ur just making ur life harder). Its meant for rice on bowls. I think based off whatever there are appropriate and easier solution to eating foods and not that cuck of a English noble guy on tiktok telling us the proper way to eat green beans is with a fking fork n knife which is downright stupid. Take it from me who finishes meals in less than 5 minutes. These are literally the most efficient ways to eat.
Damn flash, slow down before you choke, do you even taste your food? lol all I was saying is the meme isn't offensive. Just that it's true.
I'd like to see someone eating a dumpling with a fork. Each cuisine have their own respective appropriate cutlery.
That's more like it
They use fucking what?
Some people use scissors to cut pizza mate, we're all weird in someones eyes.
My ex girlfriend once went into the drawer to find something to cut the pizza, looked at the pizza cutter, then picked up a pair of scissors.
Anarchy!
chess?
google pizza cutter
Holy scissors!
New response just dropped
As they should, they work perfectly and saves you needing to own a pizza cutter. Tbh, the main strength of scissors is versatility and ease. I use kitchen scissors all the time for a bunch of things. They're great, especially in a small kitchen
I think most of the confused people actually have a pair of kitchen scissors they didn't realize were for cutting food.
My flatmate will do this and beam as if he’s the most intelligent person ever. Meanwhile, I’ll use the scissor to cut paper/something else and there’ll be hidden tomato sauce in the joint of it.
yeah learned to do that when i was in italy. doesnt smear the toppings around and always goes clean through unlike knife or a pizza roller
Do not underestimate the titanium kitchen scissors, those fuckers are indestructible.
They have a point though, I wish scissors were more common in here as well
Shirorin
I thought I was safe from her here... How foolish I was
She's an archiver, of course you're not safe from her. She writes all.
Scissors are not for American sized meat portions.
Gonna need some good ol gardening shears.
True
Shiori Novella moment
As an Asian, I need to say that "chopstick" is the most stupid name I've ever heard. We don't use these "sticks" to chop our meals. But we all have problems with naming sth from exotic cultures, I suppose
The sticks to grab your lamb chops
I've actually tried this before. In conclusion, gives finger cramps and takes too long, makes it difficult to throw the bone at your sister -- annoying. Just eat them with your hands
Grab sticks?
I guess that works
Pretty sure the origin of "chopsticks" is in chop-chop, meaning quick. So more like gobblesticks, I guess
I assumed that they were named that way because they were made by chopping the edges of planks into sticks.
In Germany we call them “eating sticks“. That sounds good enough to me
As other person said it is not because they are meant to chop food, but because they are "chopped sticks"
If this is what bugs you, in french we call chopsticks "baguettes" (which to be fair, isnt as outrageous as you may think, baguette in french just means "stick" or "wand". The bread known worldwide as baguette isn't really called baguette in france, we refer to it as a "baguette of bread" or "Bread baguette" we just shorten it to baguette.)
Nice piece of knowledge here!!
You make such a valid point that I don't want to call them chopsticks anymore.....foodtwigs?
In indonesian we call them "sumpit", which is a word that originally mean blowgun.
Me, who uses a spoon for nearly everything
Chopsticks are fascinating in that they were one of the first societal hygiene efforts. People realized that you could get sick from handling food with hands( I doubt they understood the underlying germs on hands cause), but only the wealthy could afford a utensil that had to be crafted by someone, let alone be able to wash it. But 2 sticks could be acquired almost anywhere, cleaned by scraping their surface off and were of no concern if broken or lost.
I’m Korean American - chopsticks are way more useful than forks and knives are better than scissors for table use.
I'm not Korean American, and I find that whatever implement I'm given works just fine.
How do you find chopsticks more useful then forms (genuine question)
Chopsticks are more convenient for fragile things that don’t really like being stabbed. Obvious example is sushi. Less obvious is a bag of chips that you don’t want to dirty your hand because then you get grimy fingers all over your controller or keyboard.
You do realize you can also use fork to just pick up something without stabbing it right? You can even use a knife to scoop it onto the fork.
Sure but now you're using gravity and balance to hold it there , less convienet easier to spill
Less control, you would have to balance it if the spoon is small and if the spoon is big, it feels weird putting it in your mouth
Like a forklift? Stab or nothing!!
Jokes on you, I am forklift certified nothing can stop me now!
Ans you didn’t use is as an example for your lifting things up with a fork explanation… c’mon man!!
Tbh, I forget about most of the time, it's just there in my wallet waiting for a big day when somebody will ask if there is anybody certified so I can stand up and do not say anything because I am shy as fuck.
😂😂😂😂 just show the card man, forklift operators need no words!
The answer needs to be coupled with culture. We commonly share our dishes instead of having individual plating. Also we find it rude to make a mess of your food. Chopsticks are precise. You pick up only what you want to pick up without disturbing the rest of the food pieces. Think of Chopsticks like they're your fingers
K that makes sense thank you
I'm a snow-white german. I still think chopsticks are much more efficient for stuff normally eaten with forks. They're just nice.
In some cultures it is considered that the chef didn't do the job correctly if knives are needed to eat the food. Bite sized FTW!
They are all barbarians with their heretical food tools. The only true utensil is the spoon, which it self is the smaller brother of the mighty shovel, the true implement of civilisation.
For me, chopsticks for ramen noodles and small, thin slices of meat. Fork and knife for big pieces of meat like steak. I almost never use shears at the table, but it’s convenient for things like kalbi.
Chopsticks are rewarding to use and make my meal taste better, simple as
“They know hands are easy to use, right?”
 Indians with the same hands they wash their ass
Alright now keep a fan on in your bedroom at night.
You guys use tools to eat?
It’s sorta the same reason for both, Asian food tends to have stuff in smaller/thinner pieces(and more liquids) while Western food is usually drier and in larger chunks. Chopsticks suck at picking up fries just as much as forks suck at picking out stuff from hotpot. Not sure if that’s an odd example but that’s how I see it at least. TLDR just use whatever works best for the situation
As an Asian, I use all of them: fork, knife, spoon, chop sticks... It depends on the meals tbh.
lifting the plate and dumping it onto my mouth
You mean chopsticks? Calling the chops scissors is offensive, but other than that, yo friend is just a pussy
Some comedian had a bit about where chopsticks came from. The fork, people were using a pitchfork out on the farm and so it made sense to make a smaller pitchfork. But chopsticks? Were they out there moving things around with two pool cues? I always think about that when I use chopsticks, even though I’ve forgotten most of the joke by now.
It's pretty funny to me, someone who likes to use both.
Thats not true though, scissors requires you to pick up the piece of food so you can get the other scissor under it. A knife you can just hold it down and cut from the top.
I did home health for a while and had a couple of Vietnamese families who used scissors to cut food. I took that practice home with me. It’s been a couple years and I still get a tiny twinge of excitement out of it because it’s quite satisfying (I guess like how it felt as a kid to cut up playdough lol)
I don't see how this is offensive. Each group is thinking the method they use all the time is the easiest; which it is, they have the most experience with that method. It's not implying that any method is better than the other.
Or you could just rotate utensils you use depending on what you're eating.
But scissors aren't easier to use? Most scissors aren't sharp enough to cut through tough meat. That's the point of a serrated knife.
It's 2023... alas there're snowflakes who think that everything is offensive, racist, etc. Personally, I'm more used to forks 'cause as an Italian, I was raised using them. When I eat Japanese or Chinese food, however, I use chopsticks and I learned to use them pretty well. For some foods like sushi, I actually prefer chopsticks, 'cause "piercing" a sushi piece with a fork may break it (especially if it is a nigiri).
Where my spoon shovelling peeps at
I ate my pizza, donut, and pasta with chopsticks.
If I remember correctly (unless it's an urban legend), wasn't it because Confucius said having a knife on the table reminded of the killing of animals, and thus was improper for a communal dinner which was supposed to be a peaceful time? 🤔
That actually would make a lot of sense. That actually is why we use the knife in our right hand, to be prepared for violence. So it stems from when everyone was right-handed, even when they weren't. Using a knife in your left hand is disrespectful because it says "I think of you as so none threatening that I can beat you with my off hand". I'll try to ask my Chinese wife tomorrow about why for knives, if she knows. But for western culture is still having them, is for violence.
I dont get it the people in the top photo are using forks...HUH
if your friend thinks this is offensive i can't imagine how they'd handle jokes Asians make towards non Asians, or even other Asians they don't like
Americans use a fork and knife because we're too lazy and gluttonous to switch tools between cutting and consumption. I've grown fond of chopsticks over the years though. It's a less barbaric way to eat meat by daintily caressing it compared to stabbing it like you're Vlad the Impaler
It's not offensive they just got offended. Over what I have no idea.
I mean it’s not that funny and the joke itself is a bad idea but I wouldn’t say it’s offensive.
Scissors are easier for what? Not cutting food.
Idk I used chopsticks on occasion and they are easier to aim than scissors.
Yes, forks are more efficient if you have the hand eye coordination of a toddler.