Joyika
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Apr 27, 2019 10:31 AM
Joyika
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texabilly71
STINKPICKEL
Wait, did he eat that fly he caught in the movie?
featherstep
Step two doesn't work though, when you apply pressure with your thumb, the chopstick just slides forward and off your ring finger.
BrandizzleFoShizzle
That's how I've always held mine and I thought it was wrong because it doesn't match the instructions on most disposable wrappers!
nanyatenyaa
The only reason i know how to use chop sticks is because i worked third shift as sys admin and could practice without endless mocking.
kamehameahahahaha
i'm the only person i know that holds them like this. makes sense to have as few moving parts as possible. i've tried to teach but they dumb
OliverClothesoff70
From last paragraph "Practice with easy foods like marshmallows and grapes." Grapes are NOT easy to pick up with chopsticks.
Smozzerz
Hey this is how hold them! I always thought I was just retarded haha
mattihase
Flies are not particularly tasty.
Srslythoguys
Growing up in the 80’s, this is legitimately how I learned to use chopsticks. Also, I caught a fly with them once. It had landed, but still
xUnrealRealityx
YES! I needed this!
MyName4Wine
Upvoted for awareness
Bananasandwiches42
Some days I’m a pro at them and other days I almost poke my eyes out.
strangerthanfiction1
Didn’t Mr. Miagi tell Daniel-son that he had never successfully caught a fly with chopsticks? And when Daniel did he said, “Beginners luck.”
WatchYourFuckingLanguage
Apparently as a kid i used to eat eggs with chopsticks, now i drop shit all the time and need to use a fork.
JaimePearson
I never used chopsticks until I went to Taiwan, I could use them half the time, the other half I felt stupid. Mental block or something
BigRottie
I hold my chopsticks like a fork... Because it is a fork. I'm not a dumbass.
TheClockWatcher
I only struggle with non sticky rice and soup when using chopsticks.
ThomasCornett10
This is helpful! I've always steuggled with chopsticks. In my defense I'm Irish and just shovel potatoes into my face with my hands
Shismouche
Thats why I saw an irish guy making wind with his hands ? He was eating his irish potatoes ?
dangerousmelon
Look at Mr Civilised over here, using his hands. I just plough my face right into my potatoes.
Willizxy
I just potato my potato into the potatoes
PrincessNakedMoleRat
I'm of Irish descent, and this speaks to my potato-loving soul.
RadioSilenceDW
I take it this is just flipped for lefties.
GhostofRoland
“Beginners luck.”
dinglebearries
Me Miyagi?
dinglebearries
F’n autocorrect - Mr Miyagi
37Nightwing
Cobra Kai Never Dies.
stoots24
SWEEP THE LEG!!!
GUVMENTCHEEZE63
PUT HIM IN A BODY BAG!
tchrbrian
“ This school sucks !! “
Pyrohawk
How in the name of common sense did chopsticks actually come about anyway?
evilspyre
Because shop vendors had wood handy and broke bits off for people to eat with as disposable items instead of everyone needing to bring their
Pyrohawk
Huh, interesting.
evilspyre
own eating utensils.
thornlord
Popcorn & cheezies are also good practice when you don't want to dirty your hands.
slamEVIL
Oh my gosh! Why didn't I think of that?
thedoorman42
I always eat cheezies with chopsticks!
CharlIly
I'm a freelance programmer working at home. I eat chips with chopsticks bc otherwise the oil.
UselessAnon
I used to steal friends grench fries in high school
HoloBu88les101
Practice with grapes? A round slippery fruit? What?
Jilkon
I always feel like I get way less grip force doing this compared to doing it like I usually do. In the end it's more about ability to eat.
Jilkon
I prefer thumb+index on upper stick and then resting the lower stick on the middle finger. More comfortable for my hands, and easier to do.
Jilkon
It's basically like the image, but with the middle finger joining ring and pinky.
alchemist12345
Or use a fork instead for convenience sake?
50centromere
No joke, I saw a documentary a out some Buddhist monks in Tibet who chose to use forks because they are more efficient. They argued that
50centromere
life should be spent meditating and working in the gardens - not with fiddling around with food. They often even just used spoons for rice.
riplikash
Chopsticks are pretty friggin convenient.
szlash280z
forks don't work as well on non-stabby foods. like cheetos while at the computer so you don't grease up the keys and mouse.
Kingalingding
I just tip the bag into my mouth ?
TheOnlyPtylerdactyl
"Giving up is better than knowing things"
alchemist12345
Handicapping yourself for its own sake is stupid.
motherfluffer
You can’t use a fork on sake, a little cup is better.
doktorivan210
Sake is Japanese for salmon. You certainly can use a fork on it, but chopsticks are better when it's raw and on a little ball of rice.
motherfluffer
Boy are you gonna be excited about fermented rice
Srslythoguys
Mmmmm convenience sake
Yellowchopsticks
I use mine like
Omni21
Perfect. This really helped me.
mesowetodit
U gonna reach your pet to use?
Omni21
He watched this, and is now a chopstick master!
AnAwkwardPostByAnAwkwardPoster
Drugs? Yes
mesowetodit
Hahahahahahahah
buklao215
I have always held my chopsticks different then what most instructions have told me.... I am asian
darkmagicisnotcheap
I am never sure if I hold them like the instructions but I can eat with chop sticks, so whatever I do works
heiderger
I’m always amazed how many Asians hold them. It’s kinda like holding two pencils right beside each other. Idk, best way I can explain it!
FrankJin
it’s okay, i know chinese grew up in china don’t know how to use chopsticks. rare but they do exist
oneofthecalled
Do you stack them directly one on the other and “swing” one of them out sideways and back?
MrFnortner
The upper one pivots on the thumb. I suppose that's swinging it out and back.
munamidraws
Same! I kind of hold them like a vice grip. It works though! The only person who does it properly in my family is my mom.
Thebatdude
More Asian than mr miyagi?
Sauroctonus
I've always held my fork in my right hand. As far ad I'm concerned this is the correct way for a righr-handed person to hold a fork.
Koukykitty
I do that then swap when the food needs cut
ItIsStillWater
That is a European stereotype of Americans
Koukykitty
I'm European :)
slenders
Same
OliverClothesoff70
Are you sure you're not adopted?
pfshfine
Than*
PrinceAsh1taka
I can't use chop sticks... I'm Asian XD
Lucallia
same. I can do the 'proper' way too but it's more tiring for me. When I'm not around my older relatives I cheat and use my own way.
Penglingsarekewl
The 'proper' way gets easier with practice and I find it to be more 'accurate' when it comes to smaller things though.
Lucallia
Yea sometimes when I'm trying to pick something small up I just switch back to the proper way. At other times I use my easy way.
buklao215
I’m glad I’m not the only one
WetBreadMan
ViktorKovacs
yeah I hold mine like knitting needles and stab waiters until they give me a fork
MagicAndDuctTape
This thread proves that there's like at least a dozen Asians in the world.
Ifyouthinkimseriousyoumissedthejoke
Nope just one.
MimicKing007
When I lived in Hong Kong I saw people hold them so many different ways. A few I couldn’t wrap my head around.
MimicKing007
On a side note, one day I used my non-dominate hand with chopsticks one day and it appeared to confuse my wife and others.
MagicAndDuctTape
Like a pen? I hold mine like that and I too am Asian.
Joyika
Me too-like a pen
buklao215
Yessss
Osthyvel
But you need to hold two pens
98Prelude
My friend from Vietnam crosses them and uses them like scissors.
sopuppiesarecute
Spent a semester in Taiwan where I learned. Last summer I was at a Vietnam wedding and the family thought it was so fascinating to watch me.
WellWhatTheHeck
Yes, when I went to VN, all the family wanted to see "how I use chopsticks". Not sure if because I'm American or because I'm left handed
WellWhatTheHeck
Yes they do. My wife is from VN, and a lot of them do the crisscross thing. I can't figure out how. A lot also do it the way pictured above.
wooshheeyonnn
Not to sound stupid, but dont most ppl in Vietnam cutlery?
Oteneo
just like the philippines and thailand, I believe
QuackQuackAttack
Vietnamese use chopsticks. Source: lived there, married to one.
WellWhatTheHeck
No.
LeTeat
Only when they food.
JackieTreehornProductions
When fooding belly sack?
chakarakarama
Yes with face opening
smorsdoeuvres
How do you hold your chopsticks? I would think if you’re getting food into your mouth & not all over yourself you’re doing it “right”..
12Badgers2MushroomsAndASnake
Your username is the best.
PhilipCoulson
Agreed, as long as the food is making it from dish to mouth I think you’re fine!
PotatoIsland
One thing I've noticed here in NY at least non-asians tend to use chopsticks in a similar way to forks the bowl is away and they carry 1/
PlatypusFeet
Most westerners do that, it's so much easier eating with it under your face but I guess we're taught it's bad members
PlatypusFeet
Manners*
PotatoIsland
the food over to themselves whereas the asians tend to hold the bowl close and make it be a short distance from grabbing food to eating. 2/
PotatoIsland
which makes it easier to not get food all over yourself since it's not going over you just straight into your mouth 3/3
PotatoIsland
(For context I am not asian, this was pointed out to me when I asked my friend about chopsticks awhile back and I've seen it since)