So, I'm sitting here eating my pasta*

[conuly]

and I reach over and just eat some sans fork. Now, in case you don't know this, I do that all the time. Not in public, generally, but by myself all the time, and often among my family. I really don't like using silverware. It seems awkward mihi, and uncomfortable, and I always drop something. I will quite happily eat, say, Jello (until I found out how they make gelatin, ugh) or soup (drink the liquid, pick out the solids) or cereal (see soup) with my hands. Best meal out I ever had was at an Ethopian restaurant, no silverware. Anyway, while I was eating, it occured to me... am I the only one who does this? If not, why do we force ourselves to use silverware?



*_{that's why I didn't reply to your IM, Xiggy, I was cooking}

Comments

[squittycat.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I'm all about the utensillessness! Spoons and forks as very Western, and chopsticks as very Oriental. Everyone else seems to eat with the hands. Not that I have anything against Westerners or Orientals, being of Oriental descent and raised in a Western country; I'm just saying that tools for eating is a fairly arbitrary thing.

I Loooove eating Indian and Ethiopian food with my hands. Except I have long fingernails and usually end up getting what I call "curry finger." At home I hardly use utensils either; my roommate and I once went for weeks without touching a single piece of silverware. Of course, we planned it; we were like: "Dude, lets stop eating with tools!" and so we stopped.