Why do non-Orientals, who would never consider eating with them them at home, feel compelled to display their use of chopsticks when eating at Chinese food restaurants?
Why are all pitchmen on TV infomercials selling kitchen gadgets or food invariably identified as "chefs"? My instinct is that the closest any of them ever got to an actual kitchen is to retrieve a bottle of beer from the refrigerator.
Why are dill pickles vilified by health-nuts as being terribly unhealthy because they contain too much salt, yet dill pickle juice is advertised as being the virtual elixir of life and sold in health food stores? Doesn't (healthy) dill pickle juice contain an equivalent amount of salt as the (unhealthy) pickles themselves?
As a non-Oriental your original premise doesn't hold true in my home.
My wife, also non-Oriental, and I use chopsticks at home when eating leftovers from restaurants (Oriental that is) and when we fix Oriental dishes ourselves.
We fast forward or mute TV infomercials so I can't answer your second question.
I don't give a hoot what health nuts vilify or promote. I generally eat what I want when I want. We don't add extra salt in our cooking, so if I want a pickle, I eat a pickle.
Geno
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
I'm still confused, Geno. Why do you confine your use of chopsticks at home to Oriental food? Why not use them to eat everything? Stated another way, what is it about Oriental/Chinese food, exclusively, that compels people to use chopsticks?
I like chopsticks at home for oriental food too. Adds to the ambience and I'd swear it makes the food taste better. At least you're not horking it down like a Hoover (strained allusion to another thread).
And a shout out to my favorite pitch man Swifty (Flex Seal). The guy that likes to cut up boats and sounds like Mayor Pete is goosing him every couple words. They hired a pitch man named Swifty. Hmmm.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
Why do they make toilet paper in every color except brown?
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I'm still confused, Geno. Why do you confine your use of chopsticks at home to Oriental food? Why not use them to eat everything? Stated another way, what is it about Oriental/Chinese food, exclusively, that compels people to use chopsticks?
Not sure, could be like nighthawk says?
Originally Posted by nighthawk
I like chopsticks at home for oriental food too. Adds to the ambience and I'd swear it makes the food taste better. At least you're not horking it down like a Hoover (strained allusion to another thread).
Could be a cultural thing too? Like why I prefer corn tortillas with my chicken in mole instead of a slice of rye bread with caraway seeds? Or why I don't understand things like BBQ chicken pizza?
Had a pulled pork sammich at Crater Lake yesterday. Guy at the counter asked if I wanted my cole slaw on the sammich or on the side. Last I checked, cole slaw is a side dish, not a sammich topping, so of course I asked for it on the side...................along with the unhealthy dill pickle slice!
Sometimes, well actually many times, I do things for this reason and this reason alone ( maybe a bit of OCD too! )
Important life clues in that video I tell you!
Geno
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
Why do they make toilet paper in every color except brown?
You don't have a hippie co-op store down that way? I think they have the brown paper TP. You ask for it when you get your groceries bagged. Double duty doodie paper!
Geno
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
Why do they make toilet paper in every color except brown?
Actually they found that sensitive parts were irritated by dye so you get white. Also for the same reason any perfume is on the cardboard tube and not the paper.
Went to college to learn that! Marketing 101. Money well spent.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
Why do they make toilet paper in every color except brown?
You don't have a hippie co-op store down that way? I think they have the brown paper TP. You ask for it when you get your groceries bagged. Double duty doodie paper!
Geno
And hippies apparently don't give a toss if they don't get a good wipe...explains the damned smell every time the dirty buggers walk into the shop.
Reminds me of the old joke about using corn cobs. How many does it take. Three, two red ones and one white one. You use a red one, and then a white one, to see if you need to use the other red one. miles
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