# I pit chopsticks **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 11, 2012, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-chopsticks/631195 "2012-08-11T15:21:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-chopsticks/631195/21 "2012-08-11T17:32:30Z")
Way to work racism into a rant about utensils, bro. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-chopsticks/631195/22 "2012-08-11T17:34:48Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Way to work racism into a rant about utensils, bro. Clue by 4 guys. He was making FUN of somebody in another thread who could at least be interpreted as being racist regarding their opinion of chopsticks and the yellow devils that use them. Parody folks, parody. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-chopsticks/631195/23 "2012-08-11T18:19:12Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > YouTube vid or it didn’t happen. > > Eating rice with chopsticks however is pretty much open licence to pour rice down your shirt, and that’s no good unless you know your dinner partner \*very \*well. whole sticky rice works fine. > [@TriPolar](#): > > It’s joke based on the ‘catching flies with a chopstick scene’ from the original Karate Kid. it was fly catching in samurai movies long before that. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-chopsticks/631195/24 "2012-08-11T18:32:19Z")
I thought you meant that abominable tune you hear kids bang out on a piano. Oh, the actual food utensils. I use 'em. I like 'em. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-chopsticks/631195/25 "2012-08-11T18:33:19Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > it was fly catching in samurai movies long before that. Yes. And there’s probably a video of someone doing the joke too. I just picked something recognizable for an explanation. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-chopsticks/631195/26 "2012-08-11T18:37:21Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > I thought you meant that abominable tune you hear kids bang out on a piano.. Heh. You want bad? Try eating your food with Yakkity Saks or Stairway to Heaven sometime. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-chopsticks/631195/27 "2012-08-11T20:37:51Z")
In the future we’ll all swim around in breathable liquid environments, shit over suction intakes, and take our nutrition from processing plants underneath floating farms like aircraft being refueled in mid-flight. Your Western forks & spoons, Asian chopsticks and especially your Indian eating with unwebbed fingers will all seem so quaint. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-chopsticks/631195/28 "2012-08-11T21:00:00Z")
Definitely no better way of eating wet noodles. And forks can’t “pinch” something worth a damn. ---
**Author:** ![Michael63129](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@Michael63129](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael63129)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-chopsticks/631195/29 "2012-08-11T22:03:11Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > YouTube vid or it didn’t happen. > > That being said, I would agree. Chopsticks rule for anything chunk-formed. Or noodles - it’s kind of amazing how much better a pair of sticks is better than your NASA engineered, two thousand years of continuous technological improvement fork is at eating fucking spaghetti. > Eating rice with chopsticks however is pretty much open licence to pour rice down your shirt, and that’s no good unless you know your dinner partner \*very \*well. I can’t picture how chopsticks can possibly be better than a fork for spaghetti. Also, the best way to eat rice, and the way I eat it, is with a spoon (gasp!); I don’t see how even a fork can easily pick up rice, but then I prefer it to be non-sticky. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-chopsticks/631195/30 "2012-08-11T22:04:48Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > I thought you meant that abominable tune you hear kids bang out on a piano. Add “puncture own eardrums” to **TriPolar’s** utility list. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-chopsticks/631195/31 "2012-08-11T23:33:28Z")
> [@Michael63129](#): > > I can’t picture how chopsticks can possibly be better than a fork for spaghetti. Also, the best way to eat rice, and the way I eat it, is with a spoon (gasp!); I don’t see how even a fork can easily pick up rice, but then I prefer it to be non-sticky. Spaghetti = noodles. Chopsticks win. I can pick up a single grain of rice with chopsticks if I have to. Good luck doing that with a fork. The big problems with rice are we don’t serve it sticky ans we expect to eat it off of a plate. Both are stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-chopsticks/631195/32 "2012-08-11T23:41:30Z")
Just try masturbating with chopsticks. A sliver in the dick is no laughing matter. ---
**Author:** ![Michael63129](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@Michael63129](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael63129)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-chopsticks/631195/33 "2012-08-12T00:18:59Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Spaghetti = noodles. Chopsticks win. I can pick up a single grain of rice with chopsticks if I have to. Good luck doing that with a fork. > > The big problems with rice are we don’t serve it sticky ans we expect to eat it off of a plate. Both are stupid. OK, but just how do chopsticks pick up noodles better than a fork? With a fork, you can stick it in and twist it a bit and a big hunk of noodles come up, usually too much for one bite, so I usually just stick the fork in and lift it, depending on the noodles. From a lifting perspective, a fork is basically several chopsticks placed side by side so it should work better. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-chopsticks/631195/34 "2012-08-12T00:36:10Z")
> [@Michael63129](#): > > OK, but just how do chopsticks pick up noodles better than a fork? With a fork, you can stick it in and twist it a bit and a big hunk of noodles come up, usually too much for one bite, so I usually just stick the fork in and lift it, depending on the noodles. From a lifting perspective, a fork is basically several chopsticks placed side by side so it should work better. Forks can’t grasp. Noodles can slip and slide off a fork’s tines, which is why the rolling method was developed. With chopsticks, you just grab a mouthful of noodles and bring them right to your mouth. There’s a lot more control there. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-chopsticks/631195/35 "2012-08-12T00:37:24Z")
Louis Vuitton makes a great [chopstick](http://www.luxuo.com/most-expensive/louis-vuitton-chopsticks.html) set. A must have. ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-chopsticks/631195/36 "2012-08-12T00:59:18Z")
I worked at a Chinese restaurant when I was young and I learned how people (as in all of the Chinese cooks) eat rice/food with chopsticks…they either bend down next to the plate or bowl, or lift it to their mouth and shovel the rice and food forward with chopsticks into their mouths. All of them ate this way. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-chopsticks/631195/37 "2012-08-12T01:49:54Z")
> [@Michael63129](#): > > OK, but just how do chopsticks pick up noodles better than a fork? With a fork, you can stick it in and twist it a bit and a big hunk of noodles come up, usually too much for one bite, so I usually just stick the fork in and lift it, depending on the noodles. From a lifting perspective, a fork is basically several chopsticks placed side by side so it should work better. You stick the chopsticks into the mass of noodles and you twist the chopsticks, akin to drawing a circle around the bowl, but by moving your wrist, not your whole arm. No problem at all. Friend of mine in Basic Training bet me that I couldn’t twist spaghetti noodles with chopsticks. I don’t bet, so I simply showed him how it’s done. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-chopsticks/631195/38 "2012-08-12T01:53:29Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Just try masturbating with chopsticks. A sliver in the dick is no laughing matter. A fork is going to make things better, how? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-chopsticks/631195/39 "2012-08-12T02:07:54Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > A fork is going to make things better, how? A good tine is had by all. Thank you! Tip your waiter! ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-chopsticks/631195/40 "2012-08-12T02:56:52Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > A fork is going to make things better, how? Duh, no splinters! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-chopsticks/631195.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-chopsticks/631195.md?page=3)