I say fork…how else do you eat a 60 oz streak & with a beer???
Not really a factual question, is it?
With your hands?
It totally depends on the food, and how large it is chopped. I can eat pretty much anything with the right chopsticks and a knife.
They are each good at what they do and the strength of each is also a weakness. Chopsticks are good at finely manipulating small pieces of food. This is a good way to each small bits of meat and vegetables. Rather than scooping it all up, chopsticks let you manipulate the food finely and eat exactly what you want. Forks are obviously better for things like steak and mashed potatoes. It is a stabbing and scooping implement and excels at shear volume.
Given America’s weight problem, maybe we should be passing out more chopsticks.
Well, if the steak is cut up into little pieces and mixed with veggies, and if you’re used to eating with chopsticks, then the answer is chopsticks.
Unless you need a fork for the beer.
The fork… simplicity and ease of learning beats ease of manufacturing.
It depends on what you are eating. I am downright uncomfortable eating sushi, for example, with a fork. Just hate it…
The idea behind eating with chopsticks is that you don’t have to cut anything. It’s all done by the chef. So, a 60oz steak would be pre-diced for you, and would be perfectly edible, washed down with crisp, cold beer.
Possibly, in that circumstance, having it diced might reinforce how unbelievably gluttonous 60oz of steak is.
Does he really mean a 60 ounce steak? That is unbelievable. I can just about eat a 8 oz steak with some veggies and a drink. Wow.
But do you need a fork for your drink? That seems to be the real question here. 
I don’t think there’s much you can do with chopsticks that can’t be done with a fork, but there are things you can do with a fork that you can’t do with chopsticks-- like cut thru many foods. You can split some things apart with chopsticks, but it’s not easy, and they have to be pretty soft.
Additionally, chopsticks are especially bad for eating Chinese food, which is often taken from a communal bowl or plate. It’s almost impossible to eat with chopsticks and not transfer germs back to the food, but it is possible to do prevent that with a fork, if you try. Of course, once you throw rice into the mix, then you’re going to be spreading around germs with either utensil.
OTOH, I find chopsticks are often better than a fork or spoon when cooking certain items.
What I was going to say. I would not want to stab my sushi with a fork.
Anything you cut, like a big steak, you’d want a knife & fork.
They both have their uses, just not for the same foods. Chopsticks are easy to use once you get the hang of them, too.
I like to decide the size of my morsels myself, thankyouverymuch, and I like 'em smaller pieces usually come.
I use chopsticks for sushi, but that’s it.
My personal best is 72 oz. and it was free just for the reason that i could eat it. 
It is a philosophic difference.
The fork is a general tool for shoveling food. Chopsticks are a impliment for precisely seizing pieces of food.
It is the “forest and trees” argument all over again, detail vs. big picture. In the Far East it used to be that a prized pair of ivory chopsticks with inlays, or hand carved rare wood chopsticks would be handed down from father to son. In the West, it is the “Family Silver,” full placement sets for eight or more people (some with as many seven pieces (or more) per person.
I recall the first time I was asked to a co-worker’s home for dinner on Sado Island off the west coast of Japan. I did not want to embarass myself or my host so I practiced and practiced my handling of chopsiticks and I felt I was getting pretty good. I showed up, presented my gifts, interacted with the host and then we sat down to eat and I prepared to show my stuff. It was at this point the mother of the family brought out a small box handed it to the father who in turn handed it to my friend who presented it to me. It held a pearl handled fork in a small silk sack. Clearly this was a special fork and just as clearly, if I did not use it, I would be insulting them. Ah, the irony.
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In Chinese societies, they use communal serving spoons to serve rice and other sloppy foods - the spoons never go in the mouth. The exception to this is noodles, which are sort of “plucked” with the chopsticks. There is a small chance of exchanging germs that way, except politely one attempts not to let the chopsticks contact the mouth when eating.
Therefore I think your negative assessment is based on an incorrect comprehension of the application of Asian eating utensils.
Was that first statement intended for ironic effect? 
The answer to your non-question is that it is expected for people taking food from a communal source to reverse their chopsticks when doing so, i.e., reverse it around to use the “back end” of the chopsticks in the communal food and instead of the “front end” which goes into their mouths.
In a family setting this politeness is generally set aside, just as people will fork things from or onto their plate at home or when the other person is an immediate family member.
As for rice – that is not meant to be eaten with chopsticks, at least, not by picking them up. It is possible to do a sideways kind of dip-and-scoop for rice to get a certain amount balanced on the end (especially since Asian rice tends to be sticky or clumpy), but for the most part rice is meant to be spooned into bowls (“rice bowls”). The bowls are held up to the mouth, and the rice shoveled in with chopsticks.
In the “volume versus precision” debate, this is much faster than eating rice off a plate with a fork.
On the other hand it is not really practical to cut food with chopsticks. Which is fine since the food eaten with them is expected to already be of adequately small size.
Not surprising, considering you’re supposed to use your fingers.
Agreed. Different foods, different tools. I actually have a slight preference for chopsticks, although I use a fork most of the time eating. And they aren’t all that difficult to use once you use them several times.
However, when it comes to forks, I’m a big proponent of fork-in-left-hand, knife-in-right, no-switching usage. It always puzzles me to see people cut their steak, put the knife down, switch the fork over to the right hand, stab their meat and eat it, switch the fork to the left hand, pick knife up, repeat. Seems horribly inefficient to me.