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I have been in JP for 2 weeks now and have only used sticks. When I was back west I used sticks and thought I was quite good, Boy was I wrong.
Having to use sticks every day for every meal has given me a great insight into the usage of sticks over steal.

Steal is great if you are looking to shove great bucketfuls of hi-cal food into your system. Get a big hunk of beef and cook it, now you need to cut it into bite size portions and so on. In asia the food is prepared before it is cooked or it is cut into normal sized portions before it is served thus making the use of sticks the prefered way.

It is only in the west where consumption outstrips sense that steal is required at the table. Lets face it, in the west, If you cant use your fingers or fat hands to shove fast food or candy and snacks into your face then you have to resort to steal, as your weak flabby hands fail you when asked to perform any other dexterous task other then scoffing or texting.

Using steal is the art of being lazy. Lazy cook makes lazy meal makes lazy consumer. Lazy mum makes lazy food for lazy child.
Grab food, put in oven then serve to troublesome child. dont forget to arm the kid with an assortment of weapons forged with from the best chinese steel.

Don't get me wrong, I know sticks used by trained ninja can be leathal, but a fork weilded by a three year old can be just as deadly.

Look, I have ranted on too much, so I will keep it down.

Steal is for chiefs/cooks and sticks are for diners, if it ends up that the diners are armed with steal then you are most likely in the west surrounded by fat and lazy people, if your fellow diners are armed with sticks then thank your mom for birthing you in Asia and shout a good and healthy salute to your fellow stick users, you slim, tight bummed long lifers.

hehehe! I'm done..... for now.


(I am a westerner by the way, I have seen enough gluttony in the UK and America to last several lifetimes)