Poke? Pinch!
Forks are funny things.

I was having lunch the other day, having some leftovers I made from dinner previous and I started thinking about the way we eat. In the US, there are essentially three eating utencils present during any meal:


  • A spoon to catch anything liquid (and solid too)

  • A knife to cut anything too big

  • A fork to pick up solid items


Now, I’m sure everyone is familiar with those three utencils. If you think about them, they make perfect sense. They’re essentially extensions of how we ate long times ago. We used our hands to scoop up water, and the spoon was born. Instead of ripping apart meats, knives were developed. The only one that doesn’t seem to fit are forks. Did our ancestors stab their food with their fingers? No, of course not. They used their fingers to grasp the food and place it in their mouth.

That’s why I think everyone should learn how to use chopsticks.