Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1950 — Page 18

The Top One Wiggles—

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Operating Ends of Eating Tools Just ~~. - Don't Converge When He Is Using Them

By H. D. QUIGG, United Press Staff Correspondent

TOKYO, Dec. T—Your correspondent was not cut out for| The mere act of consuming a meal, and simultaneously hewing to the line of the Cathay Emily Post rules, is one of the most fatiguing experiences you can imagine. The only thing mysterious about the mysterious East is how

Oriental eating... Just not built for it.

‘Chopsticks Biggest Mystery in East

{stick is grasped at the base of the thumb and first finger lies across the- tip of the { finger.

the. third

One Stick Stable Under the theory of applied

dynamics of chopstickery, the’

second stick is the stable one. It's held steady. The “top one’

and:

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in tarnation the ooden gadgets they eat with, For ways that are dark and tricks that are vain, are mighty peculiar, | Chopsticks, in case you never itried to use the things, are two slender, rounded pieces of wood. jTHey are about the size of an jordinary lead pencil but somewhat {longer. They say that a top-!

EVERY KERNEL

mysterious Easterners

| wiggles —like 2 prong in a comniq writer's pincer — and WhethaSclamps down on the food.

manipulate those: two.

up to the individual.

ttle de-| Oriental food and cooking are chopsticks you choke a lot or a little = built around the theory of chop.

pends on whether you're a Willi Keeler or Jimmy Foxx—a crafts- Sticks. The food comes in strings man or a swing-from-the-heels °F in small pieces, loosely con-| type of eater. nected. It can be gr in |small bundles and easily shaken! Is there any kind of pun there?) 'apart. Otherwise nobody would About choking, I mean. If there po apie to eat at all.

Is, please make the most of it.| yr youre not accustomed -

jdrawer chopstick user can alice But don’t bother me about it be-| gg" ticks, } meat with them. {rause this is a deadly serious J. Nopaticks. ou 301 « “stter | They'll have to show me that|business we're delving into. It's] using them for a while. one. I can’t even slice pea soup ® matter of getting fed ‘or not| Chopsticks have a nasty habit! {with them, because I can’t get the getting fed, once you slither down of fiopping crosswise — crossing 8 two operating ends to converge !n front of & foot-high table and gach other like a beginner's skis 9 onto the same point at the same find yourself face to face with a { —~just as you are clevating a cube | time. They wiggle-waggie. [plate of food and those kingsize sr meat or some other. tidbit to Here's the way they're sup- matchsticks. {your mouth. This, of course, re-| | posed to work: You grasp them | You hold one stick between the ieases the meat, and you find lightly but firmly near one end. {ball of your thumb and the tips | yourself with only a mouthful of {It's a good idea to choke them | of your first two fingers. It's chopstick wood. | slightly, ke a baseball pat. The about the way you hold a pencil, Way With Rice more you choke them, the better except that you're holding the [ore 36 you have, However, that's nonoperating end. The second sot) Abe Joreg ind Jechnique

icant bother with picking up one |grain of rice at a time, even If {you could pick up a grain of rice. {Rice comes in a small bowl with a rim on it. The approved method is to hook your lower lip under {the bowl rim, put the ends of the J sticks together and flail them in ta clockwise motion down into the |rice; scooping up a continuous {flow into. your mouth. | My mouth 1s small, and there {is a constant overflow of rice around the edges; under this system. I figure the expended energy and wastage on this one operaition alone are enough to fllumi{nate, feed, and clothe a town the | size of, say, Onomatopoeia, Ko- po Die : . . 4 ust covims SVatue S 0 yea. Ky " SAUCEs a

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