Why do white people insist on eating sushi with chopsticks?

Question

You don't see white people eating General Tso's Chicken with chopsticks. It's not like you can't eat it with a fork...

Answer 1

It's actually meant to be eaten with your fingers. Sushi is fingerfood according to my very Japanese friend. ;-) Kanpai!

Answer 2

Actually eating it with your fingers is not taboo in Japan.

Chopsticks are also good, because it offers much more control than a clumsy fork. Sorry, but fingers and chopsticks are the superior eating utensils. Forks are for gorillas.

Answer 3

cause we're white

we dont know better

Answer 4

They must be trying to impress someone with their chopstick acumen.

The Muse

Answer 5

Are you the Sushi police?  They bought it and paid for it...let them eat it however they enjoy it the most.  If I buy it and want to eat it between 2 slices of Wonder Bread or eat it with my Mom's big spatula--IT MINE TO DO SO...if you don't like how I eat it..don't look.  If the Asian's come to my house for dinner and want to eat corn bread, turnip greens, fried chicken and black eyed peas with their chop sticks that is A-okay with me, I don't tell people how they have to eat.

Answer 6

I always eat them with my fingers!

Answer 7

I'm not white, but you need to stop stereo-typing people. Who cares how a person eats something, it's all going to one place, anyway.

Answer 8

General Tso's is nothing more than fried chicken. Many people (white or otherwise) eat asian food with chopsticks. I prefer chopsticks to a fork any day.

Answer 9

why would you not eat sushi with chopsticks? I lived in Japan for 10 years, my ex is Japanese.... we always, ALWAYS, ate sushi with chopsticks. and so did everyone else I knew. if it was falling apart, then you could pick it up with your hands. it can be eaten either way. but in my experience, always with chopsticks.

and by the way gen. Tso chicken is Chinese, I had it in hong kong many times. and yes I use chopsticks for that too.

Answer 10

sushi is supposed to be eaten with your fingers. And I really don't see how you can eat it with a fork without putting the fork all the way in your mouth, which is really bad table manners.

For the record, I am white, and I always use chopsticks when I eat Asian food. General Tso's Chicken is not Chinese food. It's American junk food, so I guess it makes sense if people eat it with a fork.

Answer 11

I am actually a little more brown than most whit e folks , my dad was as white as they get though. But it was my dad who taught me to eat with chopsticks, career Marine lots of time in Asia.  I actually use chopsticks at home fairly often, depends on what I am having. Dad  gave me a pair almost 40 yr. ago that I still use and take with me when eating out. Made of Whale bone.  I also have several large sets that I use for cooking.

Answer 12

Why do you care so much and why does it bother you how any one chooses to eat?  I am white and I don't know HOW to eat with chopsticks and I couldn't be bothered to learn how....it is not anything I aspire to learn either.  Sushi smells like my Grandfather's bait box after we had been fishing out in the hot sun all day...so I don't eat that either.  I have friend of all colors that eat it however they choose to eat it and nobody pays any attention or cares.  If I go along to socialize while they eat I hold my breath so they can enjoy their meal and I pick up something I like later.  Personally, I find it uncouth to eat anything with one's fingers other than petite finger food or picnic food...if you try to eat fried chicken with a knife and fork it could go sailing in your neighbors lap.

*edit* While I make no derogatory comment towards other cultures, their methods of eating or their utensils, recognizing that each has their own and will be probably be most comfortable with their own...a person remarked that forks are for gorillas--actually, gorilla's by nature use their fingers. Forks are not clumsey instruments to those of us who were brought up to use one correctly and who have done so all of our lives--my violin bow, held correctly might feel clumsey in your hand but it feels like an extension of my own body