In my opinion, we need spoons only to eat ice creams. I always inform my friends that I don't prefer spoon fork etc. Since my habit is to wash mouth after eating something I find no difficulty in washing hands too. Therefore, I disregard those eating tools.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Vedprakash Sharma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 8:43 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Using spoons, forks, knives and other such cutleries > for a totally blind person, it certainly is a problem. but the chinese > food > accept choupsey, can be managed easily. i use fork to eat noodles but > don't > use the knives to cut it short. many other people don't, too. Massala > Dossa > is also a problem. but other varieties of it work very well. I think, the > main thing is, if one follows the basics of table manners, these things > hardly matter. many mates have some or the other habit which some times is > not tollerable. but one has to accept friends in totality and not in > selectively. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Syed Imran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 7:37 AM > Subject: [AI] Using spoons, forks, knives and other such cutleries > > >> Hi >> >> In fact, today's incident influenced me to write this on access India. It >> was somewhat hillarious, somewhat embarrassing >> After Christmas celebration in our college, I went to have lunch in our >> college caffeteria. Usually I bring my lunch box to college, but today I >> just forgot it at home. So, I and some of my friends went to caffeteria >> along with our Economics ma'm. Sitting on a seat in front of a circular >> granite table, I childishly said "noodles", when my friends asked me what >> I wanted to have. I gave the money to my friend, and he brought me a >> plate >> of noodles. >> It contained two disposable plastic forks, and boy, I thought this time I >> am caught! "No, not this time," I said to myself, "I somehow ought to >> give >> my best shot, best impression! and its going to work, somehow its going >> to >> work.". After thus assuring myself, I started on my own. I'm not going to >> narrate what happened then, but I ended up lying them that the food was >> not tasty and I then returned to classroom. >> First of all, it was embarrassing to discuss any kind of issue like this >> on the list, but I have overcome such embarrassment. As is the case, I >> would like to know some of your tips of using cutleries, like spoons, >> forks, knives etc properly, in front of sighted folks. >> Yes, one can always use their hands to have the food, but I think we >> too are entitled to eat "attractively". If not attractively, at least to >> save the time of washing our hands after the meal, we need to use such >> things. >> >> With best regards >> Syed Imran >> To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with the subject unsubscribe. >> >> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >> please visit the list home page at >> >> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
