Hi, The tips mentioned in the mails are excellent. But shall I ask something? When we are amidst our own friends who know us and our position very much why bother too much at these sort of table manners? Since we can impress others in many other ways than table manners worrying about is, in my opinion is a waste of time. Moreover eating the food with the hand is more safer for the v i people than using any cutleries. And, when it is necessary to wash our mouth after having food, why can't we wash our hands? Pardon me, these are my views only.
Renuka ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geetha Shamanna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Access india" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 7:55 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Using spoons, forks, knives and other such cutleries > Eating with plastic cutlery is always a challenge, but normal cutlery is > easy to handle with some practice. Fortunately, Most restaurants do not > offer plastic cutlery. > > Before beginning to eat noodles, it helps if you chop them into smaller > pieces with the knife. To do this, hold the knife in your right hand and > the > fork in your left. Then, hold down some noodles with the fork and chop > with > the knife. When you think you are done chopping them fine, move on to the > next chunk of noodles in your plate until you finish chopping the whole > portion. This procedure works very well for me both for noodles as well as > for stakes, although with stakes it is essential to know when to stop. > > If you are not comfortable using cutlery, begin by practicing at home. > > Geetha > ----- 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
