Hello What I observed, when we use cutlery, folks arround us, take notice of our eating with raised curiosity.
I guess eating gracefully is more important than using cutlery or not. In certain regions folks eat very clumsly even using fingers. I don't mean to hurt sentiments, but if one has to eat with grace, the food should not touch the palm and one should not squeeze the food into balls. A friend of mine uses a novel way of cleaning fingers by using a liquid called sanitizer. I don't know of its easy availability, it seems to be a spirit like liquid. I suppose the floppy head cleaner spray should do the job just as efficiently and this should be easily available. Sadly, these days we use less and less of floppies and probably the cleaner may not be available in the near future. Even if we wipe our fingers with tissue, it does not make it fully clean. The sanitizer surely makes it fully clean. Harish. ----- Original Message ----- From: "YADAV, D. N" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 3:26 PM Subject: [AI] Using spoons, forks, knives and other such cutleries > Nicest opinions, indeed, especially of Payal's & many other's on the > subject. In fact, many more things do I learn today on the subject from > this discussion. > > & I have only one more thing to add on. We do not have to feel inferior > for what we are not able to do somehow. 'Nobody can make u feel inferior > without ur consent' they say & as such nothing of the kind exists but for > our feelings. > > I understand use of cutlery is essential part of social life today & I am > sure we all can manage it with a little practice. I well remember the > incidence at my in-laws one day when a kid directly said upfront: 'Uncle, > are you Bihari?' & we all know what this expression means almost all over > India. > > Today in most social gatherings we often have hold the plate on one hand & > eating standing over using such tools which really makes things very > difficult. However, special arrangements could not be made everywhere for > a special person like VI. & even if it is made we cannot save face for > claiming to integrate ourselves with rest of the world at large. So > having 4 types of vegetables, 2 daals, curd, salad, papad, 3 type > chapatis, rice, etc. well piled up in a single plate, where the need to > identify their respective places? & isn't the idea rightly aligned up > with all things finally getting messed up in a single leather bag? Of > course, the ancient idea of slow good eating has dynamically changed in a > social gathering to quick, fast, most eating & most wasting. So eating is > advisable some by cutlery, a bit by hand & come out clean without have to > say 'no, it wasn't tasty'. So Imran, whether you eat by hand or with a > cutlery; matters not much. We should take care to save our dresses & keep > our identity intact with a bold face with other social norms like looking > neat & clean. > > This Message was sent from Indian Oil Messaging Gateway. The information > contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message > are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain > proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not the > intended recipient, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this > e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of > this message and any attachments. > > 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
