Yes this is also something that we need to think about. Thanks for raising it. but I bet even sighted folks can't avoid this situation completely, so if you think you got a stone or a hair in your mouth, just take it off with your hand and continue eating. As for avoiding the situation, I don't know about the hair, but you can detect stone with the spoon if the food is semi solid, I know it get's confusing if you also have bone there, but I guess you can just pick it up with your fingers and put it by the side of the plate and continue the batting. I don't use spoon or fork if I think I can manage without it, to me it all depends on the kind of a social setting I'm in. but Icecream is something that I cannot manage only with my fingers. But It becomes tough when the icecream is served on these thin paper plates - it definitely impacts my dining experience and I get so annoyed if I miss out having icecream just because it is so inaccessible. I seriously feel that eating places and eating tools have to be made more accessible, it surely deserves more importance as much as any library or a laboratory or a sports ground any day.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Phen Varghese Sent: 07 April 2012 11:38 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AI] It's all about using a fork for Mohit the Dork! Hi, I have one question that is if we eat with spoones or forks then how will we notice if some unwanted substance is there in the food like stones or hair of a person which falls in the food or something like that? What i do is when I get some substance like that I notice only when it is brought near my tung. So to avoid this what should we do ? Is there some tool which comes along with the spoon or fork to understand before eating? Please sudjest something before sudjesting please sit back and think about this . Regard's, Phen On 4/6/12, shaik sazid <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi mohit, I am really sorry that unknowningly two empty mails were > send by me. As comming to your query, when I took Oand M training in > NIVH they taught me how to use spoon and fork. Being a VI we should > prefer to eat by our fingers as Mr. Umesha suggested. As well as > sceintific it is good to use our fingers to eat. Whenever you are > eating noodles or some other food which is premitable using with spoon > or fork, use two spoons or spoon and fork. When you are eating > noodles insert the fork into the noodles and round the fork in 360 > degree so that the noodles will stick to fork before eating touch the > spoon which is in your left hand so that we can know wether there is > any food material is there is are not. I trieed to explain but i do not know how far it is elivated to you. > > regards, > Sazid.sk > > --- On Thu, 5/4/12, Umesha Economics <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Umesha Economics <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AI] It's all about using a fork for Mohit the Dork! > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, 5 April, 2012, 8:02 AM > > > Hi mohit, > congrats to your innovative questions. in order to avoid the problem, > I do not use the spoon or fork in such situations and I do not worry > about people around thinking some thing bad, as eating with fingers is > not bad for health or in any respect. only this illusive modernity > makes these rules. so, I think it is not wrong in over ruling them as > long as there is no harm. for example, to eat 'Idli', a well known > south Indian breakfast, people use 2 spoons. but it is too difficult > for visually impaired to eat like that. so, I do it with my fingers. > yes, its even in public. I don't mind as I think if the people around > me had the same problem, they would have developed the custom of > eating by fingers and at that time, eating with spoon would have been > rather unacceptable custom. say for example, for eating 'Dosa', > another well known south Indian meal, the same people cannot use spoon > or any other tool and inevitably they eat by fingers. so, I conclude, > if sighted people make customs based on their conveniences, why > cannot we follow them according to our conveniences? these are my personal views and you have right to differ in yours. > > Umesha > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "akhilesh" > <[email protected]> > To: "Mujtaba Merchant" <[email protected]>; > <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, 04 April, 2012 11:40 AM > Subject: Re: [AI] It's all about using a fork for Mohit the Dork! > > >> Hold the fork gentlly, while you're in confusing state. However, the >> empty fork situation seems dificult to avoid during some last moments >> of the eating affairs. >> >> >> On 4/4/12, Mujtaba Merchant <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Why feel concerned and embarrassed about an issue like not being >>> able to fork something on your plate? It is not that you are doing >>> it on purpose or you have a choice of avoiding this situation. Trust >>> me you are not the only one that can't fork something on your plate, >>> I many times have put an empty fork in my mouth and sometimes have >>> hurt my mouth too. It happens and I just learned to live with it, so >>> did my friends and social network. >>> >>> Relax, its not the end of the world or anything remotely close. >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: Mohit Shah Shah >>> To: [email protected] >>> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 2:17 AM >>> Subject: [AI] It's all about using a fork for Mohit the Dork! >>> >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> This time, my question is not as weird as all my other questions >>>have >>> been so far. >>> My question is related to using a fork. >>> >>> So, I usually use a fork for having things like pasta, noodles, >>>brownies, etc. >>> However, sometimes, the thing which I'm attempting to have doesn't >>> stick in the fork, so my fork remains empty. >>> So, this can be a bit awkward in social situations. >>> >>> My question is, is there a more definitive way of getting more >>>success >>> with using a fork? >>> Is there a better way to ensure that the piece which does actually >>> stick to the fork is not too big? >>> >>> Please do answer this question ASAP. >>> >>> Controversially yours, >>> Mohit >>> >>> >>> Search for old postings at: >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >>> >>> 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.o >>> rg.in >>> >>> Search for old postings at: >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >>> >>> 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.o >>> rg.in >>> >>> >> >> >> -- Akhilesh Kumar Dahiya, >> Advocate. >> Mobile: +91 9210616426 >> New Delhi >> >> >> Search for old postings at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> >> 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.or >> g.in >> > > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > 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 > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > 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 > > Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. 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