well I do agree with Avanish shah. in fact I get more satisfaction when I
eat with my hand than with spoon. I have seen people eating with spoons
even in their homes despite other family members eating with hands.
----- Original Message -----
From: "avinash shahi" <[email protected]>
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concerningthe disabled." <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 10:25 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] decent lunch etiquettes for person with visual impairment
Come on guys, don't be so spoony by becoming slave to spoon!
Be original and follow your innate eating behaviour by hands. Haven't
you heard of perfect hand-mouth coordination?
You are you, and I'm I, so why this painful learning desire?
If you feed yourself with spoon, it doesn't mean that you are more
civilised. But if you eat happily and with confidence than you are
gonna be more healthy.
Can you break chapaties from spoon? very difficult...
But after all this if still you'd love to hold spoon better carry
quality tissue papers in formal settings in your pocket and bag Like
Seminars and Confrences. Water is no more..
Use both fingers and spoon, I can understand curd, Kheer and Raita
demand spoon in outer settings for many.
Finally, why to feel embarrassed? let others get embarrassed by
watching you chewing your own fingers and thumb.
Be strong, and mind your work at workplace, rest is your personal
traits organisations/institutions should not have issues with it.
On 9/16/13, shyam sharma <shyam37198and [email protected]> wrote:
Only one solution looks to me right now friends.
have Kari Chawal in your daily food for lunch and dinner as well and
start practicing as practice makes man perfect...
On 9/16/13, Shireen Irani <[email protected]> wrote:
hi,
true this is quite an issue for a lot of us, especially because the
more we r beginning to socialise, the more unavoidable it becomes in
certain situations.
the most important thing to start with here, is not to be nervous. not
only blind people, but a lot of cultures in india r not very faund of
eating with spoons. so we need to 1st of all stop feeling so
embarrassed while trying to manage with the spoon. because in fact the
nervousness will make your hands less steady and make u shiver and
fumble even more. so try as much as possible not to be too awkward in
such situations.
another advise i'd like to offer is that a lot of it comes with
practice. so u need to start using falks and spoons at home too. in
order to get used to handling them in public. often because we're more
comfortable eating with hands, we do so in our homes, and then
suddenly its a problem when we're faced with using them in public
without practice. so 1st of all, start using them at home too. at
least 1 meal in 2 days if its too much to switch entirely.
make sure that u ask whoever is serving u, to tell u what is being
served, and try to follow the sound of where in your plate is it being
served. this will put u in a better position to navigate within your
plate.
in extremely formal places and 5star hotels, its perhaps better to
avoid fish etc if 1 is unable to remove bones etc without using hands.
so sticking to rice items or anything that goes smoothly and doesn't
require too much breaking can be consumed if you're socially
uncomfortable to ask any1 to help u.
sometimes holding the spoon a bit on the inside, and not exactly on
the tip of the handle also helps while breaking big pieces into
eatable morsels. u could also sometimes cheat a bit by using the tip
of your right thumb just very slightly to feel where your dish starts
from in order to know where to break it. but this needs to be done
tactfully, and only for a split second. make sure u dont dirty your
entire thumb.
my final and most important tip is that in a lot of casual restoraunts
a lot of people do eat dried foods like kabaabs cutlets pizzas etc
with their hands. so as long as your confident about what your doing,
there's nothing to stop u from eating certain things with your hands.
ultimately its about how u carry yourself and yoru level of
confidence. if u can eat decently without showing your awkwardness,
even if your slightly clumsy, it really doesn't matter. people know
that we r blind, and that we do face certain problems in certain
situations. so some degree of clumsiness is surely not as serious as
we make it.
at least u wont lose a promotion or something if u dont eat like a
true englishmen. smiles.
just enjoy your food, and eat it with confidence!
that's all i'd say.
best,
Shireen.
On 9/16/13, sharad tripathi <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello friends,
I would like to attract all of you's attention to very important issue
that is our problem in dealing with folk and spoons as well struggling
with nonveg. dishes. although any how it does nbot bother us as we are
managing it from long. this becomes a issue for other's respect when
lunch is in honour of somebody or official meeting or lunch with MD of
the company. In that case expectations increases for lowvision.
fellows along with us expect us to not create any disorder while lunch
oncentral table of company.If any mistake while or whole of your
fingers in the food does seems embarrassing.
therefore my major concern is is kindly provide tips so that lunch in
hard protocol does not go with empty stomach and noises of utensils.
regards,
sharad tripathi
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