Fork and spoon versus knife

[Jake]

9 hours ago, frosty (chris) said:

One I just cannot understand is a mug of coffee with a spoon to drink the coffee with

Hey Frosty,

You can use that spoon to pour coffee over your rice during breakfast.  Because I am old and lazy, I've been using a spoon to consume most of my food lately.  I can use it for cutting, spreading butter on toast or shovelling rice.  Less utensils to wash....he, he.  

[Gator]

Could be worse, they could do away with the fork & spoon altogether and only give you the dreaded "spork". 

[SNAFU]

1 hour ago, Jake said:

You can use that spoon to pour coffee over your rice during breakfast.

Man, that's another one I'd never seen before. An older uncle even spoons his rice directly into his mug of 3-in-1, masarap, heh!

[Kuya John]

1 hour ago, Gator said:

Could be worse, they could do away with the fork & spoon altogether

Actually my dear wife quite often eats with just her fingers, much to my annoyance, I'm told it is  a acceptable native tradition.

I don't participate, as my fingers are sensitive to heat!

Chinese eat with their fingers hence finger bowls are placed on the table.

Ever tried eating spare ribs with chopsticks?

Edited March 1, 2017 by Kuya John

[Gator]

27 minutes ago, Kuya John said:

Ever tried eating spare ribs with chopsticks?

Being a mix of Florida cracker and Cajun that would be sacrilegious! Ribs is always eaten with your hands. For me chopsticks = kindling wood to get the smoker going so I can slow cook up a rack ribs! 

[JJReyes]

At a luncheon yesterday, the utensils were a spoon and fork wrapped in a napkin. If you wanted a knife, you need to ask for one. The origins of this tradition is Chinese. The food is chopped into bite sizes so you can pick it up with a chopstick. Who needs a knife? Oh, I forgot. The introduction of Western food means a knife is requfired. But even that is changing. You use fingers for burgers and pizzas.

By the way, Filipinos eat with their fingers. Any food that touches you palm is considered bad manners.

[Reboot]

Hence the reason Filipino restaurants tend to have a place to wash hands out on the floor. 

Not just ribs need hands and teeth gator....chicken too, fried or otherwise. Else you're just wasting good meat.

You a panhandle cracker? 

Edited March 1, 2017 by Reboot

[frosty (chris)]

4 hours ago, Jake said:

Hey Frosty,

You can use that spoon to pour coffee over your rice during breakfast.  Because I am old and lazy, I've been using a spoon to consume most of my food lately.  I can use it for cutting, spreading butter on toast or shovelling rice.  Less utensils to wash....he, he.  

Thanks for that Jake, this is why the forum is so good, always getting such good info . We only have one spoon now the family nicked the other 6 we had but it's all ok I eat pizza with my hands and she eats rice, only have a problem when we swap dishes. She licks the spoon clean so no washing up, life's good in the P.I.

[Jack Peterson]

32 minutes ago, frosty (chris) said:

She licks the spoon clean so no washing up, life's good in the P.I.

[Dave Hounddriver]

This has been an informative thread.  I had automatically assumed it was filipino men who prohibited their wives from having sharp things like knives at the table in case the subject of their mistress came up.