It's just an extremely empty compliment, in the same vein as "your Japanese is very good" or "you look like Tom Cruise". I swear there must be a handbook Japanese people get at school advising trite compliments to Westerners. From this a myth seems to be propagated that Westerners cannot manipulate two bits of wood to…

I've always used high up. It comes from mimicking my father from a young age. Which in turn helped build the muscle in my hands and allows for picking up pretty much anything.

really? as a korean I do find the korean one the easiest to use, but having said that certain japanese chopsticks that has a really skinny end but a thicker top are really nice to use, especially trying to pick up smaller stuff.

Except that there is a right way and a wrong way to hold a fork. It's called ettiquite, and yes. As a westerner that was raised in a proper household, I really do regard people who clutch their fork like it's a motorcycle handle to be luddites. It makes you look uncivilized, like you're trying to shovel your food in…

Something's not right there, but I can't quite put my finger on it...

err... wrap end of drumstick in a folded napkin. hold thigh with hand.

Yes we do and that has caused me to get attention from American children whilst dining there in the past. I don't mind the attention or curiosity but it would be nice if more American parents taught their kids not to stare and point.

There is a proper way to hold a fork and an improper one.

Guess I'm closer to 5), and 6) is the right way (in the sense that Japanese hold on to the end of the chopstick)? But how do you pick up an entire chicken thigh with 6)? Doesn't seem to have enough strength.

The Chinese hold them in a similar way, but halfway down the chopstick, because their chopsticks are around twice as big. I always feel like a little kid holding grown-ups chopsticks for a bit when I go to a chinese restaurant again -.-

Isn't the western version of this how do you use a fork? Pretty sure if the fork or chopsticks are doing a good job of getting food into your mouth without spilling it everywhere you're using them just fine.

Exactly. Because this is our health blog, and I'm taking on the EWG's very specific suggestion that you can protect your health by using their shopping guide.

You can't. But I can make sure it gets pushed to the top of the list.

Do you have a large girl penis? :D

Unless ofcourse they (as in the people doing the study) actually *measured* it, as opposed to going off of hearsay.

This literally said that 2.28% were abnormally large and 2.28% were abnormally small. The next sentence, they say that these boundaries were defined as +/- 2 standard deviations. OF COURSE THEY WERE 2.28% THAT"S THE DEFINITION OF STANDARD DEVIATION!!!

Am I normal

How do the figures sound to you?

Had to be during testing week. Great. My students are gonna bomb the big state test because they were up late scaring themselves poopless.