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Chopsticks Are Brilliant as Eating Tools
We have knives and spoons for a very long time, and then we start to get the fork. It wasn't until the seventeenth century that we really started to see forks in any quantity in this country. And it's for one of the reasons that you see a divergence in in table manners and eating habits er because, of course, it's not very straightforward. We have a tendency in western europe to think, fork, knife, spoon, that's your that's your cutlery. Anything else a bit weird? But just look at the way people use it. In britain, we pick up our fork and we pick upOur knife, and we use both
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