I’m sure in casual settings they probably eat it more like an American, but honestly it doesn’t seem like the worst idea with assistance from the knife, especially factoring in the history of the fork. I gotta give it a try sometime.

Same here, but with stuff like rice I definitely have to do a decent amount of plate scraping, especially towards the end. It didn’t take, but growing up my mom always told me to just use my knife to get the food on the fork when I was finishing my plate. I will say from my research (which could be biased more towards formal eating) the way they eat mashed potatoes is a bit wild to me. Keep the fork in the same position as when you’re cutting meat and push them onto the convex side of the fork. For informal eating with something like rice it was fork left hand, but more of an American style of holding the fork. It does make some sense though. Apparently forks used to be straight and the curve was added so that you wouldn’t poke the roof of your mouth so holding the fork curving downwards helps avoid that.

I feel like the American style is very much catered towards the culture of tv dinners and convenience around food. At the end of the day it’s all just variations in how we decided to do a task across cultures that get the job done one way or another. With Asia we see the use of chopsticks, in India they use their hands for a lot of foods with a refined technique to push the food from the fingers into the mouth so you’re not just shoving your hand in your mouth, in Ethiopian cuisine they use a special bread to pick up and eat the food. As long as the food is tasty and ends up in your mouth it’s not too much different than something like driving on a different side of the road or different plug designs. There may be some downsides/upsides to one or the other, but at the end of the day it’s just a different path to solve a universal problem.

I did some research and it seems like they do use their left hand, but additionally they tend to always use a knife to assist with getting things on the fork. While for things like rice I see some benefits to the American system, the European system makes a lot of sense for something like steak where you may not want to cut the whole thing before you start eating. I often find myself compromising and precutting more than I want to when I’m eating steak since I change hands.

The whole concept of dominant vs non dominant hand can be over emphasized. For example when it comes to guitar the dominant hand typically handles strumming, but the non dominant hand is responsible for the complicated task of fretting. Using the “non-dominant” hand for a task isn’t necessarily relegating it to a lesser status. It’s often just a matter of practicality and if you grow up doing something a certain way you’ll develop dexterity and be perfectly comfortable using your “non-dominant” hand.

They do that. They just don’t switch hands to eat.

The tenets are in order of impact from greatest to least. They could have reduced by not making this.

I will say it’s also easier to stretch a dollar when you have more money. There are some things that everyone needs where if you have more money up front you can buy something that will last longer and save you money over a period of time. Meanwhile if you’re living paycheck to paycheck you may not have the money up front and need to go with the cheaper option and ultimately spend more money over time than the wealthier person. But again it’s hard to even think about that let alone act on it when doing so could jeopardize being able to pay rent (which can in itself be an example of such a thing compared to owning a home,).

I’m not 100% on the pitching down bit, but key would be to get a mic that has those frequencies in its range.

There’s a pretty big difference between being a billionaire and having a relationship. At the end of the day pursuing or discovering interests with a social aspect will result in making friends and here and there you’ll click with someone romantically. At the end of the day even if you’re lacking socially, it’s a learned skill and when there’s shared interest people will look over some things while you learn. As long as you put in the work to learn, you’ll improve.

The things is that time zones are a natural part of the earth. Back when people told time by the position of the sun, people in different places would naturally observe a different time. Should everyone around the globe have somehow established contact and said, hey one day we’re all going to be in constant contact, could you change your sundials to read the time where I am instead of where you are? At the end of the day, although time zones and daylight savings time have created some slight variations on this concept, noon/midday was defined by the concept of the sun being directly overhead. Since the origins of time telling are based on the sun, there is no first place where we didn’t start with time zones. Unless we somehow advanced as a society to create computers and the Internet without having ever created a system of time.

I think that’s the biggest danger with Trump. Even though he’s less with it than Biden, what comes out of his mouth sounds more coherent if you’re not concerned with the facts of the matter.

I was a bit concerned with Biden when he would say the wrong word or trail off, but at the end of the day it’s less about who the president is and more about who they hire. I really wish the DNC had ran a different candidate.

One omnivore to another, try making beans this way. Get a regular sized can of beans (I usually use black beans) and drain out the liquid. You can use a colander or just pop open the lid a bit and put it upside down in the sink. Sautee half an onion diced up (or a whole onion if you really like them) in a splash of olive oil. Once it’s soft and getting a bit translucent chop up a clove or two of garlic and a chipotle pepper (get a small can of them in adobo sauce). Add them in and stir until you get some fragrance off them. From there add the beans and stir everything together right away until the onion is mixed in (and garlic with, don’t want to let the garlic burn). From there you can add in salt, pepper, and cumin. I also like to add oregano and if you’re feeling it you can add garlic powder and/or chili powder. From there you add some tomato sauce. For a standard size can I’ll usually use half. Basically add it to taste and feel since it tempers the spice and also makes it so the dish isn’t dry. From there I stir it all together and let the tomato sauce reduce stirring occasionally until I think it looks done or I’m hungry.

I love me a steak, but combined with some rice cooked with some sazon Goya I can live off these beans.