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12ax7
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 Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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This discussion is much ado about nothing. As I've suggested earlier, if you ask politely the vast majority of restaurants will relent.
Those who still refuse, a very small minority in my experience, are those who clearly don't understand that you're likely to return with friends in tow if you enjoy your meal.
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motiontodismiss
Joined: 18 Dec 2011
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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As for the rice bowl on the right and soup on the left or whatever, tell the ajumma you're left-handed. I'm left-handed and I eat that way and nobody says a thing about it. |
this has nothing to do with what hand you use to eat. it's a cultural thing. i am primarily right handed but having rice on my left hand side isn't going to make me cry and it's still not hard to eat it. trying to tell an adjumma that you're left handed in this situation is like driving on the right lane in japan just because that's how you normally do it. |
The ajumma's being asinine in this case. What does it matter if you eat with the rice bowl in the middle of the table let alone on the right? I'm not causing anyone grief by eating with the rice on the right and soup on the left. I use my left hand to eat and I'm more likely to spill stuff with the soup on the right. Rice is easy to clean off my clothes. A liquid, not so much. It's culturally taboo to start eating first if someone older than you is at the table, but people do it all the time and I've never seen anyone give anybody crap about that. I just think some cultural things are completely asinine and impractical and AFAIC convenience/expediency trumps culture just about every time.
It's NOT like driving on the right in Japan because everyone driving on the same side has to do with safety. I don't recall anyone dying because they put the rice on the wrong side.  |
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