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A Friendly Message to my Family About Ettiquette On my last day in Hawai'i, my mother and sister suddenly protested my barehanding of vegetables. I had been to a number of restaurants with them, and at each one I would order a salad without dressing. All vegetables that are dry and not sticky I typically like to pick up with my hands. But on this day Emily said angrily, "When in Rome!" Now first of all, if I really had to do "as the Romans", then I would have to put dressing on my salad. End of story. You want me to be Roman? Then dump me vat of thousand island. But here you let me eat dry, raw vegetables - I'm already not in Rome. Maybe I'm about in Afganistan on Mars. Secondly, to my sister, some people who criticize people (like she has done to myself) are referred to as "parochial". I guess being un-Roman or my accuser being parochial is just a matter of her mood. Americans grab veggies barehand, then dunk them in onion dip. I'm really not imitating their first move - it only happens to be the same. I wouldn't want to be the same as them, because by many standards the etiquette situation over there is pretty dire. So what's the principle behind "when in Rome, do as the Romans do"? Imitation pure and simple.
And those people who aren't holding anything, who are still un-American in some aspects: you shut up, too.
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End of rant. (Anti-barehanded vegetablists can email me with your comments at mindyourownbeezwax@veggielover.com Indians, fellow Hindus, Swamis and other pro-barehanded vegetablists can email me at illcookudinner@veggielover.com)
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Do you
have a sister? Yow!
This is just
awesome.
Savage
Japanese in backwards times using barbaric "chopsticks". Wow, do
they brainwash those kids early!
This
boy is of Japaenese ancestry, but he's learning his US etiquette
fast. Good boy!
"Mommy
could I snatch one of those pepper slices?" "Not unless you want me to
spank you 'till you bleed, dear :)"
"Mmm! Being Ashkenazi Mafia Porn Leader, excessive
wanking, and seeing prostitutes three days a week on Viagra has made me
a bit hungry! Think I'll dig into one of these! Oops!
I was just wanking! No matter, 'When in the Jewnited States, do
as the Jew Yorkers do!'" - Jew Hefner
See, Americans
don't use their hands on their salad, they're too technologically
advanced. They have "salad hands" for sale everywhere and oodles
of land without trees because of it. I wish I was joking here,
but I'm not.
Darn!
This isn't even salad! Can you say 1st degree felony?! And
I hope that yellow-orange stuff on her hand is just some low-grade
henna and not some other yellow-orange material I know of.
Woah.
Now the Koreans are doing it. They're just dying for an A-bomb on
Pusan, aren't they?
Some internet geek
tried to make it look like Americans ate vegetables with their hands in
the 50's. We're not buying it, loser.
Just
for legal reference: all these items here should be eaten with bare
hands. The grease from the fries saves on Vaseline money and you
can donate it to your favorite charity.
Another
criminal. C'mon, send us another picture with your face in it -
if you dare!
An American Giraffe
on vacation in Africa. He bare-hooves everything while in Africa
because that's what the natives do. But when he goes back to the
US, it's back to using forks for spearing his leaves.