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To: ExGeeEye

The thing I can't figure out, in a culture as tech savvy as the Asian culture, is why they grew up eating rice and didn't invent the spoon.


6,127 posted on 10/01/2005 5:40:46 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: HairOfTheDog

LOL!! They DO have spoons, they use them for soup, they just don't use them for rice. Mystifying, that's for sure.


6,139 posted on 10/01/2005 5:52:15 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: HairOfTheDog
The thing I can't figure out, in a culture as tech savvy as the Asian culture, is why they grew up eating rice and didn't invent the spoon.

And that's about as useful for soup as the sticks are for rice :)

6,195 posted on 10/02/2005 8:27:36 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (WW2 was NOT lost the day we DIDN'T take Berlin.)
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