Posted on 11/04/2025 5:25:09 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
When New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani was seen on video casually scooping up rice with his fingers earlier this year, some criticized him for his unusual eating habit.
The short video clip sparked online debate about culture, class and proper etiquette for eating certain foods.
Some pushed back on this: If eating rice with one's hands is odd, why isn't eating pizza or a burger perceived that way?
"I have to eat with my hands," the self-proclaimed Democratic socialist, who was born in Uganda, told Bon Appétit in June. "In Uganda, we even eat salad with our hands."
After the video surfaced on social media, Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, took to X to criticize Mamdani, "Civilized people in America don't eat like this. If you refuse to adapt to Western customs, go back to the Third World."
Whether it's in Mamdani's birthplace of Kampala, Uganda, or in his home in New York City, the way someone eats carries meaning and method, BEX Kitchen executive chef Becky Geisel told Fox News Digital.
"When you're eating with your hands, it's about texture and sensory and temperature and quality," the New Jersey-based chef said.
She said eating rice by hand is prevalent in African cultures.
"They do have an etiquette with using their hands," she said. "You use your right hand to eat with and then you use your left hand to pass the food with — and there's always a washing before and after."
By doing so, "they're slowing down their eating process as well, which digestively would be a good thing, so you're just not inhaling all this food," she said.
A video clip recently shared by the Facebook page End Wokeness has Mamdani saying opponents' "No. 1 issue is whether or not I eat biryani with my hands."
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When in Rome, do as the Romans do...................
With his left hand...
He’s all yours, NYC, embrace the suck.
Or do as the Barbarians do.....
I’m beginning to think this whole “multicultural diversification” experiment isn’t what it’s cracked up to be.
“I refuse to assimilate to your barbarous western culture. I will destroy you.”
“and there’s always a washing before and after.”
Challenge...
In Nepal, we ate with our hands.
Because nobody could afford SPOONS!
I tell you, if we can’t import commie pushing, terror supporting foreign Nazis so they can rule us, then where are we as a nation and stuff?
Long as it’s not the one he uses in the bathroom...what jerk!
I’ve watched several YouTube videos of people in Southeast Asia preparing weird foods outdoors; they always eat with their hands. They must use sticky rice; the rice I cook separates into grains or small clumps. I couldn’t eat it with my hands if I tried.
“If eating rice with one’s hands is odd, why isn’t eating pizza or a burger perceived that way?”
As long as he doesn’t eat pizza with a knife and fork.
The etiquette is clear. Muslims eat with their right hand and wipe their ass in the toilet with a bare left hand and don’t wash either.
I grew up there and left 15 years ago. Soooooooo damn glad I did!
I saw an interview yesterday of this woman on the street in NYC, grown woman in her 50s or 60s, explaining why she loves Mamdani “He’s going to make everything affordable, and he looks and talks so nice” Huh??
NYC is absolutely the moron capital of the world now, I don’t know where these people came from or if their brains are being poisoned by the water supply, but it’s pretty pathetic either way.
This Muzz clown is not just eating rice with his hands.... He is eating from the communal pot with 5 others, eating rice with hands. This is 6 inbreds swapping saliva.
But only with his right hand. Maybe he will make it an NYC ordinance. No more knives and forks and spoons on the table, except to carve the mutton.
I remember being at Fort Leavenworth with the international officers and the Jordanians eating with their hands and I about threw up..
I can’t wait for the Mayor’s Office to get a foot bath...
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