Oprah to India: You still eat with your hands? o0

[Master_of_Oldskool]

Strangely, I am eating tortilla chips at this exact moment. Perhaps someone should take Oprah to a convenience store and introduce her to these exotic morsels?

 

[Nouw]

snipped for hands

A burger, especially a Kahuna Burger, is best enjoyed with your hands.

 

[Olas]

What am I supposed to eat food with? My feet?

 

[Ravesy]

Also, people tend to get stabbed and/or bludgeoned in England

As opposed to shot up in a movie theatre?

Many of them are ingredients for curry but I'll list them.

RICE: that was the one that really got to me, trying to grab the last few grains of rice with the tines of your fork gets really annoying and spoons aren't much better. (not to mention its a staple in South East Asia who ALSO eat with their hands.)

Lentils, mince-meat, beans, eggs: all baseline ingredients for curries, but I decided to to challenge myself and produce food that WASN'T in a curry.

Eggs: Hard boiled, Hors d'oeuvre's, fried and served with a spicy tomato relish atop a rice base... Moving on.

Beans: Beans on toast.

Mince-meat: Fried with flavouring added (favourite is oyster sauce, goes great in sandwiches)

Lentils: Actuall I couldn't think of a non curry dish.

There 5.


I guess it needs repeating, "Just as it takes a small amount of skill/co-ordination to use cutlery, you need to have some skill in order to cleanly eat with your hands."

REcaptcha: skynet watches (someone has a sense of humour)

I think you may have missed his point, yes you can eat them if you put them in/on something you can pick up. How would you eat fried eggs, not in a sandwich, on a plate say as an English breakfast, along with beans on the plate?

Sure there are foods that should be eaten with your hands. For example eating pizza with a knife and fork should be a crime, but for those he listed? I'll take the cutlery please!

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

Also, people tend to get stabbed and/or bludgeoned in England

As opposed to shot up in a movie theatre?

Many of them are ingredients for curry but I'll list them.

RICE: that was the one that really got to me, trying to grab the last few grains of rice with the tines of your fork gets really annoying and spoons aren't much better. (not to mention its a staple in South East Asia who ALSO eat with their hands.)

Lentils, mince-meat, beans, eggs: all baseline ingredients for curries, but I decided to to challenge myself and produce food that WASN'T in a curry.

Eggs: Hard boiled, Hors d'oeuvre's, fried and served with a spicy tomato relish atop a rice base... Moving on.

Beans: Beans on toast.

Mince-meat: Fried with flavouring added (favourite is oyster sauce, goes great in sandwiches)

Lentils: Actuall I couldn't think of a non curry dish.

There 5.


I guess it needs repeating, "Just as it takes a small amount of skill/co-ordination to use cutlery, you need to have some skill in order to cleanly eat with your hands."

REcaptcha: skynet watches (someone has a sense of humour)

I think you may have missed his point, yes you can eat them if you put them in/on something you can pick up. How would you eat fried eggs, not in a sandwich, on a plate say as an English breakfast, along with beans on the plate?

Sure there are foods that should be eaten with your hands. For example eating pizza with a knife and fork should be a crime, but for those he listed? I'll take the cutlery please!

I think you are talking to me.

I was trying to find NON-CURRY dishes for those foods. All of the foods listed are baseline parts of various curries and I made it a challenge to find dishes that weren't, and yes I have eaten fried eggs with my hand (the aforementioned relish dish with rice), the mince was originally going to part of a stir fry but we ran out of noodles so it was eaten with rice (notice the pattern) and the left overs were made into the sandwiches I mentioned.

I have eaten with my hands for years, (due to my Malaysian mother cooking various dishes) and many people could consider it difficult, it has less of a learning curve than say chopsticks.

Also next time read the post before commenting on it, I already explained everything in my original post.

 

[Starik20X6]

Maybe Oprah took this episode of Seinfeld to heart. Her cholesterol-packed heart.

 

[Ravesy]

I think you are talking to me.

I was trying to find NON-CURRY dishes for those foods. All of the foods listed are baseline parts of various curries and I made it a challenge to find dishes that weren't, and yes I have eaten fried eggs with my hand (the aforementioned relish dish with rice), the mince was originally going to part of a stir fry but we ran out of noodles so it was eaten with rice (notice the pattern) and the left overs were made into the sandwiches I mentioned.

I have eaten with my hands for years, (due to my Malaysian mother cooking various dishes) and many people could consider it difficult, it has less of a learning curve than say chopsticks.

Also next time read the post before commenting on it, I already explained everything in my original post.

Not sure how I messed up the quotes on that one, anyway...

I read your post just fine, and while i find the idea of you eating a fried egg with your hands unappealing, I accept that eating with hands varies depending on the culture.

EDIT: Unless im missing something, you are talking about hard boiled eggs being used then fried, im talking about this:
http://whatscookingamerica.net/Eggs/FriedEgg3.jpg

However I repeat, beans not on toast, as was meant by the original poster (they didn?t say beans on toast on their list)?

Yes its easy to list things that he said and put them in sandwiches or on toast and say "There you go, i can eat it with my hands!" but thats not what he said.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

Yes its easy to list things that he said and put them in sandwiches or on toast and say "There you go, i can eat it with my hands!" but thats not what he said.

While you consider beans on toast not a 'bean' finger food which I will accept (with confusion) however there are several curries that it is the primary ingredient and as I stated in my last TWO posts, I was trying to find NON-CURRY dishes. As in something other than Bean curry or boiled egg curry. (Both staples in my flat.)

As for boiled eggs, me and my friends would get them cold in our lunches and peel off the shells.

 

[Ravesy]

Yes its easy to list things that he said and put them in sandwiches or on toast and say "There you go, i can eat it with my hands!" but thats not what he said.

While you consider beans on toast not a 'bean' finger food which I will accept (with confusion) however there are several curries that it is the primary ingredient and as I stated in my last TWO posts, I was trying to find NON-CURRY dishes. As in something other than Bean curry or boiled egg curry. (Both staples in my flat.)

As for boiled eggs, me and my friends would get them cold in our lunches and peel off the shells.

I'm not really sure what we are getting stuck on here :S.

Yes, I get that you were trying to find non curry dishes, that's just fine.

What I'm saying is that when the original poster, who listed foods that he thinks should be eaten with cutlery said beans and eggs I'm fairly certain they meant fried eggs as my picture and baked beans like you get in a Heinz tin with tomato sauce (again op please correct me if I'm wrong).

You then said no, you can eat boiled eggs with your hands (and that's just fine, I wouldn't have any problem eating boiled egg with my hands either) but that's not what he meant.

And that you eat beans on toast (again that's just fine, but not what he said). I know you have said that you eat beans as part of a curry, but are you telling me that you would eat baked beans with your hands?


http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/2/21/1298289384198/Baked-beans-007.jpg

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To sum it up, yes i accept that there are types of egg, and types of beans you would eat with your hands. But surely not all? Don't want to sound like I'm being aggressive, genuinely want to know.

 

[TheScientificIssole]

I don't know much about Oprah, being a Briton as I am - but I've certainly never heard anything good about her. From what I know, she seems to run some sort of cult?

ph'nglui mglw'nafh Oprah R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

OT: I think she was acting a bit ignorant for insulting eating food with your hands. I don't care about the lesser crime of mouthing of at a culture, and blaming a single person for something that may be above them, and suddenly putting here foot down on a non-American dream. But she insulted eat food with your hands! AND THAT IS GOING TOO FAR!

 

[TheScientificIssole]

Double Post, bros. Move along; nothing to see here.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

-snip-

You're saying that you took the term 'beans' in the OP's list as the type that came out a can right?

I took as as beans period.

Any aggressiveness was probably my fault due to not eating anything in a while. (Kinda ironic how things went.)

As for eating canned beans with your hands it is doable. (Me and my brother tried it, I wouldn't recommend anyone else do it although, unless the know how to cleanly eat using your hands.) I decided to not include it my list due to it being weird and stemming from laziness.

 

[wolfyrik]

I was about to point out the same thing. People don't eat with their fingers in India because they make lots of burgers and sandwiches over there and it's more convenient.

It's actually a hygiene thing, one hand for sanitary stuff and the other for eating food. In a place like India this actually makes a lot of sense. Knives and forks could easily either go unwashed or washed with dirty bacteria-filled water.

OT: I never really cared about Oprah before, not to say I diliked her, I just didn't care. But holy crap this really shows how ignorant she is about the rest of the world. Especially the whole "we're number one!" on education.

Or maybe, just maybe, it's a cultural thing?

Maybe they bloody eat with their bloody hands because they've bloody done so for the last 10.000 years? Jesus Christ man. There are parts in the world that aren't American.

Well...yes? Not sure where I said they needed to be American, in fact I was pointing out the ignorance of someone clearly living in her own little bubble, where her ways are the best and we all need to fall in line. Obviously it's a cultural thing that goes without saying but they don't just do it for no other purpose than that. They have a reason which is: It's more hygienic, especially in a place like India. Try eating with the wrong hand over there and people will almost puke from how disgusting you're being.

Also, 10,000 years? I think you're overshooting just a little bit buddy.

Oh that's right because 10,000 years ago people were levitating food into their mouths using their ancient wisdowm, right? I kinda miss what you're trying to say here. Are you suggesting that India didn't havea populace back then or that some thousands of years ago they were using cutlery but changed their minds? Saying that you're right about the hands, good post in general.

I've no idea what Oprahs roots in wealth are but she sure as hell has no idea what goes on in the real world now. This awful woman has caused some terrible damage to American society with the nonsense she spews and promotes on her "show". All that awful gibberish about "mommy instinct" and "vaccines causing harm" got a major spotlight thanks to this ignorant *****. She's actually put childrens lives at risk for the sake of satisfying her media attention whorishness.

Oprah needs to be taken off air and deported to India without a penny to her name. We'll see how long it takes for her to starve or change her mind about not using cutlery. I'll bet she won't be so quick to spit on peoples homes and lives after a couple of weeks sleeping in the dirt.

People in Britain tend to eat Indian stylee curry with hands, a fork only as back-up if it's saucy and they run out of naan or chappatti. What's the big-deal? Only ignorant toff's could possibly be surprised by it.

Question for Oprah and the oprah defence league, do you eat pizza or burgers with a knife and fork? How about crisps (potato chips)?

 

[wolfyrik]

Is it any surprise, especially after this stunt?

No research.
No common sense.
Nothing.

Really, she is the laughingstock of the world right now.

Doood, that is genius. I don't know who trolled her but nice work ^^ I wouldn't normally approve of trolling a sunject like that, it's distasteful and unnecessary, but the fact that she quoted it, entirely seriously.....

Franky Boyle would love this.

 

[HardkorSB]

Why do so many Indians always want to study in England? Go to America - it's bigger and there is so much more stuff to do and see. England is a small island with a shit economy, a huge population and a cold weather.

I would much rather go to the states!

I don't know about England but in Scotland, if you study and work part time, you get paid for going to college (maybe not everywhere and not for every course but all my friends in colleges get paid).
Does America have that?

 

[Neonit]

you see, i was taught:
do not judge. and if you do - dont say it.
works fairly well for me, maybe she should try it sometimes?
being shocked with eating with hands? really? in that case, "i have seen shit that would turn her white".

i admit, i dont know her well enough. i know however that people who go about "look at me, i donate to charity! look at me!" often compensate for something.

dunno if that is applicable in this case.

anyway, on topic - ffs, dont depress people who are in depression.... also, discouraging moving to another country to study? just because you are from a different one?

i refer to the part where i mentioned compensating for something.

 

[Ranorak]

Did she at least give them some free shit for their trouble?

It was under their chair.

 

[Terminal Blue]

Why do so many Indians always want to study in England?

Why do so many Americans always want to study in England?

Because unless you can get into Harvard, Yale, MIT or one of the few American universities or colleges which are globally renowned, studying in England is a pretty good idea. It's a lot cheaper (even for international students), the general standard of education is higher and unless you're going to wind up in an ex-polytechnic somewhere it carries more weight and prestige internationally.

Until the current government, the UK had one of the best higher education systems in the world. Even with the Tories determined to fuck up one of the biggest growth areas in the economy with aggressive immigration controls and funding cuts, it's still better than most, which is why it still attracts such huge numbers of international students.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

I can't help but think maybe Oprah's book club stickers need a redesign, maybe something like

Spoiler: this?

Stay classy, Oprah.

 

[Lt._nefarious]

*clap... clap... clap...*

There are so many things wrong with what Oprah says and does but IN WHAT UNIVERSE IS AMERICA BETTER THAT BRITAIN!?! WTF OPRAH!?! I DIDN'T THINK YOU WERE A HATEFUL BIGOT WHO PROBABLY RAPES KITTENS AND EATS THEIR KITTEN FLESH..! With a knife and fork of course...