Imagine being so narrow-minded that you would outright reject eating sushi with a fork instead of the customary chopsticks, without even having tried it. Because if you had tried it, you’d have realized that forks are superior utensils for the consumption of sushi.
This isn’t a hypothetical scenario. I’ve heard people gasp in horror when I told them I use forks for sushi. Because I’m a people pleaser, I now mostly keep this offensive fact to myself.
Chopsticks have their advantages. For small dumplings or croquettes, they are superior to forks.
There’s no good reason to keep eating foods with the kinds of utensils that are traditionally associated with them. Or, in some cases, to even use utensils at all. Why not eat sushi using one’s bare hands? Sushi seems better suited to this than cuisines that are traditionally eaten using hands, such as Indian or Ethiopian. Why not also eat steak with bare hands?
What this calls for is a systematic assessment of various utensils for various foods.
Nehaveigur 