Eat your peas one at a time? Cut a Snickers with a knife and fork? Eat the cheese off your pizza first? Tell me all about your food quirks!

  • BertramDitore@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Lol I love the dot matrix imagery.

    It may be totally unrelated to your family, but depending on your cultural background, only eating with your right hand is pretty common across the Middle East. I believe it’s because the left hand is usually associated with wiping your bum, so it was best to keep that hand away from your food. Some folks can actually get a little offended/weirded out if you eat with your left hand at their table. I love these little cultural anecdotes.

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      2 years ago

      I’ve heard this before and it always makes me think of how terrible I would be at wiping with my left hand. I don’t think I’ve ever done it. My left hand is so much less dextrous than my right, I imagine it would be very messy.