Comments on: Why Spoons?

By: harithekid

harithekid — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:14:58 +0000

let’s just say that while I might not be exactingly correct in the statement I made about food tasting different, its something I’ve conditioned myself to believe in while having doubts when faced with the choice of the manner in which I’d consume food which has led to my arriving at said conculsion.

By: purely_narcotic

purely_narcotic — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:58:56 +0000

Am not sure about how you relate it to cognitive dissonance.

By: harithekid

harithekid — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:57:12 +0000

Cognitive dissonance, you mean?

By: purely_narcotic

purely_narcotic — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:55:33 +0000

That is if we *want* it to taste different, that is.

There are deliberate deceptions and these are games we play with ourselves- authenticity of it all never to be determined in the throes of a reality we envision and an illusion we create only to forgo for reality’s sake. Mind you, our perceived reality. It is as if want to believe in them. And that desire to believe supersedes the slipshod nature of the fabrication, the myth, the illusion, the blurred memory. We repeat the falsehood again and again over the years, till we come to believe it to be true. We wished to believe it, and hence we came to believe it.

By: harithekid

harithekid — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:44:34 +0000

fair enough, although I still maintain that there’s a definite difference in taste while consuming food using forks / spoons vis-?-vis using hands (subject to hands being clean).

By: purely_narcotic

purely_narcotic — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:59:48 +0000

Well for the few years that I was in India, yes even then I did do the fork and knife thing with the masala dosa. It’s not to say that I’m incapable of eating with my fingers, it’s just that I make such a mess of it I’m better off not putting the other people through the torture of seeing a mess and throwing up.

By: harithekid

harithekid — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:43:23 +0000

well, you’reoff the hook if you’re abroad and you’re not a non-conformist. However, doing so in our country is going to raise eyebrows at the very least.

Its prolly in lines with eating rice, dhal and chana chhole with chopsticks.

By: purely_narcotic

purely_narcotic — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:04:06 +0000

I have seen peculiar characters who do manage to use knives and forks to eat dosas.

Guilty as charged, I say.

By: harithekid

harithekid — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:59:12 +0000

Meh.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:55:05 +0000

How very avant-garde of you