Funny

Honestly for a lot of foods they're really not a bad choice. They're excellent for eating flavored chips when you dont want powder on your fingers, also grabbing things from jars

Some fun chopstick facts: most chopsticks in the world (including China) are made in Georgia (the US state, not the country) because of the ready availability of cheap pine. One of the major reasons pine is so prevalent in Georgia (and in the US South in general) is slavery: cotton plantations in the pre-artificial fertilizer era tended to exhaust the soil after a few years, leaving pine trees as the only profitable crop that can be grown on much of the land.

I find it just fun to eat with them. In the end, it doesn't matter as much how you are delivering food to your feeding hole.

Who else goes through spoons quicker than any other utensils? In my household

• 1. Big spoons
• 2. Little spoons
• 3. Chop sticks
• 4. Knives
• 5. Forks
• 6. Butter knives

Yes, but

I live in Hawaiʻi. We use chopsticks all the time. Itʻs just... what you do.

Whenever we get takeout and they give us forks instead of chopsticks, my wife and I refer to it as "getting haloeʻd" (for those who donʻt know, "haole" is a Hawaiian term for foreigner that tends be used exclusively for Caucasian people). Thereʻs a general assumption that most whites donʻt know how to use chopsticks. Related, I was once at a Japanese funeral, eating poke and sashimi with chopsticks, and this sweet lady comes up to me and says "you use those so well!" It felt like the white-person version of "youʻre so well-spoken!"

There are foods that just don't hit the same if you don't eat them with chopsticks.

Ever tried to eat sushi with a fork? It just feels wrong.

But if it's a rice bowl, screw the chopsticks. Gimme a spoon.

Sticking a fork in sushi feels illegal.

Chopsticks are the best utensils for eating chips(crisps in England). I love eating chips but i also love being on my computer. Why get chipdust everywhere when you can be clean?

3rd reason: because it's fun.

I use them for pretty much everything because they’re marginally quicker to clean thoroughly than a fork

I'm passable with chopsticks, but I can't think of any situation where I'd prefer them over other utensils.

Soup - drink from bowl and use chopsticks if it has bits

Big soupy thing (ramen, pho, that sort) - spoon and chopsticks

Rice with grains that don't stick together much - spoon

Things like ice cream (dish), applesauce, that sort of consistency: spoon

Food from countries/places that don't cut things down to bite size: knife + fork (sometimes replaced by chopsticks when cutting is done)

Most other non-liquids: chopsticks or no utensil depending upon the case.

~ Person in Japan for over a decade

Plus it's fun.

Once you learn to eat rice with chopsticks you become unstoppable.

For me, the green part is: Because I used them while cooking and don't want to get anything else dirty.

I'm still adjusting to them for eating (should probably cut/choose my veggies, noodles etc. to rather be long+thin). But for cooking, I do find them quite good.

I can use wooden chopsticks in my non-stick pan. And they're really useful for stirring food, as you can just hold them close together (or use a single stick), when the food is prone to spilling.

I don't yet have the dexterity to always successfully flip foods in my frying pan with chopsticks, but it's not like I have that with other utensils. Whether chopsticks, spatula or fork, it's always a fiddly bugger.

I avoid the chopstick places because I could never master them and I was tired of feeling like an ignorant buffoon. The surprise was, after more than 5 years of avoiding the chopstick places, I still felt like an ignorant buffoon.

Because they are easier to handwash

Because they are fun and feel appropriate when they are used?

I use them everywhere because it annoys my wife, but now I just like them

Joke's on you I look like even more of an amateur when I use chopsticks

Chopsticks are great for all kinds of foods. It helps you slow down if you are a fast eater allowing yourself to feel full quicker and eat less. Its helped me lose weight. Also helps when eating popcorn as you eat small bites and don't get your hands dirty.

For frying certain things they're very useful for flipping or grabbing.

The sure way for me to appear to be an amateur chopstick user is to use them.