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panlives Inner circle 2087 Posts |
<<Visit a run-of-the-mill sushi bar in New York or London and you’ll probably find wooden chopsticks at your disposal there, too. But if you’re in the mood for Vietnamese food, you’ll probably be dining with the plastic variety, while Korean restaurants tend to go with metal.
So, what’s the big deal?>> http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/2......forests/
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
There's an anime called "Azumanga Daioh" (the name actually means nothing).
An flaky girl nick-named "Osaka" manages to snap apart a set of chopsticks perfectly for the first time and is so pleased, she has to show each girl at the table that she's done it. Later in the series, this is brought up again when another girl claims that breaking chopsticks perfectly will result in good luck. When asked where she learned that she actually says; "I just made it up!" But later, when the five of them are taking their college entrance exams. The 12-year old genius (she isn't taking the exams because she's transferring to an American college) is sitting there, well aware that her friend "made up" the bit about luck, breaking a stack of disposable chopsticks to try and bring her friends good luck! I just brought this up to point out that "disposable" chopsticks are used mostly in Japan. While some are used in New York and/or London (and I supposed Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles as well) far more are used in Japan.
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stoneunhinged Inner circle 3067 Posts |
Seems to me that a lot of trees would be saved if people in Asia started using plastic forks instead.
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
Or plastic chopsticks.
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
My buddy got me this reuseable bamboo utensil kit that comes with spoon, fork, spreader knife, and chopsticks. Maybe everybody in China could start carrying one of these?
They also sell metal chopsticks at every Asian market in my town, so they probably have them at every Asian market in Asia. REI has collapsible titanium ones. That is awesome.
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stoneunhinged Inner circle 3067 Posts |
Some guy in the comments section of the link has designed his own portable chopsticks. They look really nice.
http://www.integrald.co/compactchopsticks/ |
abc Inner circle South African in Taiwan 1081 Posts |
Well, in Taiwan the majority of the restaurants use disposable wooden chopsticks. The option is to decline them which we usually do, but that does not mean that the majority of people don't use them. So I can gaurantee you that there are far more disposable chopsticks used in Taiwan alone than in New York and London combined. In fact I would say that there are more disposable chopsticks used in Taiwan than in all of England and the US combined.
I would not be surprised if you replaced Taiwan with Taipei in the last sentence. Now Beijing and Shanghai are much bigger than anythng in Taiwan. |
Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
Wonder how the timber usage of chopsticks compares to the paper/cardboard coffee cups disposed every day in North America. Or the petroleum-based fast-food containers that are choking off our landfills.
And what's worse? Turning quick-growing trees like aspen into chopsticks and cardboard that will biodegrade, or sending styrofoam into landfills and oceans knowing that they will never break down. Disposable seems to suck in every way. John
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
Reusable coffee cups and coffee insulator sleeves are getting more popular.
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stoneunhinged Inner circle 3067 Posts |
Quote:
Disposable seems to suck in every way. It does in all ways but one: the biohazard of fungus growing in my backpack (that I didn't even know about until Lobo and Critter started talking about bag washing.) |
critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
Perhaps college sports teams should implement disposable equipment. That would save the equipment manager from having to wash all those balls.
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