Different culture have different ways to eat
When you walk in those europe restaurant, will u expect for chopsticks??
European country (USA, UK, France, Italy, etc.) usually use fork and knife to eat their food
Both fork and spoon is very useful to eat their traditional food like steak and salad...since it all dry and come as a whole piece of meat, so the person who eat will need knife to cut them in small pieces before they eat. The only menu they use a spoon to eat, as far as i know, is soup.
In many Asian countries especially China, Japan and Korea prefer chopstick.
Chopstick was a very first tool human used to feed ourselves. Chopstick was developed more than a hundred years, if we looked at it in our history. Twig (a slender woody) was the very first material we used as a chopstick, another material we often used was the animal bones as we often hunt animal down to eat them. Chopstick was developed through the time, most popular material for produce chopstick in Korea is silver.
I think that your observation about the type of food being appropriate for the tool we use to eat is quite correct. Fork and knife is indeed appropriate for most western foods. But I would argue that the chopsticks are most appropriate for noodles and also for picking individual items from communal bowls (which indicates a cultural difference in how we eat as well as what we eat).
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