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While I have nothing against eating with hands (people who eat pizzas with knives and forks are insane IMO), stating that "You have no idea in whose mouths thos
by lusr 15y ago
While I have nothing against eating with hands (people who eat pizzas with knives and forks are insane IMO), stating that "You have no idea in whose mouths those forks have been, and how well they've been washed and handled afterwards" is absurd: by the same argument, you have no idea where the chef's hands have been, where the dishes the food is sitting have been, etc. There's no good reason to believe that eating with your hands is more hygienic (particularly for people with long fingernails or wounds).
- ninguem2 15y ago>people who eat pizzas with knives and forks are insane IMO You mean all Italians are insane?
- alphakappa 15y agoI'm not claiming that eating with hands is more hygienic. I'm stating that it's not necessarily less hygienic than using cutlery. Our assumptions about stuff is based on what we see, and we assume that that the stuff we don't see probably doesn't exist. We simply assume that the cutlery is clean, but that's not necessarily true. Note that I'm not claiming that cutlery is unclean either - just that hygiene is not a good reason not to use hands. That's an easily solved problem (wash hands well). There can be better arguments for/against using hands.