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Indians eat with their hands, which is a thing that bothers many foreigners. Someone asked, "Don't Indians feel sick when they eat with their hands?" Someone asked, "Are Indians too poor to use knives, forks and chopsticks?" Someone asked, "If I go to India and eat with a spoon and a fork, is it an offense?" ”
At The U.S. Know Quora, many Indians are eager to answer these questions, and their answers are full of pride.
An Indian high school student replied plainly, "I'm Indian." I do eat almost all Indian food with my hands. Why? It's culture. My parents always told me that when we eat with our hands, we can use all our senses. In India, everyone worships food. The food was a delicacy. It is made by hand, so you have to eat it by hand. Like I said before, it's culture, like Chinese use chopsticks, while Europeans use knives, spoons and forks. ”
One Indian scholar spoke of metaphysics: "In Indian Vedic culture, eating with the hands nourishes not only the body, but also the mind and spirit. According to Vedic knowledge, human hands and feet are made up of five elements – heaven, air, fire, water, and earth. The five fingers correspond to the thumb: fire; the index finger: air; the middle finger: heaven; the ring finger: earth; and the little finger: water. The lack of any of these five elements can lead to disease. Therefore, when people eat with five fingers, they can maintain a balance between the five elements and thus be protected from various diseases. ”
An Indian female writer calmly replied: "Not only India, but many countries have traditionally eaten by hand, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and many countries in Africa." Even in the West, not everything is eaten with cutlery. For example, how do you eat sandwiches, burgers, fries, pizzas, pita, burritos, burritos, and toast? ”
An Indian foodie replied: "Eating with your hands is also related to the composition of food." Indians mainly eat rice or grilled meat, and they can mix rice and curry evenly by hand, which is impossible to do with a spoon in any case. ”
Finally, the Indians also summarized the N more "scientific basis" for eating by hand, limited in space, with excerpts:
"1. Eating with your hands will bring more satisfaction than eating with spoons, forks and chopsticks. 2, when we eat with tableware, we can only see the shape and smell, but when we eat food with our hands, we can touch and feel the texture of food, so that all the senses are involved in eating. 3, the hand can feel the temperature of the food, to prevent the mouth from being burned. 4. Force you to maintain good hygiene habits. Westerners are too lazy to wash their hands or clean their nails before meals because they can eat with a spoon, while Indians wash their hands before and after meals. 5. It helps digestion. We have certain beneficial bacteria on our hands that protect us from harmful bacteria that are more beneficial for digestion and healthier when we eat food with our hands. ”
Finally, almost all Indians relish a passage about Indians eating with their hands.
That year, India's second president, Radakrin (a famous scholar), was invited to dinner with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and after the meal began, Rada Krishnan began to use his hands to pilaf, churchill looked at it unaccustomedly, and asked sarcastically: "Why eat with your hands?" Spoons can be used, they are very hygienic. Dakrishnan replied, "No one else has ever eaten with my hands, so my hands are more hygienic than any spoon you offer." ”
Yes, in the eyes of Indians, eating with the hands is not only a cultural tradition to be proud of, but also the most scientific and hygienic, of course, it must be the right hand.