Years ago I used to work with this Indian engineer. Educated (Masters in engineering at least) and seemed pretty Westernized. We got along. We went out one day to lunch at an Indian restaurant; both of us order some sort of Mutton curry, and after a bit he starts digging into it exactly as this guy does in the photo.
I hadn't really realized that was a thing until recently. I'd always just wondered what the hell that guy was doing, because he certainly wasn't so hungry as to warrant eating as though he was starving. But apparently it is a thing.
Yet another thing I would have been glad to have been sheltered from knowing about non-Western cultural practices.
Aren't you supposed to tear off a piece of naan bread and fold it around the food to make like a mini-taco? Sort of like how Italians use bread to mop up excess pasta sauce? That's how I always learned.
Years ago I used to work with this Indian engineer. Educated (Masters in engineering at least) and seemed pretty Westernized. We got along. We went out one day to lunch at an Indian restaurant; both of us order some sort of Mutton curry, and after a bit he starts digging into it exactly as this guy does in the photo.
I hadn't really realized that was a thing until recently. I'd always just wondered what the hell that guy was doing, because he certainly wasn't so hungry as to warrant eating as though he was starving. But apparently it is a thing.
Yet another thing I would have been glad to have been sheltered from knowing about non-Western cultural practices.
Aren't you supposed to tear off a piece of naan bread and fold it around the food to make like a mini-taco? Sort of like how Italians use bread to mop up excess pasta sauce? That's how I always learned.
Fuck sake, Ethiopians do it that way.
That restaurant provided silverware by default. I ate mine with a spoon and fork. That's one of the reasons I was so confused.
He may have even started to eat it with a spoon and fork and switched to eating it with his hands later, but my memory is hazy.