Dan in La Crosse

Ancient Chinese secret, maybe

Eat with chopsticks, look like chopsticks. It's amazing how svelte, bordering on twiggy, nearly everyone is here. Surely, a daily schedule of hard work and strenuous exercise and a historic tendency toward food shortages start to explain this phenomenon. But, eating with chopsticks enters the equation, too. After runs, I of course want to shovel down mounds of food in quick order. With chopsticks, this becomes much more difficult than with a fork or spoon. The shoveling is much slower, much more tedious and requires much more work. For me, I welcome the change, as it introduces a new component to my post-run grubbing: chewing.