Is there anything worse than Bamboo ?

[Die Judicii]

Found myself in the position of having to get takeaway for lunch today.
So, I decide on Chinese.
I get a bowl of crispy pork, veg/salad and rice.

Then came the unenviable task of eating it with the supplied (legally required) "bamboo" fork.
Now,,,, when yo put these abominable "things" in your mouth they feel about as comfortable as a piece of sandpaper.
Truly disgusting,, and certainly not successful,,,,,, they won't even pierce a sprig of cauliflower or asparagras.

For the life of me, I can't figure why the bloody government banned plastic knives and forks (supposedly to save the world from plastic) and yet it
seems to be ok to leave the plastic bowls that they serve the food in. WTF

At least the plastic forks worked to a degree,,,, and didn't feel like a piece of sandpaper in your mouth.

[on_one_wheel]

True

My fiance keeps a stainless steel fork in her bag for similar occasions, strangely enough though she always eats Chinese with chopsticks like a pro. She keeps a set of those in there to.
The s**t you'll find in a woman's handbag,
I should probably throw one or two in the vehicle... handbags that is

On the rare occasion I eat takeaway in town it's normally finger food like HungryJims, I regret it every time, stingy ass undersized burgers with sweet FA dressing served with cold chips and a cup full of ice with a splash of cola in it... seriously depressing. to think those burgers are better than MuckDonnald's !!! Imagine how piss poor their food is.

Probably the best meal I ate away from home recently was in Adelaide at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, I was amazed to discover a massive mess hall with all kinds of international food shops there preparing freshly cooked meals, there was even a sheila smack bang in the middle banging away on a piano, (she wasn't keen on the idea of playing a duet of chopsticks though,
I might as well have asked her if she wanted to play the skin flute.)
I settled on a big Sushi pack which was full of some incredible thingamajigs that was handed to me with 2 options of eating ware ... you guests it, bamboo forks or bamboo sticks. I battled that meal with the sticks with all the coordination of someone who'd just landed on earth for the first time.

[MtnMan]

Did you not sprinkle a sachet of cement powder on first?

[on_one_wheel]

Did you not sprinkle a sachet of cement powder on first?

MMMMmmmm
Cenent powder

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[Gamerancher]

Best example of f#*ktardery I've seen lately was a environmentally safe paper straw, it came in a plastic bag.
I tend to keep a set of fighting sticks, (cutlery) in the console of the ute.

[No1Mk3]

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In glove box, but I always ask for chop sticks if I get Chinese.

[Fionn]

Its a passive aggressive FU to you for trying to eat Chinese with a fork. The plastic forks didn't achieve the desired outcome so they switched it up.

[Blr243]

Lantana. Spear grass. Peter foster

[Robin]

I don't mind them, I take them camping so I can chuck them in the fire so I don't need to wash up.

[bigpete]

Bits of plastic everywhere

[safeshot]

Bamboo socks are great but they take an age to dry.

[Sarco]

Need something like these. I have a couple of sets that live in a storage pocket in the 4by.

https://www.adventureawaits.com.au/prod ... 6b77&_ss=r

[deye243]

Found myself in the position of having to get takeaway for lunch today.
So, I decide on Chinese.
I get a bowl of crispy pork, veg/salad and rice.

Then came the unenviable task of eating it with the supplied (legally required) "bamboo" fork.
Now,,,, when yo put these abominable "things" in your mouth they feel about as comfortable as a piece of sandpaper.
Truly disgusting,, and certainly not successful,,,,,, they won't even pierce a sprig of cauliflower or asparagras.

For the life of me, I can't figure why the bloody government banned plastic knives and forks (supposedly to save the world from plastic) and yet it
seems to be ok to leave the plastic bowls that they serve the food in. WTF

At least the plastic forks worked to a degree,,,, and didn't feel like a piece of sandpaper in your mouth.

Normally I would agree with you wholeheartedly but you should try a feeding tube up the nose and down the back of your throat for 4 months .

[Die Judicii]

[quote="deye243"] Yeah, agreed, that would be the pits.
I've never had the displeasure of having one myself,,, but I have inserted quite a few of them into other people,,, (patients) during the 70's

[deye243]

I hear you on that one and I must agree so heaven forbid we could use plastic knives and forks but we can sit on plastic chairs at plastic tables yet cut down millions of trees yes including bamboo its natural habitat to , make eating a tensils I truly believe all this environment b******* including global warming is a cult and someone's making a Flamin Fortune out of it but not us and the way this retarded country has swallowed at Lock Stock and Barrel we are going to be the poorer for it

[on_one_wheel]

Greenies
We actually can't feed the current world's population by targeting net zero.

We're already seeing the effects.

Cutting back on fertiliser = lower yielding crops
No or less effective pesticides = lower yielding crops
Couple those "little" things in with failed harvests due to floods and drought and factor a growing population.
If they are correct about climate change, the footprint of arable land is shrinking... less land, less food.
Now we're seeing a push to remove or reduce meat from our diets because it requires more land and yields less protein return for the given amount of feed and water it takes to grow as compared to producing straight plant protein and eating that.


So yeah... a vegan diet or a diet that includes crickets as a source of protein is worse than bamboo forks.

They can pry my stainless steel fork and scotch fillet from my cold dead jaws.

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[Fionn]

Crickets are quite nice to eat.

[on_one_wheel]

Crickets are quite nice to eat.

They'd have to be better than stink beetles.

There's a movement towards the normalisation of eating bugs, they're being added to some regular foods and snacks targeting the trend setter market, win the hipsters over and you'll capture enough market share to stock the supermarket shelves.

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[on_one_wheel]

Found myself in the position of having to get takeaway for lunch today.
So, I decide on Chinese.
I get a bowl of crispy pork, veg/salad and rice.

Then came the unenviable task of eating it with the supplied (legally required) "bamboo" fork.
Now,,,, when yo put these abominable "things" in your mouth they feel about as comfortable as a piece of sandpaper.
Truly disgusting,, and certainly not successful,,,,,, they won't even pierce a sprig of cauliflower or asparagras.

For the life of me, I can't figure why the bloody government banned plastic knives and forks (supposedly to save the world from plastic) and yet it
seems to be ok to leave the plastic bowls that they serve the food in. WTF

At least the plastic forks worked to a degree,,,, and didn't feel like a piece of sandpaper in your mouth.

Normally I would agree with you wholeheartedly but you should try a feeding tube up the nose and down the back of your throat for 4 months .

Now we're heading towards human centipede territory

[Fionn]

Crickets are quite nice to eat.

They'd have to be better than stink beetles.

Haven't tried them, but they would have to better then dung beetles

Mole crickets would be my favourite.

[Gamerancher]

Not all farmland is arable and suited for cropping, this is where their anti-animal argument falls flat. Some land is suitable for grazing only.
You can shove your insect proteins, I'll leave that for birds and the lesser primates. I'll keep raising cattle and living on meat and vegetables thanks.

[Robin]

Crickets are quite nice to eat.

The only Cricket I like is the game

[Lazarus]

I've used bamboo chop sticks, they were fine, but never a bamboo fork. Sounds as useful as the old fashioned shiny dunny roll.
That was the bare knuckle boxer of dunny paper, rough, tough and took no sh!t from anybody.

Bamboo as a plant is an absolute motherfcker to get rid of, I took a job digging some out when doing some random sandstone paving work.
The customer asked for a quote to remove about 20 square metres of it after I finished their paving.
Never having dealt with it it before I told them I'd have it out in 2hrs.
Took me 3 bloody days with a Kango fitted with a clay spade tip.
Hate the shyte now.

[Fionn]

Crickets are quite nice to eat.

The only Cricket I like is the game

Have you tried Crickets? they taste surprisingly good fried. A bit like fried white bait or shrimp, but not a fishy, maybe best described as slightly grassy. Great as beer drinking accompaniments.

I find grasshoppers a bit to gooey inside due to there size, much the same as tarantula spiders and scorpions.

[Oldbloke]

Hey, cut that talk out. You'll put me off my Stout.