Maybe living in Japan too long has fixed my thinking one way. Or maybe its that we’ve got regular ones that were purchased by my wife’s grandmother that we still use that has got me thinking that hand wash is indeed the right way.
Well, those obviously hold nostalgic value if anything else. I just put a bunch of photos back in storage - nearly totally meaningless to me safe for the fact that they are from my sisters estate.
But my point was about the disposable ones out of bamboo. Even cheap chopsticks will survive multiple washings, even in a machine. So there’s no need to use disposable one from my point of view. Any “bamboo grows faster than wood” is very likely offset by all the other factors, like energy, transporting, packaging, etc.
"Killed him a bear when he was only three.
Papa, Papasan King of the Wild Frontier."
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I like you, I really do. Has a nice ring to it too!
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Paper thin, I imagine.
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That was an absolutely amazing video. I love how it kept building up from very subtle oddness near the beginning to downright absurdity by the end. It took me a while to grok what was actually going on. I was not prepared for that.
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And thank you for commenting, I didn’t bother watching, now I have, freakin’ awesome! 
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Yes but, it helps if you put them in the washer upside down.
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Next time I get sushi I’m definitely going for the Yamato cucumber or Nissan Fairlady Z.
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The videos on the channel posted by @frauenfelder is actually pretty good if I do say so myself. Some great ones on the Japanese language.
I will say that the etiquette covered here is pretty basic stuff that any Japan guidebook would tell you.
Sounds like an equivalent to the French “ça se laisse manger” (“it lets itself being eaten”? Oh my, it’s really awkward to translate literally).
Also for what it’s worth I found episode 33 of Japanese Syle Originator on Netflix to be a fascinating and very in depth look at proper food etiquette. I actually learned a lot from this.
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