Two Asians -
Q: How do Asian people go on a diet?
A: They use only one chopstick.
Two Westerners -
Q: How do Westerners go on a diet?
A: What's a diet?
One method that might slow down westerners might be to ask them to eat with
chopsticks. Perhaps their hands will grow tired before they eat too much.
There is, however, a call for restaurants to abandon the use of wooden disosable chopsticks.
China alone produces and throws away more than 45 billion pairs of wooden chopsticks every year!
Some 25 million trees sacrifice their lives for this purpose.
Japan imports 25 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks.
Wooden chopsticks are preferred for hygiene reasons. Soap, also harmful to the environment, water and such are not needed to wash plastic chopsticks.
My answer, have patrons bring their own chopsticks. Give them a wet towl to wipe them clean and let them take them home.
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