Just because something isn't done that way in your culture or social circle, it does not mean that any other way is wrong.
What are we going on about?
It's about this extremely insensitive katak bawah tempurung called Grant Harrold, a self proclaimed etiquette expert from Britain, who was also the former butler to Princes Charles, William and Harry.
On March 6, Grant decided to give out some advice on how to eat rice via his Twitter account, which resulted in so much rage.
No need for cutlery!
"Ladies and gentlemen, remember we always use a knife and fork or chopsticks to eat rice! We do not use our hands or fingers !!! ?", he tweeted accompanied with a picture of some person eating grains of rice with a knife and fork.
The message, the multiple exclamation marks, the emoji and the picture did not go down well with many netizens, most of whom actually eat rice on a daily basis.
It's gross on so many counts.
— Shweta (@shwetapriya_) March 6, 2021
1. U should clean ur hands more often than ur steels n woods.
2. Mocking someone's traditions and culture is called racism.
3. If u use ur fork and spoon on our banana leaf plates u will be practically eating from ur table.https://t.co/QdWfv7iGwi
Ladies and gentlemen, remember we may use a a knife and fork or chopsticks or use our hands or fingers to eat rice, but we will never behave like pompous morons who have no clue that the world has more than one rule of etiquette!
— ???????? ?? ℑ???? (@DefenderOfInd) March 7, 2021
Did you use foot to eat foods before invention of spoon, chopsticks and fork?
— ⛔JGN Rasis Bangsa Sendiri❌ (@JatayuAntariksa) March 7, 2021
And.. who in the world would use a knife to eat rice? ??
This queen Elizabeth when she visited us in Morocco with our king Hassan 2 (royals) and she is eating meat with her hands she respects and understands every culture has its ownand yet you try to make standards according to your background pic.twitter.com/CnyWdJQc6f
— هداك (@elmfouad) March 8, 2021
Let us rice eaters dictate how to eat rice. Stick to your mashed potatoes.
— 하나 (@MMM35125687) March 6, 2021
You are missing out a lot Mr Royal Butler. From an Indonesian who eats with his fingers almost every day pic.twitter.com/IqrbKxpuEm
— Adhianto Suherli (@adhiantos) March 8, 2021
Honetsly… I don't want to be taught about hygiene and mannerism from someone who refuse to wash clean his anus with water and soap, only took bath once a day, and refuse to regularly change their underwear at least twice a day. pic.twitter.com/Zv34zYYDok
— hendラ (@opequereste) March 8, 2021
— baenep ?? (@Anep_DSK) March 7, 2021
Ladies and gentlemen remember when we did not have any of the spoon and fork bullshit entire human kind used their hands. Oh by the way that's me eating with my hands pic.twitter.com/DJl0L1xbBv
— Shaheena Attarwala شاہینہ (@RuthlessUx) March 8, 2021
Prince of Wales using invisible knife and fork pic.twitter.com/p4o3SQmGwn
— Atulpatidar (@Atulpatidar19) March 7, 2021
This is really stupid considering rice is not originally English! ???
— Keya Kinuthia (@keyakinuthia) March 6, 2021
No apologies
More than 8,000 netizens commented on the tweet with one user even including a poll asking if people used their hands or utensils when eating rice.Despite all the unhappy, angry, annoyed comments, Grant has yet to say issue an apology.How do you eat rice ?
— The Poll Lady (@ThePollLady) March 6, 2021
Instead, he actually defended his tweet on one of the comments.
My etiquette is British etiquette training not worldwide etiquette training as stated in by bio.
— The Royal Butler (@TheRoyalButler) March 8, 2021
British etiquette? Really?
We still don't buy it lah.
You're living in a country which include people from all over the world and honestly Grant, if you reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally wanted to use utensils to eat rice, use a spoon dude.
A spoon and knife makes so much more sense than trying to split that grain of rice with a fork.