Which implements do you use when you eat?

[Kerala]

In Kerala we use our fingers. Yoghurt, rasam and sambar are mixed with rice and eaten by hand. Payasam is eaten off the leaf by hand, but in recent decades may be served in small bowls and eaten with a spoon.

I sustained a gory injury to my right arm when I was a house officer 35 years ago and the median nerve didn't grow back quite right. Not only do I lack the fine dexterity to eat rice elegantly with my fingers, but I also suffer sensitivity to hot food on my fingertips. Sadly I now eat Indian food in the English manner.

Chopsticks are impossible for me to grasp properly since the accident, so I use them cack-handedly. I just endure the ignominy.

Worst of all, I sometimes eat Indian food with my left hand. I'm sure people think I lost my culture growing up in the UK!