Utensils are blocking your blessings
Summary
Utensils are blocking your blessings, according to a rider who insists food tastes better when eaten with your hands. His logic? There are nerve endings in your fingertips, so you taste food three times: when you touch it, when you eat it, and from the residue. He'll eat steak with his hands, no problem. Salad, though? That's where he draws the line, even after Kareem mentions another rider named Nor who eats Caesar salad by hand. The philosophy comes from a childhood trip to Djibouti, where his uncle forced him to eat from a communal plate. He refused at first. His uncle slapped him, shoved the food in his mouth, and changed his life forever. Now he's all hands, all the time.
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So, what's your take? Utensils.
What? They are blocking our blessings.
They're blocking your blessings. Oh, 100% great.
You see what I'm saying?
You want to eat like this? Yes. Food tastes way better when you eat it with your hands.
You have five utensils right here. Actually, you technically have two utensils. People don't understand that there's nerve endings in the bottom of your your fingertips. So, when you're eating with your hands, you taste the food three times.
When's the first time? First time when you touch it.
When's the second time? Wait, wait, wait. I got to break down the first time. The first time when you feel it. You know what I mean? It's like, you know, in the gym when they say mind to muscle, you have to think about the the muscle you're flexing. When I touch the food, I'm feeling the food. Then you eat it. Obviously, that's the second time.
Okay. Third time, residuals.
Ah, you see what I'm saying? Residue.
You know, my grandma, she has a fourth time. Yeah. She touches the food, she eats the food, she she licks the fingers, and then my grandma licks the plate.
Ah, she licks the plate.
You don't know about those tricks, man. That's Egyptian. That's Egyptian culture. What's your favorite food to eat with a hand? Steak. I grab the steak with the hand and I go
salad. Okay. Salad is a m thing. You can't really
No, I know someone that eats Caesar salad with her hands. Like,
Yep. Her name is Nor. She came on the show and she said, "Salad is meant to be eaten with your hands."
I don't know, man. That's where you draw the line.
How do you do it? Like chips? Like
Yeah. She dips it
in what? Lettuce. So, I mean salad Caesar salad dressing.
Nor I quit your program. Yeah. People need to eat with their hands more. So, I go Djibouti. First time in my life. I'm like 5 years old. I'm not going to lie because I was raised here. I was selfish. But now I'm in Djibouti. Game changer. One big plate. When you're eating in a big plate together, it's actually like katan.
Oh, 'cause you're like, "Yo, I need a trade for bread, wheat, lamb." It's a little bit of a war zone.
I was there. I was on some separate dish. I said, "Yo, I need a plate, man. I'm not eating." My uncle comes. The guy grabs rice, lamb, lettuce, a little bit of bread, brings it to my face. I go, "No." The guy gives me a nice look. First time I've ever been slapped by a man that's not my father. And then he put it in my mouth. I went that food slapped harder than his slap ever. Now I eat with my hands all the time.