chopstick

Updated: May 19, 2025

It became corrupted, like everything that is good and pure, by contact with extreme civilization. Anybody who can make a shoe-peg or wooden toothpick can make a chopstick. It is to be hoped that the chopstick may ultimately be adopted here instead of the knife and fork.

Various - Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 30, October 22, 1870