Posted by Jim at August 25th, 2006

I’m eating supper with my family. Specifically, I’m eating Ethiopian food which was surprisingly edible despite the fact that this food had never been touched by actual Ethiopians. I had made it myself.

One of my kids ate the Ethiopian food. She was doing it more or less correctly too. Correctly in this case means that she was ripping off pieces of the injera (a sourdough flatbread) and wrapping it around the chicken or using it to scoop up/absorb the sauce.

My other daughter was eating Campbell’s Double Noodle Chicken soup since she had let it be known that there was no way that she was going to touch anything we were eating.

Midway through the meal I noticed that she was doing something she wasn’t supposed to.

“Becca,” I said (holding a piece of injera dripping with sauce and chicken), “Don’t eat with your fingers.”

Strangely, it didn’t work.