bartron2k2@hotmail.com (Makoto Taniguchi) wrote in message news:<195ad9c0.0306041554.733e1380@posting.google.com>...
> rosh@nashville.net (Rosh) wrote in message news:<58e1b44b.0306040304.59f22a39@posting.google.com>...
> > "Dave Fossett" <reply@via.newsgroup> wrote in message news:<BH0Da.629$t6.381@news1.dion.ne.jp>...
> > 
> > > Same here. I have never been able to afford to go to sushi restaurants where
> > > people are expected to use their fingers.
> > 
> > Futomaki kaburitsuki.  Easier eating them with fingers.
> 
> but it would be quite rude to eat with your fingers in Japan...

No, Kansaijin eat Futomaki with fingers on Setsubun day.

> although it seems as though the rules are quite different over here in
> North America.