[Blindtlk] Re-finger food and catch up question

[Christopher-Mark Gilland]

Arielle,

I hate! those little packets.  I used to be really good with them, but I've 
lost the strength in my fingers to grip tightly enough to open them.

Generally though, what you want to do is, hold the packet in your nondominet 
hand.  So, in other words, let's say you're right handed.  So, hold the pack 
in your left hand between your thumb, index, and middle finger.  Don't 
squeeze, whatever the heck you do unless you want a major disaster!  The 
last thing you need is the packet to shart on you!  LOL!  Now, with your 
right hand, same fingers, thumb, index, and middle, milk the packet. 
Pretend that you're milking a cow.  No! Seriously!  I know that sounds a 
little warped, but seriously!  The goal is to get all the sauce down to the 
bottom of the packet.  Now comes the tricky part.  If you feel on the top of 
the packet which now should have no sauce up there since you pushed it all 
to the bottom, you should notice a very slight roughness across the top 
horizontal edge.  The best way I can describe it is, it'll feel somewhat 
perporated.  Not exactly so, but that's about the closest thing, though a 
bit of a stretch, I can think of to explain.  You're going to need some 
fingernail action for this, but use your thumb and index fingers and dig in 
really really deep with your nails, I mean, really really dig.  then very 
slowly, and I stress, very! slowly, tear the top of the packet across 
horizontally.  Don't leave any of the top still there.  Tear it all the way 
across until that seal comes completely off the packet.  Now lay it down, 
and with your left hand still holding the packet, move it over to the area 
where you want it to go.  Then in a quick swift motion, turn the packet 
upside down, with the openning faced down toward the dish or whatever.  Then 
do like you did before openning it.  Take your right hand and milk it again. 
If you do it right, you should feel the stuff start to leave the packet as 
it drips on your plate.  It can! be done, trust me, but it's a royal pain, I 
agree.

Chris.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arielle Silverman via blindtlk" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
To: "Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Cc: "Arielle Silverman" <arielle71 at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Re-finger food and catch up question


> So my question is, How do sighted people handle the little ketchup
> packets without a dipping cup? I have no idea, but clearly if the
> restaurant doesn't provide a cup routinely, then there must be some
> other way to handle  it???
>
>
> On 5/21/15, Diane Vlasoff via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> If you look up manners on the Internet you will find that it says finger
>> food is used when you're using your fingers so if it's a finger food use
>> your fingers. If it's not a finger food don't use your finger she's a 
>> fork.
>> Either way manners dictates that you should ask for some container to put
>> your sauce in.
>> Remember if you've ever had site it's a really disgusting to see somebody 
>> in
>> a restaurant with their fingers or whatever covered in sauce. It's 
>> depends
>> on what your reason for asking the question is.
>>
>> Please excuse all the strangeness in this message Siri isn't 100%.
>>
>> Diane Vlasoff
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