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The Romans invented the fork in Late Antiquity, during the Byzantine period. Prior to its invention you had to eat with your hands.

Eating with your hands is far from being unusual. A large proportion of the population of the word still eats with their hands these days: Indians, Muslims, peoples in Southeast Asia and Africans. For them it is a traditional thing. Only very westernised people use cutlery in these areas. The use of cutlery is a western thing. The outside the west the only alternative to eating with your hands is the chop sticks.

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