Funny

I find it just fun to eat with them. In the end, it doesn't matter as much how you are delivering food to your feeding hole.

They are also useful for stirring nonstick pots.

I'm passable with chopsticks, but I can't think of any situation where I'd prefer them over other utensils.

Do it for the challenge! IV peaked at sub par but it's still funner than a fork

I avoid the chopstick places because I could never master them and I was tired of feeling like an ignorant buffoon. The surprise was, after more than 5 years of avoiding the chopstick places, I still felt like an ignorant buffoon.

Because they are fun and feel appropriate when they are used?

I use them everywhere because it annoys my wife, but now I just like them

Why I use "chopsticks" is because I am on the go with no silverware and breaking off two sticks and using them to move food into my mouth is the best option.

I've been trying to teach my wife to use them when we go out, but the staff always takes pity on her and brings her The Fork of Shame.

Because I can lift my bowl and just push the rest of the food in my mouth. Instead of moving it around with a fork.

Some fun chopstick facts: most chopsticks in the world (including China) are made in Georgia (the US state, not the country) because of the ready availability of cheap pine. One of the major reasons pine is so prevalent in Georgia (and in the US South in general) is slavery: cotton plantations in the pre-artificial fertilizer era tended to exhaust the soil after a few years, leaving pine trees as the only profitable crop that can be grown on much of the land.

For me, the green part is: Because I used them while cooking and don't want to get anything else dirty.

I'm still adjusting to them for eating (should probably cut/choose my veggies, noodles etc. to rather be long+thin). But for cooking, I do find them quite good.

I can use wooden chopsticks in my non-stick pan. And they're really useful for stirring food, as you can just hold them close together (or use a single stick), when the food is prone to spilling.

I don't yet have the dexterity to always successfully flip foods in my frying pan with chopsticks, but it's not like I have that with other utensils. Whether chopsticks, spatula or fork, it's always a fiddly bugger.

Honestly for a lot of foods they're really not a bad choice. They're excellent for eating flavored chips when you dont want powder on your fingers, also grabbing things from jars

I live in Hawaiʻi. We use chopsticks all the time. Itʻs just... what you do.

Whenever we get takeout and they give us forks instead of chopsticks, my wife and I refer to it as "getting haloeʻd" (for those who donʻt know, "haole" is a Hawaiian term for foreigner that tends be used exclusively for Caucasian people). Thereʻs a general assumption that most whites donʻt know how to use chopsticks. Related, I was once at a Japanese funeral, eating poke and sashimi with chopsticks, and this sweet lady comes up to me and says "you use those so well!" It felt like the white-person version of "youʻre so well-spoken!"

Soup - drink from bowl and use chopsticks if it has bits

Big soupy thing (ramen, pho, that sort) - spoon and chopsticks

Rice with grains that don't stick together much - spoon

Things like ice cream (dish), applesauce, that sort of consistency: spoon

Food from countries/places that don't cut things down to bite size: knife + fork (sometimes replaced by chopsticks when cutting is done)

Most other non-liquids: chopsticks or no utensil depending upon the case.

~ Person in Japan for over a decade

3rd reason: because it's fun.

Chopsticks are the best utensils for eating chips(crisps in England). I love eating chips but i also love being on my computer. Why get chipdust everywhere when you can be clean?