Surely it should be pokestick, a chopstick implies it has a cutting edge.
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no, the food was chopped, that's where the name comes from
just look at chinese ways of slicing the meat... slivers
Then the knife that chopped the food should be called the chopstick.
You don't eat an oven or drive an oil refinery
no, the food is the chop, chopstick is the device you pick it up with
idk, maybe it's my indonesian genetics or something but if you don't have steel, bamboo sticks make sense
asian culture can be explained a lot by how much you can doo with bamboo
also, what do you call the sections of meat you cut with a saw? chops.
blades are like nails not sticks, they let you pierce things and slash at things, just like fingernails... maybe teeth are comparable too
stick = thump
blade = cut/pierce
Apparently (don’t quote me) chop is derived from Chinese pidgin English where “chop” means “quick”. Effectively “quickstick” I have no idea though.