Then the knife that chopped the food should be called the chopstick.

You don't eat an oven or drive an oil refinery

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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.