Food stylist doesn’t understand “chopstick placement”… proper do’s and don’t’s. Photo is “bad luck.”
— pica2pixel 🙊 (@pica2pixel) December 28, 2017
https://twitter.com/mingcheau/status/946186977078075392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fentry%2Fnew-york-times-chopsticks-photo_us_5a454f27e4b06d1621b7b8fa
am I supposed to eat the whole steak w/chopsticks??
— viki cheung (@vikicheung) December 28, 2017
https://twitter.com/chunggukpanda/status/946307376814080001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fentry%2Fnew-york-times-chopsticks-photo_us_5a454f27e4b06d1621b7b8fa
Maybe the steak attracts lots of flies, and the chopsticks are to catch the flies, a la Mr Miyagi?
— Kyra (@KyraBussanich) December 28, 2017
https://twitter.com/jgriffiths/status/946172958728372225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fentry%2Fnew-york-times-chopsticks-photo_us_5a454f27e4b06d1621b7b8fa
No chopsticks in the beer? Totally inauthentic.
— Dark Laughter (@DarkLaughterTDB) December 28, 2017
https://twitter.com/pranishk/status/946196263397191680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fentry%2Fnew-york-times-chopsticks-photo_us_5a454f27e4b06d1621b7b8fa
1. Which ancestors is this table for 2. Ah, a steakhouse inspired by 48 countries.
— Vivian Lee (@vivianwmlee) December 28, 2017
But guess what? The Times corrected themselves. They took the story down and put it back up…with a new, different chopsticks-free image.
https://twitter.com/wilfredchan/status/946533736257961985