Shamoji Superstition

A shamoji is the flat paddle spoon used to serve rice. We have a nice wooden one, and I am usually too lazy to dip it in water before spooning the rice out of the cooker. And I actually really enjoy standing in the kitchen nibbling at the attached globs of hot rice.
Kentaro recently caught me at this and was appalled, sincerely warning me that my eyes would be terrible when I was old if I ate rice directly off the shamoji.

We both had to laugh at this thought though... I told him that if I ate enough raw carrots like my grandmother said, it would probably cancel the shamoji trouble out!