Would it bother you if the girl behind the counter in the bakery sneezed on the bread you were about to buy?

[Bluebell99]

I was queuing to buy bread in the bakery this morning, got to my turn and the girl said, excuse me, and then turned away from the counter and sneezed behind her where the uncovered loaves of bread were. She then turned back to me to ask what I wanted without washing her hands or anything. I said "Actually that's put me off" and so I left without buying anything and she looked surprised! I wasn't snooty about it or anything but couldn't face the thought of bread with particles of snot on it. Was I unreasonable. It's lovely bread btw.

Ew!

I am like, the most unhygienic minger imaginable, but even I draw the line at snot-dusted bloomers

Yes sage but a cooked bug is different to fresh snot on your tiger bread isn't it!

[bleurgh face]

Obviously yanbu.

We have a lovely chocolatiers locally, but they use the same plastic gloves to handle both money and the chocolates.

But there's far worse going on with your food. You just don't see it.
By the time a strawberry reaches you it will have been handled by 20people.
Do you eat sausages? Would you generally sweep your floor and then put the sweepings in your food?
Do you eat pre-packaged sandwiches? They're covered in all sorts. Do you trust that the person who made your sandwich washed their hands after going to the toilet?
It's only because you saw it. All of the loaves you've previously bought will have been covered in the same snot. Did you get ill each time?
It is a bit eeewww but you will have eaten worse.
Have you ever thought about where each crisp you eat has been? Don't, you'll go quietly insane.

Where have they been tufty, where?

Email the company. That is quite possibly in breach of all sorts of things.

Gives a whole new meaning to a crusty cob

Sneezing.
Everywhere.
And.
Worked in a sausage factory.
And a sweet factory. NO! don't do that with the Rhubarb and Custard.
And a meat factory.
And .....

Don't eat hotdogs and nachos at the cinema...

Don't drink from cans.
Don't drink from cardboard coffee cups.
Organic does not meant free range.

Tufty, what really then is largely unadulterated?

Anything? Nothing?

What happened with the Rhubarb Custard?

So basically the only 'clean' way to ingest food is intravenously? Providing of course the liquid nutrients have been decanted by sterile robots.

Peel sweet potatoes.
My Dad always used to tell me how they smelt of cockroaches.

Absolutely nothing.

Coleslaw? I wouldn't with your disposition.

The thing is: you don't know. They do have standards (face masks/hair nets etc) but you can't see if Tony did or didn't slip off his gloves because his hands were sweaty when he was packing the sausage rolls.

You just can't think about it. Too much.

A few germs are good.

I found a beetle in a pie once.

My mum called him Alexander the Beetle. And put him in a matchbox.

I can think about it too much tufty
I do.

I am one of those who spills coffee on the bedspread on the hotel room to get a new one because I know how long it's been there and what it's likely to be covered with.

Oh dear.

Are you health inspector?

Wine. Thinkings about it
How do they crush the grapes and how do they make sure there are no bugs in there....

Vodka. Now vodka is probably fairly ok, provided you don't drink from the bottle.

Wine is filtered through fish eyes

Not a health inspector no.

One step ahead of you there tufty.

We buy vegan wine!

Not that I'm sure something else gross doesn't happen or that some disgruntled employee doesn't randomnly decide to piss in the vat periodically

I'm going off to the corner to rock gently.

YANBU

I was in subway once. Waiting in line while the guy served the lady in front of me. She got all the way to the end, guy still had his gloves on while he took the money from her. He then didn't bother to change them when it got to me. I asked him if maybe he should to which I got a loud huff .

I worked in a kitchen when younger, I followed all the hygiene rules but some never. I know what to look for now!

Oh and I hate when you walk past a food place and all the chefs are standing outside the back/side door smoking. . Yuck!!!