To hate it when people dip their used cutlery into communal dishes

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I really hate it when someone uses the fork or spoon they have been eating with and dips it into a dish of vegetables or casserole in the middle of the table to take another helping, instead of using the serving spoon supplied.

AIBU to find this off putting and to have thrown out dishes of leftovers where a guest has done this?

It's called 'double dipping' it's gros, rude and yanbu!

There was a MythBusters programme on this a while ago. It showed that double dipping (whilst still in my opinion a bit gross) wasn't that harmful in terms of amounts of bacteria added to the dish.

I would take my serving from the other side of a dish that someone had dipped back into personally though. Unless it was just my family, then I wouldn't mind.

Or uses their own knife/fork to scrape the communal serving spoon!

Or, at a party I was at recently, a man was taking bites of scone and spreading more cream on the bitten edge with the communal spoon. I couldn't have any more scone after I saw that What a fucking liberty.

Urghhh grim and uncouth. SHUDDER.

Ugh! Do people really do that? Disgusting!

Agree- disgusting. Most manners are just about consideration. same with dips. I never serve them and rarely touch them when I am out now. Too many people double dip.

Double dipping is totally disgusting. I hate it when people use the knife they have been cutting food with to help themselves to mustard arghhh!!!!!!

And when they taste cooking and then stir with the spoon they have licked. Gross, I wouldn't eat it

Eurgh! I hate this and throw away so much food because of DH's family doing this, or using their allergen-ridden cutlery to contaminate food
YANBU!! It's dirty and rude!

Well I wouldn't get my knickers in a massive twist about it. I try and look at things like this pragmatically and think that most times I've kissed people grosser than the person who has just double-dipped

I've seen people with crudites and dips do this too and it's grim.

Yes, I agree re the chewed end of crudités being shoved back into a shared dip! Not nice.

I agree it's horrible-in truth it's probably not going up hurt you but I'd still not eat from a double-dipped dip!

I hate this its just horrible.And its always the most unhygienic person who does it.

Doesn't bother me in the slightest!

yanbu. I wouldn't eat any more of something that had been double-dipped in (unless it was my dc's). I'd bin left overs too.

YANBU at all, I don't like it either.

YANBU it's truly gross. If people do it in my house I tell them off for it as I always put out serving spoons to avoid this. Doesn't always work though.

Doesn't bother me with DH, we share spit a lot anyway. With anyone else, yes gross. If i wanted to swap, I'd snog them.

Ridiculously squeamish attitudes here. Do you all walk around with a plastic bubble on your head in case of JURMZ??

So Eastmidsmummy I take it you double dip and think it's ok?

It's just very bad manners.

(But DH and I double dip if it's just us.)

I'm not bothered. Loads more germs form being on the tube in the morning.

Doesn't bother me. I understand that (looking at the majority of replies) probably means I'm in the wrong but I think it's deffo not dangerous and also a little priggish to be bothered about stuff like that. Unless maybe you're dealing with someone truly gross and snotty or with an active coldsore or something.