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?

Daisy - sure

Again, a toothbrush is rinsed and fresh toothpaste on. It's not like a huge glob of phlegm is on it. Dh and I always share the toothbrush

Yuck!

Why?

It's just cringey and, as evidenced on this thread, a lot of people agree.

Lol at double breathers. Though I agree with you, OP.

So I can exchange bodily fluids with dh during sex, make out, and have sweat from each other's bodies on each other, but then using the same toothbrush is gross? Really? That's mad.

You must get far less spit sharing food, that actually kissing somebody

I'm talking about the general concept of sharing toothbrushes or dipping used cutlery into shared dishes. I find it cringey and disgusting. With a partner it's different, but you answered that yes, sure you'd share a toothbrush so I assumed you meant with anyone.

I agree with you op, double dipping is grim. Also most likely to be done by people who are lax in handwashing and other hygiene. I caught someone licking a knife 'clean' then sticking it in my butter the other day . I don't like any communal food bowls to be honest, not so much because of germs but because it makes me feel sick.

Using your dp toothbrush or your own kis puking on you is completely different than a stranger double dipping.For one you have no idea what their health is or where their gob has been before they are off the spoon
That person double dipping could have given their boyfriend a bj and swallowed and not brushed their teeth.Still fancy sharing.

YANBU OP.

Never come to Korea then. Most of the time, people share bowls of food.

I have to stop clicking on these threads.

Between this one and the one where swathes of people admit to not washing their hands after changing shitty nappies, my eyes have been well and truly opened as to how grim a lot of people are.

Dipping a spoon that has your saliva on it into communal food is gross, and people will think you are gross if you do it. People are judging you, and assuming you were raised by wolves.

I was in noodle city once, and someone on another table squirted one of sauces on his meal, then stuffed the nozzle in his mouth, and gave a big old lick before putting it back on the table.

My god.

Artandco you are choosing to share bodily fluids with your partner whereas it is random people who are double dipping - or certainly ones that you don't usually choose to share things with.

YANBU. I went to a dinner party recently where the hostess gathered up all the dirty cutlery after the starter, then said: "I don't have enough forks, we can just re-use these", and randomly redistributed filthy cutlery for the main. I had a viral throat infection after that, no way of knowing if it was caused by that.

Also at work yesterday I had a green juice and one of my colleagues wanted to try it. No problem with that, but they were expecting to take a swig out of the bottle and seemed affronted when I asked them to get a glass so I could pour it in.

My dad does this. He kicked off at me the other day when I told him to use the serving spoon to get the coleslaw.

Ironically a few years ago at Christmas we had my mums parents round. My elderly and slightly batty grandad went back to finish the bit of jelly that was left, using the spoon he'd eaten with. My dad didn't shut up about that for months...

I often go running/ biking with friends if one them runs out of water I offer my bottle and they generally accept and vice versa. Add this to the list of unhygienic things I do!

Mmph. While I bow to social pressure and don't double dip, I think the hysteria about it is utterly ridiculous and an absolute load of nonsense, tbh. So YABU

See I would and do wash hands after using tube/ changing nappies etc. I'm probably more hygiene aware than most friends or I would always change nappy in bathroom and wash hands, we as many just change in living room and carry on

But no still not bothered by double dipping.

We are on a long distance train going through France right now, I just made children wash hands, use antiseptic wipe, and now they are double dipping sausages into humous between them and sharing a drink. So they have clean hands but sharing each other's spit. I think they have better immune system sharing each other's germs.

Why is it hysterical to not want to have someone's used cutlery being dipped into food that you're going to eat?

I never new that double dipping was such a heated topic. Good to know to avoid embarassment in the future but i honestly dont see what the big deal is.

We are also driving to France, me and DD are sharing a pot of bean salad with one spoon between us, about to turn off my data as we get on the ferry, so no mumsnet for two weeks god knows what filthy foreign practices I will get up to without this thread to guide me!

I couldn't care less I've drunken from other peoples bottles, my friends have bites from each others sandwiches, eaten food that's been dropped on a "clean" floor, eaten sandwiches that have landed on the beach just brushed off the sand. finished an ice cream that my dog licked, scooped up river water and drunk it, ate a sausage roll that fell of my plate and on the grass in the park. So I'm not gonna care that much if someone double dips

I'm a minger!

YANBU - I don't mind sharing a communal tub of dip and double dipping with DH but that's where I draw the line!

I'll tell you what really winds me up on films/dramas etc. - when someone goes into the fridge, grabs a carton of juice or milk, swigs directly from the carton then puts it back! Yuck.

Never seen anyone do it in real life though!