What disgusting low life scumbag would ever think it's reasonable to...

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...leave instant coffee granules in the sugar bowl? They just lay there like mouse turds contaminating the sugar so that us normal tea drinking people can't use it. And how did it get in there? They must have coffeed then sugared, but the coffee must have stuck to the spoon somehow for the sugar to get infected. How did it stick to the spoon? How? I'll tell you how! The spoon was damp!! That's right, a damp spoon transmitted coffee waste and any other bacteria that happened to be living in the stagnant spoon water at the time into the good honest and decent sugar that I wanted to use. These people are evil and must be stopped.

My husband leaves his used Keurig cups on the edge of the sink! It drives me batty!

YANBU

Someone who lives in this house will spoon out coffee, dump the sppon on the teabag dish, then just pour on hot water, and bugger off. Yours truly comes along, tabag in cup, grabs spoon to get teabag out - yuck - coffee flavoured tea - yuck yuck. We don't have enough teaspoons to use one from the drawer every cuppa - nobody has that many teaspoons. Hmm, want a cuppa now

I actually feel a little sick reading this thread. So many dirty sods out there. You use a clean dry spoon for coffee and sugar! GET IT! I used to carry my own little jar of coffee into work as the thought of using coffee with bits in it...boak. Don't dare get me started on the dirty gits and the way they used to leave the butter! And I don't even take butter and it still sickened me.

story of my life Husband doing it aaaaaaaaaaaalll the time

I want pure fat, not a taste of some old woman's muffin

I wondered for some time what the watery, pinkish liquid was that used to coat the top of the honey. Until I saw DH spreading said honey over a raw pork chop. Many times. Dipping the same knife back in. Many times.

Until I saw DH spreading said honey over a raw pork chop. Many times. Dipping the same knife back in. Many times.

Ahhhhhhhhh!

Dreams wins.

That's horrific!

Dreamsinbinary that is really disgusting! Especially as honey can't be kept in the fridge. DH drives me mad with butter crumbs, but has been put into perspective by the pork blood honey!!

My Mum never wraps up anything before putting it in the fridge.

She offered my 18 month old a bowl of raspberries with ham in it a few years ago and I still gag when I think of it.

Oh god, X-post, I'll take the hammy raspberries over the porky honey any day.

The sugar problem appears to have been solved at work by keeping a scoop in the sugar jar - works to dispense sugar into your cup but it's just too short to stir with. (Also we have a coffee machine, so no granules, but before the scoop appeared the sugar was full of little hardened lumps of tea infused sugar.

I'm afraid though that the only possible solution for raw pork honey is homicide, DreamsInBinary.

(Okay. Maybe you could compromise with one of those squeezy tubes of honey. With the lid superglued on to prevent illicit honey dipping.)

Dd does this, she puts wet teaspoons in the sugar bowl and it creates little lumpies, like cancer of the sugar.
She also leaves the milk out and sometimes drinks beverages from the wrong cups.
We have (and when I say we I mean me), have a strict policy on beverage consumption.

It is also rather irritating when granules of instant coffee are allowed to fall to the floor, where they absorb moisture from the air and adhere to the tiles with a Mohs hardness factor somewhere between corundum and diamond.

I have also found that just staring at it on a daily basis does not make it go away. Even after six months or so. There are people on the internet that will come and clean your sodding oven - perhaps they might consider branching out.

My university boyfriend and flatmates were always moaning about the coffee granules in their sugar, & how none of them would own up to doing it. Turned out they WERE mouse turds...

I'm guilty of leaving the tea bag in the sink thing. I have a reason, though: it goes into the compost caddy eventually, but if I put a hot tea bag in there then the rest of the contents go mouldy really quickly. If I let it cool first, then I seem to get an extra day before I have to empty it.

I was in habit of using knife in butter and spreading it in toast and then using the access amount to scrape back into butter dish until my friend pointed out who the fuck would EVER use that bit of butter... Yes very embarrassing

Sugar lumps. They are the answer.

Until enthanising the dirty, contaminating bastards becomes legal. I believe Corbyn's keen to adopt this policy.

The milk thing is complicated though.

Not really. If you put the milk in first then when you take the teabag out it goes mouldy quicker than if you take it out before the milk. hth

Wow! Dreams I'd be very surprised if nobody in your house has had food poisoning or glandular fever!

I have resisted killing dd so far for crumbs in butter, butter in Marmite/jam, teaspoons left in the sugar caddy coated in hot chocolate! Yes she adds sugar to hot chocolate!

Ahhh, this thread is reminding me now that I'm divorced I no longer have to deal with crumby butter.

A psychic told me the other day I wouldn't have a significant relationship for at least the next five years...breathing a sigh of relief after reading the horrors above.

YANBU OP. The same people leave food wrappers next to the bin, not in it, but in the vicinity.

Porky honey? Nooooo.

I don't do hot drinks or sugar bowls. I was coming here to confess to chives in the mayonnaise, but pork honey makes that little foible look almost virtuous.

I recently found a balled up Snickers wrapper in the fish tank. Someone had thrown it in the general direction of the bin and managed by an extreme fluke to get it into the postbox sized flap in the lid of the fishtank, which had been left open by the last person to feed the goldfish.

I was coming on to comment about "sweaty bin lid" from hot tea bags in the bin but got distracted by "old lady muffin" and porky honey.

Add to the list of impossibly hard things to remove from the floor the fingernail demolishing substance that is dried weetabix.