AIBU t think that this is really unhygenic?

[ILiveAtTheBeach]

My DH takes the block of cheese out of the packet, and then sits the cheese on top of the packet to chop it. This wrapper/packet has been handled by so many people! The Factory workers, the van loaders, the shelf stackers, the people in the supermarket that looked at it and put it back, the cashiers, and it's been on the sticky conveyor belt, etc etc. Surely there's a lot of germs on it?! It's not a big problem (obvs), but he doesn't get that I think that's a bit minging - use our clean chopping board instead. Am I wrong?

Do you use sterilizer on the mouth bit before you drink straight out a can?

Actually, I use a chopping board, not for hygiene reasons ( doubt it makes much difference), but so as not to bugger up the worktop with knife marks.

YABU if the packet is that filthy what on earth are you doing putting it in the fridge with your other food?

I peel the wrapper back from one end, alive the cheese and then pull the wrapper back up, no board and not on the wrapper (never thought of germs on the wrapper before though). So many different cheese styles!

Shodan, I would definitely balance a slice of toast on the butter lid to butter the toast.

But wouldn't it get all buttery from the dripping melted butter?

Don't get me wrong, I have no issue with the hygiene side. I am very happy to drink through straws (paper? Don't they disintegrate?), from cans etc etc.

It just never occurred to me to cut my cheese on the wrapper...

Cardi, we cut the end off the packet, slide the requisite bit of cheese out, cut on board, push cheese back in packet. I mean, doesn't everybody.

Blast the power of auto-suggestion, I'm off to get a Babybel from the frigde - oh no.

I prefer the toast to be slightly cool.

Paper straws last long enough to drink your drink through. And it is a trend in our house, from American Horror Story.

I chop/grate cheese onto the packet (where it's possible). Not on paper wrapping or owt.

I do this too. Never thought twice about it.
A few germs are good for the immunity.

YANBU to think this practice is not the height of good hygiene practice.

YABU to worry about it even for a second.

The world is full of germs.
Our very own skin is full of germs.
Meh.

I do this too, we are all well, and I shall carry on doing it. Even though I acknowledge it's a bit minting

I really want cheese now. Even if it has been wantonly handled.

I do all sorts of stuff like this, never had stomach problems or food poisoning etc. The less washing up the better

Suggest you look up how cheese is made and what it contains.

sugar, too right.

Like the Thai friend said to me when I expressed digest at the idea of eating '1000 year old eggs': "Yes, but you eat cheese!!" Said with 'yuck' face.

I do this too and have never really thought about it before ....

A bit minging but that packaging is cleaner than the money/cards used to purchase it. Point being, your probably more likely to get ill from touching money than eating cheese cut on the outer packaging.

Based on stuff gorn mouldy and patted and shaped by like, 1,000 sweaty hands. Especially that nettle wrapped stuff.

Still different though, being manhandled in the kitchen by a non professional.

Factories have rules and regulations about hygiene therefore that straw has been sealed in a bag before it touched your lips

That cheese packet has been in a truck, been handled by the delightful people putting it into the shelves (and having worked in a supermarket where a young man was found doing things to a frozen chicken and another found doing things to himself before putting things out on shelves) I think chopping the cheese on the packet is a big fat

NO

arkham - doesn't that mean that the germ infested package comes into contact with your board - thereby contaminating your board?
And how do people actually open the packet? Do you cut it with a knife and then use the same knife to cut the cheese?
And do you wash your hands after touching all packaging? So when you open a packet of crisps do you wash your hands before eating the contents?
Another one here who hasn't actually thought about it before...has done now - realised I rested the cheese I was grating the other day on the outside of the packaging ....
but I'm still not worried and would do the same again ....

I wouldn't. Not because I think it would make us ill because that's fairly unlikely.

It's more because I think of the dog shit on children's shoes when they are allowed to stand the trolleys, the pee and worse on people's hands who have unpacked it and put it on the shelf and what might be inside my own shopping bags after the many uses they've had. I just don't really want to eat all that stuff.

I've just had a cheese and onion tasty toasty.

The cheese packet would of been in a plastic wrapped box full of the same cheeses so they didn't escape. It's very unlikely they escaped in the lorry or were handled apart from being packed and being took out the packaging and put on the shelf.

Snicks, there are videos on youtube of people in factories touching straws with their hands!!!!!

You place the packet on the left side of the board, slide the cheese out towards the right before slicing. Then board washed before you use it. Not immediately, but you've used it so it needs washing.
Fridge probably kills everything anyway, but I don't get why the packet is cleaner than the side you're cutting it on. Or more protective to the side tha a board.