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AIBU t think that this is really unhygenic?

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ILiveAtTheBeach · 23/10/2015 22:09

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?

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ILiveAtTheBeach · 24/10/2015 14:53

Thanks for all the replies (didn't think I'd get any). I have laughed so much, I am crying. Some replies were so funny. I do still eat the cheese when he cuts it on the packet. Just with a turned up nose. Yesterday I went to the Supermarket and the cashier had a full blown cold. She blew her nose before handling all my shopping. WTF!

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HopefulAnxiety · 24/10/2015 15:03

ILive would you rather her nose dripped all over your shopping? When was she supposed to blow her nose?

Happfeet2911 · 24/10/2015 16:37

Trust me you'll live!

MilkyChops · 24/10/2015 16:44

I do the same Blush

Goldmandra · 24/10/2015 17:08

Trust me you'll live!

I'm sure I would live if I licked the bottom of my shoe. In fact I probably wouldn't even get ill but I'm not going to do it because it feels like a minging thing to do.

I don't think the threat of imminent death is the only reasonable cause for being careful about food hygiene.

Don't we all have slightly different thresholds for this sort of thing?

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 24/10/2015 17:20

ArcheryAnnie I googled that maggot cheese and I am more traumatised than I was by googling dragon butter Shock

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu

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ILiveAtTheBeach · 24/10/2015 17:29

My ExH used a potato peeler to scrape dog poo off his shoe (squashed in the groove) and wanted to wash it and re-use it to peel potatoes! Er No.

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pigsDOfly · 24/10/2015 18:02

ILive. That reminds me of a scene from The Royale Family when the mother was standing over the kitchen sink cleaning dog poo from someone's shoe with a table knife.

I knew, of course, that it wasn't real but it actually made my stomach heave.

Topseyt · 24/10/2015 18:53

No problem either with a cashier blowing her nose.

Many people with colds must go to the supermarket every day and handle a lot of stuff on the way round, not to mention snotty nosed kids who either don't blow their noses at all or who wipe it on their sleeves.

Best to just wash it before eating and otherwise not to think too deeply about it.

MERLYPUSSEDOFF · 24/10/2015 20:10

Re the cashier thing..
Just think of the amount of babies that gnaw the trolley handle after others have and people with dubious hand washing skills have pushed it. (mine always loved a gnaw of the handle). I always thought I should go on Dragons Den with a miraculous handle cover that had rattly / crinkly stuff on, and an interchangeable hummus and bread stick holder.

ProudAS · 24/10/2015 23:31

Goodness only knows what nasties the wrapper might be crawling with!

I think we need nasties though to keep our immunity up.

kungpopanda · 25/10/2015 00:16

You buy and eat cheese from packets? Well in that case the slicing habits of your spouse should be the least of your worries.

Proper cheese comes in waxed paper wrappers that you can never get back round it just right, and then in a paper bag. From the proper cheese shop or the market.

You get a far superior class of contaminant that way (and also cheese that actually tastes of cheese)

DontStopBelievin · 25/10/2015 00:19

Oh, good grief. Not read all the replies but you're seriously overthinking it. Why would that even be thought of as a thing?!
Smacks of serious OCD/ germ issues. You won't die from a block of cheese being sat on the packaging as it's being cut. Confused

DontStopBelievin · 25/10/2015 00:21

Proper cheese comes in waxed paper wrappers that you can never get back round it just right, and then in a paper bag. From the proper cheese shop or the market

Oh, pffft look out peeps, the Proper Cheese Police has arrived - hide your processed slices... Grin

suzannecaravaggio · 25/10/2015 00:27

dont worry the little cheese mites that live in the cheese will eat all the germs before they can cause any harm :)

CherriBlossim · 25/10/2015 00:43

OP - I'm with you on this. It is disgusting and I don't get why people are thinking this is in any way acceptable.

Kids with *filthy feet stand in shopping trolleys which then come in contact with our shopping so of course you have to watch out for cross contamination when you are dealing with the food product. Sounds like there are a lot of minkers on this thread.

  • best case scenario
DontStopBelievin · 25/10/2015 01:05

Kids with filthy feet stand in shopping trolleys which then come in contact with our shopping so of course you have to watch out for cross contamination*

I never let my kids stand in shopping trolleys, as there's a perfectly good seat for that. No need to be in the trolley. However, if some weirdo wanted to sit their child in the trolley body, I couldn't get worked up enough to shriek about hygiene.
Your food is all wrapped/packaged/has a skin on, no?!

Italiangreyhound · 25/10/2015 01:21

I do that too!

Topseyt · 25/10/2015 01:37

Minker and proud of it.

Stanky · 25/10/2015 01:02

Trolleys are kept outside in the dirty car park all of the time. I don't let my dc stand in the trolley, because they are likely to fall and bump their heads, but I can't get worked up about it from a hygiene point of view. Trolleys are just dirty by nature any way.

Qwebec · 25/10/2015 02:09

Wow I did not know about rice poisoning. I regularly left rice in the cooker out overnight!

Senpai · 25/10/2015 03:37

You realize that cheese actually uses bacteria to make the flavor while the milk ferments, right? Pregnant women are told not to eat cheese for this very reason.

The packet can't be any worse than what the cheese itself is actually carrying.

I use the wrapper, but I put the whole thing in a zipblock baggie after so it doesn't dry out.

Senpai · 25/10/2015 03:42

My child licks the trolly hand.

On the other hand, she went over a year without getting sick. Which is a pretty good shelf life as far as toddlers go.

pigsDOfly · 25/10/2015 10:08

Only the soft unpasteurised cheeses need to be avoided Senpai.

Don't think pregnant women are told not to eat the sort of cheese you buy in a plastic wrapper from Tesco. Any bacteria in those will be killed by pasteurisation.

665TheNeighbourOfTheBeast · 25/10/2015 10:19

I dont know anyone who:
washes the top of a tin of food before opening it
(even though it sinks into the food as you use the tin opener)
washes the top of a can of soda
washes the neck of a bottle before drinking from it
etc..
oh and then theres the pick your own fruit....
and pick n mix sweets
and so on...but I dont think I want to be the last person alive on the planet...
oh
and the plastics is produced on a roll before being sealed around the cheese - its not sterile on the inside..either....