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?

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.

That is foul.

I would worry what he did when you weren't around to stop him and see.

that is the most disgusting thing I've ever heard... I wonder why he is an ExH :)

Ok so the cheese thing doesn't look so bad, but i will not be cutting cheese on its plastic anytime soon, nope I couldn't do it, just not a nice thought for me - yuck yuck yuck not saying it will kill anyone it's just not for me the same as I wouldn't eat nuts on a bar ;)

I do know a lady who washes all her tins/bottles before she puts them in her cupboard I find this bonkers but it's her choice what she puts in her cupboards - I asked her why and she just does it, her mum used to do it so it's just been something she has always done :)

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

I don't think this would bother me. Providing it is properly cleaned in hot soapy water, the only issue is psychological, no?

It is yuk and I don't do it. It's a bit like drinking out of a can that rats have urinated on in the warehouse. Someone died from that!

665 There are strict rules about food packaging and the printing of it. Hats and gloves are worn in its production. I'm more bothered about customers picking it up and changing their mind etc. (after they've picked their nose!!!)

I know, there are also rules about how many insect parts are acceptable in a given weight of processed foods..what I was trying to rather clumsily say is that what people generally assume is "clean" in food packaging is only a given value of clean, not sterile. It's a "reasonable" value.

665the neighbour says 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....

well, I'm one who certainly washes the top of a tin before using it, washes fruit and never sticks my hand in to unwrapped pick and mix.

Standards are dropping everywhere and what you've just said proves that hygiene standards are dropping too.

PS Food wrap is produced and used under strict hygiene standards

I do the cutting-the-cheese-on-the-wrapper thing all the time. I have relatively low standards of hygeine (as in household hygeine not personal hygiene) and am never ill bar a yearly cold.

I must admit I am rather smug about it, but only because its great to realise from threads like these how much worry I am sparing myself from in my laissez-faire approach to germs and stuff. I spend way too much time worrying about unimportant stuff generally, so at least this is one area that I am liberated from!

DH has the cheese on the wrapper on the coffee table right now and is passively aggressively chomping his way through the whole thing because I haven't started cooking dinner yet.

Nope it's not unhygienic. It's human.