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Think I'm going to be sick!

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FlatOnTheHill · 10/02/2016 16:57

I know its very sweet when kids come home from school with a tupper wear box containing a pizza, cakes, or biscuits that they have made in cooking lesson.
But AIBU in looking at the contents and feeling totally sick?
The thought of dirty hands, maybe dirty school work top and utensils and the tupperwear box sitting around all day in the school bag with the contents getting warm and sweaty. Omg its just rank.
Does anyone else pretend to eat their share of the contents but guiltily chuck them in the bin Blush

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ValiantMouse · 10/02/2016 22:41

Every time I see 'tupperwear' it gives me the rage. YABU just for that. It is 'tupperware'.

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FlatOnTheHill · 10/02/2016 22:43

Lilac
Im not the only one on here mentioning kids that dont bother hand washing and love a nose pick Grin some kids are renowned for it. I never mentioned anyone in particulars child.
Would like to move forward to be honest with you Smile

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LilacSpunkMonkey · 10/02/2016 22:44

Please don't give me the smiley faces after referring to my DD as you just did and calling me 'the sanctimonious one'.

Maybe report your unwarranted post and get it removed first?

ValiantMouse · 10/02/2016 22:45

You'd love to move forward but you've just called someone's kid a little madam? You're fucking nuts, lady.

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FlatOnTheHill · 10/02/2016 22:48

Valiant
Yes you are right
Its bloody tupperware. The type that clogs up my cupboard and you can never find a bloody lid that fits. And you pull one tub out and the whole lot falls out.

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Dumbledoresgirl · 10/02/2016 22:49

I do tend to ask my child if the food they brought home is definitely the food they prepared. I trust my own children ! It isn't snotty noses I am thinking of though, rather kids scraping food off the floor or similar. I well remember home economic lessons and what went on in them.

Most of the food that has come home has been delicious. And when there is a failure, eg ds3's recent macaroni cheese disaster, I just quietly bin it when he isn't around to see. But it was a catastrophic disaster and in fairness he knew it and I didn't pretend otherwise as he would have seen through any attempt of mine to pretend otherwise. Sometimes it isn't just about accepting whatever they bring home. It is a good lesson to talk about why it went wrong - something, sadly, the teachers seem to take no interest in at all. No wonder so any kids leave school still unable to cook.

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FlatOnTheHill · 10/02/2016 22:50

Liliac and Valiant
But its alright to say my DS is unhygienic? Thats alright then is it?
Ate you two mental?

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LilacSpunkMonkey · 10/02/2016 22:52

I really wasn't having a go at you or your child, OP, but you'd already said yourself that you chuck their food in the bin because of dirty hands, etc.

I think your remarks were quite unkind tbh.

AdriftOnMemoryBliss · 10/02/2016 22:52

Wow, you call her child a little madam, her sanctimonious and then try to be all nice about moving forward?

There was nothing wrong with her comment and you decided to get all personal. Try apologising!

FrameyMcFrame · 10/02/2016 22:53

Yabu
I eat all my kids creations, and I've never been ill...
If I got a germ or two, tough shit!

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FlatOnTheHill · 10/02/2016 23:00

Lilac
Yes I do secretly chuck it in the bin. I feel terrible for doing that.
I look at it and wonder if it could have been dropped on floor. Handled after going to the loo and not hand washing properly, nose picking, nose scratching, arse scratching. Coughing and sneezing into hands without washing them during food prep. Kids are different to us adults. No matter how well they have been raised they 'don't think' a lot of the time.

I visualise the pizza being dropped on floor and nicely returned to the tupperware box without a second thought Confused grosses me out

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LilacSpunkMonkey · 10/02/2016 23:02

Ok, well I can say, hand on heart, that my DD, isn't like that.

Bea · 10/02/2016 23:02

YABU - i'm sure they are super on top of hygiene in schools as all places of food prep have to be.
I'd be gutted if i had cooked something for my family and my mum feels sick at the thought of it. Think you maybe overthinking it!

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FlatOnTheHill · 10/02/2016 23:03

Adrift
Look back and read. Apparently my DS is unhygienic!
Horrible isn't it when someone says something about your child yet when you retaliate you are portrayed as the ogre.

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AdriftOnMemoryBliss · 10/02/2016 23:03

You know, i wish my DS could bake at school, if he did, i'd make an effort to eat it, but he cant, and never will, because he has autism and suffers from avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder and can't even be in the classroom when they're baking.

So, when you're binning the food your child has made on the offchance it might have been touched by someone else other than your clearly hygienic teen who never scratches her nose or arse, just remember, some people won't ever have that choice to make!

PrettyBrightFireflies · 10/02/2016 23:04

flat In my area, teens frequently staff the local cafes and restaurants - I have even employed them to work for me in the past!

If I had the low opinion of teenagers that you seem to have, I'd never eat out and my business would have gone bust.
Fortunately, I know from experience that when in a formal catering environment, most teens are a damn sight more conscientious about hygiene than adults.

You are doing your DCs a disservice. Raise your expectations and they will raise their standards to meet them.

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FlatOnTheHill · 10/02/2016 23:05

Lilac
I Am sure she is not like that at all. And for the record my DS is not unhygienic. Not that I know of anyway

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LilacSpunkMonkey · 10/02/2016 23:05

Jesus wept, I was riffing on what you'd said about nose-picking and bum-scratching!

Your post had a much nastier tone to it.

MrsJayy · 10/02/2016 23:07

Dd was a good cook at school but some of the stuff she made was vile tuna lasange anyone she got her food hygene certificate. But id not eat small childrens cooking/baking urgh

LeLeFox · 10/02/2016 23:07

I eat my DS's cooked food - everything is cleaned and it tastes rather nice!

Breadandwine · 10/02/2016 23:09

I teach bread making to reception class children - who are all well aware of hygiene and the need for clean hands and hair tied back, etc.

They make two types of bread - one sweet and one savoury - and it all gets eaten, I'm pretty certain of that!

Since it's a Family Learning class, and the parents are sat next to them - and then take the bread home! Grin

Slightly off topic I was told recently of a local (Thai) restaurant, where, late at night, one of the waiters came out of the kitchen, tipped all the cutlery (which had just been washed) out onto the floor and proceeded to sort it all out.

When challenged about this, he apparently saw nothing wrong with this procedure at all, and carried on sorting! Shock

Postchildrenpregranny · 10/02/2016 23:12

I used to help in a cookery class at DDs primary Kids all washed hands, surfaces were cleaned etc Happily ate anything proffered to me

LilacSpunkMonkey · 10/02/2016 23:13

Tuna lasagne is always wrong, MrsJay.

I love tuna and I love lasagne but they don't work together.

Samcro · 10/02/2016 23:19

LilacSpunkMonkey you have pulled....the op has a BIG brush on you

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FlatOnTheHill · 10/02/2016 23:24

Samcro
Thats vey funny indeed Hmm

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