Horrified watching my aunt prepare today's lunch...

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Just checking that I'm not being super sensitive! Was at MIL's today for lunch...Aunt was in charge of potatoes which were to be boiled and covered in garlic, butter and herbs.

Lovely.

Except...not.

I had to watch her as she put the butter etc in and using a selection of utensils, repeatedly lick them after she'd stirred the potatoes...and then plunge them into the potatoes again....good stir....back into the butter dish...more licking...back into the potatoes...then back into the butter...another good lick.

Boak.

She then, coughed into the pot for good measure.

This is a bit lighthearted by the way....she's not in her dotage or anything...60 years old and perfectly together...she knew I was sititng there watching.

I had been looking forward to a nice spud! I had to refuse them and eat meat and salad!

What gets INTO some people?

Oh and she then continued handling the cakes after kicking her fingers!!!

Licking!!!

Shirley I once told a man off in a chip shop because he LICKED his fingers to pick up the paper to wrap my chips in!

Like he was turning the page of a book...which I am also disgusted by.

He was and I had to tell him what he'd done and why I didn't want my order any longer.

He was looking at me as thought I was the mad one!

You are.

Yep,I agree with Pictish

I don't want to ingest his spit though! That's just...I don't know...personal preference. As a worker in a food shop, he should know better!

I think it's really sad when people rarel eat out and don; eat homemade cakes becasue they're worried about germs. Why make your life so small? I've never known or heard of anyone who picked up soemthing dreadful from a homemade cake. Chances are 20-30 minutes in the oven at 180 will kill the oddd bit of lurking germ!

This with bells on! I am a home baker and I also have a food hygiene certificate. I am careful with the high risk food items - chicken, seafood, dairy. I find it difficult to understand how people think they are going to get food poisoning from a victoria sponge. Demonstrates a very basic lack of knowledge about germs and safe food preparation. Double dipping and licking fingers is not ideal but is hardly likely to kill you, unless the person doing the licking has typhoid or norovirus or something equally awful.

It's the girly squealing of "ewwww germs!!", the gagging, retching, refusing to eat and anti-bac spraying everything in sight which does my head in. Germs and bacteria are not all bad. Get over yourselves and do your immune systems a favour.

If nothing else this thread shows just how trivial and self absorbed our privileged culture allows us to be.
Quite crass really.

He didn't spit on your fish and chips!

Demonstrates a very basic lack of knowledge about germs and safe food preparation

Agree!

It's just childish screaming at worms. I have no patience for this bullshit.

I am not ok with this at all. It is disgusting!! I wouldnt be able to eat it. If she doesnt care about licking the spoon and double dipping, coughing in the food etc. Does she cross contaminate with raw foods? Does she wash her hands after the loo/scratching her arse/picking her nose etc?

Food hygeine is my absolute line, I am tolerant of a lot, but people who are so blase' about potentially giving food poisoning to their visitors tip me over the edge.

I couldn't have stood there and watched that without comment OP! I would have been handing her clean spoons and suggesting that her behaviour was gross.
My Colleague and I watched (from our office window) a chef from a very "posh eaterie" opposite doing just this!
ugh!

And bullshit you cant get sick from double dipping. Saliva contains whatever germs the host is harbouring and yes, that could be noro or campylobacter if they are infected. You wouldnt eat a piece of cake that someone had just licked the icing from right in front of you, would you?

I used to have a friend, who would just walk up to a fresh cake on my counter and stick her finger in the icing and help herself without asking or waiting to be offered a slice. She let her children do it too! It was awful...

I'm not scared of getting sick. Not at all. It's just the thought of eating someone else's spit is frankly repugnant to me! I do kiss my husband and children but anyone outside that circle can keep theirs.

Luna, DameDiazepam and Pictish you speak sense.

It's the girly squealing of "ewwww germs!!", the gagging, retching, refusing to eat and anti-bac spraying everything in sight which does my head in

It's just childish screaming at worms

These capture perfectly what is so irritating about threads like this.

Luna and it's fuck all to do with "girly" which by the way is a very sexist way to put things.

My brother is the same way. Nothing to do with gender!

This is funny though!

Yesterday 16:18 TheOtherGalen

I totally just licked this thread then put it back into the forum.

And be irriated all you like! But respect those who don't like the idea of your spit in their food! Or anyone else's! Why be irritated by my dislike of other people slobbering in food!?

Hilarious, some of the very same people here who were horrified at the pyjama thread and the potential 'hygeine' issues, couldnt give a shit if someone salivas into their food and are criticising the OP for being hysterical? Give me strength.

I do double dip when making our meals at home for DH and the kids, but then we would all share glasses, way off each other's forks, lick each other ice creams etc etc
I would feel queasy doing any of that with anyone else though.

I have to say I don't think it is 'privileged and self-absorbed' to not want to ingest other peoples poo particles & germs is it?

There are some phenomenally first world problem threads on MN on occasion (thinking back to the woman 'devastated and sobbing' because she received the wrong type of birthday card for example!).

But I honestly would never lick my fingers after touching a supermarket trolley, or lick something which was then used to prepare food which was not then subsequently cooked, it is just minging!

You wouldnt eat a piece of cake that someone had just licked the icing from right in front of you, would you?

Depends what flavour tbh...

Pyjama threads are as daft as mince too.

Unpleasant, OP, I would agree with you not to eat the potatoes. I am scrupulous about not doing this as I don't want the children to pick up the habit, potentially they could burn themselves trying to do it themselves, or eat something that wasn't properly cooked, as well as the hygiene factor. Husband never does it either; he has much, much better manners than me.