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Original poster

To think flushing food down the toilet is disguisting?

174 replies

AppleCrumbled88 · 13/12/2017 19:50

I was staying with my in laws last week. They had cooked a big pot of curry and had some leftovers in the pot that they wished to dispose of. So FIL marched upstairs with his large pot in hand, straight in to the toilet, scooped the contents down the toilet and flushed.

I genuinely found it repulsive. AIBU?

OP posts:
HildaZelda · 13/12/2017 21:44

Even Dennis Nielsen would be disgusted at flushing curry down the toilet.

Changebagsandgladrags · 13/12/2017 21:45

My old cat used to shit in the toilet. Sorry everyone

hamptonhangingpork · 13/12/2017 21:46

I think I'm in love with Zelda Grin

UrsulaPandress · 13/12/2017 21:47

I'm sure there is plenty of palm oil in human shit.

Creambun2 · 13/12/2017 21:52

Anyone who does this is vulgar.

LapdanceShoeshine · 13/12/2017 21:53

I put cat poo down the loo (plus the clumps of wee).

why is it a problem?

hamptonhangingpork · 13/12/2017 21:56

Ursula - I was talking about human shit. it feels like the local cats seem to eat better food with fewer additives than me.

liminality · 13/12/2017 21:56

Wow no wonder the planet is fucked, judging by some of the responses on here.
Food into a plastic bag, then into landfill for 50k years.
And fatbergs are formed from the oils you throw down the sink, not the toilet.
Ahhhh get a bio bin, composter,there's lots of options even for city apartment dwellers. Finish your food, or store it.
Lots of horror on this thread. The pot being is the bathroom is the least of it.

AmysTiara · 13/12/2017 22:00

I'm surprised so many people are sayi ng they do this. I've never heard of anyone chucking food down the toilet before.

It's not something that I'll be starting. I'll just use the sink and my bins as usual.

Thisnamechanger · 13/12/2017 22:01

Omg re. animal feaces not going down the loos? I regularly pour the rinse water from my bunnies litter tray down the loo (few bits of hay, sawdust and the occasional bunny poop). Surely that's all biodegradable and pretty inoffensive?

UrsulaPandress · 13/12/2017 22:02

Lol at vulgar.

Original poster
AppleCrumbled88 · 13/12/2017 22:04

liminality - the council’s should provide food waste bins in all counties. I’ve lived in 3 counties in the last 5years, none of which have had them. In all honesty, I have put food waste in carrier bags and binned it. I get that I could go out and purchase something so that I can dispose of food waste in a more environmentally friendly way but how many people do you know who have done/ would actually do that? One of the governments main focuses is supposed to be our environment and taking care of the planet. That’s the sort of reason we need a government; to give the public practical ways to protect the planet. In my opinion, they’re not doing their job properly.

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LoniceraJaponica · 13/12/2017 22:05

“...the thing is, wouldn't it have been just as easy for him to nip out to the bio bin ?”

Not every council provides food waste bins. Ours doesn’t. And you shouldn’t put cooked food on a compost heap.

“Whats the difference between predigested and post digested food?”

Well the lumpy bits are considerably smaller in post digested food, and the plumbing can cope with that.

From Yorkshire Water’s website:
don’t flush anything other than three Ps (pee, poo and paper)

Iris65 · 13/12/2017 22:07

My mother used to scrape the plate of left overs into the toilet. It made me feel sick and I sometimes struggled to eat as a result.
It is disgusting.

LapdanceShoeshine · 13/12/2017 22:08

Food into a plastic bag, then into landfill for 50k years

biodegradable compost bags?

Branleuse · 13/12/2017 22:10

I always throw leftover cereal or leftover catfood in the loo.
Doesnt repulse me. It makes sense. I dont want milky slosh in the foodbin and i dont want maggots either

eastlondoner · 13/12/2017 22:12

When I was little my mom used to always tell us to flush any uneaten cereal/ milk down the loo.

I think that's fine.

As an aside she also told me to flush my brother's dead (extra) finger down the loo when it dropped off... I wasn't ok with that but I did it as I was only 8 Smile

GabsAlot · 13/12/2017 22:22

my late GF used to do this bless was revollting

im sure water companies advise aginst this now

Redpriestandmozart · 13/12/2017 22:22

Solids go into compost bin, liquids down the back bog, no different to vomit really!!!!

IrkThePurist · 13/12/2017 22:23

eastlondoner wins the thread!

mrsBeverleyGoldberg · 13/12/2017 22:31

How can putting something you'd have eaten earlier be more disgusting than poo?

Sgtmajormummy · 13/12/2017 22:33

I throw the occasional old egg (10 days + after use-by date) down the toilet, smashing it as I go. Couldn't face the consequences if it had gone rotten.

ShirleyPhallus · 13/12/2017 22:39

As an aside she also told me to flush my brother's dead (extra) finger down the loo when it dropped off... I wasn't ok with that but I did it as I was only 8

Need to hear more about this please!!

TooManyPaws · 13/12/2017 22:42

My elderly dad used to flush his cooked dinner down the loo to stop his housekeeper nagging him about eating when she found it in the bin. He didn't know that I was in text contact with her when he told me this... 😂

BewitchedBotheredandBewildered · 13/12/2017 22:57

We really should try hard to use leftovers.

If we have things that have to be thrown away, put them in a collander or strainer and rinse off all the wet, sloppy bits.

Then just put in the bin/compost if you can.

Uneaten food really is not the same as the same thing digested.

Anything but pee, shit or vomit really does fuck up the sewers.