To think flushing food down the toilet is disguisting?

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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?

I would go further than only putting the three P's down the loo. I'd restrict it to two P's and exclude the paper, adopting the Greek style.

Why spent millions extracting paper products at sewage plants? Simple dont put it in there in the first place then it wouldnt have to be taken out,or in extreme cases,leaked out into the oceans which already have enough shit in them.

We have a rat proof compost bin so everything goes in there but I have done this very occasionally with sloppy food (soup etc) and a couple of times at my Mum's house with cat food that's been left out too long. Never anything fatty obviously.
Don't really get the disgust thing tbh and think it's a teeny bit precious. Probably an instinctual reaction to anything food related being near a loo?
Personally think it's much more disgusting to bag it and bin it.

Mum2jenny

Not sure about dog poo, but cat faeces contains toxoplasmosis (excuse spelling) which can't removed by the sewerage system. It contaminates the water supply, and also when it enters the ocean it causes serious problems with wildlife eg otters.

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

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For the people who proudly flush food down the toilet, how often is your waste collection during the week? If it's once or twice a week, couldn't you just put the old food in a plastic bag to hide the smell and then put it in the bin? I'm really not understanding this.

And I'm not asking about a compost bin but a regular waste bin.

Once or twice a week? Are you having a laugh?

Once or twice a week? Are you having a laugh?

This ^^
Twice a month here.

Twice a month here, too - but I still put any unwanted cooked food in the bin.

So do I SchadenfreudePersonified

Yorkshire Water and other water companies have been very clear about what is acceptable to put down the toilet. I don't understand why posters on here don't get it.

I never seen anyone do this nor has it crossed my mind as a waste disposal option. It does seem odd.

I put my (bagged) food waste in a brown roadside caddy which is collected weekly but I know not all LA's offer this service.

What's the difference between disposing of something down the sink drain and disposing of it down the loo drain? Except that the sink drain will get blocked.

I made some soup earlier this week and it was too salty. Nothing I could do with it, so I binned it - that is, I threw it down the toilet. Can't see why it's any worse than poo or vomit.

I'm talking about liquids, other food waste either goes in the bin or the compost, or we leave outside for the local foxes to eat.

AppleCrumbled

Pots don’t go through the dishwasher so I’d rather not have them near the bog. Any fat eg from the chicken is drained into a cup, refrigerated then put in a big yoghurt container (which can’t be recycled here) once available and put in the bin. Semi liquid food is drained in the sink then discarded in the bin. However, we have very little food waste other than fruit/veg skin and bones, which all goes in general waste.

Our waste collection is once every three weeks now. Even so we manage without flushing food down the loo. Mind you, we don't often have leftovers.

Can't believe that people are scared to put dishes - which are going to be washed - near the loo. How bizarre!

Another soup/liquid flusher here.

What do the anti-loo brigade do when they are sick? Presumably crouch without holding the loo seat whilst holding a sieve over the loo to catch the lumps? The sieve of course will need to be bagged and disposed of.

Bog not bin. I repeat, if you dont get the difference then you dont deserve the luxury of a toilet and should join the billion people who don't have that. Might teach you not to be so filthy.

It would never occur to me that this is a problem. I've done it before rather than shoving solids down the sink.

For the people who proudly flush food down the toilet, how often is your waste collection during the week? If it's once or twice a week, couldn't you just put the old food in a plastic bag to hide the smell and then put it in the bin? I'm really not understanding this.

Once a month for the food bin. Understand it yet?

"I've done it before rather than shoving solids down the sink."

No. You shove solids in the bin

Rice crispies, not chicken bones.

Thought it was the most sensible thing to do but won't any more.

I was going to mention that peas and sweetcorn seem to pass through undigested and then found this as number 10 on things to not flush

10. Food A piece of bread won't do any harm, but bones or even apple cores do cause trouble. Sweetcorn collects in large quantities in the sewers, as yellow as it was in the field.

So what am I meant to do with the sweetcorn in my poo? (It goes straight through the dog too).

It feels wrong- but intellectually it's fine. Presumably the pot's going to be washed............

Our waste collection is once every three weeks now

This would be a reason to emigrate in my book. It's getting beyond a joke.