Dentist in tesco tackled me

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Shopping with 3 year old yesterday. Stopped by the raisins. Old woman came up to me and said "excuse me but please don't buy them. They are terribly bad for teeth" I must have looked incredulous because her husband stepped in to say she was a dentist

Aibu to think go away and let me shop in peace? I'm a sensible grown adult who can make choices

I can’t believe the level of debate on this post. YY to saraclara. It has nothing to do with age, it’s about unsolicited advice.

Oh the hypocrisy of MN where there’s a god given right to tell people to put their fags out.

Raisins are great.
Sultanas are better though, are they just as bad?

I think I've eaten sugar every single day of my life and have brilliant teeth so I'll continue to enjoy my sticky sugar without too much worry.

Any dried fruit can stick to the teeth

I fucked up my middle child's teeth by feeding him raisins. He never really ate many sweets. He loved raisins and woukd wat them wih porridge ans as a snack. Had two fillings by the age of 9 felt awful as I had considered it to be so bad.

In all seriousness, dental hygiene really is important and I do wish my mother had paid more attention to it.

Me too. I really wish some interfering old/middle-aged/young stranger had taken my dm aside and advised her not to let me have unlimited access to fizzy pop and sweets. Maybe then I wouldn't have a mouthful of fillings and dreadful teeth that cost the earth to maintain.

I remember my dad fgs telling me off for eating sweets quickly and that I should suck them to make them last longer

And those of you who say you've eaten sugar all your life and no harm done, you're incredibly lucky. But some people aren't blessed with such strong teeth - so don't apply your logic to everyone else!

Everyone knows that smoking is bad for you, but not everyone knows that raisins can rot your teeth. People buy them because they think it's a better choice than sweets and from a vitamin pov they are. It's just that to teeth, sugar is sugar whether it comes from dried fruit or dime bars

You are not being unraisinable, OP!

OP are you cross because she was correct?

how unraisinable was the dentist

Well as odd a thing as it is to do she is right

" I know raisins have sugar in them, surely everyone does?"

No, loads of people don't. They've been told fruit and veg are good for you and don't really get the nuances.

Whether her information is correct or not isn't the point.

Good grief, I stand behind people in the checkout queue who have their baskets full of sugar-loaded/ fatty processed stuff. Do I have a right to tap them on the shoulder and tell them they shouldn't be buying it and to get themselves to the veggie section? Of course not.

If you see a stranger whose kid is about to dash into the road/fall off something/ otherwise put themselves in mortal danger, you intervene. Otherwise you butt out.

She should be pleased - those raisins are keeping her in business

DS went to a party a couple of months ago. I've NEVER seen so many sweets at one party. Literally mounds of them. Both parents were dentists. There were toothbrushes and toothpaste in the party bags along with another pile of sweets

"Years ago it was very acceptable for older, wiser people to pass on life skills but now everyone hates it. "

In a generally uneducated population this would make sense. In a complicated society, it doesn't. The advice that older people may have learned will have changed over time. How to put babies to sleep to avoid cot death is one good example.
And, no, granddad, just sitting on a cold wall won't give us piles.

"She should be pleased - those raisins are keeping her in business"

I suppose you're joking but by that reasoning undertakers should be happy when people die, prison guards when crime goes up, etc. Doctors should go around giving people false advice...

"I stand behind people in the checkout queue who have their baskets full of sugar-loaded/ fatty processed stuff. Do I have a right to tap them on the shoulder and tell them they shouldn't be buying it and to get themselves to the veggie section? Of course not."

It's likely that they know that the veg is healthier though, not the same situation with raisins and OP was with a very small child.

And actually, I think you have the right to say whatever you want as long as it's not illegal hate speech and people then have the right to ignore you or not.

I wouldn't have been offended or upset if I was in the OPs shoes. The lady seemed polite and wasn't being aggressive. I would have made small talk and carried on with my day and never give it another thought.

My dentist hates raisins. He probably lurks in supermarkets doing this. His problem is “middle class” parents giving these as snacks. Full of sugar and they stick to children’s teeth so carry on damaging them.

I think all of those saying they would have swept the whole shelf into their trolley are pathetic.
Maybe she did have dementia, maybe she didn’t. Thing is though, she’s actually right. Raisins are bad for teeth.
I think you need to get a grip and grow up. You’re being ridiculous, as are all the sweep the lot in my trolley brigade!!

"I suppose you're joking but by that reasoning undertakers should be happy when people die, prison guards when crime goes up, etc. Doctors should go around giving people false advice.."

Interestingly, if I go and wash a cup up at work when the cleaner has just cleaned our kitchen area, I always apologise to her. She always replies "don't worry about it, it keeps me in work"

I don't live in the UK but here everyone's first child dental visit includes the talk about "raisin tooth" - a major cause of tooth decay in toddlers. The dentist said that frankly it's better to give chocolate as it doesn't stick to the teeth in the same way.

I have heard about chocolate being the best confectionary to give a child from a dental health point of view. The other reason being that the sugar doesn't remain in the mouth for as long.

PenelopeFlintstone I'm with you on that. Absolutely infuriates me. And I'm not really sure why.