AIBU to wish people would use the sodding tongs?!

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I was just in a shop with a bakery section and was going to get a cheese twist for lunch. There was a lady with a small child in front of me literally rummaging through the cheese twists to find one that wasn't too 'floppy'. She eventually found one to her liking and passed it to the child, I assume her daughter. She then LICKED her finger tips and went for another rummage to find another one! I pointed out that there are tongs to use and she actually wrinkled up her nose and said, "I know but I don't know what they've touched".

I was so disgusted by this filthy mare, are there honestly people so lacking in awareness and basic understanding of how to share a world with others?!

Yuck! I witnessed a young girl maybe about 4.
She grabbed a load of straws, intended for slush puppies and LICKED THEM ALL.

She then PUT THEM ALL BACK!!!

I told the cashier and saw her bin the whole lot. What a bloody waste!

Was in a coffee shop last week. Waiting at the counter I noticed 3 large black flys playing hopscotch on the cakes.

Guy serving noticed them too but did nothing.

Drives me mental!

Or when someone gives the bread a good squeeze to see if it's fresh enough...Then puts it back 🤮

Disgusting people who don't use bags to pick up rolls or bread.

Shops should have big signs and staff policing, until idiots get used to behaving properly.

@Likethebattle Completely agree about the cats! I looked after a cat for a friend once who was really meticulous about cleanliness (I had been to her house often). I had never had a cat so I never thought about the worktops. I spent two weeks trying to keep that f*** off them! I tried everything, spray bottles, tin foil, you name it. When my friend got back she asked me how the cat was and I told her she was good, but asked her how she kept the cat off the work tops. She said she never did that at her place! I like cats, but because of that I will never have one. I can't get over the fact that they poop in a box and then walk all over the kitchen.

I don’t use tongs as I only touch the one I am going to buy. Why would I need to feel half a dozen rolls to choose the one I want?

But I never buy pick and mix sweets even though I love a tub of differnet jellies as too many dirty little fingers have been at them.

It's also horrible at a lot of buffets.

I was always okay about public food. Never even thought about it and merrily carried on eating whatever I liked from Buffet

At work we had a bring and share buffet which I was really looking forward to. I stood behind a horrid man who smelled of cellars and fags and who had long dirty fingernails. I was anticipating a good go at the homemade cakes on offer when I copped him meticulously working his way through the small cakes as if they were files. He touched each and every one with those long nasty fingernails on his way to choosing which he liked best. I didnt eat at the buffet.
Now I only have something if I personally opened the packet. I dont ever have homemade things unless I know the kitchen it came from.

It was ghastly of her of course, but at least in Lidl the stuff's in big plastic cabinets with some sort of front

In our M&S the baked goods are displayed openly on wooden shelves at elbow height ... which is just lovely when you see folk hacking and sneezing in their direction

This is why the new trend towards unwrapped fruit and veg won’t last, the touching and the damage/lack of protection in transit.

Lidl tongs are always crusty with old sugar/toppings/crumbs off the bakeey goods. Grim. So pinch the items i want into my bag, avoiding touching other items im not buying as best I can.

Clean your tongs lidl!

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I was standing outside the local bakers waiting for a bus a few years ago. Looking in lovingly at the bread and cakes. Staff member dropped a bread roll on the floor, picked it up and returned it to the display. I tapped on the window and she jumped and laughed. I never shopped there again.

In Sainsbury's I saw someone drop a Danish pastry on the floor, pick it up, put it back in the basket and grab a different one

I watched a little boy reaching into the pots on a buffet yesterday, mother chatting away "is that nice" "ooh is that tasty" as he stuck his fingers in the food then his mouth then back in the food then he stuck his fingers in a bowl of hot mashed potatoes eek! She was outraged! poor little thing had burnt fingers

I once saw a very small toddler help herself to a large strawberry lace type sweet from a pic and mix and start eating it, her parents saw her and clearly panicked about what to do, not letting her take what wasn't hers but not wanting to pay out for pick and mix. They made her put the half eaten sweet BACK IN WITH THE OTHER SWEETS. Put me off for life.

That’s why I hate salad bars. If you think about all the bacteria and skin flakes falling off people as they reach over the food, suddenly it doesn’t seem appetizing. Hot food has a shelf life of 60 minutes (as I recall from my student days working in catering) so it’s a bit less revolting.

YANBU!

😲😲😲😲 I can't believe some people would do that?! I'm in shock. I don't know what i would do if I saw that. I love lidl bakery. Their doughnuts are the only ones I like! 😪

We decided not to buy from Lidl bakery when flies were crawling over everything the other day but it was a good bakery!!

If it's adults it always tends to be older people too, I can't imagine why.

Slightly off-topic but I used to work in a shop and the number of people who would put a note or their bank card in their mouths before handing it to me, expecting me to take it, was alarming! They literally licked it and passed it on. What is wrong with people?!

If it's adults it always tends to be older people too, I can't imagine why Because broadly speaking views on what is a minimum standard of hygiene are changing. Strip washes and a bath once or twice a week in the 50s, shower once or twice a day now. Spray everything in sight with antiseptic. If you've lived through 50s hygiene and survived, and you've brought up children who are most definitely not born with a sense of hygiene, you may not have quite the sense of revulsion that MNters do about eg school fair cake stalls.

They literally licked it and passed it on. What is wrong with people?! Ugh - that reminds me of my pet hate - people who lick their fingers to turn the pages of a book. No way am I going to read that book after them!

And I wouldn't read a book that was sitting in someone's toilet either.

Ugh - that reminds me of my pet hate - people who lick their fingers to turn the pages of a book

Yes!! I hate this

The Sainsburys cheese twists are much nicer than the Tesco ones.