To think hygiene standards are low in Britain?

[castemary]

This obviously does not apply to everyone. But in Britain, I think there is a general acceptance of fairly low hygiene standards. I see it in several areas.
With individuals you have people telling everyone they do not wash bras for months, do not clean their teeth every day, do not wash face masks every day.
In public areas, offices and shops the cleaning often consist of no more than a quick hoover occasionally, a mop and a bit of damp wiping. Apart from toilets, places are rarely properly cleaned.
I think most people simply do not realise how unhygienic Britain is until they go to countries that do have a good standard of hygiene. There seems to be a lot of emphasis in Britain on superficial things that make places look good such as scatter cushions or make-up, and not on basic hygiene and cleanliness.
AIBU?

@vodkaredbullgirl

Washed the sausage just now.

😀 That made me smile!

@Oyvavoy

I live in a country where people bathe twice a day (very hot!), use a bum gun after pooing and think paper is revolting, and always remove their shoes when entering a house and not to do so is disguisting, and always dress and groom beautifully if they can afford it.

But, at the same time, streets and canals are full of trash, rats and cockroaches galore, street dogs shitting everywhere, lots of slums with poor sanitation.

I think I prefer the UK even if the personal hygiene is a bit lacking in contrast!

hope you don't mind my asking, but with those jet devices for the bottom, how do you dry your bottom after using.

Quite a few, many African, Asian and Caribbean people wash meat, not just chicken

I imagine those practices have evolved for a reason. Interestingly we don’t see legions of people being hospitalised here for salmonella so you must assume it’s not therefore necessary in all circumstances. Certainly not enough to warrant a thread about how disgusting the British are that they don’t even wash their meat.

Phew glad I read this thread. Just rescued our chicken breasts from the oven, scraped off the pesto and given them a good scrub before putting them back in. That could have been a disaster.

[quote Mintjulia]@vlasmirspoutine Washing chicken goes against every rule on kitchen hygiene.

Put it in an oven, and germs are killed at 55 degrees. Wash it and you'll have salmonella all over your sink and worktops, door handles, drawer handles. [/quote]
That was the advert wasn't it from good hygiene? Don't wash chicken as if you do, you are basically washing your whole kitchen with raw chicken

Also off to Google bum gun

@alexdgr8 a towel, or toilet paper

Too much cleaning etc is bad for the immune system !

Salmonella is an issue in Britain because of factory farming.

Washing meats in other parts of the world may be because their national meat farming standards are lower hence the need to wash meats prior to cooking them. I do agree however that hygiene standards are pretty low in this country and that the pandemic has enabled many people to improve their cleanliness habits.

@castemary

Salmonella is an issue in Britain because of factory farming.

Lol. Britain doesn’t have factory farms! I’ve seen factory farms in US and China and they are night and day difference to the UK farms.

OP- you really not a native English speaker- where are you from originally?

@PlanDeRaccordement Jesus christ. Get educated on where your meat comes from ffs. Most meat in the UK comes from factory farms.

@User162572883

For us, we wash chicken - we've done so for generations and I know no one in my culture who doesn't wash theirs. We're all still alive and very rarely have food-related illness. Well, I don't really wash mine now and I know it would blow people's minds back home but everything here has been stripped, processed to eternity and packaged, I can see why they don't need washing.

Where I'm from, we wash food to rinse off grains of sand, stone or anything that may be on them before cooking, not to scrub clean with soap but because they come straight from the farms to the markets/shops. Even if packaged, you don't expect workers to have cleaned them enough. We couldn't imagine cooking chicken with sand, dust, tiny stones and particles, like marinating in the bath in one's own filth.

We also wash beans and rice for the same reason. You can always tell when someone didn't pick/wash their rice or beans enough while eating.

that's interesting. i had an african friend who doesn't speak much english and i noticed that she washed frozen peas before cooking them. i told her that it wasn't necessary. she washed everything. when i thought about it, how did i know not to wash frozen peas, it's not obvious really. there was nothing on the packet, which she can't read anyhow. it's good to see things from a different perspective.

I don’t particularly think so and I’ve lived in a few countries abs travelled a lot

Different countries have different standards applied to different places

What we do not seek overly bothered by is litter. I always notice when I returned from the states (unless in very poor areas) how much littler is about. But compared to some places it’s clean abs certainly less that when I was young. I hate to see litter especially in parks or green areas people are so lazy and as for poo bags that is just utterly disgusting

*Not seem

Not seek

Even when I was at the opticians a few weeks ago, in the middle of a blooming pandemic no less, I noticed that their skirting boards were all dusty and gross. I mean, sort it out!

Are dusty skirting boards a particular transmitter of Covid? #makes mental note not to lick skirting boards any more #

I always wash rice for a good five minutes it goes so much further less starchy

I think thing here of using a washing up bowl is grim

If you want a filthy country, France is the one.
Not much washing, men urinating in the streets, non use of anti perspirant and general non use of soap!

People focus on the wrong things, many worship their floor, and preserve it, clean it, fall out with people over it and yet, we rarely take in germs from the floor.

PEOPLE happily share drinks, spoons.. Saliva 🙄also the lack of bidets....

Food poisoning seems to be a bigger problem in the UK than elsewhere for some reason. Except from that I've never noticed low hygiene standards.

Food poisoning seems to be a bigger problem in the UK than elsewhere for some reason. Except from that I've never noticed low hygiene standards.

Based on what? I’ve never had food poisoning. Mum did in Spain but that was in 1998 and I’m not sure it’s a reflection on the whole country’s hygiene just dodgy shell fish.

@SantiagoSky

Food poisoning seems to be a bigger problem in the UK than elsewhere for some reason. Except from that I've never noticed low hygiene standards.

Really? Based on what? I've never had food poisoning. And I've rarely none anyone to unless they've been away to other countries

Haven't been swimming in the UK for a while, but when I did I didn't see people taking a shower before swimming.

Pretty gross.

Yes, I'd love to see a source for all these bold claims.

From what I can see here, the UK don't seem to figure prominently in cases of food poisoning

"EU notes rise in foodborne outbreak illnesses and deaths in 2018 | Food Safety News" www.foodsafetynews.com/2019/12/eu-notes-rise-in-foodborne-outbreak-illnesses-and-deaths-in-2018/