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To not want to eat food delivered to a bin?!

289 replies

PurpleCurtain · 21/09/2021 17:47

Ordered some cereal bars in bulk that were delivered today by Royal Mail. I was in, but feeding my newborn and didn't make the door. They delivered it - to my brown bin, which is inside a bin store to the front of my house. The last things put in there were manure and very mouldy flowers.

DH thinks there's no problem - they are individually wrapped and then in cardboard box and he has thrown the box. I don't want to eat them or frankly have them in my house, and feel completely bemused at the lack of hygiene standards from Royal Mail. Am I being unreasonable?

OP posts:
PumpkinKlNG · 21/09/2021 19:22

Well yes food out of the bin is disgusting!

MWNA · 21/09/2021 19:23

OP - AIBU?
Everyone - Yes.
OP - No I'm not!

Do bugger off.

ImprobablePuffin · 21/09/2021 19:24

@Embroidery
"I would rather die of starvation than eat from a bin."

Darling your privilege is showing.

WhenISnappedAndFarted · 21/09/2021 19:24

@ImprobablePuffin I thought the same thing, had a Google and apparently Nestle do!

RazorSharp · 21/09/2021 19:25

@Skysblue

Yanbu. I do wish postmen would stop putting things in bins. It’s grim and upsetting. I’d much rather have stuff taken back to the post office as it’s their actual job to do.

My friend even had a parcel thrown away by bin men who, quite reasonably, thought stuff in the bin must be rubbish.

Upsetting Grin
Bluesheep8 · 21/09/2021 19:25

Well yes food out of the bin is disgusting!

When it's in a wrapper inside a box?

CheeseCakeSunflowers · 21/09/2021 19:25

I'm more interested in why there was manure in your bin, what animal did it come from and why was it in the bin or are you confusing manure and compost. Either way the cereal bars will be fine.

Limejuiceandrum · 21/09/2021 19:26

If you know you’ve got a mental health problem like OCD. Then you know deep down you are being unreasonable, otherwise it wouldn’t be a mental health problem

melj1213 · 21/09/2021 19:30

The whole point of cereal bars is that they are individually wrapped and sealed so that you can take them "on the go" and they won't get contaminated by the other stuff in your bag ... so considering the actual cereal bars and their wrappers didn't come into any contact with your manky flowers, why wouldn't you eat them?

If it was me I would have no issue eating them - if they'd been sat there a while and the box had lost its integrity I'd throw the box and maybe give them a quick once over with an antibacterial wipe but otherwise they are perfectly edible and it is a huge waste to throw them away.

At least give them to a food bank or donate them to someone who doesn't have the privilege of throwing away perfectly good food because the box touched something icky.

Oh and I work in a supermarket so if you can't cope with the outer box touching some manky flowers for a couple of hours I really wouldn't buy anything ever again from a supermarket

RazorSharp · 21/09/2021 19:30

@Embroidery

I would rather die of starvation than eat from a bin.

https://wamu.org/story/16/01/20/whathappensstotheebodyanddmindwhennstarvationsetss_in/

Really!

LemonJuiceFromConcentrate · 21/09/2021 19:32

@Embroidery

I would rather die of starvation than eat from a bin.
Bollocks
vodkaredbullgirl · 21/09/2021 19:33
Hmm
Moonwatcher1234 · 21/09/2021 19:35

Awww don’t worry OP…some people can be really quite ott on these kind of threads. Yes, food out of the bin is gross. Full stop. In real life I bet nobody here would have eaten it!

ImprobablePuffin · 21/09/2021 19:36

@Moonwatcher1234

Awww don’t worry OP…some people can be really quite ott on these kind of threads. Yes, food out of the bin is gross. Full stop. In real life I bet nobody here would have eaten it!
Except it's not out of the bin. It's out of a wrapper which is out of a box which is out of the garden bin. Bit different.
MissJeanBrodiesprime · 21/09/2021 19:36

YABU A fuss about nothing

Wineandroses3 · 21/09/2021 19:37

I’m with you OP. Who is their right mind would put food to be consumed in a bin? Manky.

RazorSharp · 21/09/2021 19:38

@Moonwatcher1234

Awww don’t worry OP…some people can be really quite ott on these kind of threads. Yes, food out of the bin is gross. Full stop. In real life I bet nobody here would have eaten it!
Oh don't be ridiculous it's packaged up food in no direct contact with the "mould" and "manure"!

You've no idea of it's journey to the he OPs house, so it could've been next to other "mould" and "manure"!

So no people are not making out they'd not eat it, they're being realistic and saying to OP, get more help with the issues you clearly have.

gamerchick · 21/09/2021 19:39

If you know what happens to your cereal bars from the minute it's put into packaging and it getting to your door. You wouldn't give a toss about it being in a bin OP. Let it go.

CallMeRisley · 21/09/2021 19:42

My 5’0” friend fell head first into her green wheelie bin when the postie delivered her parcel to it when it had been newly emptied therefore the parcel went right to the bottom Grin We still rib her about it now.

Whentheydontmeanwhattheysay · 21/09/2021 19:42

It wasn’t a bin
It was a garden waste bin -wasn’t it?

iklboo · 21/09/2021 19:43

I would rather die of starvation than eat from a bin.

It's ok. You could feed off your hyperbole.

ThinWomansBrain · 21/09/2021 19:45

Mold can get through packaging
unlikely it would get through a couple of layers of cardboard and the individual plastic wrapping in 8 hours.
Rats on the other hand.... have you checked no nibbled corners.

Milkbottlelegs · 21/09/2021 19:46

YABU for not having mastered answering the door whilst feeding. All the local posties/couriers have seen my boobs around here.

Boredwithitnonstop · 21/09/2021 19:46

Lol

ilovesooty · 21/09/2021 19:47

@FleetwoodRaincoat

Utterly ridiculous. Just eat the bloody things and stop over-reacting.
I'm sure you would be eating them if you were experiencing food poverty. Nice that you can afford to just throw stuff away.