Telling her not to let her child touch all the food?

[aaronslands]

I'm currently on holiday and this morning went down for breakfast
It's a buffet breakfast.
I'm stood behind a lady and her daughter (probably 6 ) and she's walking around touching the sausages then she touched the bacon
The mum is saying "oh do you want that?"
The daughter says no and she walks on (leaving the food she touched )
After the 5th time she did it
I said "excuse me ,I don't mean to sound rude but it's not very hygienic to let her touch food if she's not going to put it on her plate-it's a bit off putting for other people"

She looked at me -said nothing and kept walking

Was I in the wrong?

No you weren't wrong, a 6 year old is old enough to understand not touching other people's food, good for you for saying something.

I would have said the same thing. Some people are just useless parents.

Was she touching it directly with her fingers? Well done, that’s disgusting.

Touching it with her hands or the tongs?

No.

But, in my experience, this type of food wouldn't typically be in the reach of a small child.

It’s gross. Next time have a word with staff

Nope. That's gross. I saw a kid pick up a spoon of vegetable rice, pick out all the veg and put it back in the communal bowl at an AI buffet....

Did the little darling stop touching it after you spoke to her useless mother?

She was touching it with her hands.
I'm guessing she was 6 could of been 7 but she was old enough to understand.

I hate buffets for this reason. Too many events where kids are allowed to run up to the table unaccompanied, pick stuff up, put it down again, take a bite out of it and put it back.

Whether the child is old enough to understand or not isn’t really important. It’s really the parent’s responsibility to make sure their child isn’t touching buffet food in the first place. They can assess their child’s understanding and choose the manner of doing this accordingly.

YANBU op. I'd have done the exact same and my child would be rebuked if they tried this with food.

I also think that buffets should always be supervised by staff for this very reason,simply because food hygiene is very important and this is a breach.

Heused - surely its the daft parents who should be supervising their OWN kids??Can you imagine if a member of staff told the child off, said parent would come roaring back saying their child did no such thing!

Parent your own child fgs!

YANBU. I had to ask parents to stop their kids doing this at a wedding reception (wasn’t even a buffet, they were just bored and running around people’s tables touching their food). Parents looked at me like I was bonkers.

I dislike buffets for this reason.

*Heused - surely its the daft parents who should be supervising their OWN kids??Can you imagine if a member of staff told the child off, said parent would come roaring back saying their child did no such thing!

Parent your own child fg*

yea the parents should be supervising but they don't so it's up to the hotel to have staff in to monitor it. Screw the parents who react.

She was touching bacon and sausages on hot plates with her hands? And she’s 6? Sounds like a very oddly arranged buffet to me.

Filthy animals
No excuses

YADNBU
Some people just don't want to parent.

Some people just can't/won't/don't parent.

If this was my 4yo I would have told her off the first time she did it and then put the food she touched on my own plate. Disgusting and no excuse for it.

I have never seen a hot buffet where this would be possible. I would speak to the venue to complain about the set up.

Useless idiot parents. That's why people get ill sometimes

The parents probably do it themselves. Saw a bloke plunge his bare hand deep into a salad bowl to grab a fistful of salad on hols this summer. There were tongs and spoons right there.

No. Some weird people around. Raising future weird peopl