Why do we use cutlery in restaurants

[Nannyogganny]

I was thinking this recently

Those knives, forks and spoons have been INSIDE thousands of other people's mouths.

I was starting to get disgusted by the thought. I think it is such a weird practice.

I have now bought my own cheap plastic disposable cutlery, and bring it with me

And how many times has anyone got ill from using restaurant cutlery?

I’ll wait.

Another day, another psychotically germphobic MN thread.

You’re at more risk from the food than the cutlery

@XenoBitch

you must hover sometimes surely? You wouldn’t just sit in someone’s piss?

In fairness to OP, the last couple of times I was in Nando’s (which was ages ago) the cutlery didn’t look remotely clean. Gross. Who wants to use that?? And people saying that you can’t catch germs…you do know how glandular fever is spread right??

I have never hovered in my life. Fuck that shit. It makes piss go all over the seat. If it's wet when I get I there, I either choose another cubicle or dry it very thoroughly using toilet paper. Then a bit of hand sanitiser wiped over as I have a small bottle in my bag. DO NOT HOVER PLEASE.

as pp said, you clean it up first. In the same way you check that the stall has toilet paper in it before you wee.
Edited to say that the poxy hoverers should just put the damn seat up first. Lowlifes!

@chaosmaker @dailyconniptions

ewwww, I ain’t cleaning up someone else’s piss. I’ll hover, I can do that perfectly well without spraying piss everywhere

If I stay at a hotel with a eat as much as you like breakfast I take my own 12 inch plate

Aha

And then everyone clapped?

Apparently in the past people had their own cutlery set and took it with them if eating out. I'm guessing it was basic and not for dining with royalty or something.

This is me. My father was brought up in a less hygenic setting and he lived until he was 92.
Everything in moderation.

I have never hovered in my life, that’s who is getting pee on the seats. Just wipe the seat.

No, never. If a toilet looks particularly grim then I choose another one. Or I wipe the seat with loo roll. I will be washing my hands after anyway.

BUT can you put the seat up if the seat has NOT been already pissed on

So true.
I've often seen staff in canteens wearing latex gloves and using their fingers to pick up food from serving dishes and then handling knives and cutlery and also tapping in the price on the till.

Fwiw OP I have the same thought and assumed it was linked to my autism - I notice the “weird” in things often. The thought does put me off eating in restaurants etc and I do sometimes take my own (metal) cutlery. I have similar issues with water but have obviously had to get over myself.

Don't you worry about the shared crockery and drink ware?

Seriously get help

Yes, to all of that. I try and balance my own issues around this with just living a normal life/trying to eat out and enjoy it without my hangups getting in the way. I also have “my” cutlery etc at home - no one else knows afaik.

If your that worried eat with the fingers on your right hand, the left hand is for wiping your arse.

...and don't forget to take a flannel with you!

What about hotel rooms OP? How do you feel about sleeping in bed linen in which thousands have slept before, using towels which thousands of other people have dried their bits on, sitting in baths where thousands of bums have sat before?

Cheeses, how do you leave the house?