AIBU to think open bakery items in M&S are unhygienic?

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Went to m and s on the way home - it was busy. I was absolutely shocked at the bakery area and then nearer the front of the store a table with unpackaged loaves of bread ?

As it was after school there were children there and I saw 2 touch some of the pastries , people were looking at them talking and breathing all over them and one woman coughed 🤮 the loaves of bread at the other side were being picked up and put down , a child was moving them about, how can this be hygienic??! Why is the bakery area not covered in some way? I usually go to Waitrose and their bakery items are in a cabinet at least. M and s isn’t cheap so why are they not more hygienic!!!!

It amazes me to see children pick up/touch uncovered bread and bakery items in supermarkets and their parents don’t say a word to them! How do these children ever learn if it doesn’t come from their caregivers.

The DEAD people aren’t though!!!

All those people, dying from unwrapped bakery goods ...

I don't touch anything from open bakeries after I saw flies all over the baked goods in Lidl a few years back 🤢

Yes hate it. Puts me off buying things from there.
Have also seen insects sitting on food in the summer.

I choose stuff towards the back.

Exactly. I work in events, and deal with supermarkets, posh delis, bakeries, catering etc… You don’t know where that food’s been!

It’s not allowed, but if they comply on the day environmental health come, they can do what they want after that as they’ve already been scored. Bad but true

There was pigeon eating the crumbs that fell onto the floor from the pains aux raisins above it in M&S Paddington yesterday.

I still had a pain aux raisins (from the back) and it was great.

Well then yes in that case you’d be more careful but for an average healthy person this is just not that important imo. But then j think that most people are completely bonkers about germs . I have a very low bar with things like this and I am never ill.

How old are you all that say you wouldn't buy it? I just wondered as when I was growing up in the 70's and 80's you'd buy bread from the local bakery and it was always unpackaged and was just out on the shelf. It was the normal way to buy bakery things. It was the same in the bakery section of Asda etc. It's still the same if you went to Europe, they use way less packaging for bakery stuff it's often out on display. We all survived the 70's unscathed!!

It will be image. I have seen similar at artisan bakeries.

Yeah I thought that.... I mean really how many people have dropped dead from eating a loaf that sat on a shelf for a bit?! God forbid we use a bit less plastic.. But next thing they'll be worrying about the chemicals from the plastic and will wish it was just out on a shelf 😉

glandular fever is passed on through saliva and snot…if either of those fluids get on exposed food and you ingest it then you could get glandular fever. And glandular fever has been linked to Epstein Barr virus and MS. So… no thanks to the unwrapped bakery goods however good they taste

Good God, if there's anything more boring than the life of a twitchy germphobes I'd hate to know what it is. @Cherrytree86 do you not worry about catching mono from and actual person, or do you not go near those either?

The cafe at Boundary Mill in Colne has self service cakes on open display at the start of the queuing line. All low down at child height. No thank you!!

@Hallamule

of course, I go near people all the time. I just don’t ingest their snot or saliva

I’m not a neat freak but bluebottles ingest shit and then spew it out agin on food to digest it, I cannot eat anything that I have seen a bluebottle on. Wasps whatever

Absolutely 100% I don’t understand why people would buy things that have been poked and sneezed on by people

I’d love an upper crust butty they look so nice and are behind a counter. First time I went to have a look at a station there was a fly hopping all over them I can’t get past that now

100% agree
they should all be sealed it’s awful inwont buy anything open
Lidl do this aswell

Can’t say this bothers me. Not at all. Think someone who threw their loaf away is silly

DC3 aged 2 had a massive tantrum in the supermarket. I took him out of the trolley and knelt down with him until he calmed down. When I lifted him back to the trolley DC4 aged one was busily licking and replacing the pain au chocolat that were conveniently next to him. I ended up buying all of them, about 12 and the couple of croissants next to them because I had no idea which ones he’d licked!

Oh my goodness, it drives me mad when people allow their children to touch food that they aren't going to eat.

I have been round friends houses before, and they have served homemade baked goods on plates and the haven't batted an eyelid when their children touched something they weren't going to eat themselves which then contaminates it for anyone else wanting to eat them.

I saw a girl in Sainsbury's touching all the baked goods, and the mun was all the way down the aisle. I gently asked the girl not to touch the food because other people would want to eat it, then went and explained to the mum (again gently) that I had prompted her daughter and why, for transparency and so she knew what her daughter had been up to. The kid started crying her eyes out like I had smacked her in the face, then the mum reacted like I was the bad guy and told her kid it's ok, it doesn't matter, don't cry etc etc.

What is wrong with people!!

You are a good one! And I say that absolutely genuinely. I had to laugh at the mental picture of your little one & the delight he must have had!! On a lighter note, I hope you like pain au chocolat!

Well done you, this is how children learn, albeit an expense you could have probably done without though 🥴

the tongs they provide in our Lidl are shit. In order to open the lid of the container, hold it up, open a bag, grab the item with the useless tongs usually chasing it around the shelf, then get the item into said bag which is usually too small / stuck
together - you need about 5 arms.

not to mention some of them are too high to reach properly , handbag slides off your arm and heaven forbid you have any other shopping to carry. Absolutely ridiculous