What is this nonsense about wearign palstic gloves when handling food...

[Clary]

...or is it not nonsense?

At a school fair last week the people serving cakes and doing the choc fountain asked me if I thought they should wear plastic gloves to do so. I said pshaw, and err, no.

Not sure if they did but honestly, why would you? Of course wash your hands and then avoid licking them, or picking yr nose. But frankly any germs on your hands then would be on the eater's hands and the plate etc as well, surely?

Is this in fact H&S gone mad or is it a good idea? I would rather someone's clean hands than a nasty plastic glove on my cake FWIW.

(not sure where to post this rant but here seems as good as anywhere)

Aaargh sorry for hideous typos in title; I have some kind of bizarre inability to type "ing" - it always comes out as "ign".

That doesn't explain palstic tho

ewww at plastic gloves on my cakes. I'd rather clean hands.

well quite cornsillk.

Anyone else come across it?

money is covered in germs - i think it's one of the germiest things you can touch.

so the theory is that either the people touching the food don't touch the money or you have a glove on your food hand and money goes in the other hand or you put new gloves on every time and you touch money with your skin.

Its like a sort of talisman that makes people feel safe. Germs can just as easily be picked up from a gloved hand as bare skin.

Plastic chopping boards are the same. Wooden ones are more hygenic as wood has powerful antibacterial agents naturally in it which plastic does not. Germs happily sit on a plastic board for days but die on a wooden one in hours.

People have forgotten basic hygiene such as hand washing. Besides, what is wrong with using tongs rather tha hands?

lol @ putting on new gloves every time!

That was the only way I could make it make sense too, but it would rather raise the cost of the cakes

Don't get me started on tongs. What is the point of the tongs in the bakery section of the supermarket? I'm picking up stuff I am going to buy and eat (with my bare hands, quite likely). What do I need the tongs for?????