Personal cleanliness

Well things are better than they were in the seventies! I remember buying loose bacon from a small shop. The girl did not wear gloves and she licked her fingers before peeling the slices apart.

I cannot bring myself to eat anything from an outside mobile catering van. The staff handle the food, ie, bread rolls, wipe their hands down their aprons then take your germ filled money and move on to the next customer. UGH!! Anyone feel the same?

My pet hate is staff dealing with cash as well as handling food, the money is filthy.
Also the butchers who delve in to the raw meat with their hands not wearing protective gloves or using the little raw meat scoops and then handle the money -Yeuch!

Well, I have been thinking about joining in but, frankly, I am put off by the level of sniping from some people, particularly the feud that seems to be going on between jinglbellsfrocks and Indinana. I was hoping for good discussion not intolerance and nit-picking criticism and such willingness to take offence. Do you two realise that you are acting as a deterrent to others joining?

Casawan Where on earth did you get that about a feud between Indinana and Jinglebellsfrocks? I have reread this whole conversation specifically to look for any evidence and I see none at all. Do join in and let us hear your input on personal cleanliness. Go to other conversations and give us your input there, too. I promise you no-one will start a feud with you unless you are a party to it.

Feud?!!!!

I love Indinana!

What feud?
(You should see some of the other posters threads!)

Does anyone have the same trouble as me trying to work out abbreviations on here.what's things like NT/ds/lol/oh.I give up in the end and don't bother to read:-(

Just go to the "Acronyms" button, at the right-hand end of the blue strip above the posts. All will be revealed! (unless someone invents another one to confuse you)

Bertie123 it took me a while to work them out, some of them are further down the page if you look. I google the others.
Not sure what what'sngs means btw (by the way)

NT to me is National Trust. Has it got another significant meaning? Does anyone know?

Oh! Thank you Elegran I didn't notice that before

What feud indeed? A little healthy and animated discussion is all that is going on here!

I had sort of registered that you had a bit of a problem with dirt, jings but hadn't clicked how bad it was. I suppose the good thing is, at least you do realise. Some people haven't a clue that they are 100 times more anxious about it than anyone else, so can't comprehend why people seem to find them fussy/picky. My sister is one of them.

Casawan keep posting they won't attack involve anyone but themselves in their robust and illuminating dialogue .

It always amuses me that surgical instruments have to be sterilised and yet cutlery that goes in to all sorts of unsavory mouths, is (if you're lucky) cleaned through a dishwasher, which though good, does not as far as I understand it, sterilise.

Don't start me on dishes that are hand washed.

Maybe it depends on what cycle you use, as certainly those who wish to sterilise jam jars for preserve-making do so in dishwashers. I should think any bacteria on metal would have a very long life - but I have to admit to worries about those bread boards that restaurants use instead of plates.

Re: comment by Anniebach Tue 06-Oct-15 10:18:22

Not in my experience, if one were to speak quietly one would probably have been told where to get off (though not in a nice way). I think Indiana did right, they quite rightly should have been embarrassed.

I know our dentist has autoclaves for his instruments, but I thing I have heard that a lot of surgical instruments are disposable nowadays. Could be wrong. Cutlery, sterile or not, doesn't normally come into contact with broken skin as surgical instruments inevitably do.

A young man I know who is at college doing A levels got a job waiting on at the restaurant at a racecourse local to his home. I asked him how it was going. "Okay," he said, "but I wouldn't eat there - I've seen what goes on in the kitchen". He wouldn't elaborate!

Casawan are you sure it was me you saw as being in some kind of a feud?

Would you please check the thread again.

I wondered that too, jingl - a case of mistaken identity, perhaps?

Yes. Perhaps Indinana and anniebach could check the thread too.

And even comment.

Jingl is innocent! I shall start a petition!

Then organise a march, then find some links.....

Could we be into the obscure area of meta-feuds?