What they don’t know won’t hurt them….

I know this is my problem but I just couldnt have used that tin.

Properly cleaned, no harm done, what they don’t know won’t hurt them, keep schtum.
Husband, on the other hand needs to write 100 lines ‘what’s mine is mine and what’s Witzends is anyone’s is a myth’.

Added protein!

I wouldn't use the tin but I would fill it with a bag of mealworms and present it wrapped nicely for his birthday/xmas present/

? Chewbacca!
Should have added that I always line the tins with Happy Birthday paper napkins anyway.

I’d have done the same Witzend your DH needs some time on the naughty step!

On the theme of ‘what they don’t know won’t hurt them’ ...
on Friday I buttered the last scone for my partner and added some strawberry jam (I had had two earlier in the afternoon).

I turned away to make tea and on turning back found our 17.5 year old cat Missy, had appeared out of nowhere, jumped up on the work surface and was enthusiastically licking the butter and jam off the scone.

I quickly shushed her on to the floor and reapplied the butter and jam to the scone! I forgot to mention the incident to my partner ? ?

Norstat sorry , that’s beyond the pale !!!!!

Funny Norstat, but I could never do that.
I've been in the position of someone doctoring my food with drugs bleach hair and what I think was stuff collected from the vacuum cleaner.

I know you arnt being vindictive, but it's left an impression on me.

Nortsat, ? - I think I might just have drawn a line at that, though!

But having said that (please read no further if squeamish!) I was once making fairy cakes with Gdcs, who at the time were only 2 and 3.
They had more or less finished very happily mixing it all up, ready to spoon very messily into the paper cake cases - when 2 year old Gds sneezed - in - ahem - a generously spraying fashion - into the mix.
We carried on anyway, having agreed not to tell Mummy and Daddy when they got home! (They’d probably have eaten them anyway, but there seemed no sense in adding a yuck factor, particularly when the yuck was properly cooked.).

Gross, murder most horrid would have occurred.
The tin would have gone straight in the bin, absolutely no way would it have been used.

Good wash it ll be fine

The heat from the cooking should have helped the sneezed on cakes from being contagious witzend

What's that old saying about " eating a peck of dirt before we die"?

Auntieflo

What's that old saying about " eating a peck of dirt before we die"?

I do know that the best thing that you can do for a baby’s immune system is to have a cat or dog.
I have recently read that ‘they’ (sorry, no source!) are experimenting with using ‘farm yard dust’ (sic) to treat children with asthma and eczema

Nortsat, that's disgusting.
and one of the reasons why i don't like the idea of animals in the house. such a thing could happen without anyone noticing.

I had a similar cat-astrophe Norstat. Some years ago, I invited 2 elderly neighbours for "afternoon tea". I put out the best china, made little sandwiches and some home made scones, jam and cream. Once the sandwiches were polished off, I retreated to the kitchen to fetch the scones, jam and cream, only to find my ginger tom with his head in the cream jug! He'd almost wedged his head in he'd gone so far down! I said nothing; quick wipe, topped up the jug and presented them on a tray.

Nobody died until years later welbeck

I would rather have the mealworms than a cat lick my scone.
?
Obviously, I'd rather have neither!

Oh, I couldn't use it because I should be frantic with fear that if one of them became poorly I should think it was my fault and be unable to tell them it was my fault.... They would probably only have a cold but I'm made that way unforunately..... 'm sure it will be okay

I have a lovely cat . However if she licked a scone it would have to go in the bin. My cat is not allowed on the worktops and she knows it !

He didn't lick the scone! He licked the cream that was to go on the scone!

My cats were never allowed on the worktops. Didn’t stop the little beggars from trying though! I’d have had to throw away the mealworm tin and anything that had been licked or sneezed in shudder

I must have a husband similar to yours Witzend. I discovered his tendency to use my things in imaginative ways early in our marriage. We hadn’t been married six months when he commandeered my brand new, never used wedding present, my swiss roll tin, as a paint receptacle! Apparently it was the perfect size for a paint roller.
Later I discovered my best kitchen knives being used to cut weeds out of the garden, and kitchen scissors also used for gardening. My best, expensive baking trays were used to roast potatoes and if they stuck a bit, the non stick scrapped off leaving a line of non stick. I could go on, but you get the gist.

It's true that what people don't know probably won't hurt them - but I think about what I would want someone to do and how I would want to be treated in the situation where food becomes compromised and do that. If the cat or dog got it, it's going in the compost and I'll either replace it or come up with another plan.