Once I saw her fingerprints on the bread, it was bye bye

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LoveTulips

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I'm just thinking of a time when I met three ladies at the Seniors Centre a few years ago and we all decided to go out to lunch at the Spaghetti Factory. These women all knew each other previous to me meeting them.

So we went to the Spaghetti Factory and at that restaurant, they bring a whole loaf of bread to your table. When I've gone before with my best friend (now deceased) to that same restaurant, we would go to the washroom first and wash our hands. Then when the loaf of bread was brought to our table, one of us would grab a clean napkin, hold the bread with said napkin, and cut a couple of slices with the knife.

With the 3 new women I met, no one went to the washroom to wash their hands first. I did. When I came back to the table, one of the women took hold of the bread with her hand ( which I had seen her sneeze into previously) and she squeezed the bread so hard, that her fingerprints left an indent, and I could not for the life of me eat that bread. The other 2 women had no problem and dug into the bread.

I never went out with them again. I just thought their hygiene was atrocious.

I know people will disagree with me, but that is the way I felt.
 

I'm on your side here.

This is why I wouldn't use door dash for restaurant foods. I've heard some of these people "sample" the foods they deliver. I don't eat out anyway. I'd use delivery for groceries if I couldn't get to a store for some reason, but not for prepared food.
 

LoveTulips said:
I'm just thinking of a time when I met three ladies at the Seniors Centre a few years ago and we all decided to go out to lunch at the Spaghetti Factory. These women all knew each other previous to me meeting them.

So we went to the Spaghetti Factory and at that restaurant, they bring a whole loaf of bread to your table. When I've gone before with my best friend (now deceased) to that same restaurant, we would go to the washroom first and wash our hands. Then when the loaf of bread was brought to our table, one of us would grab a clean napkin, hold the bread with said napkin, and cut a couple of slices with the knife.

With the 3 new women I met, no one went to the washroom to wash their hands first. I did. When I came back to the table, one of the women took hold of the bread with her hand ( which I had seen her sneeze into previously) and she squeezed the bread so hard, that her fingerprints left an indent, and I could not for the life of me eat that bread. The other 2 women had no problem and dug into the bread.

I never went out with them again. I just thought their hygiene was atrocious.

I know people will disagree with me, but that is the way I felt.
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That's disgusting! There are some nasty people in the world. That none of the ladies bothered to wash there hands is outrageous. I'm one who tells folks who do stuff like that about themselves. Their lack of hygienic practices puts the health of others in danger. I understand why you wouldn't want to confront them in the situation you were in, but I can't blame you for not going out with them again.
 
I don't know why people would disagree with you. I had a similar situation a few years ago at a bread & cake stall at the market. It was raining, and the woman next to me picked her bag up from the ground and sat it right on top of the uncovered rolls... while she paid for her items

I pointed it out and said, I think you need to take your bag off the rolls.. they can't sell those now...

Well.. no-one agreed, the stall holder went mad telling me basically to get lost if I didn't like it , and the customer did the same..

Well I was glad to get lost if that was their policy, and I have never bought bread from a market stall since..

I can't believe how disgusting people's habits are
 
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We eat at our local Chinese buffet about once a week. They always sit us at the front table because those girls love my husband with his few words of Chinese and big tips.

There, I sit and watch children sneeze below the sneeze guard and people stick their finger in the food and then taste it, going on to stick their saliva covered finger in the next dish (women are the worst) lots of people scratch their heads or whatever while going through the line. What always makes me laugh are the women who act like they're the cook and stir and sniff everything.

We always time it so we get there at opening and are the first ones into the dishes.

I rarely wash my hands at restaurants because I wash them at home and then just sit in the car until we get there. Hubs does go wash them there. I hate public restrooms and fear their spigot handles and door knobs.
 
Della said:
We eat at our local Chinese buffet about once a week. They always sit us at the front table because those girls love my husband with his few words of Chinese and big tips.

There, I sit and watch children sneeze below the sneeze guard and people stick their finger in the food and then taste it, going on to stick their saliva covered finger in the next dish (women are the worst) lots of people scratch their heads or whatever while going through the line. What always makes me laugh are the women who act like they're the cook and stir and sniff everything.

We always time it so we get there at opening and are the first ones into the dishes.

I rarely wash my hands at restaurants because I wash them at home and then just sit in the car until we get there. Hubs does go wash them there. I hate public restrooms and fear their spigot handles and door knobs.
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I LOVE Chinese food as a rice , noodle , dumpling fanatic .
 
I'm kinda with George on this one, though he was 20 years older than I. I completely understand the ickiness of the whole thing and there are limits to what I would accept, but not so much the bread thing in the OP. Fact is, we're exposed to so much ickiness anyway without even realizing it, so to me it's kinda pointless to get wrapped around the axle with what essentially is a family-meal situation. Washing of hands is a great idea, don't get me wrong, but I don't get bulldozed if that doesn't happen.

To each his own.

BTW, I had Covid only once -- my wife brought it home with her from Italy a couple/three years ago. Haven't had a cold or the flu in 5+ years (touch wood).

And yep, the 5-second rule is definitely OK by me.

 
Eupher said:
Eupher said:
Haven't had a cold or the flu in 5+ years (touch wood).
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I used to be able to go 5 or more years at work with no sick days. I chalked it up to a habit I had developed after starting to wear contact lenses of never touching my face. No matter how germy your hands are if you don't touch your face or food with them it's okay. I worked with money and hundreds of customers every day and nothing passed to me.
 
Della said:
I used to be able to go 5 or more years at work with no sick days. I chalked it up to a habit I had developed after starting to wear contact lenses of never touching my face. No matter how germy your hands are if you don't touch your face or food with them it's okay. I worked with money and hundreds of customers every day and nothing passed to me.
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Agreed, that's another reason I don't get close to overly touchy people and who always run their hands through their hair and faces.
 
hollydolly said:
I'm a habitual handwasher...my hands probably get washed a dozen times a day while just at home ...of course due to that I get very dry skin, so I have to use an expensive handcream.. cheaper handcreams don't help...
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Have you tried DiabeDerm?
 

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