General Chat

I always wash down the kitchen counter after putting away the groceries.

Bags in the grotty trolley, then bags in the car (who knows what's been in there!) .... take bags home & put them on the counter....... dirty counter!

A long time ago, visiting friends of my brother........... he was a farmer, wife was a nurse..... they asked us to stay for dinner........big sack of potatoes in the pantry.... potatoes with the dirt still on them put into a pot of water.

We survived. :-0

Also remember a very "house-proud" woman who kept a budgie in a cage above her kitchen counter! Feathers & bird poo everywhere.

I have a feeling (no scientific proofs) that frequent exposure to everyday dirt is a useful sort of protection like vaccination- if we (and I do include children in this) are kept immunised from all dirt and bugs it will hit us the harder when exposed to them later

I wouldn't like a dog sitting on my fresh unwrapped food though!

Accepting a dinner invitation is hardly living dangerously nor is it legally binding. But had you the opportunity to carryout a food hygiene survey at the colleague's home, you could end up reassessing the health risk.

All of a sudden panic, you might just remember an already agreed appointment you had to attend. Personal experience of food poisoning is not nice which is usually caused by the host's poor kitchen habits.

Simple precautions such as washing hands before food preparation can prevent subsequent stomach upsets & the like. And, you might not know, posh people can have very grubby & scruffy houses. You'd think that the place was owned by some slovenly slattern individual.

I suppose I should exclude Posh Spice from this allegation. Her husband David is very house proud!

I've never thought about the cleanliness of shopping trolleys.
I can't say I've ever noticed anything such as stepped in dog poo on one but would tell a member of staff of my findings.

I think we have become too obsessive regarding germs.

I take an immune suppressant and always wash my hands when I return home but I never swab the decks with disinfectant. I can't say I have suffered any more coughs and colds or other ailments than I did before the meds - and that was a very rare occurance.

It is this obsessive concern about hygiene which is causing our medical practitioners and scientists so many problems.

We are far too fussy and as such our bodies are now less able to deal with even minor infections and because we rely so much on antibiotics that we are in deep trouble.

For far too many years we have been reliant on antibiotics to help us to get better, but it was discovered many years ago that unless you take the full course they would not work and the 'germs/infections' would become resistant.

Well we are there now and the big pharmaceutical companies are now no longer will to put in the vast resources to create new ones. It has now got to the stage that even a small minor scratch which becomes infected could kill you.

We are the problem. ;-)

I was in a sandwich shop recently and after making my sandwich, the young assistant held out her (plastic gloved) hand to take my money.
Wishing to make my point, I pointed out to her, in a light-hearted way, that she'd forgotten to remove the gloves before taking my money.....she looked at me as though I was completely bananas. So I asked her if she kept them on all day and she said yes because food-handlers have to!! Duuhhhhhh.

Shan't be going back to that sandwich shop again :-0

I don't know why such individuals have different standards, generally lower than us common plebs.

The truly grand or the upper classes are said never to throw anything away, alive or dead. They are not remotely troubled by what others think about their clothes, their houses, their cars, their wives or their behaviour in any order you care to list these oddities.

As practising Bohemians, cleaning is a pointless displacement idea, they say. Endless surface wiping as depicted by Mrs Bucket of 'Keeping Up Appearances' fame is no more than a robotic activity.

Sue maid and people licking their fingers to turn the pages, also hospital waiting rooms and dentists!!

Having done a number of courses on infection control I can be quite annoying pointing out numerous places and things that can be "dangerous". The worse place?........the doctors' surgery. Watch out for magazines :-0

I could very easily get phobic about some things!

Get a sandwich made in a shop..... the assistant is wearing gloves..... nice.... but she is wearing the gloves when she takes your money...... then goes on to make the next sandwich.

When I've been out, first thing I do when I get home is wash my hands.

Himself used to be terrible for not washing fruit before eating it.......... so I started pointing out all the grotty looking people in the shops......... "they've been touching the fruit"..... look at him, picking his nose........ she's scratching her bum........ and similar comments....... he washes fruit now :-D

It's the handles on the shopping trolleys that are a concern. We pass on so many germs with our hands. People sneeze, cough and use the loo without washing their hands. A quick wipe over with a tissue and antibacterial gel will help.

Fruit and veg ought to be washed and/or peeled before eating. What other non-wrapped items are 'you' buying in supermarkets? The only loose fruit/veg we place in the film-bags are Jersey Royals and tomatoes just so that we can avoid squashing them all. We don't bother with anything else including other 'dirty' root veg.

Although I'd draw the line at dogs being carried around in a shopping trolley, as long as the child's shoes aren't covered in mud, I can't see the problem. Better that they are contained in a trolley than running around the aisles. Even the best behaved youngish child is going to wander a couple of yards away from their accompanying adult at some point.

I'd rather a dog than a child with goodness-knows-what on their shoes and hands, but I guess I'm just less squeamish about dogs and have never had children... I never use a sit-in trolley, only the shallow ones and wash my hands as soon as I get home. Some of the baskets look pretty manky too :-D

No, there are continually complaints in letters pages here about people who put young children into the trollies, with shoes on, having been walking on dirty pavements. I wish the stores were more strict about it. But, I have never seen a dog in one I must say. :-(

We all know they're not clean :-0

I was leaving the shops, a woman walking in front of me, pushing a trolley...... she met her daughter outside, who was with a dog on a leash... they walked in front of me....... dog walking slowly..... the woman picked up the dog and put it in the trolley! With the food!!!!!!!

Arrrrrrrgh!

I scrubbed the counter top when I finished putting away the groceries (it usually gets a wipe over with a disinfectant).

Am I too fussy?

:-0