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This is new for me, but I now insist on washing and rubbing clean each strawberry, cherry or grape! - even tiny blueberries -- before eating.
Previously, I would simply wash under running water in a colander. Isn't that the norm for most people still, despite costly spray bottles which claim to clean any insecticides?
Is my action truly bizarre? Would you just eat grapes at a friend's house...without wondering how well they were cleaned?
Last edited by bostonguy1960; 08-09-2014 at 04:45 PM..
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This is new for me, but I now insist on washing and rubbing clean each strawberry, cherry or grape! - even tiny blueberries -- before eating.
Previously, I would simply wash under running water in a colander. Isn't that the norm for most people still, despite costly spray bottles which claim to clean any insecticides?
Is my action truly bizarre? Would you just eat grapes at a friend's house...without wondering how well they were cleaned?
it's not the washing each grape that bothers me so much but it's difficult to find the tiny scrub brushes to do so and then you have to dry each one
Oh no, I don't scrub with any brush, just rub the targeted fruit with my fingers under running water. But yes, that would be gross if serving to anyone else. Just rinse it as others have said, and ad I had contently done until recent months.
Weird human behavior, I know.
Oh, and I don't dry the fruit after rubbing and rinsing. By then, I'm simply eager to just eat them.
Same with cherry or grape tomatoes: I will rub and rinse each one!
No, its not the norm and yes, I would eat at friends house, because I trust them.
Most people just rinse their fruit, and many don't even do that. Strawberries are prerinsed and ready to eat, and so is other prepacked fruit. A quick rinse is enough.
Behavior you described is diagnosed - its called germophobia. It's curable too...
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