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Well that's just weird! And just how do you get it off the fork without touching the tines of the fork on your teeth?
I think/hope you mean your mouth, not your teeth. I knew a guy who always ate by scraping his fork against his teeth - like fingernails on a chalkboard
People in the rest of the world think Americans eat like pigs. American style sliced 'sandwich bread' is virtually unknown in the rest of the world, and viewed with the contempt and disgust that it so richly deserves.
I think/hope you mean your mouth, not your teeth. I knew a guy who always ate by scraping his fork against his teeth - like fingernails on a chalkboard
Another post said in Europe you're supposed to take the food off the fork with your teeth without touching the fork with your teeth. That's what I was referring to. Still, I don't see how you can eat something like mashed potatoes without touching the fork in some way with your mouth.
OP, do you buy lettuce from the grocery store? Any other ingredients? Do you ever watch the news? You do realize that unless you grow your own ingredients, all of them, you very likely have eaten things as bad as or worse than the things you're suspecting might have happened in someone else's kitchen, prepared by you right in your own no doubt spotless kitchen, don't you? Or do you somehow think that going through your kitchen automatically sterilizes the ingredients before you cook and eat them?
Common knowledge!
If you read the "whole thread" then you would know that I addressed
the fact that I "choose" to not eat food prepared by those "known" to have
"unsanitary hygiene practices".
I simply don't choose to compound eating additional germs, pet hair, etc.
I don't knock what anyone else "chooses" to ingest!
I am a mature adult, well over the age of consent and "choose" what
makes me most comfortable!
Joey, if you've observed someone engaging in unhygienic practices, perhaps. But the OP said, in her original post:
"I'm of the mindset that if I didn't see where the food was prepared, then I won't eat it, (unless in a restaurant and I rarely frequent them anymore), as I prefer to cook at home."
This goes far beyond that, I think, to the point that is it fair to point out that she can't see where the food, as in ingredients, was "prepared" unless she grows her own vegetables, raises and personally slaughters her own meat, etc.
By the way, stopping every germ? Is bad for you. Seriously bad for you (and for the rest of us, when it leads to breeding supergerms). Your immune system NEEDS germs to work with, unless you are one of the very few (percentage-wise) that have a compromised immune system. In which case, you wouldn't be in a position to contemplate whether or not to eat at a co-workers' potluck, because you'd have much bigger issues to deal with than that.
No it doesn't my friend, you've got it "twisted", and are making a "federal case" of it!
I'm referencing "pot luck" foods in particular...prepared by "unhygenic co-workers".
Not eating very frequently in restaurants is just a personal choice really dictated by personal finances.
Another post said in Europe you're supposed to take the food off the fork with your teeth without touching the fork with your teeth. That's what I was referring to. Still, I don't see how you can eat something like mashed potatoes without touching the fork in some way with your mouth.
Ah got ya thx. The answer is of course you can't. "Don't touch the fork" is clearly stupid.
If you read the "whole thread" then you would know that I addressed
the fact that I "choose" to not eat food prepared by those "known" to have
"unsanitary hygiene practices".
I simply don't choose to compound eating additional germs, pet hair, etc.
I don't knock what anyone else "chooses" to ingest!
I am a mature adult, well over the age of consent and "choose" what
makes me most comfortable!
The "whole thread" is 16 pages long. I wouldn't have read it all either.
If you read the "whole thread" then you would know that I addressed
the fact that I "choose" to not eat food prepared by those "known" to have
"unsanitary hygiene practices".
I simply don't choose to compound eating additional germs, pet hair, etc.
I don't knock what anyone else "chooses" to ingest!
I am a mature adult, well over the age of consent and "choose" what
makes me most comfortable!
Nope, that's not what your original post said. It said (here it is in its entirety so that it will be clear that I did not pick and choose):
Quote:
Originally Posted by Atlanta Georgia Peach
I'm pretty discriminating when it comes to that.
I'm of the mindset that if I didn't see where the food was prepared, then I won't eat it, (unless in a restaurant and I rarely frequent them anymore), as I prefer to cook at home.
At work though...there is always a potluck or celebration of one kind or another and I have observed the hygiene habits of some of my fellow co-workers which are deplorable. It's funny, but some of the most attractive, nicely dressed and polished folks don't wash their hands after using it.
Some of them also have pets and allow them in the kitchen. I think I would die if I ate cat or dog hair.
I know I am not the only person who is selective in eating just anybody's food.
What's your practice?
Note that you start off with a preliminary assertion that you won't eat food that you can't see where it was prepared, and then bring in the potluck at work and various co-workers with what you consider to be deplorable hygiene habits. (Not having seen them, and only having your word on it, I can't judge, personally, whether they actually have bad hygiene habits or whether you're OCD - could go either way when talking with someone in an online forum and getting one side of the story filtered through their eyes.) How do you know, by the way, that these co-workers allow cats and dogs in the kitchen or how they cook their food? Have you eaten in their homes, and have you refused to eat the food while a guest in their house?
By the way, you would not die if you ate cat or dog hair. You probably actually have, and worse, at some point or other in your life, and yet here you are alive to say that you'd die if you did.
I have no problem with people eating what's in their comfort zone, as long as they don't make a public issue of it and use it as a way to make it all about them and an excuse for rudeness.
But you DID post this question in a public forum, asking for commentary, and you're getting it. That some of the feedback is not to your taste doesn't really change that fact - it's the nature of forums, and it's not making a federal case out of it to comment on a public discussion forum (which is designed, after all, for exactly that).
Another post said in Europe you're supposed to take the food off the fork with your teeth without touching the fork with your teeth. That's what I was referring to. Still, I don't see how you can eat something like mashed potatoes without touching the fork in some way with your mouth.
Mashed potatoes, to a European, fall into the Yukk category with sliced Wonder bread. Aside from soups and casseroles, Europeans tend to prefer things cooked in discrete and recognizable forms. Even the classic European noodle (gnocchi/knockerl/nokedli) is cooked as a bite-sized chunk, eaten one at a time dipped in the sauce.
European dining styles originated in a time when a typical meal was a chunk of roasted meat, a loaf of bread, and a pile of boiled potatoes. Table manners existed for the purpose of distinguishing the elite from the bawdy ruffians in the tavern. Montagne once described his own table manners as so barbarian, that he sometimes injured himself biting his his own hand.
If you pay attention, you will observe that in American movies, in any formal or semi-formal dining environment, the actors generally eat European style, putting the food in their mouth with the fork in their left hand, tines down.
My German girlfriend always used to complain about my manners. I eat European style, but with fork in right and knife in left. But in the Middle East, it is considered a revolting faux-pas to eat with your left hand visible at any time above the table. However, allowances now have to be made for eating European style meals, which require cutting at the table. Actually, if one travels, one needs to learn to be very flexible and ambidextrous.
This should have been opened as a new thread on table manners.
As a matter of fact I'll give you a heads up. I'll simply tell you not to be offended if I do not eat you food.
I've been like that all of my life.
What's the matter AGP, you don't like cat hair? :-)
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