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Americans are the only people in the world that worry about everything being "sanitary". I can't imagine how we would survive in another country... It doesn't appear your friend is any worse for wear right?
I am personally a germaphobe, so yes it grosses me out. I see your point, I would not fair well in certain country's. I believe ingeneral we tend to over react to germs.
Americans are the only people in the world that worry about everything being "sanitary". I can't imagine how we would survive in another country... It doesn't appear your friend is any worse for wear right?
I agree! People are very spoiled here. They go and buy zip-lock bag. Of course, they can afford it. God forbid to reuse that zip-lock...
Well... in other countries people do not always buy new ( poor or not) because they try to reuse whatever is OK to reuse, or re-purpose things that were meant or used for something else.
And you are right - that lettuce MUST got dirty in the SECOND bag that no one touched inside. I wonder if any of those germaphobes think about how dirty their cell phone is, or the handle on the gas nozzle at the gas station, or their steering wheel, or bottom of their shoes, or the cans in their pantry ...
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I don't get it...why not just use regular plastic bags that you pack it in in the supermarket/grocery? Why is it gross? She doesn't keep it with the newspaper, does she? lol. Because the print runs when wet and you don't want inky lettuce.
My grandma would do this, she saved all kinds of bags and containers. I miss her. she said they didn't have all of these things years ago and she saved everything she thought she could reuse, styrofoam meat trays, green plastic fruit baskets, bread bags, pringles cans, any container with a lid, like cool whip. jelly and peanut butter jars, the list goes on.... She would wash out a reuse baggies and tinfoil and plastic silverware. She was extremely frugal.
Yeah, I find it gross to think it used to be lying around the yard or driveway. We don't get newspapers anymore, but any kind of plastic bag I get is either used for lining wastepaper baskets or I recycle it. Times have definitely changed, though. Years and years ago when buying fish and chips in England and some other countries it was sold wrapped in newspaper.
I re-use the large plastic ricotta containers, or qt size containers from the chinese food take outthat the soups come in. I wash them in the dish washer. I use them to freeze soups and my Marinara sauce, but that plastic newspaper bag NO WAY! My mom calls it Italian tupperware LOL
I would first worry about whether that plastic bag is food safe.
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she said they didn't have all of these things years ago and she saved everything she thought she could reuse, styrofoam meat trays, green plastic fruit baskets, bread bags, pringles cans, any container with a lid, like cool whip. jelly and peanut butter jars, the list goes on.... She would wash out a reuse baggies and tinfoil and plastic silverware. She was extremely frugal.
