Do you eat homemade food from neighbors?

[Anonymous]

Sure! Never had any issues

[Anonymous]

We have a few food allergies. So it’s tricky. We say yes as often as possible though. Even if the person it was made fir for can’t eat it. Most of the things people send for new mom gifts fed my husband, which was still helpful.

[Anonymous]

It’s still amusing that people think restaurant kitchens are cleaner than their neighbor’s. Yes, the Health Department inspects them, but have you ever read the reports from when they do?

[Anonymous]

Heck yes I do, my neighbor just randomly dropped over homemade cupcakes. Call me crazy, but I also LOVE potlucks. Office, neighborhood, church, whatever - bring it on!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Omg I feel so bad for you miserable people.

I'm not miserable. I'm happy to NOT be eating food that has cat hair in it. I'm happy to NOT be eating food prepared by hands that wiped shit and didn't get washed. Don't you understand that different people want different levels of involvement from their neighbors? I'm perfectly content giving a vague smile as I hurry along on my way. I don't need to be all up in your business hearing about your mother in law's anal prolapse and how it's affecting your husband's ability to get an erection.

Where are you even hurrying to? You don't have any friends or anything going on.

[Anonymous]

When I lived in Potomac, I never ate neighbor food because the likely dirt and filth in the homes. Now that I live in Arlington, I gladly accept all food offerings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you eat restaurant food?

Ding

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sure no issue eating food cooked by others. I think you are all way underestimating your body's ability to deal with less than perfection. I think you are also way overestimating how clean your own house is. Clearly all these people who you are sure live in filth manage to survive.

I am 52, am happy to have a meal at a neighbors home or a potluck. I go years without even a cold. I figure I must be ok with carrying on.

I am not trying to change your minds though. We all have to do what is comfortable for us.

+1000. Of course excusing the food allergy folks and perhaps the immunosupressed or something, what exactly do you think will happen if you eat say... a casserole with an errant dog hair in it? Certain death?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Generally I'm not opposed to eating it, because who's going to just randomly offer me food? So it seems okay. Colleagues offering cookies at the holidays? Maybe. Potlucks where everyone touch the utensils and then you have to eat with your hands ? Mayonnaise-coated salads that sit in the hot sun on July 4? Ugh. That's where I get weird about other people's food.

I'm pretty sure that office potlucks and cookie swaps are a thing of the past now with covid.

Healthcare worker here...hospital staff all over the US are still having potlucks in the break rooms. Yep. You heard it here. Our best frontline workers.

Hospital pot lucks are the BEST! Where else am I going to get Thai, Liberian, Philipino, Nigerian, Dutch, Indian, etc. food all in the same meal?? Mmm, now I'm craving pancit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s still amusing that people think restaurant kitchens are cleaner than their neighbor’s. Yes, the Health Department inspects them, but have you ever read the reports from when they do?

You’re right. Many times I saw restaurant employees not washing hands after doing their business in the restrooms.

[Anonymous]

What is with this whole 'only people without pets' thing? Do you think your friends' dog/cat rolls around on the counter? And how many people do you know without any pets? I think every family we know has at least one cat or dog. Haven't y'all heard of the hygiene hypothesis? A little dirt (and dog fur) is good for you.

We eat pretty much all gifted homemade food. I've never seen fur in our own food or food from friends, and if I did I'd pluck it out and move on. When we bring food I take a bit of extra care, but our friends and neighbors have followed up to ask for recipes so they are either exceedingly polite fakers or they're enjoying our cooking too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is with this whole 'only people without pets' thing? Do you think your friends' dog/cat rolls around on the counter? And how many people do you know without any pets? I think every family we know has at least one cat or dog. Haven't y'all heard of the hygiene hypothesis? A little dirt (and dog fur) is good for you.

We eat pretty much all gifted homemade food. I've never seen fur in our own food or food from friends, and if I did I'd pluck it out and move on. When we bring food I take a bit of extra care, but our friends and neighbors have followed up to ask for recipes so they are either exceedingly polite fakers or they're enjoying our cooking too.

They are being polite. Dog and cat fur end up in places you would never suspect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s still amusing that people think restaurant kitchens are cleaner than their neighbor’s. Yes, the Health Department inspects them, but have you ever read the reports from when they do?

You’re right. Many times I saw restaurant employees not washing hands after doing their business in the restrooms.

Restaurants at least have health inspections, which is better than nothing.

[Anonymous]

I would never eat decorated cookies from households with kids in them. Yuck. This means a lot of Christmas cookies we get are thrown out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s still amusing that people think restaurant kitchens are cleaner than their neighbor’s. Yes, the Health Department inspects them, but have you ever read the reports from when they do?

I assume restaurants don’t let cat son their counters or use gnawed on chicken bones in soup.