Guest eating snack straight from bag

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Anonymous wrote:I seem to recall people reaching inside a big bag of marshmellows to put them on their roasting sticks with their outdoor hands at every single camping cookout I’ve attending. Big bags of chips are open for people to help themselves. Don’t even get me started on salsa and dips.

At Cub Scouts and in my yard, a single adult with clean hands holds the bag and hands out marshmallows. No one wants a bunch of gross kid hands in the bag.

Thats weird, dude. You are eating off sticks.

We have stainless s’mores sticks that get washed and brought to camp in a carrying case. You can pick them up at Safeway or Bed Bath & Beyond.

DP. You should heat the tip of the stick before applying the marshmallow. A little fire kills pretty much anything.

[Anonymous]

I would say, “Oh my gosh, I am so sorry, here, let me get you a bowl. Here I am having my guest eat straight from the bag; I am the worst hostess. Here, here is the bowl.”

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So if touching anyone else's food is a problem, what would be the protocal for fruit. It I hand you an apple, should I be gloved? Do you need to wash it when you get it? After all those same hands should never touch your potato chip, right?

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Anonymous wrote:I would say, “Oh my gosh, I am so sorry, here, let me get you a bowl. Here I am having my guest eat straight from the bag; I am the worst hostess. Here, here is the bowl.”

👏🏽 Nicely done!

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Anonymous wrote:This is so weird to me. Don’t people at parties and such put a bowl of chips on the table so people can grab a handful at a time?

Yes. Normal people do this. I think OP is a little precious about her snacks.

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Anonymous wrote:Covid and other illnesses may spread through saliva. I would never do this as a guest. I don't know if most people would think about this, though, so maybe your guest wasn't particularly rude.

If Covid is a concern, why have a houseguest to begin with? This logic doesn’t make sense.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m with you, OP. It’s gross and my kids know better than to do that. I’ve seen people that stick their hand in the chip bowl at parties and I just won’t eat any. Amongst my family and friends when we host we either have tongs out or we’ll use a napkin to grab some chips, never bare hands.

OMG. Where are you from? My husband goes this napkins thing. Grabbing food with napkins, covering food with napkins, holding a sandwich with napkins, opening public doors with a napkin… the amount of paper waste they go through is crazy.

That’s called OCD - fear of contamination.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m with you, OP. It’s gross and my kids know better than to do that. I’ve seen people that stick their hand in the chip bowl at parties and I just won’t eat any. Amongst my family and friends when we host we either have tongs out or we’ll use a napkin to grab some chips, never bare hands.

OMG. Where are you from? My husband goes this napkins thing. Grabbing food with napkins, covering food with napkins, holding a sandwich with napkins, opening public doors with a napkin… the amount of paper waste they go through is crazy.

That’s called OCD - fear of contamination.

Half his family does this though. They all have OCD? Or one family member has OCD and passed down the napkin rules?

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Anonymous wrote:I would say, “Oh my gosh, I am so sorry, here, let me get you a bowl. Here I am having my guest eat straight from the bag; I am the worst hostess. Here, here is the bowl.”

I would say: Dude, I am a little bit of a germ-phobe, so we put chips in bowls to accommodate that.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t see the problem with it.

Eating out of the bag makes you eat more. This is why Americans are so fat.

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Anonymous wrote:Um, this is a super weird practice. Your visitor was normal, your family practice is not.

NP. Disagree. We also don't eat out of the bag in our house, just as we don't eat out of the serving bowl at meals. You portion out what you want onto your own/plate bowl and can go back for more. If a guest did this at my home, I'd do what a PP said and buy an extra bag for us/the kids. It would never occur to me to walk into someone's house and start sticking my hand into their snacks. Gross.

So you use a spoon to put the chips/popcorn in your bowl?

I'm the PP you're quoting. No, I don't put out a spoon and have not seen that done for chips/popcorn. You tip the bag and shake a portion out onto your plate/bowl, not reach inside the bag to grab your portion.

Interesting...I would never just put a bag out to serve. I would serve in a bowl.

OK, well you're changing OP's scenario in which a guest took a bag of snacks and stuck hand into it. For everyone who says eating out of the communal bag is fine, does that apply to other snacks? What about ice cream? Where do you draw the line? Just dry snacks?

No, OP here. This is what happened. The guest grabbed the bag from the kitchen and started eating (without asking, which is also rude, IMO). I came into the room shortly after and offered a bowl.

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This is so weird, but if it both you that much, just say, "here , let me get you a bowl." THEN they should take the hint.

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Anonymous wrote:So if touching anyone else's food is a problem, what would be the protocal for fruit. It I hand you an apple, should I be gloved? Do you need to wash it when you get it? After all those same hands should never touch your potato chip, right?

Why do you need to “hand” anyone the apple? Set out a bowl of fruit. Guest decides if they want to wash it or not.

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Anonymous wrote:So if touching anyone else's food is a problem, what would be the protocal for fruit. It I hand you an apple, should I be gloved? Do you need to wash it when you get it? After all those same hands should never touch your potato chip, right?

NP. I will grant you that maybe reaching into a bag of chips to get some onto your plate ONE TIME is OK. Here’s what’s not OK about the guest eating out of the bag: fingers go to mouth, then back to the bag, then back to the mouth, then back to the bag—and you KNOW a little piggy like that is licking his fingers.

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Man, the things I learn on DCUM. Pooping at someone else’s house is rude and popcorn tongs.

Anyway, carry on. Me and my diverse gut microbiota will be here with 🍿.