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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our overly sterilized world is considered to be a possible source of auto immune disease in our populations. If you are reasonably healthy and have a decent immune system, you will be fine eating food prepare by your MIL’s less than sterile hands. You probably don’t realize that even if you wash your hands before prepping food, it is unlikely you have removed every microbe. You’ve likely seen the way surgeons scrub prior to gloving up for surgery, and I doubt very much you clean yourself like that before handling food. Humans are constantly consuming microbes and we have billions of microbes living in our bodies which are critical to our health. Exposure to environmental microbes strengthens immunity and health in most people.

Your MIL’s cooking sustained your husband and any siblings he has all the way to adulthood. He probably has no issue with his mother’s sanitary habits but agrees with you because it would be unpleasant for him if he didn’t. This is your germ phobia and you should not inflict it on anyone else. Get therapy. Prep your own food and do it in a way as to hurt your MIL’s feelings as little as possible. [/quote]

Oh PLEASE. Most people I know realize all of what you just said and would still be supremely grossed out to see someone lick their fingers and then grab a pastry from a box, put it on a plate, and hand it to them.

Come on. This is what you’re defending? That when you have guests over you should feel free to handle raw meat, then turn around and hand them a glass from the cupboard and expect them to fill it with water and drink without a peep of protest? This is what you are defending: that it is OK not to wash your hands after you go to the bathroom?

This is the flag you’re choosing to fly?[/quote]

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