Dcum: " I would never eat anything prepared in someone's home kitchen. How disgusting"
Also dcum: "I love the vibrant street food culture of (insert third world country here), it's too bad we can't get delicious dirt-cheap food like that here."

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Anonymous wrote:I think DCUM is the only place in the world where people won't eat homemade food.

Not true. Most AFrican Americans I know refuse to eat at potlucks, etc. esp at work.

While it is true that most colleagues who abstain from potluck food are black, it is FAR from true that most black colleagues refuse potlucks. Typical DCUM.

Anonymous wrote:Of course I would.

For perspective the fda allows about 10,000 additives in our manufactured “food”. If you’re going to worry about cat hair then you might want to stop eating the the titanium in your grocery store bought icing!

+1

I will trust most home cooks before most factory food

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Anonymous wrote:I think DCUM is the only place in the world where people won't eat homemade food.

Not true. Most AFrican Americans I know refuse to eat at potlucks, etc. esp at work.

You know some weird black folks.

--one who will

I am as white as they come, but this struck me as odd too. The AA women at a former job organized multiple potlucks each year, and they were amazing.

Anonymous wrote:Yes..ofc. don't ruin all the good things we have you weirdo anxiety forward members of society!! Leave us and the cottage industry alone and we won't make you eat it. Ok?!

Yeah, how do these delicate petals survive?? The coming collapse of society is going to end them.

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Anonymous wrote:I think DCUM is the only place in the world where people won't eat homemade food.

Not true. Most AFrican Americans I know refuse to eat at potlucks, etc. esp at work.

You know some weird black folks.

--one who will

I would hate to be in the receiving end if a food train. I don't eat at restaurants with dirty bathrooms either.

I would not buy from someone cooking food in their home. I don't like school/church/neighborhood potlucks either, to be honest.

The pet thing is a real problem. We had a neighborhood cookout and I tried a bit of a neighbor's pasta salad and there was tons - I mean tons - of cat hair in it.

For the most part, we cook at home. Limited restaurant food. It's healthier to cook at home, both because of control over ingredients and because of food safety.

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Anonymous wrote:Would you buy food from someone who is subject to cottage food law in Maryland?

https://health.maryland.gov/phpa/OEHFP/OFPCHS/pages/cottagefoods.aspx

From what I understand it is baked goods prepared in a residential setting, so there is no health department inspection or food safety training. It’s just your neighbor selling cookies. There is something similar in Virginia but it requires an inspection, I think.

Would depend entirely on the place.
Same as any place, Big Brother "inspected" or not, there can be dirty people working anywhere.

But you don't know what their home kitchen looks like, so I'm guessing you're a no.

I don't eat at restaurants where I don't know the kitchen staff or owner either.

It must be difficult to be you. I’m sorry your life has these self mandated restrictions.

It's nice as I don't have to pay for meals and comp'd drinks often as well.

It's good to have friends.

You sound like a mooch, not a friend.

We have several cottage food bakers in my neighborhood (Capitol Hill), and they are all excellent. I buy bread and baked goods from them and they are always superior to the grocery store-- particularly sliced bread, any custom cakes, breakfast sweets, etc. But it is literally their profession.

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Anonymous wrote:Would you buy food from someone who is subject to cottage food law in Maryland?

https://health.maryland.gov/phpa/OEHFP/OFPCHS/pages/cottagefoods.aspx

From what I understand it is baked goods prepared in a residential setting, so there is no health department inspection or food safety training. It’s just your neighbor selling cookies. There is something similar in Virginia but it requires an inspection, I think.

Would depend entirely on the place.
Same as any place, Big Brother "inspected" or not, there can be dirty people working anywhere.

But you don't know what their home kitchen looks like, so I'm guessing you're a no.

I don't eat at restaurants where I don't know the kitchen staff or owner either.

It must be difficult to be you. I’m sorry your life has these self mandated restrictions.

It's nice as I don't have to pay for meals and comp'd drinks often as well.

It's good to have friends.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would you buy food from someone who is subject to cottage food law in Maryland?

https://health.maryland.gov/phpa/OEHFP/OFPCHS/pages/cottagefoods.aspx

From what I understand it is baked goods prepared in a residential setting, so there is no health department inspection or food safety training. It’s just your neighbor selling cookies. There is something similar in Virginia but it requires an inspection, I think.

Would depend entirely on the place.
Same as any place, Big Brother "inspected" or not, there can be dirty people working anywhere.

But you don't know what their home kitchen looks like, so I'm guessing you're a no.

I don't eat at restaurants where I don't know the kitchen staff or owner either.

It must be difficult to be you. I’m sorry your life has these self mandated restrictions.

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on the neighbor.

No!!

Have you ever been to a restaurant? Any restaurant?

But restaurants have inspections and laws to follow.

and restaurants have lots of workers who don't always follow the laws.

oook but there is is an inspection by the Health Department, and that worker can/should be fired.

Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda.
Inspections are money-taxing-revenue generation extortion, nothing more, nothing less.

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Anonymous wrote:Would you buy food from someone who is subject to cottage food law in Maryland?

https://health.maryland.gov/phpa/OEHFP/OFPCHS/pages/cottagefoods.aspx

From what I understand it is baked goods prepared in a residential setting, so there is no health department inspection or food safety training. It’s just your neighbor selling cookies. There is something similar in Virginia but it requires an inspection, I think.

Would depend entirely on the place.
Same as any place, Big Brother "inspected" or not, there can be dirty people working anywhere.

But you don't know what their home kitchen looks like, so I'm guessing you're a no.

I don't eat at restaurants where I don't know the kitchen staff or owner either.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would you buy food from someone who is subject to cottage food law in Maryland?

https://health.maryland.gov/phpa/OEHFP/OFPCHS/pages/cottagefoods.aspx

From what I understand it is baked goods prepared in a residential setting, so there is no health department inspection or food safety training. It’s just your neighbor selling cookies. There is something similar in Virginia but it requires an inspection, I think.

Would depend entirely on the place.
Same as any place, Big Brother "inspected" or not, there can be dirty people working anywhere.

But you don't know what their home kitchen looks like, so I'm guessing you're a no.