Oh my god’ it was HUGE! And its a lasting meme.
White people have barf bowls we also use for large salads and halloween candy and popcorn. Washed in between but white people washing so…
I feel like such a babe in the woods right now. Do you mean, I would eat at other peoples houses, and there was a nonzero chance someone puked in something I was eating out of...? This whole time??
Disgust triggers are one of the most basic and personal feelings we have.
I've known folks who really care about things like that (a metal mixing bowl being tainted by association with a past use) but who don't do basic sanitation in their kitchen, and there's no arguing them into or out of either.
I've kind of given away where I stand - for me, plates are plates. I can't understand minding that one was used once to feed the cat, as long as it's been washed.
I'm servesafe certified, I just completely lack that trigger. I'm way more concerned with people touching their phones while cooking.
Yeah, we don’t have a barf bowl but I honestly struggle to understand how a stainless steel bowl that’s been sanitized afterwards would be gross
Plastic, on the other hand…
That might be a concern, depending on the plastic, for the same reason Tupperware is never *really* clean after you store tomato sauce in it.
But the distinction between "isn't clean, may cause an issue" and "just feels gross" isn't one that folks regularly make.
A mixing bowl is (in my experience) the item of choice to be put by the bed of a sick child by a parent to give them something to puke into without getting up if they need, with high walls but light enough for a kid to lift if needed.
This is complete news to me; we had lined trash cans in our rooms and they got moved to our bedsides when we were sick. Easy clean-up; just remove the bag and put a new one in (or we ran to the bathroom to throw up in the toilet if we were able enough)
Yes, like phone- and tablet-based recipe apps honestly used to freak me out back when I had the energy to cook.
I think I even looked into, like, food-safe covers or something for them for that specific use?
like, even with the level of contamination aversion both servsafe and kashrut inspire, i can’t imagine being grossed out by this. and i wonder how many people hold on to this aversion through their first time parenting a kid with a GI bug.
I think it’s the reverse — once you’ve actually learned to sanitize things, what clean looks like, and likewise what contamination looks like, a lot of these things are more manageable. But it’s also hard to override family programming.
i’ve seen people go both directions after servsafe training. kashrut’s the stickier wicket, with it being an ultimately metaphorical contamination that nonetheless has a physical component to it.
Oh I am for sure rampantly surmising. I just have a lot of faith in my ability to sterilize a stainless steel bowl, y’know? There’s not much you could do to one that would make me consider it untouchable after sanitizing (though I would whine a lot but that’s just my unpleasant nature).
when the options are
a) get a sick kid out of their bed, strip the bed, strip the kid, hose down the kid, remake the bed, and get the kid back into bed knowing you’re going to have to do it again within the hour (and they’re actively vomiting the whole time)
b) washing a bowl
i think most say b.
Sometimes when you're really sick you can't make it. I'm college I puked in our sink because I couldn't make it to the toilet (sink was in my room, toilet was not). It was some stomach bug and it was bad enough I was puking bile
Buckets are the way. I just used a 2L yogurt container (it will just get recycled after, not ever reused for food storage) for my sick toddler, but he’s got a tiny stomach to empty. We’ll move him up to a bucket soon.
The parent who did this sometimes in my house when I was small, in cases where they thought the sick kid wouldn't make it to the toilet, grew up in a level of poverty where they probably wouldn't have had small trash cans around the house, no
One time my bestie housed a bag of doritos and some tostitos lava cheese that she washed down with a 5th of vodka
The sink became a large tortilla-cheese soup
I’m happily ignorant of this. It was always hang out by the toilet or hold a waste basket (lined) in my families. I can now trust no one else’s large bowls.
