Molly (they/them): 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…

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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…

THE HALLOWEEN CANDY BOWLS WERE BARF BOWLS??

*deep sigh* yes.

This is the issue Brooke. It's not having a barf bowl it's having a multi purpose barf bowl

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??

Yes. I am so sorry.

Apparently! Not my house though! Food stuff doesn't mix with non food uses. I have measuring spoons just for cleaning supplies!

That’s smart! I have a separate bin to wash my CPAP supplies in bc … well I honestly don’t think I thought of using a bowl? And a separate one for foot soaks. The CPAP one is labeled.

Same!! I don't think this is unreasonable!

Did you expect white ppl to be reasonable?

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.

In my house the barf bowl is the toilet bowl. What the fuck.

Wtf am I reading.

IF it graduates from the dishwasher, I use it for anything.

I have a feeling this is on par with that “white people don’t wash their legs” thing. What white people - not this white people

Yes exactly! Some white ppl do it, but defs not all.

Must be the same white people who don’t use wash cloths when they bathe/shower.

I’ve only seen that not washing their legs things aimed at men. I didn’t know it was also being passed as a white person stereotype.

As is right and just. We have a sponge at the sink just for counters etc and one for things we eat with.

Same! The sink and dishes scrubbies are LABELED too. No excuses.

For sure, cleaning liquids which are highly toxic should not cross with food. But barf... is food It's organic. It's fine and cleans off of bowls and plates just fine.

poop is "organic". It's just "food"

Norovirus (a common cause of barfing, found in barf) is incredibly difficult to kill and not something I would ever want to intentionally put in contact with something I eat out of.

No thanks. The person who threw up may have done it because they were ill. Vomit includes stomach acid. I wonder if there are national differences about this. In the U.S., stuff that comes out of the body is considered unclean.

I'm with Kendra. There are toothbrushes for cleaning only. Any barfing goes into a bucket which might be used for cleaning. No bowl ever is used for barf. I can't even.

We always used the big stainless stock pot if someone needed to hunker down because you can *really clean* metal. Never in plastic.

The high sides are great for reducing splash back too.

Oh, yeah, it was metal for sure (in the house I grew up in, I do not do this, please don't yell at me commentariat)

Yeah that's a thing we did when I was growing up, I didn't carry on the practice

This just popped up in my timeline and what the hell is happening?

I’m so glad when I get a post that’s not missing all the context. BlueSky is weird.

I don't get it...as someone who was once familiar with drinking to excess, I knew the small trash can was mandatory. Bowls would never be used as they were too prone to allow splash damage, and also people cooked with/ate out of them.

I’m not a fan of single-use appliances but this takes it a bit too far.

If you have farmers in the thread, the potential uses widen considerably. /grew up on a farm

Yes. But odds are they washed it very throughly.

Knowing that does not help!!!!!!!

And then they say things like, "ha ha, Junior got sick, and then a week later we all had a stomach bug." I WONDER HOW THAT HAPPENED, SUSAN.

Odds are…

Never have I EVER. We don’t even barf in the pail without a garbage bag or some kinda bag in there. And we are NOT tidy people.

Why?!? Plastic garbage can or toilet. I want high walls!

Wait. Wait. Wait. Why do people reach for a barf bowl? Have they never heard of trash cans with liners or toilets? Setting aside the multi-purpose stuff, the physics of a large bowl virtually guarantees a hot mess due to splash back, etc

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