So awkward, but come on it says right there on the package to wash those mushrooms or whatever it is… You’re not their mom but you don’t wanna eat feces or whatever ended up on the produce. A quick rinse is never going to be perfect but it’s better than nothing.
In the absence of legitimate suggestions, commiseration is welcome too 😉
It’s okay to be direct a little bit.
“You don’t wash the mushrooms? It says on the package, man, they might have poop or pesticide or whatever else.”
“Okay, well if I’m gonna be eating them can I wash them? I’ll make 'em up, man, I’m not telling you what to do. But I don’t wanna eat anything that’s on them that might be bad for me. I would prefer not to at least.”
I don’t know, you can adapt the language, or stay away from the whole conversation if it really feels wrong. But usually if there’s an issue it’s better to say what the issue is even if it’s a little uncomfortable. You’re not making a problem or starting a confrontation, it’s just saying what’s on your mind and sharing. Otherwise you don’t really have friends and allies, just sort of alien people you’re going through the motions with while you each harbor your own little secret thoughts all through the evening.
“You don’t wash the mushrooms? It says on the package, man, they might have poop or pesticide or whatever else.”
When we make something about the other person, telling them that they are wrong and, in this case, even disgusting, they are going to get offended and be less amendable to seeing your side and helping you out. They may get shamed into doing it, but I think this damages the relationship.
Just make it about yourself
“Hey, Im a bit squeamish about unwashed veggies. Do you mind if I rinse them for you?”
Gets the same point across, but makes it about yourself rather than the other person, so they have no reason to be defensive. They will also be more likely to open up to changing.
Don’t even ask, just start washing them yourself. Lol
“Did you know that garden gnomes have passionate all-night orgies?”
They have a lemon party under the lemon tree.
What’s a lemon party? Should I Google it with safe search off?
No, Google is all AI disinformation now, better just go directly to the website itself.
lol the .org is still up
Holy shit. Haha that’s a blast from the past.
‘connection refused’
But… I wanted to party… With some lemons…
Well you’re in luck. https://youtu.be/xPW-vkohqPE?si=MWm_f9vxiCirEKsW
Its from “30 Rock”. Tina Feye’s character Liz Lemon had her parent’s visiting. Upon arriving, her father Richard exclaimed “Its not a Lemon party without old Dick!”.
Ahaha
Hey should NSFW that link just in case
Probably the only way is to help prepare with them or talk to them about it.
I gave a friend of mine a hard time for not rinsing off the soap before putting them out to dry.
Edit: Their dishes, not their food.
They wash their vegetables with soap? Like… special veg soap or just like Dawn or something?
Oh my, I missed a word there. I meant to say they were doing that with their dishes. haha
Oh good. That makes more sense.
Just to be clear for people trying to learn:
Vegetable rinse/soap products aren’t particularly necessary. Vegetables won’t have the oily coating skin does/can.
You do, however, need to scrub it. It’s honestly a bit of a Catch-22 because if you don’t also clean the vegetable brush every time, guess what’s now a bacterial buffet?
“hey, sorry to seem rude, but I am a little neurotic about this, I recently got sick from eating some unwashed vegetables so now I’m trying to be hyper vigilant, can I wash these really quickly?”
This is a tricky one. I think I’d just offer to help them prepare and then specifically ask to be put on vegetable duty. One of my aunts is like this, doesn’t wash veggies, doesn’t rinse the soap off her dishes once she’s scrubbed them (!), so whenever I’m at her house I just offer to help.
doesn’t rinse the soap off her dishes once she’s scrubbed them
Flabbergasted when I learned from an American friend that their British friend did this.
No she’s not. The water is very unclean, super soapy, and she does it “to save water”. There is often soap residue on the glasses and probably the dishes too, you can just see it easier on the glass. She wonders why she’s had stomach issues most of her adult life.
This is also the woman who once let a turkey thaw in her fridge, which then leaked raw turkey juice (bloody water) onto a half slice of watermelon that was on the shelf below it. She then ate the watermelon after washing it off in the sink “because it was wrapped in plastic and was still ok.” It was not ok, she got food poisoning.
I think she’s just unhygienic and has an “I’m always right” Boomer mentality.
Throw up on their vegetables. That wont come as rude, and certainly you wont have the problem of eating with them again in the future
There are
sidesdudes so manly that when they go to the bathroom they thoroughly wash their hands before doing their business, but not afterwards.Now you know why the cold and the flu and now COVID will never go away.
thoroughly wash their hands before doing their business
That would be a first for me to see. Well maybe I’ve seen it at a place that serves hot wings…
If you’re just peeing that makes a lot of sense.
You don’t wash your hands after peeing?
Yes I do. But it’s more important to wash them before and if I could only do one, I’d take before.
Let’s never eat anywhere near each other.
