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DEAR ABBY: My in-laws double dip everything. During a holiday get-together, a family member stood eating out of a pot. Now my M-I-L informs me her daughter allows her dog to eat off the plates, but "she uses a dishwasher" so I shouldn't worry about germs.
How do I handle this? I can't eat there again. -- GROSSED OUT IN GROSSE POINT
DEAR GROSSED OUT: Eat before you go, and go as infrequently as possible.
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I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
So for holiday get togethers, you put out individual condiment or small cups for individual dip with plates. Problem solved there. Just put out cups of dip rather than one big thing.
As for the dog, I dunno. A dishwasher should clean that just fine. But i can see where you would rather not know. In reality, i doubt that you are going to get sick. Dogs are cleaner than a lot of humans. But, yeah, best not to advertise if your pets eat at the table, lol.
Um.. No double dipping! If at your house, open your mouth and say it, flat out without any apologies. If at theirs, it's their house, their rules.
As for the dog thing, it's just nasty. No way can I even begin to think it is ok.
I love Monster, but no flippin way is he eating from our plates.
Now a paper plate, fine, it goes in the trash.
But the real stuff ? No way!
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Dog licking the plate doesn't bother me. It's no worse then a kid licking his/her plate and it washes off just fine.
There are worse things in life to get bent out of shape over.
What Czech said
If you use a dishwasher (i.e. high temperature, higher than you would usually enjoy by sink washing) then I believe the dog/plate thing is a non-issue germ-wise. How it affects one's emotions is another subject...
One of the few things Dad has left to enjoy is letting the dogs lick his plate after he finishes a meal. It's a big event at my place and he's surrounded by the entire pack, patiently waiting, while he eats. I don't personally do it with my own non-paper plates and bowls, but he loves the dogs and enjoys the process, and I love him. My dishwasher takes care of it.
Dog licking the plate doesn't bother me. It's no worse then a kid licking his/her plate and it washes off just fine.
There are worse things in life to get bent out of shape over.
What Czech said
If you use a dishwasher (i.e. high temperature, higher than you would usually enjoy by sink washing) then I believe the dog/plate thing is a non-issue germ-wise. How it affects one's emotions is another subject...
One of the few things Dad has left to enjoy is letting the dogs lick his plate after he finishes a meal. It's a big event at my place and he's surrounded by the entire pack, patiently waiting, while he eats. I don't personally do it with my own non-paper plates and bowls, but he loves the dogs and enjoys the process, and I love him. My dishwasher takes care of it.
I don't have the issue with the plate thing either. I don't let my dog lick my plate because it does teach them to beg while you are trying to eat. The double dipping is gross. LW could try to set an example by taking a plate, putting some chips on it and using a spoon to put the dip on the chips. But it probably will not change the gross double dipping habits of the others. Just don't eat the dip!
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Double dipping is rude. Even my boys have learned not to do it.
As for the dog, I would prefer not to know, even though the germs are killed by the hot dishwasher setting. When we had a dog, their table scrap food was served to them on a disposable pie tin in the backyard.
Neither bother me. I don't care if someone double dips. I won't unless I know it's ok so I am mindful of it but at home, meh. If I'm with other people who don't mind double dipping, I follow suit. My FIL is rabidly against double dipping and he ensures no one double dips because he serves you. I do, however, mind DS licking all the flavor off a chip then dropping it back in the bag.
I don't care if a dog licks my plate. Just doesn't bother me.
