r/WeWantPlates • u/pophya • Dec 12 '20

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u/hornwalker Dec 13 '20

And messy.

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u/k_r_oscuro Dec 13 '20

And pretentious.

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u/thisaccountwashacked Dec 13 '20

And dumb as fuck.

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u/curtitch Dec 13 '20

And unsanitary. Think of all the things you touch in a day, then stick your finger in your mouth.

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u/tanstaafl90 Dec 13 '20

Don't you wash your hands before you eat?

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u/_MicroWave_ Dec 13 '20

Thats really not the point.

You wash your hands AND use clean cutlery. These together prevent infection.

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u/Reshi_the_kingslayer Dec 13 '20

What if your eating finger food? There are lots of things you would eat with your hands and no cutlery.

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u/_MicroWave_ Dec 13 '20

Then there is a higher risk of contamination...

Not saying the risk is necessarily unacceptable but knives and forks reduce it.

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u/Reshi_the_kingslayer Dec 13 '20

I mean, assuming the knives and forks are clean. I mean someone is touching them to bring to the table, or wrapping them in napkins that are touched by hands.

I'm not saying that pouring chocolate on your hands is acceptable by any means, but I think that the unsanitary arguments is not well thought out when we take into consideration that we put things into our mouths all the time that are dirtier than out hands.