The Mystery Machine
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- Jan 4, 2001
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I always return the dish with something else on it.
Wow, this is an old thread! I was going to reply but I already gave my response a year ago.
Absolutely, that was pounded in my head as a child - never return a dish empty. I've lived in Michigan and Colorado and always practiced this. It was just polite.
The only exception was if you provided a dish for a funeral, sickness or birth or something like that and now you can use disposable dishware but that wasn't always the case.
I was never taught to do this, but I had a neighbor that I did it with. We both liked to cook and we both had households of 2. She and her husband were retired and me and my husband were newly married. Often we would cook a big batch of something and give some to each other...always in the same dish that we passed back and forth. It was great fun!
PARTIAL
Cool Whip containers were Tupperware.
ITA. Why would I expect someone who is grieving or sick or dealing with cleaning out their mom's house to make ME a dish? I don't need the help, they do.
When I make a dish, I always use a disposable pan so they can just throw it out and don't even have to go to the trouble to wash it.