What would you have done if you saw this happen?

[MouseWorshipin]

Eeewwwwwww!

I probably would've done what you did, though.

 

[Marseeya]

Wait a minute... you didn't eat it, but you let your kids eat it???

If it bothered me that much, my kids wouldn't have been eating the cake either. If it was a matter of letting them eat it rather than being rude, I would have "taken one for the team."

 

[Sleepy]

As much as I love my husband, he is one of those people. He just does not think about things like that. When we have gatherings and a veggie tray is suggested, I have to be the one to prepare it. Because I know my husband is notorious for DOUBLE DIPPING. I have to bitesize cut all the veggies and put toothpicks in all of them. If I don't do this, he will reuse the toothpick. It is sad when you have to watch a grown person with stuff like this, but I guess when you are raised in a family where things like double dipping and licking fingers is the norm At least I have him trained to no longer lick the knife at the dinner table. He is a Ms Manners poster child.

 

[DawnCt1]

Once I saw where this 'was all going', I would have said something like; "Jim, I will serve, why don't you enjoy the party with your daughter".

 

[ashjohnson80]

ewww.

 

[lbgraves]

Wait a minute... you didn't eat it, but you let your kids eat it???

If it bothered me that much, my kids wouldn't have been eating the cake either. If it was a matter of letting them eat it rather than being rude, I would have "taken one for the team."

Well, I was able to keep from gagging & try not to be rude in front of some people that I didn't know by not eating anything myself. Trying to tell my kids that they couldn't have any ice cream cake would have created quite a scene. I just couldn't watch them & had to say a prayer to please not let them get sick.

 

[momrek06]

Once I saw where this 'was all going', I would have said something like; "Jim, I will serve, why don't you enjoy the party with your daughter".

GOOD IDEA!!!

 

[KristaTX]

Gag me . How can a grown person be so gross as to do that in the first place, and especially right in front of other adults ?

I'll walk barefoot on hotel floors and will even occasionally lay on the bedspread , but I'm definitely picky when it comes to the food I put in my mouth. I don't enjoy potluck dinners or eating anything prepared by anyone whose hygiene I don't know or else know to be questionable (or that is not at least supposedly following the food-preparation rules required of them by the health department). And I NEVER eat anything students bring to school to share. FYI, parents - I'm sorry to tell you this, but while we genuinely appreciate the sweet thought and intentions, most school staff members discreetly dispose of homemade food as soon as the student who gave it to us is not looking. Sometimes when we don't know the parents, and sometimes especially when we do know the parents .

As far as cake goes, I even avoid birthday cake that someone has blown the candles out on. Especially if everyone's kids feel the need to "help" blow them out. I was at a birthday party for an adult friend once, and someone jokingly told one of the kids who was blowing so hard at the candles that he may as well just spit on it. So he did .

 

[Nancy]

You know I probably wouldn't have even noticed something like that. I'm just oblivious to things I guess. And if I did see it, it most likely wouldn't have grossed me out unless he was totally slobbering on drooling while doing it.

I'm sure it wasn't done on purpose,(or at least I'm hoping he didn't), people usually do something without even thinking about it. That is why most eating establishments have rules in place because the workers would do something like that without even thinking.

 

[Stitchfans]

Yuck. no manners or class at all.

 

[Marseeya]

This reminds me of Panera Bread.

They have that counter at chest-height where you pick up your food and there's always one person who will stand right at the counter with their faces in the food. BLEH!

The last time I was there, there was this one woman -- well dressed, late 40s/early 50s -- who was watching all the food and commenting on how good it all looked. She actually lifted the top bread off a sandwich to see what was underneath.

WTH is wrong with people????

 

[krcit]

Yuck, is there a pukey smilie, lol. I always bake for school functions for exactly this reason-I don't trust anyone who I don't know. At my kids school they have a staff appreciation luncheon that all the parents cook for-I asked one of the teachers if they ate the food and she said it's labeled by family name so they know who's they can eat The other day at school, some parenst and teachers were bagging popcorn for a fundraiser and one of the teachers was eating handfuls of popcorn and then using the same hand to bag it Needless to sy, we skipped the popcorn!!!

 

[Stacerita]

Ugh, thats just gross. At my old job I stopped actively participating in potlucks because I saw someone doing the same thing. Not only did she lick her hands while cutting the cake, she dragged her finger along the knife, licked her finger, then drug it down the other side. And then with the crumbs that were left behing on the try, she scooped them up with her fingers, leaned over the rest of the cake and tried to drop all the crumbs into her mouth. Needless to say, not all the crumbs made it into her mouth. Some fell back on the cake and she kept cutting this way. Blech. And sad thing was, it was my birthday cake she made for me special for my birthday potluck.

 

[momrek06]

This is the reason you do not see LOOSE candy in restaurants anymore.

Years ago, you would go to leave a restaurant and allot of high end places would have LOOSE MINTS in a bowl.....NO MORE!!!!

Never unless they are wrapped UP!!!

 

[sajetto]

Ewwwwww. I remember I was at a super bowl party a long time ago. My friends girlfriend had a few beers so maybe she wasn't paying attention but she was putting cheetos on different plates for us to eat and each time she took a handful out of the bag she'd lick the cheese off her fingers and then stick her hand back in the bag again Needless to say, I didn't eat any of those cheetos