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RougeUnderoos · 12-09-2008, 04:28 PM

Can I eat that varnish on the outside of a cucumber? I usually do, but lately these things seem to have an extra thick coating of whatever the hell it is they put on there. Do y'all eat that stuff?

And another question -- how do you people wash your vegetables?

I'm a bit of a germ-o-phobe, and winter always reminds me of snotty noses and sneezing, and then squeezing tomatoes at the grocery store with your disease-ridden hands.

I do the old fashioned method of "rinse them under cold water and then chop 'em up", and that's what the internet basically says to do (along with other helpful tips like "don't buy mouldy produce"). It just doesn't seem like enough.

Onions, carrots, potatoes -- you are going to scrape or peel off the top layer off anyway. But tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, green onions, celery... a lot of this stuff has been handled by strangers and I eat most of it raw. It gets my Germ-O-Phobe Senses Tingling.

I don't know if I've ever been ensickened (new word!) by Sally Housecoat's filthy hands having handled the tomato, radish and cucumber I bought and threw in my salad, but I'm suspicious.

I don't know what else to do though. Do you do something else?

Fun Fact: the stickers on the fruit and vegetables we buy are made of "edible paper", but you should remove them anyway because if you don't, "the spot under the sticker won't be cleaned", according to some advice giving website. Funny piece of advice I thought -- "don't eat stickers" seems like reason enough to me to remove the stickers, but someone felt they needed to back it up with some sanitary logic.

Boblobla · 12-09-2008, 04:30 PM

Bah, a bit of sneeze and squeeze never hurt anyone.

LChoy · 12-09-2008, 04:32 PM

Well, English cucumbers you can just wash and slice. If it's the field cucumbers, then they are thicker, and generally better to eat once you peeled the skin and cut into sticks

BlackArcher101 · 12-09-2008, 04:33 PM

Could just be an edible wax on it. Eat away I say.

HelloHockeyFans · 12-09-2008, 04:33 PM

I have a vegetable brush I use.

Just rinsing/soaking under water is kinda... gross.

Buff · 12-09-2008, 04:45 PM

Where is fotze? He should've been all over this thread by now.

RougeUnderoos · 12-09-2008, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by HelloHockeyFans

I have a vegetable brush I use.

Just rinsing/soaking under water is kinda... gross.

I've got one of those brushes but I usually only use it for mushrooms. After a couple swipes, it seems to me that the brush is just as dirty as the last piece of food it cleaned.

Mean Mr. Mustard · 12-09-2008, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Buff

Where is fotze? He should've been all over this thread by now.

A fotze generally leads to an icky, skicky and often times itchy cucumber.

stang · 12-09-2008, 05:09 PM

The thread title made me think this thread was NSFW...

HelloHockeyFans · 12-09-2008, 05:09 PM

Yeah, the brush does get dirty, which reminds me just how dirty these veggies can get and why rinsing just isn't good enough.

Clarkey · 12-09-2008, 05:33 PM

Wasn't there some vegetable soap product called Fit a while back?

photon · 12-09-2008, 05:47 PM

Heh yeah my wife has that Fit stuff.. I thought it was pretty dumb, but I used it once and was very impressed, everything feels so clean after using it!

Table 5 · 12-09-2008, 05:51 PM

don't clean things too much. your immune system will thank you.

RougeUnderoos · 12-09-2008, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Clarkey

Wasn't there some vegetable soap product called Fit a while back?

I tried it once (not that brand name though, I used one called "Febreze") and jeez, it was awful.

Clarkey · 12-09-2008, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

I tried it once (not that brand name though, I used one called "Febreze") and jeez, it was awful.

Stop derailing your own topic.

stang · 12-09-2008, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Table 5

don't clean things too much. your immune system will thank you.

I am with Table number 5 on this one...

My wife washes EVERYTHING and washes her hands all the time. She is worried about her food getting contaminated all the time. Suprise Suprise she gets sick quite a bit.

I wash my hands but not like her (after the washroom, before cooking supper) but I dont care for the most part, give carrots a quick rinse, good to go. Leftovers in the fridge for a week? AS long as its not fuzzy its still good to me. 5 second rule can be bent. Finger foods are a good snack while taking a quick break from working outside/on the car. A little dirt/germs never hurt anyone.

I RARELY get sick.

Antithesis · 12-09-2008, 06:34 PM

Working in a school, my immune system is in tip-top shape - germs stand no chance against my anti-bodies. I'm a rinse-n-eat guy. Then again, I have such a cavalier attitude about veggies, yet I don't like touching cash. Paper money is disgusting.

MoneyGuy · 12-09-2008, 06:38 PM

It's gotta be washed with Fit or I don't eat it.

Table 5 · 12-09-2008, 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by MoneyGuy

It's gotta be washed with Fit or I don't eat it.

first they get us to buy bottled water to drink, now they get us to buy bottled water to clean? there's some sort of social commentary about our excess in all of this, i'm not sure what it is though...

MoneyGuy · 12-09-2008, 06:47 PM

Fit isn't bottled water, which I've never bought evenone bottle of. It's a big ripoff.