# A cook spits in your food. So?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [June 21, 2002, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cook-spits-in-your-food-so/115200 "2002-06-21T04:05:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cook-spits-in-your-food-so/115200/41 "2002-06-24T17:59:49Z")

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How can one avoid it without being in the kitchen and violating several other laws, **Mojo**?

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**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cook-spits-in-your-food-so/115200/42 "2002-06-25T00:49:30Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Mangetout \*  
> \*\*But OK, we’ll drop the stealing analogy and go for something a bit closer; if I’m cooking for a Jew and I deliberately include pork products into the food that they will eat, are they only insulted/wronged if they know about it? \*\*

Yes.

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**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cook-spits-in-your-food-so/115200/43 "2002-06-25T01:17:56Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Mojo \*  
> \*\*Mangeorge, I believe this is why the phrase is “blissfully ignorant”. Maybe you’re better off by not knowing, but you’re avoiding the truth of the situation by doing so. \*\*

You’re oblivious, get it? Not avoiding the truth, there’s no reasonable way for you to know. You’re not doing anything to unknow. You’re ignorant, but not blissfully so. You go out, eat a deilcious cheeseburger and go home. No disease, no insult, no nothing.  
I think we may be stumbling over some nits here. 🙂 I’m being nitpicky about what “insult” or “harm” is, and others are insisting there could be disease. Or that they should somehow intuit the spit, it’s _so_ awful.  
Just thought of another analogy. It’s pretty ‘out there’, but here goes;  
Suppose you’re a woman (or gay man) and you’re talking to a man who you find physically disgusting (ok, here we go), and this guy has an erection from talking to you? You don’t know it. Period. Same thing? Sure it is.  
😃  
Sorry, couldn’t resist that one. One of them zen things.  
Peace,  
mangeorge

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cook-spits-in-your-food-so/115200/44 "2002-06-25T22:25:40Z")

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OK, but where are you going with this?

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**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cook-spits-in-your-food-so/115200/45 "2002-06-26T00:09:45Z")

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I really don’t know. I thought we were making analogies.

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