# Is it considered poor form to squeeze your lemon?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-considered-poor-form-to-squeeze-your-lemon/979093>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** food-cooking\
**Created:** [January 31, 2023, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-considered-poor-form-to-squeeze-your-lemon/979093 "2023-01-31T07:27:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2023, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-considered-poor-form-to-squeeze-your-lemon/979093/21 "2023-01-31T20:22:12Z")

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> [@Leo\_Krupe](#):
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> Very true. You can’t eliminate eating contaminates, but that’s not the point. Reduce the contamination to a safe level. There’s a difference between eating a speck of feces and a spoonful.

Agree.

But yea, [you eat bugs, rodent hairs, and poop every day](https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/04/health/insect-rodent-filth-in-food-wellness/index.html). Not in big quantities, of course. (Or at least I hope not. 😝)

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**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2023, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-considered-poor-form-to-squeeze-your-lemon/979093/22 "2023-02-01T00:19:20Z")

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> [@snowthx](#):
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> And don’t squeeze it so hard that you’ll fall right out of bed.

Along the same line (more or less), if you could use a lemon squeezer, you might be a Monkey Man.

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**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2023, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-considered-poor-form-to-squeeze-your-lemon/979093/23 "2023-02-01T01:15:06Z")

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For some reason, limes tend to look dirty even when they aren’t. I can’t bring myself to just chuck it in there.

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**Author:** ![jerseymule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jerseymule/32/3155_2.png) [@jerseymule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerseymule)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2023, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-considered-poor-form-to-squeeze-your-lemon/979093/24 "2023-02-01T13:19:48Z")

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> [@Leo\_Krupe](#):
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> You can’t eliminate eating contaminates, but that’s not the point. Reduce the contamination to a safe level. There’s a difference between eating a speck of feces and a spoonful.

If I notice that my lemon appears to be smeared with a spoonful of fecal matter, I always send it back!

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