A situation I saw in a sitcom recently. A friend of yours gives you a lasagne or somesuch in a tupperware container, you take it home, eat it and really enjoy it, suffering no negative reaction. A few week later is becomes apparent that the same container was used a few days before he gave you the food for him to defecate in: there was nowhere else to go and he was desperate. It went through a couple of cycles of the dishwasher and then back into circulation. Assume he’s not trying to get a rise out of you, he is genuinely not condsidering it a problem and the conversation only came up from an unrelated tangent. How do you feel, are you completely fine horrendously disgusted or somewhere inbetween?
Okay, when you gotta go, you gotta go. At that time, maybe it was an emergency and there really was no other option available. But when you’re packing up a lasagna? That’s not an emergency and he really should have been able to find something else. I’d tell him that.
I’d wash the tupperware, put some food in it (maybe even another lasagna) and ask him to eat it while I watched. If it’s really not a problem, he should be willing to do it.
As to how grossed out I’d be, probably somewhere in the middle; closer to “eww” than “meh”. Too late to do anything about it, and getting freaked out isn’t going to help.
What sitcom was this in? I want to make sure to never, ever watch it.
Well. I wouldn’t reuse a container used for poo, I’d throw it away, but if I didn’t get sick from the food and I knew it had been through the dishwasher many times, I wouldn’t stress out too much. The dishwasher detergent is caustic, and the water is hot, so it would be clean. No point stressing over something that’s happened, you can’t change it. If he gave me a lasagna in a container and said “oh, by the way, I pooed in there the other day”, then I wouldn’t eat it, I’d give it to my dog or to my chooks.
What sort of loser has to poo in his tupperware? I’d never eat at his house, ever. ewwww. and I don’t think I’d like to shake his hand, who knows where it’s been?
I can’t believe you didn’t make this a Poll; preferably a public one.
No, I’m fine with it; the lasagna was delicious, and it’s not like I put the Tupperware into the microwave. I transferred it onto a dinner plate, and covered it with plastic wrap.
I DO think that my friend would have done better to NOT tell me the story. I didn’t need to know about it, and now EVERY time he gives me food in a Tupperware container, I’m going to be asking him point-blank if he ever used it as ToiletWare…
I’ve had things in tupperware containers discovered in the back of my fridge that were far worse than fecal matter.
I cleaned those out and re-used them. Would eating something out of them make you queasy?
I might murder someone, I’m afraid.
Nope. Ain’t right. Ewwww.
Unless I can get a study or something to indicate that the Tupperware would be less safe, I don’t see a problem with the action itself. It’s been washed multiple times, and my default is to believe that a proper washing removes germs–if not, then I’d have to always use disposable items.
The telling about it may be creating problems with our monkey brains that are programmed to think poo is bad. But my entire life is about trying to thwart my monkey brain that tries to make me worry about shit that isn’t real, so I am opposed to letting that win out with something so small.
A friend, you say? Well, this is where I find out who my true friends are because I have just found myself in the position of needing to get rid of a body.
ETA: I’ve seen some of the responses. Tupperware is inexpensive and dosen’t last forever. One of the ways in which a person knows it’s time to shitcan the tupperware is the question: Has this tupperware ever contained shit?
Bobot, just call me up. I’ll help you get rid of the shit-heads body, forthwith.
I’d wash the tupperware, take a dump in it, then return it to the “friend”.
Right on. I’ll be counting on you.
Beckdawreck, pardon me, that was rude. What I meant to say was: Hey, let me know, I’ll help with yours, too.
Shhh. Keep it down. No need to attract attention.
I would call the police.
Just to be clear, I would call the police on the disgusting and clearly psychopathic “friend”. Not on his killers.
Whew! You scared me. Keep it on the down-low.
Honestly, this is not something I’d give a shit about, so to speak. Went through a couple dishwasher cycles? I’m fine with it. I don’t get easily grossed out, though.
notes another person to never accept a tupperware dish from
Personally, I am afraid to eat anything from somewhere besides my own kitchen and my own ‘never been shit in bowls’ now.
Crap, ( Why did I say that?) who knew this could be a problem, ever?
I don’t shit in my Tupperware, but if you do in yours, just make sure to clean it out well and we’re good.