My sister:
Bread and pancake syrup (Aunt Jemimah not real maple) are kept in the fridge. I know a lot of people keep their bread in the fridge (many threads/posts about this) but it’s weird to me! IMO it dries out.
My mom:
Drinking glasses are put right side up in the cupboard. I always put mine upside down so dust, etc don’t fall inside. Although, I can’t imagine there is a lot of dust falling in the glasses. It’s just something I’ve always done.
MIL:
ALL electrical cords are unplugged every night - except for the fridge. She is terrified of fire, so she unplugs all of her lamps, TV, washer, dryer, etc.
Friend:
I consider myself a type A, but this friend takes type A to the next level. If you are invited to her home for dinner she will tell you that she doesn’t want any help doing dishes. She has her way of doing them and that’s the only way they can be done.
Aunt:
I don’t know if she still does this but back when I would babysit my little cousin for her, I remember going into the fridge and seeing leftovers still in the pan the meal was cooked in. She never put them into a container and most of the time they weren’t even covered. There would be a large frying pan with a small amount of leftover sloppy joes, uncovered shoved in the fridge.
I always end up needing to stir it anyway, or I end up with undissolved sugar crystals at the bottom of my cup. Maybe it’s a geometry thing where some cup shapes mix the contents better or something?
To the OP’s question:
I know quite a few people whose home renovation/decor choices are dramatically NOT in keeping with their everyday cleaning habits. In particular, someone who’s a neat-freak to the point of it nearly being a mental illness got dark cherry floors when they renovated. Seems to be to be a recipe for driving yourself crazy if you can’t stand dirt/dust. Or people who are on the other end of that spectrum getting light colors that show dirt/dust/stains. Seems weird to me that they’d be that… unaware.
And finally… as far as mayonnaise on fries goes, that’s a classic Belgian/Dutch way to eat fries, not some oddity of personal taste. And it’s good! Different than ketchup, but good nonetheless.
Oh, that’'s a good one. I belong the Church of Right Side Up Glasses. While I understand the idea of keeping dust out by storing them upside down, my reasoning is: a glass is typically in the cupboard for a few days before I used it. It won’t get much dust in that time. On the other hand, the cupboard shelf itself sits there collecting dust all the time, and I actually remove all the glasses and clean the shelves maybe once a year. So putting the glass upside down on the shelf causes a bunch of dust to adhere to the rim, and is thus worse if you’re worried about drinking dust (which I’m not really, but I’d just as soon not).
I grew up in my mother’s house, where the trash cans were inside and the garbage can was outside on the porch. We never put any food residue whatsoever in a trash can. My mother would go batshit crazy. We went outisde and put it in the garbage can.
I cannot understand people putting food in inside trash cans. I cannot even put a paper cup that held water into the little bag at my register. I have to take it to the big trash can in the corner to deposit it, otherwise I go crazy. But I don’t tell my friends about it.
That’s because you grew up somewhere where you could keep a garbage can on the porch which was presumably right outside the kitchen door ( or at least close by). For me to put all items with food residue outside would require me to walk from my kitchen through the first floor and out the front door - which I suppose I might do if my husband and I didn’t both grow up in apartments that required walking a couple of flights of stairs to put food waste outside.
I put the cream in first. My wife takes it and I don’t, so when I pour coffee into our to-go mugs in the morning I put the cream in hers first, then an inch or two of coffee and give the mug a swirl. Then I pour mine and then top hers off.
Friend’s wife’s grandmother washes all her paper towels and leaves them to dry on a lattice in her back porch. He took a picture of it with the intent to show how weird it was, but I thought it was a pretty picture. She obviously grew up when times were tight.
No kidding. Fat makes things taste better, as well as ruining your health. Mayo is just gobs of fat, so of course it tastes good. But unlike the French, sometimes I like to mix some chipotle or curry powder in the mayo. Because fat + spice > fat alone.
I have a friend who eats all his french fries before he will even touch his burger. I don’t understand it, but I feel like the window to ask has long since closed.
My concern is that who knows what was in the bag before and what kind of contaminates there might be. If the bag held cleaning products, poisons, uncooked meats, or something like that, some residue could be left behind. I agree that cling film and foil are not sterile, but there’s little chance that they have some liquid from raw meat on them if they come straight out of the box.
By “organized”, I mean squooshing them all into the drawer so that there’s nothing hanging out.
Thanks for showing me I’m not the only one who is squicked out by wrapping cooked foods in grocery bags. For a moment there I thought maybe I was the weirdo.
Yes, indeed. My paternal grandmother used to do this. I remember it well, and I thought it was weird when I was a kid, but as an adult, I realize that (a) her husband, my grandfather, died very young (WWII), she didn’t make much money (she work retail in a department store in NYC), and (b) she was raising three kids through the Depression and WWII.
So, yeah, she saved stuff, even when it was no longer necessary. Her grown kids more than paid her back, got her a nice apartment, everything, but she was still saving paper towels and foil and string and who knows what else.
It’s because fries are only amazing when they’re hot. And with all that surface area, they get lukewarm fairly quickly. Whereas the burger will stay warm with its little hat on.
I can understand putting the cream in second if you are at a place whose strength you do not know: it is easy to mix in more cream if you need to but not easy to dilute it if you put in too much - and if you don’t put in enough that you’re in danger of putting in too much, you’ll most likely have to add more in anyway, unless you know the exact strength. I put in the cream afterward because I only use cream at places who brew their tea strongly anyway and I rarely partake at the same place enough to know how much I want.
Sweetener is another story since putting it in early lets it dissolve better and you’re more likely to know exactly how much you’re using. I no longer use sweetener so I don’t have to worry about that.
