Saturday 1 November 2008

Filthy habits


Thank god, it's Lördag. Godis-time. Lördags-godis.
Another interesting peculiarity in Sweden.
And it is official now. We can all feel safe!! Godis may be harmful to your teeth, however to pick them up from these open plastic-containers is NOT messing around with your health in general - according to Kammarrätten.
It was declared the other day that it is considered SAFE to eat these open candies even though we blast our (bad) breath on them, sticky and sugary candies, an ideal base for bacteria to grow (the word derives from the Greek, meaning "small things") and probably they consider it to be a negligable risk that dirty fingers may take a handful directly without using the laddle.....
Okay, godis is one thing.
What I often watch and I think it is really yacks, yacky, icky are these bread and bun boxes one can find in almost any of the supermarkets. There are folks who grab a few, squeeze them, to see which one is nice fresh and crunchy, and then finally decide which one they pack up. I cannot help but thinking what they did with their hand before. Touching the handle of a toilet, poking their nose, tying their shoes, patting their dog, cat, horse, rat, shaking somebody elses hand, handling (dirty) money.....
Right, I make my own bread and should not really bother.