Things that gross you out

I am with you guys on the teabag thing although I don't think it's really a "British" thing; if Americans drank as much tea as Brits did, we'd probably have our own proportionate number of teabag hoarders.

My inlaws use one of those savoury pie dishes (the ones you'd make a single serving dish of say steak pie in) to plop their teabags.  They NEVER empty it, and it piles up.  I empty it when I see it towering (and I only drink about a cup of black tea a day).  They must have the impression that I like to empty it because after that, they would always leave it for me.  Then if someone is washing dishes, they will empty old teas into the dish as well, usually without emptying the teabags.  It's so friggen gross.  Plus, even when they do empty it, they don't wash it, so it's all grotty.   I like to use a small saucer to make the tea and use to take the teabag to the rubbish without dripping.  I am not sure what's wrong with throwing them away wet, but I always wondered what was up with the wet teabag collection.  I might leave a teabag in the saucer if I am in a hurry to bring tea to Mr. A, but I never leave it long.  Ugh.

I could probably fill a few posts with inlaw gross out stuff (like leaving raisins for their crap factories chinchillas which the chinnies then push out of the cage, onto the floor, which rolls up with any poo that happens to fall out at the same time, and gets stuck on passing feet), but I won't.  

Deceased.

Well, it beats having to slaughter your own cattle! 

Have you thought of letting environmental health know about this place?

I agree. That's neither healthy nor is it the norm for "good old-fashioned British butcher shops."

I think you need to find a new butcher!

Let me preface by saying that focusing on gross things in your new country before you've even moved is probably not the best thing for assimilation, but to each their own...

My gross thing (which I do not blame on the British completely) is that our area has just decided to implement a forced recycling program on everyone which requires residents to seperate their waste into three bins: refuse, recyclables and the dreaded FOOD WASTE.  I have always had garbarge disposals in my homes in America and it was bad enough for me to throw away food in a garbage can, but just as I was getting used to that, now we have to put it in a small version of a wheelie bin (which has to sit on our counter because we have a dog) and then when that it full or smelly, we have to dump that into a larger food waste bin which gets emptied each week by the garbage men. The small bin is always warm on the bottom because of all the food inside and you can imagine how it smells if it is not emptied daily.  EW! It honestly makes me gag to empty it.  The silver lining is we have just been informed that you can use bio degradable bags inside the bin so we dont have to clean it out, but I must say, I really miss my garbage disposal!

now we have to put it in a small version of a wheelie bin (which has to sit on our counter because we have a dog) and then when that it full or smelly, we have to dump that into a larger food waste bin which gets emptied each week by the garbage men.

Can you compost instead?

I know we spoke once about doing that... I will have to mention it again!

Well, it beats having to slaughter your own cattle! 

I agree. That's neither healthy nor is it the norm for "good old-fashioned British butcher shops."

I think you need to find a new butcher!

It is around here, I promise you. Every village around here has an expensive little butcher, and I find they all smell intensely off-putting.

The one in Winchelsea -- which is pretty much the most moneyed neighborhood in our area -- brags that they hang their beef for a minimum of 20 days. They proudly demonstrated for us how they could trim a steak off a lump of beef and there's no blood. Because it had hung for so long.

Even our local grocery stores sell beef that is grey.

That's before we talk about the poultry. Which is nice and fresh, I grant you, but do they have to snap the feet off and jam the stumps up its butt?

but do they have to snap the feet off and jam the stumps up its butt?

ROFLMAO 

The one in Winchelsea -- which is pretty much the most moneyed neighborhood in our area -- brags that they hang their beef for a minimum of 20 days. They proudly demonstrated for us how they could trim a steak off a lump of beef and there's no blood. Because it had hung for so long.

I don't eat meat, so I'm no expert. But I thought hung beef was something good? Isn't that what you carnivores look for? 

I'm pretty grossed out by seeing people spitting. It's mostly men and they make such a production of it. I always gag when I see it.

I also have quite a few people at my workplace who smell quite strongly. One is a lady who I think has some sort of gland problem but I've never been brave enough to ask. But man, she has the worst BO, All The Time. You just don't want to go anywhere near her. Another only washes every 3 or 4 days and only washes her hair once a week. That's a bit gross.

Also, this may just be me but we have a small office here where all the IT guys work. There's about 5 of them. And the room stinks. It just smells of boy. I can't explain the smell, it just smells of boy.  The worst part is that with my uber sense of smell, all I need to do is walk by the door to get a whiff. Pee-Yew!

I don't eat meat, so I'm no expert. But I thought hung beef was something good? Isn't that what you carnivores look for? 

Yeah it is, meat should be hung, anything around 20 days is good, it doesn't look as nice as fresh meat, but it tastes amazing! Basically lactic acid breakdown makes it more tender and water loss concentrates the flavour - I'd take it over hormone injected overly red supermarket meat any day.  

Bright red pieces of beef or lamb that are wet with blood haven’t been hung properly and will probably be tough and tasteless. The surface of the meat should look matt and dry, with a dark, rich red or even slightly purplish colour and creamy white fat around the edges.

have to snap the feet off and jam the stumps up its butt?

If they do that with the feet, then where do they put the head?

Yeah it is, meat should be hung, anything around 20 days is good, it doesn't look as nice as fresh meat, but it tastes amazing! Basically lactic acid breakdown makes it more tender and water loss concentrates the flavour - I'd take it over hormone injected overly red supermarket meat any day.  

Bright red pieces of beef or lamb that are wet with blood haven’t been hung properly and will probably be tough and tasteless. The surface of the meat should look matt and dry, with a dark, rich red or even slightly purplish colour and creamy white fat around the edges.

Fine. Give me the red hormone-injected supermarket kind. Under nice, shiny plastic. I never got a tough t-bone or delmonico from Stop&Shop.

Meat that is dry, gray and smells rancid can be as tender as it likes; it's still nasty.

I have to agree with the meat thing. ALL the red meat I have had so far has been tough and overcooked, eventhough I tend to be a medium-well girl. I am dying for some good, tender prime rib.

What grosses me out: 'innit'.
I hate how the brits ask a pointless question that they know you don't have the answer to after every remark.
'When is your sister coming over?'
'She told me 5, didn't she?'
Eventhough I KNOW its part of the language, it sounds so rude and like a putdown.
It isn't necessarily a gross out like people licking communal spoons, but it makes me cringe!

Bin men on strike for over 8 weeks (as in Leeds).  And other people tossing their garbage in your bin -- or next to it, more like. 

I hate how the brits ask a pointless question that they know you don't have the answer to after every remark.
'When is your sister coming over?'
'She told me 5, didn't she?'
Eventhough I KNOW its part of the language, it sounds so rude and like a putdown.
It isn't necessarily a gross out like people licking communal spoons, but it makes me cringe!

Wow.  Hate is a strong word for something like this... I think you may be overreacting... This one is YOU taking it the wrong way, not "the brits" being rude or putting you down.