Couple examples here that I just don’t get. First, in the shower. My wife puts her stray hairs on the shower wall, and sometimes forgets to clean them off, and when she forgets and I see it, or I go in to shower, she acts super embarrassed. I don’t get it. Also, on a bar of soap. Like, ok, if it’s an actual stranger, but in that case why am I using their soap? But if it’s somebody I know, if there’s hairs on the bar, I’m just gonna rinse them off. It’s soap.
Also, in food. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want hairs in my food, because getting a hair in your mouth is an unpleasant sensation, so if I see a hair in my food, I remove it. But people will act like a hair in your food is comparable to literal feces or something, and I’ve never understood it.
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Doug Stanhope – Hair in my Food
If i see hair on the shower wall i try to make a lil heart :3
When I get a hair in my mashed potatoes and feel it when I try to swallow it makes me gag.
And when I gag I don’t want to eat anymore. I will throw out a plate of food if eating it is gonna make me hurl. I don’t feel good about wasting food, I don’t compare it to feces. But if were talking about me continuing to eat it? Well then mayaswell be feces lol
Outside of eating it? Nah Idc about hair
I agree. If I find a hair in my food, I remove it and keep eating. It’s just a hair.
Hair in food is disgusting. What if they lice?
Also, bar of soap?
Loose hairs like that are fine.
Pulling a hair clog out of a drain is fucking nasty, but that’s a whole different beast.
Unfortunately, my hair falls out more than it used to due to severe stress. I wash my hair every day and it’s clean, but when a strand or two gets in my mouth because it’s fallen out, it’s a really unpleasant sensation, especially if it ends up near the throat. No i don’t think hair is inherently gross but if I see some in my food prepared by someone else, I’m giving pause.
In the grand scheme of things, totally not a big deal. But personally, nothing grosses me out more. It’s right up there with mouth sounds. Honestly I wish my partner was embarrassed lmao mine only puts his (long) hair on the shower wall bc I asked him to since cleaning the clogged drain literally made gag
Again, nbd in the grand scheme of things and I deal, but holy shit personally it grosses me tf out 🤷♀️
Hair feels way overhyped as gross when it’s literally everywhere, it grows out of us constantly. Sure no one wants it in their food or stuck to the soap but the meltdown reactions seem extreme. It’s not like hair magically turns toxic once it falls off your head.
Hair is hit or miss for me in food. In my own home I’ll remove it, it’s whatever. Kinda the same vibe as hair on soap, I know these people they’re my family, good chance it’s my own hair anyways.
In a restaurant, it’s different. I’ve only had it happen to me one time though, but the way the hair was long, and it was grilled into the bread of my patty melt…. Nah, not doing it.
I think hair getting gross when prepared out is disgusting… take my upvote
Hair in food I get tbf; like hair can get pretty nasty. But I will also just remove it and keep eating usually
It’s pubes/buttcrack hair that I feel kinda icky about.
I use body wash because people used to use my soap and their pubes get in it. They’re not family and we’re friends but I wouldn’t say we’re close enough to be pube swapping friends.
I’m right there with you. Unless it’s like, a large clump of hair pulled out of a drain that has that septic quality to it… hair just isn’t gross. If it gets in my mouth, I pick it out and say oh well.
Somehow, I am more disgusted with hair in showers. I will remove hair in food just fine but wet hair on the wall gives me the heebie jeebies for some reason. I’m guessing it’s because it’s wet
i accidentally dropped my hair tie once , and i have fairly thick hair so the hair was a little knotted on the hair tie and the ppl around me (they didn’t know it was mine) audibly said “ewww” when they saw it. i was deeply confused
I thought this will be about body hair lol.
I agree in general. If you find your partners hair in the bathroom it’s not a big deal.
The thing with restaurants and hair is a bit different. It’s not feces but it still is gross. Because that’s some strangers hair. A part of them. DNA of theirs. Might be unsanitary with their germs on it. It also means they don’t take care of proper kitchen etiquette. They don’t comb their hair and tie it back nicely. So they are messy. What else could have gotten into my food? Why they didn’t even see that a hair got into my food? Are they even paying attention?
So it’s more about what it can mean than how gross a single hair actually is.
Hair where hair is expected to be is fine. Your hair, family’s hair, wife’s hair, whatever is fine. Hair just floating around in the world is fine. I use somebody’s shower I just accept hair exists and maybe just dont touch it, I aint cleaning your fucking hair trap for you. Hair on the food, thats a maybe. Casually laying there on the plate like it just fell from the waitress or some shit is a whatever. Hair in the food like in the meat of a burger or I find it in the middle of my pasta is fucking gross and shouldn’t be normalized. That shit is unsanitary and not a clue where it came from or how it got there.
I fully agree. I think people just get upset because their food wasn’t perfectly safe or something
Idk. personally i cannot stand seeing hair on a shower wall. Especially if you live with that person and also use that bathroom. Its just hair, but that doesnt mean its an art project for people to gawk at too
Yeah its nowhere near as bad as lets say, faeces
My friend had a phobia level reaction to loose hair when we were teenagers. She couldn’t clean out her own hairbrush without gagging and shaking.
Her little sister got the shits with her, cleaned out all the hairbrushes and cut doll hair and put a pile of it in her bed.
Same! “I found a hair in my burger” “throw it away and report a major health violation” people think they’re going to die or something
I think if I find hair in my food I’d be more grossed out by the prospect of finding other hair and not seeing it
I am desensitised to the sight at this point since my head sheds at an alarming rate, so every hair drying or brushing looks like im on chemo. Somehow, not balding!
Hair can be dirty. Not every cook washes their hair and they sweat a lot. Sweat is a body fluid. R u really ok with boy fluid in ur food??
It’s not the hair per se. It’s that the cooking staff aren’t following proper hygiene guidelines if they’re preparing food with their hair not tied back or covered.
If they’re lax about something that simple, what else are they dropping the ball on?
I always say something to the server… not to get comped or something thrown in… but in the hope that it filters back and they step up their hygienic practices
Agree. It happens. I pull it out and carry on eating my meal without a care. I understand why it seems gross to others. I just don’t think it’s that big of a deal. We eat so many pieces of bugs and other things that ought not to be in our food all the time without knowing. Germs are everywhere, and yet life persists.
Mostly agree, except for the shower drain. Absolutely nasty stuff.
Oh god, I’m ok, if a little squicked out, by hair on the soap, but a hair in my food… let’s just say if I ever needed to vomit on cue that’s what I would think about.
I probably eat dog hair anytime I consume food in my home. It’s nbd anymore