I’m in Britain and I really hate the eyelashes, fillers and makeup here for young girls sometimes and the intense pressure I see everywhere to get them. Poor girlies.
I’m in Britain and I really hate the eyelashes, fillers and makeup here for young girls sometimes and the intense pressure I see everywhere to get them. Poor girlies.
I was flabbergasted at the way dishes were washed in my UK landlady’s home. First you make a huge sink of soapy water. Then you wash the dishes and all with the soapy water. THEN YOU PLACE THEM AROUND THE SINK TO DRY. When the bubbles disappear the utensil is assumed clean. There was no rinsing with clean water. There was no placemat to dry items. There was no drying rack. They left the mug face down on a wet soapy kitchen sink top to dry and then used it for drinking. Is that normal in the UK?
I heard this is because the water is calcic.
I have much to say about the calcic water. My landlady & family had no qualms boiling and drinking water from a kettle full of white deposits floating around. I was the only one trying to clean up the kettle. It was a losing battle tho.
Nope
Oof an ex bf of my sister used to do that. So gross since all the dishware will have soapy remains on them.
It’s not even about the soap remnants but dipping the dishes into dirty dishwater and not rinsing is just spreading all the dirty from one dish to all dishes!!?? Argh 🤯
Some people in the Netherlands do it this way as well and I find it so strange!! You do have to rinse the cups before you drink because it will bubble!
My Irish fiance thinks it’s normal. He thinks the Fairy will somehow magically disappear. I rinse them when he finishes and rewash many times. WTF.
The fairy! Hhhahaaha. I’ve lived with Irish flatmates before. They washed “normal” but they weren’t the cleanest… left lots of food waste in the sink…
Omg it’s the same in Australia — it drives me insane!
The bizarre compulsion to leave dishes covered in dirty, soapy dishwater is sadly very common. People get very defensive about their magical thinking that this somehow disappears into the aether as it dries, so there’s no arguing with them.
Rest assured you would have a deliciously soap free tea round at mine.
No, I think that’s just the way this lady does it.
I’ve seen idiots do this before, but most people have a drying rack and rinse stuff
I’ve seen that a lot when I lived in both the UK and the Netherlands (though more commonly in the latter).
I witnessed this in Germany. And was blown away by it.
This is one of the most common culture shocks with moving to the UK.
I have an English friend in the states who refuses to give up this approach. I’m even more concerned for her doing this in the US where surely the (Unrinsed) soap contains more chemicals!
There was a big advertising campaign by Fairy in the 70s saying you didn’t need to rinse dishes in an effort to be more eco friendly that persists in some households anywhere Fairy Liquid is sold to this day.
My fiancé and his family just uses the dishwasher and does rinse when they hand wash pots and pans thankfully. Oh and use a drying rack! But it definitely is a thing in some houses.
my roommate is dutch and lived in london before she moved here (nyc) and this comment has finally given me an explanation as to why she’s so terrible at washing dishes…thank you for clearing up that mystery lol
Or the similar variant where they have the other side of the sink or a large bowl filled with lukewarm rinse water and everything gets set in there to “rinse” in the same increasingly soapy water before being set to the side to dry.