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Leftovers
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I was talking to a couple of colleagues recently and they asked me whether I flush my leftovers down the toilet? Thinking it was a joke I laughed and told them that I scrape my leftovers into a bin. They both said to one another that I was strange and asked me why I don't flush them down the toilet. Realising they weren't joking I asked them if that means they do, and they said they think it is strange to throw leftovers into a bin where they often stay for days and start to smell, and that more people should flush them down the toilet like they do. They were 100% serious as we then went on to have a lengthy chat about it and others then joined in. The general view was that it was odd to do such a thing. Just wondered what people on here think.
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That'll just cause blockages though, like those sodding baby wipes, left over chicken carkess, down the carzie...LOL no Bin all the way
Why the toilet and not the sink? worst I've done is drank some rank milk n rushed to the toilet to throw up in.
we've got one of those rubbish compactor things, grinds it all up- so much fun! either that or the animals get the scraps.
Never lived in a place without a garbage disposal in the sink but I'd always get yelled at for putting things in the sink at my grandmas cuz she didn't have one. And if things start to stink, take out the garbage. Think of how much water you are wasting putting it in the toilet, not to mention how weird it is brining food in the bathroom in the first place
But flushing it away means 5? litres of water needs to be reprocessed. As an "if it's yellow" observant I find this outrageous behaviour.
And I also just save my leftover food for another meal.:thumb:
Dry junk like bones or stems go in the trash, squishy organic things like carrot peels go down the garbage disposal or get fed to the tortoise or the morio worms. The toilet is way over in the bathroom, never would've occurred to me.
Any watery food waste goes down the sink, chunky bits go in the bin. If the bin smells, TAKE IT OUT!
Again.
Exactly.
Any leftovers that are edible, I usually stick in a tub and either freeze it or put in the fridge and eat the next day.
If stuff needs to be thrown away, I either put it down the sink (liquid) or it goes in the bin.
There is someone who just puts stuff in the bin and it smells. Anything I put in the bin, goes into a sandwich bag.
Unless it's left over potato and veg from a roast dinner. Then I throw in some bacon (or sausage) fry off an egg and have bubble and squeek.
My friend was once on the phone to me while on the can and said "oh shit i dropped my sandwich!!" on further enquiry it was a peanut butter one.... and he was not joking because he showed me it later with the fluff on it because i didn't believe him >.<
On topic my grandad used to flush food waste down the toilet but thats cos he didnt have a bin in there :yeees:
i put mine in a bin. liquidy stuff goes down the sink. anything else in the bin. if it smells, i take it outside and put it into the wheelie bin straight away.
talking of putting things down the loo, does anyone here put dead fish down the toilet?
my mum used to do that when i was little and i used to get scared that they'd swim back up!!!
I've done it. My dead fish, unless they get eaten first, either go down the loo or in the bin.
I've got visions of them taking their plates into the bathroom and standing over the toilet scraping them, the more I think about it the stranger it is :yeees:
That's the mental image I got as well! Definitely not appealing!
On the phone while in the bathroom, must be a man thing
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Until the council stopped food waste going in them we used to put ours in the brown bin for composting on the odd occasion we did have leftovers.
But never heard of them going down the loo! I thought that was only for dead goldfish?!