no offense to older people in chat, but why do so many older USonians try to overuse appliances or reusable containers with worn out plastic in contact with food?
is this a worldwide issue? my hypothesis was they got introduced to them as wonder materials of the future. even plastic sponges get reused when they clearly have molecule-deep filth in every crevasse
@Gorb@hexbear.net my mom is like this abt many things other than teflon (which is good bc the factory fumes caused birth defectd and parkinson's) which she knows fancy chefs complain abt being easy to scratch or overheat
My great uncle had a gas cooker leaking gas into the house. Just walking in the front door you could smell a leak and no matter how many people told him to get it replaced or he'll blow up half the street the answer always was "Well nothings happened yet" and "it still works" he'd then proceed to demonstrate it working while everyone bolted for the front door.
Its brain bending. Like the inanimate object is valued more than life of both themselves and others.
Toxic Midwesterninity and the cult of moralised frugality.