Would you eat it?

On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 10:00:49 -0500, "CatNipped"
wrote:

This morning DH was late waking up to feed the cats their breakfast. I
didn't want to wake him by yelling for him, so I managed to climb up the
stairs and fixed myself a chicken sandwich (traditional breakfast foods tend
to make me nauseated for some reason). After pouring a glass of tea I
brought it all downstairs. I set the paper plate, with my sandwich, on my
bed while I was putting Splenda packets, one at a time and testing each
because it tends to go from tasting no sweet to cloyingly sweet in just one
or two packets. When I looked up I saw Archer licking my sandwich.

How many of you would have eaten the sandwich anyway, how many would go back
and fix another sandwich?

Oh, pretty much instantly. Why not?

If cat saliva was dangerous, we'd ALL be dead be now!

~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^..^

"Life without cats would be only marginally worth living."
-TC, and the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico kitty, Kenzie.

Every day is a treasure with Kenzie; I try to treat them that way. There
will only be so many, and then there will never, ever, be any more.

How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
- Robert Heinlein


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On Sep 1, 8:00*am, "CatNipped" wrote:
This morning DH was late waking up to feed the cats their breakfast. *I
didn't want to wake him by yelling for him, so I managed to climb up the
stairs and fixed myself a chicken sandwich (traditional breakfast foods tend
to make me nauseated for some reason). *After pouring a glass of tea I
brought it all downstairs. I set the paper plate, with my sandwich, on my
bed while I was putting Splenda packets, one at a time and testing each
because it tends to go from tasting no sweet to cloyingly sweet in just one
or two packets. *When I looked up I saw Archer licking my sandwich.

How many of you would have eaten the sandwich anyway, how many would go back
and fix another sandwich?

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I think it's been said on here, "Everything tastes better with a
little cat spit"

Mischief is usually the one that used to lick or eat everything.
Since she's slowing down not as much anymore. But she will look at
any food that's been dropped and declares it hers. Period.

Kristi

"Judith Latham" wrote in message
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In article , CatNipped
wrote:
This morning DH was late waking up to feed the cats their breakfast. I
didn't want to wake him by yelling for him, so I managed to climb up the
stairs and fixed myself a chicken sandwich (traditional breakfast foods
tend to make me nauseated for some reason). After pouring a glass of
tea I brought it all downstairs. I set the paper plate, with my
sandwich, on my bed while I was putting Splenda packets, one at a time
and testing each because it tends to go from tasting no sweet to
cloyingly sweet in just one or two packets. When I looked up I saw
Archer licking my sandwich.

How many of you would have eaten the sandwich anyway, how many would go
back and fix another sandwich?

I would have cut off the bit he had licked and eaten the rest. If on the
other hand the sandwich had been for DH the I would have made another. If
it had made me ill then that's my own fault but I wouldn't want to have
caused him to be ill.

Then again, one Christmas I had made the trifle for dessert and found
Sweep (RB) licking the cream. To be honest she had only had one lick so I
spooned that bit and that around it off and respread the cream. I figured
that any germs hadn't had time to spread onto the remainder.

Judith

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Stourbridge, West Midlands. UK.

I once heard that two college did a treatise on "the five second rule" and
found out it was entirely validated - 5 seconds was too quick for germs to
spread onto something (I don't think the allowed for it falling in something
that would stick to it unless rinsed off first).

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Adrian wrote:
CatNipped wrote:
This morning DH was late waking up to feed the cats their breakfast.
I didn't want to wake him by yelling for him, so I managed to climb up
the stairs and fixed myself a chicken sandwich (traditional breakfast
foods tend to make me nauseated for some reason). After pouring a
glass of tea I brought it all downstairs. I set the paper plate, with
my sandwich, on my bed while I was putting Splenda packets, one at a
time and testing each because it tends to go from tasting no sweet to
cloyingly sweet in just one or two packets. When I looked up I saw
Archer licking my sandwich.

How many of you would have eaten the sandwich anyway, how many would
go back and fix another sandwich?

I probably would have eaten it.


If TuTu wanted my sandwich that badly, I'd give it to her and make
another for myself -- what TuTu wants, TuTu gets! MLB

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On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 10:00:49 -0500, "CatNipped"
wrote:

This morning DH was late waking up to feed the cats their breakfast. I
didn't want to wake him by yelling for him, so I managed to climb up the
stairs and fixed myself a chicken sandwich (traditional breakfast foods
tend
to make me nauseated for some reason). After pouring a glass of tea I
brought it all downstairs. I set the paper plate, with my sandwich, on my
bed while I was putting Splenda packets, one at a time and testing each
because it tends to go from tasting no sweet to cloyingly sweet in just
one
or two packets. When I looked up I saw Archer licking my sandwich.

How many of you would have eaten the sandwich anyway, how many would go
back
and fix another sandwich?

Oh, pretty much instantly. Why not?

If cat saliva was dangerous, we'd ALL be dead be now!

~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^..^

"Life without cats would be only marginally worth living."
-TC, and the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico kitty, Kenzie.

Every day is a treasure with Kenzie; I try to treat them that way. There
will only be so many, and then there will never, ever, be any more.

How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
- Robert Heinlein


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This is true! ;

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CatNipped
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In article ,
"CatNipped" wrote:


I once heard that two college did a treatise on "the five second rule" and
found out it was entirely validated - 5 seconds was too quick for germs to
spread onto something (I don't think the allowed for it falling in something
that would stick to it unless rinsed off first).

MythBusters, on the other hand, showed that bacteria transfer the same
in less than 5 seconds as they do with significantly more time, at least
according to the petri dishes. Also: your keyboard is dirtier than your
toilet, your toilet has far worse nasties, and your cell phone is
absolutely disgusting. Different episode.

--
minnow ^..^

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moonglow minnow wrote:

MythBusters, on the other hand, showed that bacteria transfer the same
in less than 5 seconds as they do with significantly more time, at least
according to the petri dishes. Also: your keyboard is dirtier than your
toilet, your toilet has far worse nasties, and your cell phone is
absolutely disgusting. Different episode.

Wait, which is worse - the toilet or the keyboard? Sounds like you're
saying the keyboard is worse, and then saying the toilet is worse.

I can vouch for my keyboard being dirty - I just cleaned it out,
*partially*, because the space bar was sticking. It was *full* of
crumbs!

Joyce

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off, share expenses and eventually stop having sex with each other?
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In ,
CatNipped typed:
This morning DH was late waking up to feed the cats their breakfast. I
didn't want to wake him by yelling for him, so I managed to climb
up the stairs and fixed myself a chicken sandwich (traditional
breakfast foods tend to make me nauseated for some reason). After
pouring a glass of tea I brought it all downstairs. I set the paper
plate, with my sandwich, on my bed while I was putting Splenda
packets, one at a time and testing each because it tends to go from
tasting no sweet to cloyingly sweet in just one or two packets. When
I looked up I saw Archer licking my sandwich.
How many of you would have eaten the sandwich anyway, how many would
go back and fix another sandwich?

Would have eaten it.

I *may* have been tempted to remove the exact part the kitty was nomming on
(and of course, return it to the kitty) but for the most part I would just
eat it and not worry about it. Having the Yowlet and having to clean up
after him when he was a baby has stopped me getting the 'icks' about alot of
things.

Yowie

In ,
typed:
Adrian wrote:

CatNipped wrote:
This morning DH was late waking up to feed the cats their
breakfast. I didn't want to wake him by yelling for him, so I
managed to climb up the stairs and fixed myself a chicken sandwich
(traditional breakfast foods tend to make me nauseated for some
reason). After pouring a glass of tea I brought it all downstairs.
I set the paper plate, with my sandwich, on my bed while I was
putting Splenda packets, one at a time and testing each because it
tends to go from tasting no sweet to cloyingly sweet in just one or
two packets. When I looked up I saw Archer licking my sandwich.

How many of you would have eaten the sandwich anyway, how many
would go back and fix another sandwich?

I probably would have eaten it.

It depends. There are two forces competing for dominance within my
psyche: hypochondria and laziness. If I were feeling nauseated, or if
I were seriously ill and easily nauseated, I would not eat it. If my
system were that fragile, I'd be too worried that it wouldn't be able
to defend itself from any stray bacteria coming from the cat's mouth.
If I were feeling fine, though, the laziness principle would no doubt
win out and I'd just eat it as is.

On the other hand, if I were trying to gain weight, I would not be
using Splenda to sweeten my food!

Any and all artificial sweeteners make me very very ill. Whilst perhaps Im
not as paranoid as my health-freak type friends who swear that they are
poison and cause everything from cancer to alzheimers, I still couldn't in
good faith recommend them for long-term use. Fructose is a natural sugar and
has twice the sweet-per-gram that sugar has, but doesn't (at least doesn't
for me) react in my gut the same way artificial sweetners do.

Yowie

"Yowie" wrote in message
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In ,
typed:
Adrian wrote:

CatNipped wrote:
This morning DH was late waking up to feed the cats their
breakfast. I didn't want to wake him by yelling for him, so I
managed to climb up the stairs and fixed myself a chicken sandwich
(traditional breakfast foods tend to make me nauseated for some
reason). After pouring a glass of tea I brought it all downstairs.
I set the paper plate, with my sandwich, on my bed while I was
putting Splenda packets, one at a time and testing each because it
tends to go from tasting no sweet to cloyingly sweet in just one or
two packets. When I looked up I saw Archer licking my sandwich.

How many of you would have eaten the sandwich anyway, how many
would go back and fix another sandwich?

I probably would have eaten it.

It depends. There are two forces competing for dominance within my
psyche: hypochondria and laziness. If I were feeling nauseated, or if
I were seriously ill and easily nauseated, I would not eat it. If my
system were that fragile, I'd be too worried that it wouldn't be able
to defend itself from any stray bacteria coming from the cat's mouth.
If I were feeling fine, though, the laziness principle would no doubt
win out and I'd just eat it as is.

On the other hand, if I were trying to gain weight, I would not be
using Splenda to sweeten my food!

Any and all artificial sweeteners make me very very ill. Whilst perhaps Im
not as paranoid as my health-freak type friends who swear that they are
poison and cause everything from cancer to alzheimers, I still couldn't in
good faith recommend them for long-term use. Fructose is a natural sugar
and has twice the sweet-per-gram that sugar has, but doesn't (at least
doesn't for me) react in my gut the same way artificial sweetners do.

Yowie


The problem is, I can *eat* anything I want, but I can't *drink* anything
with sugar in it because it makes me deathly ill for hours afterwards. I
tried stevia, and just can't take it - my body seems to require artificial
rather than natural.