"Russians Eat Burgers in Gloves. Should Everyone?" Topic

" When you enter a home in Moscow, you take off your shoes. When you go to a play, you have to check your coat. When you eat a burger, you often wear gloves.

Across hygiene-conscious Eastern Europe, many people consider it uncouth and unsanitary to eat a burger with their bare hands. The answer used to be a knife and fork. But the pandemic has accelerated a years-old trend: order a burger from Kyiv to Kamchatka — or in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn — and there is a fair chance it will come with a side of disposable gloves…"

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Amicalement
Armand

Freaks. :)

Having travelled in Eastern Europe and seen the state of kitchens – well, hospital kitchens – in the former Soviet Union this might not be a bad idea

Here it is just weird

Of course, you're talking about governments that provide public hygiene regulation and advice to some areas that were building the first underground sewage systems during our parents' (and in some cases our) lifetimes and still have other areas with additional severe pollution concerns.

Salt isn't really bad for you. For some people who have certain conditions, reducing salt intake can improve their health. For the overwhelming majority of people who intake (and subsequently eliminate) more salt than their body needs, lowering salt intake is not harmful. So do we craft complex, targeted public health messages or do we say "Eat less salt." that helps some and harms virtually none.

Taking these extra hygiene precautions really doesn't harm anyone and can help some. The zeitgeist that "everyone does it" also helps where people need these precautions.

Me … I'd eat soup with my hands if I could afford the new clothes.

Italians always eat their outside food with a napkin.

Well, eating with gloves is not going to hurt. However, if you measured all our various precautions and created a ratio of cost (monetary, convenience, comfort, aesthetics) to benefit, I don't think this would come up very high on the list.

I assume that the burger is stuffed in the palm of the glove & the fries fill out the fingers.

I assume nothing, that's weird lol

(smile)

Amicalement
Armand

" many people consider it uncouth and unsanitary to eat a burger with their bare hands. The answer used to be a knife and fork. "

That's how the French eat them… ;-)

You wouldn't want to get Novichok on it……

It's still not as strange as the Kiwis putting pickled beats on their burgers. <vomits>

if you measured all our various precautions and created a ratio of cost (monetary, convenience, comfort, aesthetics) to benefit

Depends on how you measure benefit.

"Everybody" doing things creates an economy of scale that helps people who need a precaution but couldn't afford it otherwise. Benefit is distributed.

Benefit is also transitive. People who couldn't afford something otherwise are likely in grunt jobs that provide benefit people who can afford something. The less the have-nots are capable of, the more it costs the haves to get them to do the work.

If you calculate total operational cost (which I advocate all the time) but compare it to individual benefit instead of total operational benefit, you get a skewed metrics.

Benefit is generally more complex and subjective than cost.

Good point!.

Amicalement
Armand

Seems rather a strange practice to me.

I have seen people eat burgers with the paper wrappers still around them, but that's usually on the ridiculously stuffed burgers with too many ingredients piled on them. The wrapper helps provide stability, so everything doesn't go squishing out the side.

Hamburgers with gloves ???!?

What next ?

Tacos ?

Pizza ?

Gyros ?

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