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re: When at a diner do you use the tabletop condiments?

Posted on 7/4/26 at 1:45 pm to
Posted by Traffic Circle
Down the Rabbit Hole
Member since Nov 2013
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Posted on 7/4/26 at 1:45 pm to
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I use the ketchup & then use whatever hand sanitizer my wife has before I touch my food


You mix the hand-sanitizer in with the Ketchup and it cleans it.
Posted by HogBalls
Member since Nov 2014
9240 posts
Posted on 7/4/26 at 1:50 pm to
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I used to use them until about 5 years ago. When eating in a popular restaurant I looked over and noticed a toddler that had the ketchup bottle with top removed and had it buried in his mouth up to the 57 chugging ketchup like he was drinking from a baby bottle. When done with the meal, mom wiped all of the ketchup off his face, put the top back on the bottle and left.


This is the type shite I’m talking about. Somebody hocking a big loogie into the bottle, dropping in some dick hairs, etc..

Lot of sicko’s out there
Posted by CocomoLSU
Inside your dome.
Member since Feb 2004
156972 posts
Posted on 7/4/26 at 3:14 pm to
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When at a diner do you use the tabletop condiments?

Of course I do.

Im also not a total pussy though. So that may be the key difference here.
Posted by 91TIGER
Lafayette
Member since Aug 2006
19554 posts
Posted on 7/4/26 at 3:15 pm to
I've been doing it for over 50 years and nothing has happened yet, guess I'll be fine !
Posted by ColoradoCock
Member since Apr 2025
408 posts
Posted on 7/4/26 at 3:31 pm to
What a pussy. You ever eat at a bar before? Jesus Christ
Posted by oldtrucker
Marianna, Fl
Member since Apr 2013
3659 posts
Posted on 7/4/26 at 3:34 pm to
Oh thanks, now every time I eat out, I'll be thinking about fentanyl in the ketchup bottle
Posted by oldtrucker
Marianna, Fl
Member since Apr 2013
3659 posts
Posted on 7/4/26 at 3:39 pm to
But this reminds me of the time I stopped at a truck stop for dinner, sat down looking at the menu. Across from me, a family gets up to leave. A rough looking guy proceeds to sit in the booth and starts eating off the plates that hadn't been bussed yet.
Posted by Everyday Is Saturday
Member since Dec 2025
2196 posts
Posted on 7/4/26 at 3:40 pm to
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went to this little diner


Now try to avoid the meth addict dish washer and fry oil from 1983.

If you look via a microscope at the intricate diner fork, you may see that the cleanest part of the experience are the table top condiments.
Posted by Everyday Is Saturday
Member since Dec 2025
2196 posts
Posted on 7/4/26 at 3:41 pm to
If you walked through the kitchen of most places you eat at, you may need the fentanyl.
Posted by oldtrucker
Marianna, Fl
Member since Apr 2013
3659 posts
Posted on 7/4/26 at 3:44 pm to
True. I worked at IHOP in BR during the early 70s. I saw dishes washed in some of the nastiest water ever. I mean disgusting.
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
Member since Jan 2019
30519 posts
Posted on 7/4/26 at 3:48 pm to
Perhaps you should carry some hot sauce in your purse.
Posted by Sus-Scrofa
Member since Feb 2013
11266 posts
Posted on 7/4/26 at 3:56 pm to
Why would you have more faith in the cleanliness of the cooks in the back than the ketchup bottle?

At least you can inspect the ketchup bottle. It’s the least of your worries if you’ve decided to be worried.
Posted by Weekend Warrior79
Member since Aug 2014
21995 posts
Posted on 7/4/26 at 4:01 pm to
If it helps, some restaurants will continue to refill those bottles from larger containers in the back. So that same bottle could have been on the table for years
Posted by Cheese Grits
Wherever I lay my hat is my home
Member since Apr 2012
62599 posts
Posted on 7/4/26 at 4:05 pm to
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When at a diner do you use the tabletop condiments?


I love tomatoes but hate ketchup, if you grew up poor you ate condiment sandwiches and came to hate them. Odd tho was "axel grease" (peanut butter + strawberry jam, mixed to look like axel grease) as I still can eat that today.

My condiments are brown mustard, horseradish, and real mayonnaise, not lik those are choices on the table at a diner.
Posted by LSURussian
Member since Feb 2005
135129 posts
Posted on 7/4/26 at 5:11 pm to
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When at a diner do you use the tabletop condiments?
Only if I don't have one in my wallet...
Posted by mdw1969
SEC Country
Member since Jan 2013
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Posted on 7/4/26 at 5:11 pm to
Covid Pussy…
Posted by Dixie2023
Member since Mar 2023
5496 posts
Posted on 7/4/26 at 5:13 pm to
Yes. But I use with a napkin or go wash my hands after picking up and bf eating. Usually wash hands anyway after pulling door handle open. Not a germaphobe but prefer clean hands to eat. Even at home.
Posted by HogBalls
Member since Nov 2014
9240 posts
Posted on 7/4/26 at 5:43 pm to
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But I use with a napkin or go wash my hands after picking up and bf eating.


I’m definitely worried about the outside germs but what may be in the bottle concerns me more. Scared someone has spit in or dropped something in it more than anything
Posted by El Segundo Guy
1-866-DHS-2-ICE
Member since Aug 2014
11697 posts
Posted on 7/4/26 at 5:48 pm to
Once you've eaten meals in the desert standing up wuth your paper plate sitting on the front slope of an Abrams main battle tank and the shitty food is crunchy because the sand blowing around and you're hot, tired and in a shithole Middle East country and you weren't able to wash your hands after refueling 100 gallons of JP-8 into your killing machine, you quickly get over your aversion to germs.

I now have the immune system of something like a cockroach.
Posted by Sun God
Member since Jul 2009
52421 posts
Posted on 7/4/26 at 5:49 pm to
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But I use with a napkin or go wash my hands after picking up and bf eating. Usually wash hands anyway after pulling door handle open.

quote:

Not a germaphobe

Lol
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