Okay fine. The quintessential example of bad reporting & bad science: 
The claim: Lemon wedges in restaurants are full of fecal bacteria from waitresses who have just left the loo, and if you've been using them, you're lucky to be alive.
The reality:

The claim: Lemon wedges in restaurants are full of fecal bacteria from waitresses who have just left the loo, and if you've been using them, you're lucky to be alive.
The reality:
- All produce has bacteria outside and inside it (the original study mentions this), and all hands will pass on what they have.
- "Fecal" bacteria (e. coli, referred to as "gram-negative" in the study) are everywhere, even inside us right now! & on our hands, and they don't hurt us unless our defenses are weakened (usually by poor diet) & the source is unnaturally high.
- Avoiding lemons won't solve anything - the waitresses in the restaurant I worked in made salad with their bare, unwashed hands.
- mood:
sick
AMDG

So I freecycled all my cleaning supplies last year. I'm now officially crunchy, lol! I never intended to be, never knew I would be, didn't even know it existed. But what else can you be when you clean only with vinegar?
I'm so clueless; I must have asked my mother 1000 times, "Now, what's that trick with the vinegar in the microwave again?" Always looking for a trick, when all I needed was a spray bottle. It started with FlyLady; I got on my local FlyLady yahoo group and at some point asked them the easiest way to mop, but I just couldn't wrap my little brain around how to handle the whole bucket/medusa thing. Couldn't figure out how to keep mopping with clean water when what was in the bucket was filthy. Someone said to get a sh-mop. Best. Thing. Ever!! (Did I just sing the praises of a mop?!?) I got the 6-cover refill, so I'm never w/o a clean head.
It looks like a swiffer, but I got one before I ever heard of that (did you know Always makes the swiffer covers? what do they look like to you?). Rectangle head on a sturdy (until I killed a spider with it and had to replace it w/ a broomstick) handle, terrycloth heads. Put vinegar in a $.99 spray bottle, 1:6 with water. Spray a good mist on a section of floor, mop it. Rpt till done. Toss dirty head in laundry. No bucket. No puddles of water. Dries as it cleans! So no banning little ones from the kitchens for an hour, or water seeping into my hardwood floors. See! I *am* singing the praises of a mop! I've even been known to sh-mop my tables & walls.
But really, I'm singing the praises of vinegar, b/c that showed me that vinegar is not only great for salad dressing & deglazing, but it cleans!
I'm so clueless; I must have asked my mother 1000 times, "Now, what's that trick with the vinegar in the microwave again?" Always looking for a trick, when all I needed was a spray bottle. It started with FlyLady; I got on my local FlyLady yahoo group and at some point asked them the easiest way to mop, but I just couldn't wrap my little brain around how to handle the whole bucket/medusa thing. Couldn't figure out how to keep mopping with clean water when what was in the bucket was filthy. Someone said to get a sh-mop. Best. Thing. Ever!! (Did I just sing the praises of a mop?!?) I got the 6-cover refill, so I'm never w/o a clean head.
It looks like a swiffer, but I got one before I ever heard of that (did you know Always makes the swiffer covers? what do they look like to you?). Rectangle head on a sturdy (until I killed a spider with it and had to replace it w/ a broomstick) handle, terrycloth heads. Put vinegar in a $.99 spray bottle, 1:6 with water. Spray a good mist on a section of floor, mop it. Rpt till done. Toss dirty head in laundry. No bucket. No puddles of water. Dries as it cleans! So no banning little ones from the kitchens for an hour, or water seeping into my hardwood floors. See! I *am* singing the praises of a mop! I've even been known to sh-mop my tables & walls.
But really, I'm singing the praises of vinegar, b/c that showed me that vinegar is not only great for salad dressing & deglazing, but it cleans!
- mood:
amused
AMDG


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