Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: sciacquare i piatti

This isn't a language-related question.
 
I remember that in his book on England, Beppe Severgnini was saying that 
he couldn't believe his eyes when he found out that people in Britain 
don't rinse their dishes after scrubbing them with a sponge, to get the 
soap off.
 
Now my German flat mate does that too.
 
What the hell?  What do you people do across the ocean or the English 
channel?
-- 
Enrico il Pentolaio.

 
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/05/earlyshow/contributors/susankoeppen/main20060003.shtml
 
 
(Sorry about the commercial and the insipid presentation.)

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Big-time rinser, here. Using the hottest water possible.
 
-- 
Joey from New York
Remember: It is To Laugh
 
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator,
but among those whom I love, I can:
all of them make me laugh.
   -- WH Auden
 

 Big-time rinser, here. Using the hottest water possible.
 
That's what I expected from both you and Tony. :) Also according to this 
post, it's a British thing: 
http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2010/03/washing-up-and-doing-dishes-and.html
 
 
-- 
Enrico il Pentolaio.

 
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/05/earlyshow/contributors/susankoeppen/main20060003.shtml
 
 
Thanks! This was pretty interesting. So she advocates the use of a 
dishrag as opposed to a sponge. Or if you really want to use a sponge, 
she says you should pop it in the microwave for a couple of minutes and 
then use it.
 
Ha. I didn't know that one.
 
-- 
Enrico il Pentolaio.

 
http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2010/03/washing-up-and-doing-dishes-and.html
 
 
Are there no proud British willing to defend their culture from charges 
of wallowing in Plantagenet squalor?

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Well, the dishrag idea is that you throw it into the laundry after use.
 
You can also use a sanitizing agent, such as vinegar. I remember reading 
an article in Science News about a method of sanitizing things, even 
uncooked food like lettuce, using a sequence of hydrogen peroxide and 
vinegar washes, that was more effective than using chlorine bleach. 
After a Google search I found these old references.
 
http://www.sciencenews.org/sn_arch/9_28_96/food.htm
 
http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/pdfs/data/1996/150-11/15011-17.pdf
 
 
I have spent many years exposing myself to germs to build up resistance, 
as did Rasputin with arsenic, so I would personally only use this 
sanitizing method during bouts of paranoia or when traveling in India.
 

 English channel?
 
 
Maybe Germans and the English think that the taste of soap
better their typical cuisine.
 
 
-- 
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the
rest.
    -- Mark Twain
 

 
 
heh heh.
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 better their typical cuisine.
 
A few days ago I was making dinner for a few German girls. A complete 
Italian dinner, you know. Then at some point two of them proudly said 
that the previous night they'd had pasta: tortellini with olive oil and 
parmesan cheese.
 
I stared at them in disbelief for a few seconds, before realising it was 
no use to go any further into it.
 
So much for the bolognese sauce I was preparing.
 
-- 
Enrico il Pentolaio.

 So much for the bolognese sauce I was preparing.
 
Would you demand that the tortellini be served in a meat broth or would 
you accept a meat- or tomato-based sauce?
 
I sympathize because I also have my own food prejudices, and that dish 
sounds rather bland and cheesy, but I also have to laugh, sometimes, at 
the rigidity of some Italians regarding traditional dishes that must be 
made with a particular pasta and a particular sauce.
 
I have Italian friends who have said that you can't use 'that' kind of 
pasta with 'that' sauce, or who would eat two different shapes of pasta 
on two consecutive days, with the same sauce in each dish, and claim 
that they are eating a different dish every night. (Ma ieri c'erano i 
rigatoni ed oggi le penne!)
 
I'm sure the German girls enjoyed the Bolognese sauce, after all they're 
girls, and they're German, and you're an Italian man. Were you 
thoroughly traditional, and served it over tagliatelle, or did the 
influence of some convenient American market convince you to use 
fettuccine ?
 
What are you doing messing around with German girls anyway, didn't your 
nonna warn you to find yourself a nice Italian girl? Or perhaps, she's 
getting desperate and has widened the field to "a nice girl" as my nonna 
began to beseech me as she faced the new American landscape and lost hope?
 
There are times, however, like when finding pineapple offered on a pizza 
in a town in Campania, when I too yearn for the good ol' traditional days.

 in a town in Campania, when I too yearn for the good ol' traditional days.
 
;)
 
 
-- 
Enrico il Pentolaio.

 you accept a meat- or tomato-based sauce?
 
Per quel che so, il brodo di carne va con i tortellini secchi, il sugo 
su quelli freschi...

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Libel . Everyone I've known has rinsed the dishes . Of course , almost 
everyone has a dishwasher now (despite what's said in your link , I haven't 
heard 'washing-up machine' for decades - if ever.)
 
Mike (UK) 
 

 haven't heard 'washing-up machine' for decades - if ever.)
 
Hi Mike!  Glad to hear that!  I asked another German girl to accurately 
describe to me how she does the dishes, and... well... she doesn't rinse 
either.
 
"Do you really think that little amount of soap is going to poison you? 
Come on! I've been doing this for years, and here I am!"
 
:-/
 
That makes it quite difficult to marry a German girl. Too bad.
 
-- 
Enrico il Pentolaio.
My blog: 
http://vousavezunaccent.blogspot.com/
 

 Come on! I've been doing this for years, and here I am!"
 
Allora, adesso capisco perché la cucina tedesca ha il suo sapore 
particulare.