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ffsm8last Monday at 4:00 PM3 repliesview on HN

Eh, it got a chuckle and eye roll outta me so I didn't mind.

And fwiw, I don't really care either wherever people use them for whatever they want, I am just still confused why people would want to use paper (sourced from leftover toilet utensils), which is notorious for being basically un-cleanable... as food storage, but to each their own.

I'm surprised how many people hate me for such (imo) mellow statement though


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Spunkielast Monday at 7:55 PM

> notorious for being basically un-cleanable

I don't really think anyone other than OCD/germaphobes thinks about toilet paper rolls in that way and it's certainly not "notorious". I'm pretty sure the general sentiment is that it's a perfectly benign material, often given to kids to play and craft with.

The same thing happened with that episode of mythbusters about the toilet ploom from flushing. A bunch of OCD/germaphobes lost their minds and have not stopped thinking about it since. Meanwhile the rest of society gave a collective shrug and couldn't even be bothered to move their toothbrush brush to another room or close the toilet lid while flushing.

function_sevenlast Monday at 5:09 PM

This isn't a food storage thing, but I think I see where you got that idea from the photos in the link. He's showing the types of paperboard that work with his system. Old cereal boxes, coffee filter boxes, etc.

sarchertechlast Monday at 4:59 PM

I definitely wouldn’t want to he any kind of un-cleanable surface as long term food storage.

But I don’t think most people are using gridfinity as food storage.

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