There's a lot to be said for Fairy
When I was at college I knew some guys who shared a house. Their particular bug-bear was doing the washing up. They were far too lazy/selfish to set up any kind of rota, and far too selfish/lazy to just wash their own after using it.

Since they rarely actually cooked anything it was mostly only mugs and plates and cutlery that needed to be washed, and while they didn't actually have enough crockery to make the pile in the sink reach the ceiling, they did regularly run low on stocks and actually have to "rinse something off".

Then one day Douglas came back from the pound shop having made an exciting discovery: the Paper Plate.

By simple use of the Paper Plate you could eat, then just throw the bio-degradable crockery away - how ecological! And all you'd have left to do would be to rinse the cutlery off under the tap! Brilliant!

Now the trouble with this is that even when you buy your paper plates from the pound shop it does actually cost you money and after a while this expenditure started to rankle, because it meant that someone had to put their hand in their pocket and buy some replacements.

They hit on a solution: re-use the paper plates. Simple, and even more ecological!

And horrifying.

You've never lived until you've been offered a sandwich on a plate that's seen so many greasy onion bhajis that it's now virtually transparent.

Although in my grimmest moments it's the plate that had previously conveyed the beans on toast that swims into my consciousness.

We didn't eat there much, after that. Although perhaps that was part of the money saving scheme as well.
(richardm, Tue 7 Feb 2012, 10:07, Reply)