"double dipping" in Spanish

[chuni_buni]

Hi,
is there a Spanish equivalent for the term "double dipping" (when people put a food item or a spoon into a dip (food), take a bite and put it back in)?
if not, what is the best way to formulate "No double dipping!" in Spanish?
Thank you.

Comments

[anonym_mouse]

An interesting question

[chuni_buni]

Being Russian (Ukranian, but never mind), I can refer to the shoes thing -
it is exactly as you say. It is OK in the former USSR, but not common anywhere else. I live in Israel, and only with my close friends I may rarely let myself ask them to take the shoes off (for example, if I've just cleaned the floor), especially if there's a a crawling baby in the house.

[thekumquat]

That DIY mixer tap is such a clever idea! Mixer taps are a lot more common than they used to be - in many places with separate taps the hot tap was either never connected or would never result in hot water - you would wash in cold, or have a bath

[anonym_mouse]

By "sitting on the toilet in your clothes" I did not mean 'using it' -- sorry for the confusion my wording created.
What I meant is a scene, so common in the movies, of someone sitting on a lid of a closed toilet as if it was a
regular seat, with one's clothes on - and talking to someone else on the phone, looking through mail, or arguing
with a boyfriend/girlfriend.

I cannot say I've seen that in real life, but it is as common in the movies as falling into a bed with one's shoes on.
Or sticking one's head into the toilet bowl, hands embracing it, to vomit.
And then going on as if nothing happened - touching things and people, even kissing.
Maybe it's a Hollywood thing after all, not something from real life.

[thekumquat]

Oh. Yes. Cultural difference, then - sitting on the toilet lid very common in England - probably more so than in America because most of our bathrooms aren't large enough for a chair. I probably do it most days, chatting to my partner, supervising the children in the bath, combing my hair... The lid makes it 'clean', mentally, I guess. Especially if it has a fluffy cloth cover! (which I can't stand as they must get dirty...)

Whereas most people would never fall asleep with shoes on, and grow out of throwing up into the toilet after a night out.

[jillsmyth]

As a Canadian, the shoe thing is not just Russian. I feel extremely uncomfortable NOT removing my shoes upon entry to another persons home. I would not expect them to have slippers for me to wear, I would just walk around in my socks. And that's common across Canada.

[chuni_buni]

Maybe I should consider moving to Canada :)

[embryomystic]

Seconding this. That's how we roll, eh.

[helenadax]

This mixer is amazing! And I agree, each culture has its own rules about what's disgusting.

[akibare]

Shoes in Japan: When you enter a house, you remove your shoes. In a Japanese house the entryway (the "genkan") is lower than the rest of the house, and it's officially a bit of "outside" that inside your front locking door. So, the floor there is cement, stones, or even just dirt. You step up into the house (the step is "agaribana" "agarikmachi" etc). At that point usually you put on slippers, each family member will have a pair of slippers and then there are some for guests

[anonym_mouse]

Amazing, without knowing all these details, I seem to have implemented the same very system in my own apartment ;)))))
I have regular "room slippers", one room where I walk barefooted, then another set of slippers for the bathroom and toilet, and one more for the summer in case I need to run quickly out to a corner shop or get my mail.

Interesting how the logic of it seems so natural.
In the southern countries, without so much moisture and dirt in the streets, this fuss about changing shoes/slippers and distinguishing between "clean" and "dirty" surfaces may even be classified as a psychological problem (and we all know the exact term, right? )

[akibare]

Yeah, I think the Japanese are notorious for "ooh they don't wear shoes inside! How interesting!" example (at least in the US) but they're hardly the only ones who do that...

I can kinda understand the people who define "floor in the house" as also "outside" or "dirty" (and so obviously don't sit on the floor, and they will remove their shoes if they put their feet up on the couch or whatever) but the one group that kinda surprises me are the people who do "no shoes in the house" for their family but then let guests keep their shoes on. Reason being, that seems to blur the line. If the guest wears shoes, that makes the floor change to "outside" doesn't it? So I would want to wear shoes too now.

Though on another forum I mentioned that, and was told "don't start that flamewar" so...!

[shizuku_san]

I always take my shoes off when I get inside my apartment, and usually do the same when entering the houses of people that I am very comfortable around. We have a big shoe rack just outside our door and guests frequently take their shoes off unprompted when they see it, or they ask if they should. No one has ever suggested that it would be rude for me to request guests remove shoes. (Although I don't actually request it, I just personally prefer not to wear shoes, everyone else is welcome to do as they please.)

In the daycare I work at, it is a health and safety requirement that outside shoes not be worn in the infant room. Hardly surprising since babies are crawling around on it!

[dorsetgirl]

people who do "no shoes in the house" for their family but then let guests keep their shoes on

My mum does that, and in her case it's nothing to do with "dirty" - it's purely to preserve the carpets. So long as the regular inhabitants never wear shoes in the house, the occasional visitor doing so doesn't matter very much. The carpets in her house, all laid new in 1975, are immaculate to this day. Horrible (1970s!) but immaculate.

[akibare]

Something else about Japan though, when it comes to food. Usually if there's a common dish that people are to serve themselves from, there's a pair of chopsticks just for that purpose sitting on that dish and you'd use those. Or, you can use your own chopsticks to serve yourself all the foods BEFORE you eat.

If you need to take more food after you ate from your chopsticks already and there are no common serving chopsticks, then some people will say it's okay if you're picking up a food in a way that you know you will ONLY touch the one you're going to eat.

But if it's noodles or whatever, the OLD way that was drummed in my head as a kid was, you turn your chopsticks around and grab with the ends that didn't touch your mouth. This was completely common, but now apparently (?) it's old fashioned manners or something, some modern people seem to find it odd and ask questions on google about it which spawns threads...

[anonym_mouse]

Right - as it would be a special fork/spoon/ladle sitting in the common bowl with which you are supposed to pick and move some of the food to your own plate. The same principle, I'd say.