"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.

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[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.

Your shoes get either put into a cabinet, OR lined up with the toes pointing toward the door (ready for you to slip them back on) ideally.

You can tell a happening party by the mountain of shoes inside the door.

So then you're in the house, on wooden floors. If you step into a traditional room with rice mat flooring (tatami), usually then you take off the slippers and go in there in your socks (or bare feet).

The toilet room (which is separate from the room with a bath in it) has a special set of slippers for it that stay in the toilet room. Usually they are waterproof vinyl or similar (the other house house slippers are often felt or some sort of more "fuzzy" cloth). Often the toilet room slippers would SAY "toilet" or "WC" on them. You slip out of the house slippers into the toilet slippers, do your thing, then switch back.

(There's some stories of Americans who didn't recognize the term "WC" buying cheap slippers that say "WC" on it for use as normal house slippers and getting laughed at...)

In schools we removed our shoes. At the entrance to the school is a room with lots of cubbyholes in it where you store your outside shoes. You have a pair of inside shoes (cheap sneakers that never touched the outside ground) that you wear inside the school, those sit in the cubby when you're not in school. There's usually a wooden platform with slats in it you stand on to change shoes, so, you take your outside shoes off, stand on the platform, put your inside shoes on, then step up into the school floor.

Usually most houses have some pairs of slip on wooden sole sandals or cheap clogs in their "genkan" that you can just slide on when running out to get the mail or whatever tiny errands like that and you don't want to bother with putting on a proper pair of nice shoes.

[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.

[naobot]

This mirrors my experience with Chinese customs and food as well, although it's not that formalised and can depend on individual households, groups of friends and so on. Personally I don't mind with people who aren't strangers for shared meals that have individual pieces, rather than like, a big bowl of rice or soup or something.