Mom's Gross Confession About 'Family Sick Bowl' Sparks Horror and Debate

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
Nov 28, 2022 5:00 PM EST

A while ago, my roommate came down with a stomach bug. I spent a good couple of days being serenaded by the sounds of his vomiting, and it wasn't very pleasant. I had a lot of pity, until one day I caught him taking the mixing bowl out of the kitchen cupboard for purposes of being sick on the go. Rest assured, I was horrified, and quickly gave him a non-food preparing replacement. 

Apparently, though, this isn't how everyone thinks. The internet was exposed to this unfortunate realization recently when @TheUnmumsyMum shared how her children had been upset to realize that the same bowl they were sick in was also used for baking cakes. Her admission led to many others claiming that it was the same in their house, or even worse. 

Not everybody was pleased that so many were opening up about their foul household habits. To nobody's surprise, there were many aghast reactions, as well as jokes about the hygiene of white people. Let this be another reminder of how we don't need to talk about everything on social media.

 

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    Font - Sarah Turner @TheUnmumsy Mum My kids have just discovered that the family sick bowl and the cake mix bowl are one and the same. In my defence, this was also the case when I was growing up ... but now I've said it out loud, I realise I need to break the cycle. I won't be taking any further questions.
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    Font - Marie R. Harvey @HarveyMaro. 20h Replying to @TheUnmumsyMum Don't see a problem with that. I use the same bowl for some cleaning when I don't want to take a bucket, for sick days or for storing a big batch of cooked macaroni. We wash it each time in the dishwasher. Ready for its next mission 109 391 215 L Brynn @BeyondandAbove1-18h This is why you can't eat at nobody's house
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    Font - Toni @Cage_Nerd - 21h Replying to @TheUnmumsyMum Why do people have sick bowls and not sick buckets?! That means you have to see it and get close to it...that'd make me sick all over again 67 170 6,695 I @wileemcsmiley 21h Trash can with a plastic bag inside. We have them next to every toilet and in every bedroom. We keep bowls in the kitchen and only use them for food. This whole concept is disgusting tbh. . Really, you just can't eat at everybody's house.
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    Hair - Ella Over The Moon 18 @MoonstruckElla Tier 3 I... Replying to @The UnmumsyMum I can't believe we've been : dominated and oppressed by this race of people for so long, man
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    Tool - Nick Entwistle @NickEntwistle_. 21h Replying to @TheUnmumsyMum My spatula doubles up as cat vom from carpet remover. 61 182 388 L Jes @jesofarc8 - 19h JJ you can't eat at everybody house
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    Organism - Ellis Goodwyn @Goodwyn... 21h Replying to @TheUnmumsyMum Same here. To compound the disgust, it was also the placenta bowl for each of my births. 296 1989 2,739 Ladi Dadi @Loki 013 19h I'm sorry, is there someone forcing you to disclose this stuff??? Like, why?
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    Font - todd bonzalez @doinkpatrol Replying to @TheUnmumsyMum your house literally comes with a sick bowl it is called the TOILET
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    Font - Sasha #from the country of Wale...: @SashaFoxWalters Replying to @TheUnmumsyMum A school teacher cousin of mine accepted a bowl of strawberries from a pupil & reminded him to take the bowl home at the end of school. He responded with: "Yes, it's the dog's food bowl so I won't forget it!"
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    Font - Stephanie Houtman @Steph_Houtman Replying to @The UnmumsyMum My friend discovered her new mixing bowl had been used by each of our housemates as: a sick bowl, a toe blister bathing bowl and a bowl to chop toenails into. She wasn't very impressed!!
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    Font - Samuel F. Reynolds, Scorpio At L... @UnlockAstrology "Family. Sick. Bowl." This brings a rush of questions. Is this in place of getting to a toilet? Using a garbage bag? Or a trash can? Or even a towel? And folks kept on using the cake bowl to make cakes? These are unforced errors, people. You don't need to make them. Sarah Turner @TheUnmumsy Mum 1d My kids have just discovered that the family sick bowl and the cake mix bowl are one and the same. In my defence, this was also the case when
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    Font - cait @punished_cait every day someone comes on here and willingly says something that you would have to break multiple geneva conventions to get me to admit Sarah Turner @TheUnmumsyMum. 1d My kids have just discovered that the family sick bowl and the cake mix bowl are one and the same. In my defence, this was also the case when I was growing up ... but now I've said it out loud, I realise I need to break the c...
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    Product - Saeed Jones @theferocity - 15h I can't stop thinking about this madness! It's too much! What is wrong with y'all? Toilets exist! Little bathroom trash bins exist! Plastic grocery store bags exist! Other BOWLS exist! : Sarah Turner @TheUnm... . 1d My kids have just discovered that the family sick bowl and the cake mix bowl are one and the same. In my defence, this was also the case when I was growing up ... but now I'...
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    Font - abby govindan ✪ @abbygov the replies to all of this... remember when we as a society felt "shame" and "embarrassment” Sarah Turner @TheUnmumsyMum. 1d My kids have just discovered that the family sick bowl and the cake mix bowl are one and the same. In my defence, this was also the case when I was growing up but now I've said it out loud, I realise I need to break the c...
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