People Debate The Cleanliness of Washing Meat

Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor

Apr 21, 2023 12:30 PM EDT

There are some types of Twitter discourse that will cycle in and out of relevance every couple of months until we die. Cleanliness is often a theme of these recurring Twitter discourses because nobody is on the same page regarding how to clean their bodies, their homes, or their food. The most famous instance was when Twitter users discovered that half of white people do not wash their legs in the shower but instead lather body wash onto the top halves of their bodies and hope trickle down soap-economics does its thing. Spoiler alert: it does not.

Different groups of people have different ideas about what makes something clean. There is a considerable amount of people who feel strongly that meat should be washed before cooking it, much like we wash our fruit in the sink before eating it. There is an equally large group that opposes that idea completely, and they came together to hash it out on Twitter this week.