When they are making the ketchup - yuk

Gosh, it's really no big deal. I've often seen mothers chew up food, put it on a spoon, and then feed it to their toddler, although it was a lot more common when I was a kid than it is now. Practices like that actually help to build a child's immunization from environmental diseases. And it's not widely known that we all carry around about ten pounds of bacteria in and on our bodies where ever we go. A tiny little bit more from a spoon won't kill you.....unless, of course, your antibodies are compromised already by cancer or from some other disease. But then you have a lot bigger problems than eating from somebody else's spoon.

People became germophobic because others educated the foolish on how sickness spreads. ESPECIALLY back in 1903, when illnesses we now vaccinate for or treat routinely with antibiotics could become epidemic and major killers, I would think an intelligent family would be more germ-conscious. Polio, measles, chicken pox, TB...hell, even a simple flu could be a killer in 1903.

And today, when the next strong strain of flu, be it avian or swine, starts hospitalizing those with weaker immune systems, I'm not sure why you'd want anyone, especially little ones, sharing food.

I'm sure most of the people on this thread have had far worse things in their mouths than a previously licked spoon. Damn, the idiotic things people obsess over these days!