/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.13353568]

>visiting Europe
>go to restaurant
>use bathroom
>notice a trash can next to the toilet
>sign says: Do not flush tissue, dispose in this bin

Why can't toilet paper be flushed in Europe?

[Anonymous No.13353576]

>>13353568
Europeans cant do plumbing they still use roman pipes

[Anonymous No.13353577]

We have those but they're for bloody pussy pads and slot rockets.

[Anonymous No.13353586]

>>13353568
They used to have that in South Korea too back when I taught ESL there about ten years ago (don't know if they still do now). Apparently older piping setups would get clogged easily with paper? Always seemed really weird to me too. Not sure why you'd even bother building the framework for a bathroom without making sure your pipes could handle paper designed for toilets.

[Anonymous No.13353588]

>>13353568
Frogposting should be a bananable offense

[Anonymous No.13353589]

>>13353576
Euro here, this is not true. We eat our own shit over porridge or buckwheat.

[Anonymous No.13353591]

>>13353576
I thought it was because they didn't want the tissues to end up in their rivers and canals.

[Anonymous No.13353604]

>>13353586
>>13353591
It's because of squat toilets (in SK at least). They were embarrassed over still having primitive squat toilets when they hosted the Olympics a while back and rushed to change them all out to be regular modern toilets instead. But the piping was bad with low pressure and the paper at the time didn't dissolve well. This created a longstanding culture of believing you should throw toilet paper in a trash bin to prevent clogs even though that isn't actually a problem anymore.

[Anonymous No.13353606]

>>13353568

I was in Europe once and remember this. I had a particularly messy crap and filled the can.
fucking barbarians

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