I'm not sure where you got condescension from - I was going for genuine concern. Being irrationality concerned about hygiene is a warning sign for conditions like obsessive compulsive disorder.

Eh, it got a chuckle and eye roll outta me so I didn't mind.

And fwiw, I don't really care either wherever people use them for whatever they want, I am just still confused why people would want to use paper (sourced from leftover toilet utensils), which is notorious for being basically un-cleanable... as food storage, but to each their own.

I'm surprised how many people hate me for such (imo) mellow statement though

I definitely wouldn’t want to he any kind of un-cleanable surface as long term food storage.

But I don’t think most people are using gridfinity as food storage.

I just contextualized it around food storage too, as jot's link has pictures of such (the comment that started this thread).

But the article/video we're commenting on doesn't do so, so that's fair I guess?

This isn't a food storage thing, but I think I see where you got that idea from the photos in the link. He's showing the types of paperboard that work with his system. Old cereal boxes, coffee filter boxes, etc.

> notorious for being basically un-cleanable

I don't really think anyone other than OCD/germaphobes thinks about toilet paper rolls in that way and it's certainly not "notorious". I'm pretty sure the general sentiment is that it's a perfectly benign material, often given to kids to play and craft with.

The same thing happened with that episode of mythbusters about the toilet ploom from flushing. A bunch of OCD/germaphobes lost their minds and have not stopped thinking about it since. Meanwhile the rest of society gave a collective shrug and couldn't even be bothered to move their toothbrush brush to another room or close the toilet lid while flushing.