poll of great importance

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My paid account is expiring in a few days, and so before I lose the ability to make polls, I would like to present to you a scenario!

Let us say that you are cooking some sort of thing which involves butter ¹. Let us further say that you are cooking only for yourself- no one is going to eat this food but you. You turn your back on the butter for one damn minute, and when you turn around, your cat² has begun to lick it!

Poll #4721 ???

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Eh, it's just cat spit. Just use the butter.
8 (40.0%)

I wouldn't use the butter raw (like on toast) but if it was going to be cooked, I'd just use it.
5 (25.0%)

Scrape off the bit that the cat licked, and then use the butter.
14 (70.0%)

Trash the whole stick- it could have licked the whole thing while you weren't looking! YOU JUST DON'T KNOW.
0 (0.0%)

Just give up, order out, and let the cat eat the rest of the butter. (not recommended!)
0 (0.0%)

I have some other terribly creative reaction that I may expand upon in comments.
0 (0.0%)

1. If you do not eat butter, feel free to imagine the butter-like item of your choice.↑
2. If you do not have a cat, you can imagine one, or replace it with the animal of your choice. Although I am given to understand that a dog licking your butter would make the rest of the poll moot, as there would probably not be much left.↑

Comments

[brownbetty]

Having cohabited with dogs, cat spit seems positively antiseptic.

(Although I understand it's the source of cat allergies, so maybe I'd go into anaphylaxis if I ingested it?)

[ratcreature]

I try to avoid eating in sight of my rats, because they like to snatch and grab anything tasty, but when I do I'm pretty sure to end up with food that a rat bit a piece out of, while I wrestled the rest away from it. However they don't smell out of their mouths and they don't slobber, so it has little impact on the food (beyond the psychological). I probably wouldn't do the same with a dog.