Explaining The Midwest Bowl

[SnausageKing]

Ours was stainless steel and my mother now denies its existence. But my sister and I remember

[Nevermore-Nevermore]

We lost ours at an E.R. years ago and my parents still talk about it like it was a treasured family heirloom.

[austereartist]

We were a strong toilet or trash can family growing up, got sick at a friends house and her mom passed me a bowl. I was so confused.

[blueemblem]

Just found this channel and I already feel a deep understanding with this.

Ours was a gallon bucket, and that thing slept beside my bed on multiple occasions. Roll over, open wide, and don't miss.

[tawanda]

We used those plastic gallon ice cream buckets.

Everyone in the house knew what was going down when a kiddo screamed- “I need an ice cream bucket!”

[Creativehotdog]

We had a bucket. It's the same bucket we took to the beach, used to hold the mop water, gave cats flea baths in, held my brother's matchbox collection for a while, used as a Halloween bucket, and whatever other uses you could think of but not dirt. My mom drew the line at worms and dirt. You had to use the outside bucket for that. I, unsurprisingly, have the same system going as an adult.

[aphilo]

definitely have one of those. Alas my mothers really good one disappeared at a family get together. Last seen full of tapioca fruit salad. RIP giant green Tupperware bowl. I hope whoever is puking in you now appreciates you. My new one is stainless steel.

[mckennamclaws]

I'm from Idaho and we do this too! The one we had growing up is still the hugest bowl I've ever seen. Great for tons of popcorn for movie nights!

[justBETHANY]

We always had to run to the toilet as fast as possible or use a plastic trash bag if stuck in bed. This is dedicated puke bowl thing is new to me!

[vincenthernandez]

Pro chef here 🙋

If you wash the bowl with hot water and high quality soap, there's literally nothing wrong with this. You can use a mixing bowl to marinate raw chicken then put it through the wash and use that same bowl to toss a salad. A bowl is only as sanitary as the person washing it

[TheKawkawlin]

I thought this was universal.

Learn something new every day

[alexiskiri]

Perfect skit. Timing fabulous and loved the script and also how you brought around at the end to finish where it began.

[Forestdude]

I'm a Midwest exception to this. My family's go-to was always to grab a grocery bag from the bag-of-bags and check it didn't have holes. Then we used it to line a small trashcan for wider aim space. Heck, I got strep throat and was throwing up this morning and I've just been using the waste bin in my dorm room.

[In.my.red.headdd]

Ours is vintage! We’ve used the same rectangular, mauve, hospital-issued sick bucket for years after grandma last used it. I know it’s old, because the new ones are gray! We mustn’t waste any part of the buffalo.

[spiderdude]

"You think now that you washed it, its all good to go?"

Yes. Unironically, yes.

[MrSmileyFaceGames]

Never had a dedicated bowl, we used what ever big bowl was available, but in our house it was basically either go to the toilet if you can, or if you can't, then puke in the nearest trash can and then either way a family member would bring a bowl to you so that you can rest at your bed without having to sit by a toilet or trash can.

Though I always assumed this was just
how every family handled sickness.
Always made more sense to use a bowl or small trash can by the bed than to run to the bathroom every five seconds, all while leaking puke the entire distance from your bed to the bathroom.

[moonBright_halcyonDays]

We do that in Ireland too. Puke bowl, popcorn bowl, its a little to scratched up to be great as a mixing bowl and we use glass ones besides, and its also the mini compost bin on the counter before stuff gets transferred into the slightly larger compost bin just inside the back door before stuff gets chucked into the real compost bin outside.

[lloydnsarahsheffer]

We used Kemps icecream buckets. They were also washed out and used to hold Christmas cookies, Chex mix, brandy slush, etc. Also, they could be used to make snowbricks for forts, berry picking, scooping sand...

[aubreylewis]

Man, memories I thought I lost! I remember the biggest bowl we had, used for EVERYTHING, it was a nice royal blue.

[kateshiningdeer]

As a kid, mine was a giant yellow beach bucket. Then we started using empty gallon-size plastic ice-cream tubs. Nowadays, we mostly use gallon ziplocs. They store flat, stay clean unless you need them, and zip shut for easy disposal!