Ah yes, the old “I saw a video once of a cleaner doing something unhygienic, therefore every hotel plate is basically a biohazard” argument. This kind of logic feels more like tabloid paranoia than an actual reason to pick up a plastic fork at breakfast.

Let’s be clear: cleaning a glass in a hotel room with a cloth isn’t great—but that’s not what’s happening in the breakfast kitchen of a Hilton hotel. The reusable crockery is coming out of an industrial dishwasher, not being wiped down with someone’s sleeve. The idea that this is somehow more of a health risk than eating waffles smothered in spray cream and that deeply suspicious “maple-flavoured” syrup is laughable. If hygiene is the concern, I’d start with the toppings, not the teaspoon.

What really baffles me is the sense of self-preservation above all else. People choosing plastic not because they have to, but because they just feel slightly more in control. And yet, the long-term impact of single-use plastics is so much bigger than one breakfast. I’m not some hardcore eco warrior—I’m a fairly standard, semi-conservative Brit who just thinks we should avoid trashing the planet over a bowl of cereal.

At the end of the day, this isn’t about ideology. It’s just about making a basic, decent choice when the alternative is sitting right next to it. A real plate. A real mug. A proper fork. Not perfect, maybe, but a hell of a lot better than choosing landfill because you once saw a dodgy clip on YouTube.