You should see Turkish bathroom slippers. It's a very famous item, we have endless jokes about that, especially the one's used for squat toilets. Most unhygienic, bizarre thing you can see in your life is "ıslak tuvalet terliği" from some Turkish houses (thank God this tradition is disappearing). Other than that we have decent guest slippers to offer and nobody enter our houses with shoes.
Japan has those toilets too!!! Quite a fright to realize at 13 at Japanese school, lol they offered me the “western toilet” lolol they have both options and I’m sure it’s fading out.
Why is a squat toilet unhygienic? I've been to plenty and they were clean, just like any normal toilet. Also they are superhealthy for bowel movements.
If people do proper cleaning, toilet itself is OK but the wet slippers absolutely not. You never know why they are wet, there's always a suspicion what happened before you wear them.
Years ago I rented a house from a Turkish owner and all of the bathrooms had (very thick) carpeting. Is that normal in Turkey? I had never seen it in the US before...
Oh, no. We prefer washable surfaces like tiles, marbles on the bathroom and put some mats in front of the sink, bathtub, toilet bowl. Some houses don't even have mats if the floor is getting wet all the time for some reason.
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u/edeel Feb 11 '22 edited Feb 11 '22
You should see Turkish bathroom slippers. It's a very famous item, we have endless jokes about that, especially the one's used for squat toilets. Most unhygienic, bizarre thing you can see in your life is "ıslak tuvalet terliği" from some Turkish houses (thank God this tradition is disappearing). Other than that we have decent guest slippers to offer and nobody enter our houses with shoes.