Although, I have to ask how long humans have been gone from Japari Park at this point... Outside of Kaban-chan using it, herself, provided all the other Friends poo in the woods, then that toilet wouldn't have been used in decades or potentially centuries, and may well be much more sterile than the sink.
Also, to answer the scumbag TTK's argument, just keep in mind that every bite of every piece of food you have ever eaten is made of the same molecules that were in animal's shit millions of times in the carbon cycle. In fact, the human digestive tract can't directly digest food, and so we basically have bacteria in our intestines, and just wait for the bacteria to eat food, then we actually just eat the bacteria shit. Only the world's first bacteria and some lichens or plankton that eat minerals are eating "clean" food (by which I mean dirt), everyone else is eating shit all the way down.
In fact, the human digestive tract can't directly digest food, and so we basically have bacteria in our intestines, and just wait for the bacteria to eat food, then we actually just eat the bacteria shit.
I think that's a little bit off. At least from what I remember. Our bodies do actually process food to break down at least the easy material for our body to digest, with the process starting at the mouth (things like crackers will start tasting sweet if you let them sit in your mouth, that's because saliva contains enzymes to break down starches into simple sugars).
As far as the bacteria living our intestines, I think the relationship would be more that we're eating their left overs/extras, since in most cases bacteria are just dumping chemicals into their environment to breakdown stuff around them into a form that they can eat. We just absorb some of the extra. I guess if you want to describe it in a gross manner you could say it's like we're letting them chew our food for us before we eat it.
Side note, about 21%-50% (by wikipedia's numbers) of the solid material in our feces is actually bacterial biomass. Should say something something for the amount of bacteria that lives in us.
I think that's a little bit off. At least from what I remember. Our bodies do actually process food to break down at least the easy material for our body to digest, with the process starting at the mouth (things like crackers will start tasting sweet if you let them sit in your mouth, that's because saliva contains enzymes to break down starches into simple sugars).
As far as the bacteria living our intestines, I think the relationship would be more that we're eating their left overs/extras, since in most cases bacteria are just dumping chemicals into their environment to breakdown stuff around them into a form that they can eat. We just absorb some of the extra. I guess if you want to describe it in a gross manner you could say it's like we're letting them chew our food for us before we eat it.
Side note, about 21%-50% (by wikipedia's numbers) of the solid material in our feces is actually bacterial biomass. Should say something something for the amount of bacteria that lives in us.
Starches and simple sugars are quick to break down, yes, but a lot of the tougher-to-digest fibrous foods require gut fauna to break down for us. It depends upon the exact substance, but there are outright "waste products" we eat as food, where something starts totally inedible to our gut (particularly plant cells with cell walls too strong to easily digest), and we just have to wait for gut bacteria to eat it for us. That's not even starting on things like alcohol, which is basically outright bacteria piss.
Regardless, so far as the point of the strip goes, this is more about perception than reality. That toilet is probably more sterile than the muddy pond Kaban thought Racoon was cleaning things off in.
I do remember that the Toilet was the most cleanest in the house.
The toilet is (typically) the cleanest in the house because its usually cleaned the most often due to the nature of its usage.
In addition, the chemicals used in toilet cleaners are also notorious for containing bleach; which is obviously too harsh for most other household surfaces (to say nothing of the smell/fumes or the other active ingredients).
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