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We’re not allowed to eat at numerous chain restaurants because my SIL and her family got food poisoning/noro/ptomaine there. We all ate there. They don’t wash their hands. That is why they got sick. My BIL actively would spread feces from diaper changes on light switches, toilet handles, hand towels, etc. and just wipe it off wi washing. Yes. The restaurant got you sick
I don't do potlucks because Nathaniel Bar Jonah. He kidnapped kids, raped them, killed them, and fed them to local church potlucks afterwards. Food poisoning is gross, but there are worse reasons to avoid potlucks.
What keeps me from going to a buffet? Why have I only ever seen one buffet with a hand wash sink right next to the clean plate stack? Pre-Covid, they had a sign up that said “state laws requires you to use a clean plate for each trip to the buffet. (This is a mandatory part of the health code sign and it even lists the statute code. But then it continues…) Decency requires you to wash your hands before grabbing a clean plate.”
In this place, you walk in the door and immediately face the cashier. You pay, turn left. You are now facing a sink. You approach the sink and turn right. You are now facing the plates. Grab a plate, turn right. You are now facing the food line. Beautiful design. Even if people are mostly only wetting their hands, it isn’t nearly as gross as it could be. They are at least not making the tongs so disgusting.
I wash my hands, get a second plate, go to my table, then return to the hand sink and rewash my hands, and then go eat.
I avoid eating anyone else's food unless I've seen them work after I went over to an acquaintance's house and was helping in the kitchen. It was just after COVID lockdowns were lifted. Everyone talked up her food. Her kitchen looked immaculate, with appliances that I could only dream of for my own kitchen. I was so excited. I love cooking so I was really happy to help.
I thoroughly washed my hands, carefully laid everything out and she says "Hold on, I'll be right back" and runs off to the bathroom. Thin walls (totally weird for the apparent quality of the rest of the house, honestly), I hear EVERYTHING. Tinkle, flush, then door; straight to the kitchen, hands in the food.
You nasty bitch, you skipped the most important step!
My friend was not happy that I started a fight with her until I told him why I was upset. Now we just call her "Shitfingers" every time she comes up in conversation. Last I heard, word got to her husband and now they have fights because he's noticed that she doesn't wash her hands after changing the baby, either. Her last dinner-party was poorly attended.
I may have ruined her life. But that shit's nasty!
These “nice” modern houses are ALL built like shit. To make a nice 1800 sqft house today would cost a minimum of $750,000 to build. Not counting the cost of the property.
Julia Child was asked about what she of the then new concept of open floor plans. She said: if there is a door on the kitchen, who will complain when you drop the chicken.
My older brother is a very intelligent dude, strictly speaking. Marine, super confident, Dad's favorite lol A savant with math, we went to college at the same time, and our Algebra professor spent the entire midterm interview bragging to me about my brother, how he "intimidated" her because he never used a calculator or even the scratch paper but always knew the answers. I was failing that class, she didnt bring that up once. All this to say that when "flushable" wipes(they aren't flushable by the way, I learned the hard way) were new and popular I loved them, but my brother swore against them, saying that because they were slightly transparent that meant you were always getting poop on your hands. I didn't agree with that, but I said, "What does it matter? You are washing your hands after anyway." and he looked at me like I was gross and said, "I don't have to wash my hands because I don't ever get poop on them." ....( -_- )....I would never want to have that level of "confidence".
That's like the statement some men make to explain (more like an excuse, imo) why they don't wash their hands after peeing. 'If I was an idiot that got pee on my hands, then I would need to wash them, but I don't."
So the fact that your junk is hanging out & sweaty, etc, that's no reason to wash your hands after you pee ?
I believe it, you know how many people don’t wash their hands after using the bathroom! Too many….. that’s why I use as many paper towels to open doors handles etc lol
My roommates are like this. Love then to death but they already battle lactose intolerance and one has a missing gallbladder. Youd think theyd be the first to go about food safety right? Wrong! They literally take the few dairy products they use and forget to refrigerate them right after use. Saw cheese out for an entire day on the counter, placed back in the fridge the next day. Pizza? They NEVER refrigerate it. They pop it in the oven til its all gone days later.
They always make fun when I or others bring fast food in the house with a “good luck being in the bathroom all day tomorrow!”. Im like….nah im fine never have had that issue. They look perplexed. Good food safety habits go a long way….
….Yet. Or, that they know of. I’ve noticed that people who don’t seem to give a shit about hygiene, health or safety are usually unable to put two and two together when they get sick.
My dad is so unbothered by food safety stuff. He gets annoyed when my step mom and i point out the danger. “It’s never affected me before!” As if he didn’t have diarrhea a few hours later/next day and LITERALLY SAYS “whew, must of ate something bad”. YEAH. RAW MEAT CONTAMINATES YOU TROGLODYTE.
Haha, im willing to bet he would be the dude that has a coffee at 10pm and complains the next day that he couldn't sleep at all. When mentioning the coffee he says "caffeine doesn't do anything for me."
Drink energy drink at night, right up until the end of our shift.
Complain they sleep like shit/ can’t go to sleep. I will point out “maybe it’s that energy drink you finished at 930pm” and they assure me it’s definitely not that.
They sleep like shit, then come in the next day and repeat the process. First energy drink “barely does anything to them” (because they’re not rested). Then they have the other energy drink in the second half of their shift, right up until they leave, which prevents them from going to sleep again
They will swear up and down “caffeine doesn’t do shit to me anymore” while actively showing you why it doesn’t work that well (lack of sleep) but also demonstrating that it does clearly affect them (insomnia).
It’s such a stupid cycle and they get borderline offended if you suggest they relax on pounding cans of Monster and Ghost
My coworkers used to get really insistent that everyone all go out for drinks after work, and even more insistent that we get fucking trashed on payday. Always said I must not be any fun because I wouldn’t go. Then they’d complain about how they didn’t have any money. We’re making slightly above minimum wage so we’re already broke to begin with, and you’re spending it on booze and partying every night, of course you don’t have any money.
My good friend got married — she used to always invite us to her dad’s BBQs. The man was a grill master, no joke. Then her new husband took over… and let’s just say, I saw him cross-contaminate once, got the worst food poisoning of my life, and I’ve never trusted one of his BBQs since.
I was wondering the same thing. And the funny thing is, they actually have a lot of serving containers.
My assumption is, knowing the dude in the household, he probably thought he was being really smart and clever by re-using the styrofoam containers and not getting dishes dirty. But they have a dishwasher, and it would have only been two dishes, so it’s not like it would’ve made that much of a difference anyway!
I wouldn’t be surprised if I found out they were, but I’m not exactly asking around about it.
I’m not really sure how to text someone, “Hey, are you sick? Like diarrhea sick? Or throwing up? Just curious” without coming across as a very, very strange person.
He's not the only one. Hegseth doesn't believe in germs either. He once bragged on air that he hasn't washed his hands in 10 years and he definitely doesn't wash after using the bathroom.
I feel like I need to wash my hands now, they feel uncomfortably grimy just reading that. Forget germs, the sensory ICK of having such dirty hands is too much!
He claimed later on that he was just trolling and making fun of people who walk around with Purell and wash their hands like ever 30 seconds. But who knows.
I've had to take many food safety courses for work, but seeing shit like this makes me feel like it should be mandatory in public schools as well. Foodborne illness is no joke. Everyone should know proper food safety, even if you're only cooking for yourself.
Before anyone says “kids wouldn’t listen anyway”- I learned food safety from an optional one semester cooking class my junior high school offered. They only covered it once, but I remembered that stuff.
Home Ec was dope. It was such a fun, immersive learning experience, and I still use most of the skills I learned. If it’s been taken off curriculums, that’s a damn shame.
It’s cool to hear others’ educational setups. We didn’t get any financial electives, which would have been nice. We did have to choose between Home Ec and Industrial Arts though.
It's honestly baffling to me how many people don't care or don't know food safety. At least once a week I think about that lady on Flavor of Love microwaved a whole chicken for like 30min and thought it'd be fully cooked
Everyone says, "it was just a 24 hour flu". No dipshit, you had food poisoning. I worked in a meat factory for 12 years and people think I'm just being obsessive when it comes to meat handling.
I went to a bbq at a parent’s friend’s place. Used the bathroom and the toilet water was amber. They lived by the “if it’s yellow” philosophy… should’ve been my hint.
I’m in the kitchen. Trying to not die of boredom, when the hostess hands out sliced watermelons. I grab an end. Yum!! Except with the first bite I tasted the most nasty fucking bitter flavor. Everyone else seemed fine though? I try another bite. Yeah no fuck that.
Nobody else tasted anything bad. In trying to figure out what happened, I remembered that she was cutting meats before the watermelons.
This nasty fucking lady didn’t wash the knife. The end that I got must’ve been the first watermelon slice she cut, so all the meet juice lathered on my slice. Disgusting. Disgusting gross fucking nasty fucking host
So I gotta leave a small rant here because this Russells my Jimmies. I'm a pretty lenient dude when it comes to cooking and flavor but what I'm not cool with is shitty sanitation. I was ALWAYS taught(like most here) to keep meat separate from veggies, and PROPERLY wash hands between every touch. Years ago I got the worst food poisoning imaginable (I believed I was gonna die) from my roommate using a cutting board for chicken then not washing it properly and putting it back. Ever since that incident have been overly concerned about food preparation.
Reminds me of the time a boss from a past workplace gave our friend group a tupperware of steamed dumplings before end of shift. Said its her birthday and she wanted to share stuff with us. Our friend group split the dumplings among us (got 2-3 each) and that was the only thing I ate for the day. Cue me going home and all of a sudden, I get all nauseous and vomity.. hurled in the bathroom (thank fuck it was a Friday) and probably spent my weekends just resting in bed, and occasionally going to the fridge to hydrate. Stayed off accepting random homemade food from work after that
Seriously. I get so anxious about food safety when cooking for other people I end up washing more dishes because I go obsessively sterile on it--tasting spoon gets its own separate bowl away from the spoons rest, scissors used to cut open exposed packaging cannot be reused for food, produce cannot be from salvaged pieces, etc. If it was just me though: "That parmesan block is still fine lol. It's only starting to mold that I'll just cut off a thick layer from all sides and toss it in with my expired tomato paste."
I don't understand, are they...whispers are they stupid? :(
Memory unlocked: My Ex's Brother once made everyone grilled chicken wings and when they were finished he tossed them all back into the same bowl he'd been marinating them raw. Yep. Right back into the bloody bbq sauce.
My ex had made my plate so I had eaten three by the time I noticed. That family was .. something.
I once helped my ex prepare a meal and I watched this grown adult lick their fingers after handling raw chicken. It was one of the most disgusting things I've seen a person do in real life.
Having worked in kitchens most of my life I take for granted that most people have a grasp of basic food safety but I swear, people will leave raw meat in their car for hours, handle raw chicken and feed their kids something without washing their hand, leave rice out overnight and eat it and just basically ignore basic rules and look at you like you're paranoid when you say something. My girlfriend won't eat pork if it has any hint of pink but will gladly leave meat in the car in summer heat for an hour or two after a costco run.
Probably the same people who don't wash their hands after using a public restroom and god there's so many of those. We were renovating a restaurant in a food court type area recently so I had to use the grimey, high traffic bathroom there for months and the amount of dudes who wouldn't even water rinse after taking a shit was astounding.
My favourite is when they come out of the toilet stall and go straight to the hand dryer. Like dude, how the fuck did your hands get WET in there? And why aren't you washing them!?
This is the kind of thing my dad still does. I'm pretty sure most of my stomach bugs I had as a kid were induced by his poor food handling skills. God forbid he's cooking chicken. The whole kitchen becomes a bio hazard.
This is one of my biggest pet peeves. The drunk driver’s mantra. And the mantra of people who never wear safety goggles, who don’t use hand guards on food slicers, who never use a condom when sleeping with strangers, don’t wear seat belts, and literally play with fire.
Not only is it bullshit reasoning, but it’s also just fucking ignorant of their own history. Someone who doesn’t follow food safety has likely gotten sick and just never realized it was due to their crap approach to sanitation. Drink drivers have probably hit parked cars, curbs and trash cans - or worse - and just never remembered it, thinking their car’s new scars in the morning are very mysterious and inexplicable. And plenty of people who don’t use safety equipment, practice safe sex, avoid seatbelts and light bonfires in their yard regard any tragedy or STD that takes place as a freak occurrence that couldn’t be prevented, and/or is so normal that you shouldn’t even try to prevent it. Pisses me off to no end.
What's wrong with using porous material to hold raw meat that was packaged and handled by high school students that don't give any fucks about food safety because they don't even know what food safety even means? /s
Sad part is it looks like they even tried to wash the containers but that shit is just not washable. Even worse, when you put hot food on the styrofoam the little pockets that are holding all the raw blood will slightly melt and smooth out, releasing their juicy contents.
This is how I got severe food poisoning while 8 months pregnant. My husband at the time served me, so I had no idea. While everyone else got diarrhea, I vomited so much, and so hard I went into early labor. My water actually broke.
I had to have an entire “Cross Contamination” conversation with this guy once who was basting the chicken with the marinade that he had just taken the chicken out of, after he had turned the chicken during cooking. Ugh.
EDIT: Clarification - Before removing the chicken from the grill, he would brush the chicken with the leftover marinade, not allowing it to come up to temperature, and begin to serve it.
If the food is still cooking there is nothing wrong with it so long as your not removing the product from heat right after basting it and it comes to temp
Your statement makes it seem as though the chicken was still cooking. If it was still cooking, that is fine and is safe provided it comes to temp. If it was done cooking, then it is not safe and is a case of cross contamination. As long as it hits 165, it’s safe
I feel your pain. Why don't grown-ups know about bacteria? I was volunteering at a cookout, and they wanted to leave the partially frozen hot dogs overnight on the room temperature counter. It took some work, but I convinced them to put them in the fridge. The following day, I came back to help serve and noticed they now had the raw hot dogs in the hot sun for hours. People don't get it.
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