If this news doesn't get you off fastfood, don't know what will

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by Wolferz

I used to work on time clocks and hood suppression systems and I've been in KFC kitchens where you could literally skate on the oily floor and I've serviced time clocks where the carcasses of roaches fell out when I removed the cover and I've serviced range hoods that put the unk in Funk. But, then again, I served in the military where you get to eat out in the woods with dirty hands. The only time I ever got sick was when the mess section forgot to wash a lister bag that we were getting our water from. Military mess halls are among the cleanest places I've ever worked or dined in. They even go as far as caulking around every nook and cranny that a roach could hide in.
If you're scared of germs, never ever dine out or eat food that's served luke warm or cold.

QFT on the mess halls.

[Aktungbby]

I occasionally do security for restaurant chains at night when they have to be unlocked after dark for renovations, plumbing, retile, and oven vent steaming etc. These are national chain establishments. I do not dine at any of them; Unless they adhere strictly to the Ten Second Rule

[Platapus]

When I was riding on the city squads, most of our daytime calls were at grocery stores and restaurants.

Each one of us had a list of restaurants we would not go to eat. Deep down we knew that all restaurants were the same, but not making a call on a specific restaurant gave us plausible deny-ability.

It is a good thing the human digestion system is as strong as it is and can handle massive amounts of bacteria.

So fast food or traditional joint. They are all filthy.

At least with fast food, there is a good chance the food is not left laying as long as it is in a more traditional place.

[Platapus]

I have my patented weight loss plan. Find the food you really have weakness for and go to where that food is prepared/processed. It works.

I remember in high school we took a field trip to an egg processing facility in our town. I love eggs. I could not eat an egg for about 2 years after that visit.

Many citizens are happy with their food because they have no idea how it is prepared.

[Stealhead]

I think it is true that most illness in fact comes from home cooked food. A common mistake is to blame what was last eaten. In fact it takes around 12 hours for food born illness to start giving you problems.

So it is really what was consumed several hours ago often that is not the last food eaten. It may be the first to get projectile vomited but not the culprit. Most awsome are Rice Crispies my daughter chucked those once I could not eat them for month after that.

[Armistead]

Main thing is not to piss off the people preparing or serving your food....least wait until you have it...

[d@rk51d3]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

I think it is true that most illness in fact comes from home cooked food. A common mistake is to blame what was last eaten. In fact it takes around 12 hours for food born illness to start giving you problems.

So it is really what was consumed several hours ago often that is not the last food eaten. It may be the first to get projectile vomited but not the culprit.

That's what I always thought too.
A recent item on the radio down here though, revealed that it depends on the bacteria, and can be as little as 2 hours.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Armistead

Main thing is not to piss off the people preparing or serving your food....least wait until you have it...

Yes, exactly. It's why I never get snotty with the waiter, and I never send something back to the kitchen with a complaint.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Yes, exactly. It's why I never get snotty with the waiter, and I never send something back to the kitchen with a complaint.

Especially in truck'em-up stops BBY!

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by d@rk51d3

That's what I always thought too.
A recent item on the radio down here though, revealed that it depends on the bacteria, and can be as little as 2 hours.

That is true I think in truth it can be hard to trace the real cause. Only when several people get ill and common source found do they know for sure.

You also have stomach flu which is not caused by foul food but gets blamed.

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Yes, exactly. It's why I never get snotty with the waiter, and I never send something back to the kitchen with a complaint.

Even if they dont do something nasty 90% of the time they will simply leave it on the rack for a few minutes and take it back out. Honestly I think people doing really nasty stuff is pretty rare. These days as well many kitchens have cameras or other employees will report such act.

[Wolferz]

Loogies in your gravy.

I ate at one truck stop restaurant where my waitress was the QC manager. If the food on the plate didn't meet her standards, she literally threw it back into the kitchen through the pass. I saw her do it.
She got a better than average tip and a Yankee dime from me.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Armistead

Main thing is not to piss off the people preparing or serving your food....least wait until you have it...

QFT

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

That is true I think in truth it can be hard to trace the real cause. Only when several people get ill and common source found do they know for sure.

You also have stomach flu which is not caused by foul food but gets blamed.

When I was twelve my dad took us to a Chinese place for dinner. I got sick that night. I'm certain that it was just a common stomach bug, but despite that conviction it was ten years before I could even smell a Chinese dinner without gagging. Even today, while I'll eat Chinese if it's offered, it's not something I'll intentionally buy for myself.

[STEED]

I will never give up Big Barbara's Bacon Butty food van so there.

No connection to China.