At the Baseball on Sunday.
There was a Coffee cart run by a lady. Her son (about 12 years old) was with her.
Mum was sitting down, her son was making himself a drink, using the stainless steel milk jug.
He pours the contents into a cup then licks the spout of the jug. Does not wipe it clean. 
Mum does not see this and the jug is ready for the next customer.
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I thought you were some sort of consumer advocate these days and would have expressed your concern to the negligent vendor. 
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Blimey!
When I work in hospitality if were to lick spout of a jug I’d be bloody well strung up, regardless if I wiped it clean or not 
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There comes a time when this 
is my response.
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Years ago, I went to a pizza place on my lunch break from work. While I was having my salad bar lunch, an employee walked out of the restroom & picked some things out of the salad bar with his hands. I thought, I wonder if he washed his hands. Also, if he does that in front of customers, what does he do while they’re closing & there are no customers?
A few hours later while I was driving home my mouth & throat suddenly dried up. I barely made it home before food poisoning. Three days of fever &…you know the rest.
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What you don’t know don’t hurt you 
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I was witness to a young-but-old-enough-to-know-better woman eat something from the salad bar, lick and suck her fingers, and then proceed to touch every serving spoon in the line. I felt civically minded to report it - and to tell her to never do it again. I felt bad for parenting a grown woman, but…
The only other time I felt inclined to parent the public was when a young guy on my flight was swearing a blue streak in front of a woman traveling with two young girls.
Now that I think about it, I should have asked for and shared the finger licker’s and swearer’s phone numbers. They would have made a lovely…well, maybe not lovely…but a suitable couple 
.
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Hi
In my working life I was involved in taking action against anything which was prejudical or injurious to public health and / or public safety.
A UK specific job, other countries split things into specialities.
Food was one such area, but one which I avoided as much as possible, really not my thing at all.
The stupidity of humans is at times difficult to understand.
As a callow youth, I had to inspect an ethnic food wholesalers.
One of my first jobs after qualifying, I shut it, an immediate closure, rat infestation.
Panic with the bosses, get it wrong and we have to pay vast amounts of damages.
50 kilos of rat poison was eaten in the first 24 hours, loads of photos of damaged packaging and rat droppings.
Unbeknost to me, the owners were related to a very senior foreign diplomat whom our Government was in delicate negotiations with.
Then years later I got involved in a prosecution against a large frozen meat company, changing the use by dates, not storing at the right temperayure and some of the chicken on sale was 7 years old.
There was a totally weird case, not my area, but not far away.
A routine inspection of a Takeaway.
A body was found near the kitchen.
An illegal immigrant was living and working there and had collapsed and died in the premises some days earlier.
They had no idea how to dispose of the body so just left it there awaiting inspiration on what to do.
There is no specific criminal offence of having a rotting corpse in a commercial food premises on the grounds of health risk, simply because those who write the laws had never thought owners would be so stupid.
BBC NEWS | UK | Kebabs made as corpse lay nearby.
Life is never boring.
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That’s it … I’m buying nothing I haven’t prepared myself anymore.
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It’s not nice but it happens, behind the scenes normally, and we are none the wiser.
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I love those hot dogs sold from unlicensed outside cart vendors which have been cooking in filthy water and the dirtier the water the better they taste .
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Teehee. Like the chef who made burgers by slamming ground beef against his chest to flatten it.
A customer said, “Ya know, I think the way you make burgers is disgusting.”
The chef replied, “You should watch me make doughnuts.”
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Have you ever seen those Bar fix or Restaurant fix type " reality " shows ?
Some of those places are disgusting , lol
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Wise.
About a year after the salad bar fiasco, my son came home from a job that placed him at a very popular restaurant. To work on the vent hood, he moved the ice machine, and a rat shot across the room. A few minutes later, he saw a server shoo away hundreds of baby cockroaches that were crawling all over the tiramisu that she was about to serve.
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Ugh that made me cringe … you sure it was water?
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I suppose …if you were quick you could swat them and scatter them on the top as a crunchy nutritious topping.
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Some days it’s better to be a vegetarian than others.
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But very high in protein!
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All of a sudden, I am on a diet 
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Hundreds of cockroaches on one tiramisu!! And yet he kept working? Did he not ask the server to leave it alone? Did he report it to the food inspectors in the area immediately?
Even grubby workers would not shoo cockroaches away and continue working…
A bit of an exaggeration perhaps??? Unless you live in a sewer…
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