Posted on 04/28/2009 2:13:44 PM PDT by doug from upland
I’d skip the salad bar and buffet line, if you have ever watched people sneeze and cough on the food, lick their fingers and spoons, and dig in...
Back in the kitchen and prep area- you do not ever want to know...
Thanks doug from upland.
This does not bode well for the trash collectors.
to increase? or were just being sarcastic? I love ‘that country’ food unfortunately.
Man, dude - you gonna give up Carnitas at El Michuahachan on Valley Blvd?
Yes, sarcastic.
I haven’t eaten meat since 1991.
Swine Flu Ping...
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Protect Yourself from “Salad Bar Disease”
Protect yourself from the “salad bar disease”! Also known as the stomach flu, which is a highly contagious group of bugs known as noroviruses. Their calling card? A sudden bout of vomiting, diarrhea, and cramps. About 30 to 40 different strains are in our environment, according to the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention. Like it or not, it’s often spread from fecal matter that comes from people who don’t wash their hands after using the bathroom. The good news? This four-step plan can spare you the misery.
* Skip the salad bar. It turns out the most likely place for noroviruses to lurk in restaurants is the salad bar. Why? Because raw foods easily transmit the virus – since they’re not exposed to heat, which kills the virus. Plus salad bar counters are crawling with bacteria. To protect yourself, order a “made-to-order” salad from the kitchen instead of picking through veggies that everybody has had their hands on. Also, check the restaurant’s restroom! A study from the CDC confirms if the bathroom isn’t clean, the kitchen is worse!
* Wash up at the right time. The most crucial times to wash your hands are before brushing your teeth, eating, preparing food, and after using the bathroom, changing a diaper, or doing the laundry. When you’re lathered up, get under your nails too.
* Build up your defenses. To boost your resistance to noroviruses, have a daily cup of yogurt containing live bacteria cultures. Keeping your digestive system well stocked with good bacteria increases your ability to fight off bad bacteria.
* If you’ve been around someone who’s sick, break out the bleach! Noroviruses can linger for days on surfaces like your kid’s toys, telephones, cell phones, and doorknobs. So if you’ve been around a sickie, wipe everything down with a solution of one part household bleach to 50 parts water.
* Aside from this four-step plan, beware of this food. Eggs. Eggs are associated with more than 600-thousand cases of food poisoning each year and more than 300 deaths. So make sure you cook your eggs completely.
Gay Journalist’s Incredible
Attempts To Infect
Candidate With Flu
Snotty Little Germ Spreads Liberal Hate
By Rod Dreher
http://www.nypostonline.com/commentary/23221.htm
1-28-2000
During the Clinton impeachment battle, the online magazine Salon gratuitously revealed that leading House Republican Henry Hyde had an extramarital affair 30 years ago.
Was that playing dirty?
“Frankly, yes,” the mag’s editors conceded in an editorial. “But ugly times call for ugly tactics.”
Salon, ever a trailblazer, has just gone beyond character assassination against conservative politicians, and has begun going after them with germ warfare.
This week in Salon, syndicated sex columnist Dan Savage wrote of his undercover stint with the Gary Bauer campaign in Iowa. While lying in a Des Moines hotel room suffering from the flu, Savage caught the candidate on TV speaking out against gay marriage.
That did it. The openly gay Savage decided his mission was clear: “Get close enough to Bauer to give him the flu, which, if I am successful, will lay him flat just before the New Hampshire primary.”
Savage regales readers with tales of coughing on everything in the Bauer office, even licking doorknobs when nobody was looking. He sucked on a pen he later handed to the candidate.
“My plan was a little malicious — even a little mean-spirited,” Savage wrote. “But those same words describe the tactics used by Bauer and the rest of the religious right against gays and lesbians.”
My, what tidy moral reasoning. Hate your opponent’s rhetoric? Then do your dead-level best to put him and his staff in the hospital. Ugly times, after all, call for ugly tactics.
Bauer’s Iowa office was shell-shocked by the news.
“We just kind of knew him as Dan,” said Iowa campaign director Loras Schulte. “This is trash-can journalism at its worst. I have no idea what he may have tried to infect us with.”
Indeed, it’s hard to think of a stunt that could better play into the hands of authentic homophobes. Think of it: a crusading gay avenger secretly tries to pass on a virus to Christian conservatives, and is rewarded for his efforts by a trendy media outlet. It’s the kind of fevered propaganda you’d expect from the crazy “God hates fags” people.
Savage couldn’t be reached because, according to his Seattle office, “He’s lost somewhere in the Midwest.” He’d better be across Iowa state lines. A spokesman for the Iowa attorney general’s office says the jerk’s flu-bug prank opens him up to felony assault charges.
And, by signing an Iowa voter-registration form so he could participate in the caucuses, Savage committed perjury.
Salon editor David Talbot said he didn’t send Savage out to infect the Bauerites, and claims not to condone it. But he was pleased to print the story all the same, under the moniker “The Merry Prankster.”
Is giving the flu to people on purpose Salon’s idea of a “merry prank”?
My wife and I spent two days in the hospital last Thanksgiving, watching our flu-infected newborn gut it out with tubes coming out of his feet, screaming from a spinal tap the doctors had to do to test for meningitis. I wouldn’t wish that hell on my worst enemy.
But for Talbot, such sneering disregard for human suffering is just lively journalism.
“It was provocative and it raised lots of questions about the ways gays are scapegoated by the religious right,” Talbot said. “The kind of passion and fury that Dan feels I completely empathize with.”
Bob Giles of the media think tank Freedom Forum warns that Salon is setting a dangerous precedent.
Savage “is acting as a terrorist, and he’s using a journalistic cover to do it,” Giles said. “This is the kind of unedited behavior that some will try on the Internet.”
Where is the outrage? If a right-winger angry over Al Gore’s gay- rights views tried to take down the veep’s campaign by spreading disease within its ranks, then profited from it by penning a sanctimonious tell-all, the “hate crimes” hysterics would be baying for blood.
Not necessarily Salon. Talbot says he might be willing to publish such a piece from the right “if the writer did it with sufficient craft and wit.”
That’s not comforting. That’s chilling.
e-mail: dreher@nypost.com
>>I haven’t eaten meat since 1991.
So many jokes, so little time :)
But I understand.
Sure makes me hungry!
Brownbag your lunch, do it from high orbit, only way to be sure.
What can restruants do?
Pray for customers, but don’t expect to see me for a while.
Every restaurant in SoCal has workers in the kitchen from Mexico. Of course, some might be Americans and might not have gone to Mexico last week, but they also might go to churches, gyms, school with people who did.
I am eating at home.
LOL! Stupid.
While this is not possible for most restaurant workers
Then why even mention it?
I like to support local business but this is really worrisome.
Ping (Thanks, DvdMom!)
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