Posted on 10/19/2012 7:56:07 PM PDT by Daffynition
A Florida student found that the ice at fast food restaurants is actually dirtier than the toilet water at the same establishment.
The student, 12-year-old Jasmine Roberts, hypothesized that the ice at fast food joints was probably dirtier than the toilets.
So she went to five fast food restaurants and collected samples.
She ordered cups of ice and put them in sterile beakers. She also went into bathrooms, flushed the toilet once, and collected a sample.
The findings were pretty disturbing.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
The ones that undocumented immigrants reach into with their hands... But you are probably correct. They maybe can read the 'Employees must wash hands' sign in the bathroom.
I've worked/run commercial kitchens. There are 2 restaurants in my city that I will go to.
/johnny
When your dog licks your face does it remind you of anyone?
Yipes! You work for $h!t!
Funny story!
Please tell me what brand of beer you drink so I will know never to try that brand.
Labs taught me something 3 ex-wives never could.... Toilet seat goes completely closed, lid down. Every time.
/johnny
Was she from East Anglia U?
Hadley water research unit?
She got the idea for her project from reading an article about airline ice. I always ask for black coffee.
“Please tell me what brand of beer you drink so I will know never to try that brand. “
I don’t think it’s on the market any longer, it was Eastside.
In the 70s Eastside was bought out by Pabst.
I could bust every ice machine at every restaurant in every city.
Oh, and check the forks at dennys next...
Where do you think the water in the bowl comes from?
Your toothbrush is far more likely to harbor pathogens than your toilet.
At least the stuff in the toilet had to pass through your stomach acid.
A week of very PO'ed everybody, and then things are 'nominal'.
Some folks really, really hate me. Didn't care. My kitchen. My way. Highway. Binary decision.
/johnny
>>Toilet seat goes completely closed, lid down. Every time. <<
You’re quite a catch if that is true!
Our *newer* Lab was so quiet as a juvie....I wondered, maybe, if he had some a genetic prob with his vocal cords...but now he barks at anything and anyone he thinks is in *his* territory...I’m grateful for him being the pre-door bell. We have some sort of an evangelical church in the neighborhood...whose annoying members are out soliciting funds...black people don’t like black dogs much...nor do they understand what *no soliciting* means. Heh.
Kitty ping to #27 :-D
This thread has been dominated by people who apparently have never worked in food service and/or health inspection.
Commercial ice machines are bacteria breeding ground - and salmonella is a surprisingly common bacteria that sets up colonies.
The instruction manual that comes with these ice machines include instructions for using deliming solution for the maker itself, and int he same cleaning cycle - to remove all ice from the bin, and use a fairly strong bleach solution to thoroughly clean it out.
I have cleaned the ice maker at the church I serve at on two occasions - the first time, after having not been cleaned for nearly 3 years - was DISGUSTING. The last time I cleaned it - it wasn’t particularly nasty. I had used the bleach solution, which apparently hadn’t been done before. Now, we are on a schedule -
http://www.major-service.com/major%20appliance%20service,%20inc_003.htm
OK...I also posted the story in 2006.
Junk science is ageless.
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