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Poo found on every McDonald’s touchscreen tested
Metro.co.uk ^ | 11/28/2018 | Adam Smith

Posted on 11/28/2018 6:34:37 AM PST by BenLurkin

Traces of faeces have been found on every single McDonald’s touchscreen swabbed in an investigation by metro.co.uk.

Samples were taken from the new machines that have been rolled out at restaurants across the country – every one of them had coliforms.

Senior lecturer in microbiology at London Metropolitan University Dr Paul Matawele said: ‘We were all surprised how much gut and faecal bacteria there was on the touchscreen machines. These cause the kind of infections that people pick up in hospitals.'

Unsuspecting diners choose their food on the touchscreens then head to the server to pick up their burgers more often than not without washing their hands.

A screen at one branch was found to have staphylococcus, a bacteria that can cause blood poisoning and toxic shock syndrome.

A McDonald’s spokesman said: ‘Our self-order screens are cleaned frequently throughout the day. All of our restaurants also provide facilities for customers to wash their hands before eating.’

(Excerpt) Read more at metro.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: mcdonalds; touchscreens
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To: OrangeHoof

“Muslims. They eat and wipe with the same hand.”

Different hand


61 posted on 11/28/2018 7:56:45 AM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: null and void

Don’t eat Chobani anything.

Terrorist supporter..................


62 posted on 11/28/2018 7:58:49 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: BenLurkin

Finger in mouth , touch screen ,finger in mouth deciding ,touch screen


63 posted on 11/28/2018 7:59:59 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: fwdude

The greatest generation didn’t have to deal with as many drug resistant strains.


64 posted on 11/28/2018 8:00:17 AM PST by mewzilla (Is Central America emptying its prisons?)
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To: allendale

I see Mr. Hankey likes Mickey D’s too.


65 posted on 11/28/2018 8:01:28 AM PST by gathersnomoss (Grace and Dignity Will Win The Day)
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To: Red Badger

McD is the Best!

McD, you can hang for a couple hours UNDESTURBED!

Just let me eat. Leave me be.
And they do have healthy choices.

MCDONALDS is THE BEST KEPT SOCIAL SECRET in town.
Send your kids there. They are cheaper than a mall.


66 posted on 11/28/2018 8:02:06 AM PST by TheNext (Participation Award Winner = CoC)
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To: a fool in paradise

The Kiosk touch free solution is to simple display verbal commands in a line of text. User simply verbalizes commands to order food.

I am sure somebody is working on it.

It is cleaner than touching a menu.


67 posted on 11/28/2018 8:07:59 AM PST by TheNext (Participation Award Winner = CoC)
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To: DungeonMaster

You have ‘solid’ proof that the illegals have made their way to Iowa.


68 posted on 11/28/2018 8:16:43 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: fwdude

BIG CITY POO

Big cities have more poo contamination.

Please keep you poo to yourself and out of suburbia.
Thanks.


69 posted on 11/28/2018 8:18:38 AM PST by TheNext (Participation Award Winner = CoC)
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To: BenLurkin

I wear gloves a lot, and even use a pencil eraser on those despicable voting machines.


70 posted on 11/28/2018 8:24:12 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: Moonman62

Washing hands only lasts for 20 minutes.

Keep washing or do not eat.

Bathroom hand dry air blowers now circulate poo throughout the bathroom.


71 posted on 11/28/2018 8:29:01 AM PST by TheNext (Participation Award Winner = CoC)
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To: BenLurkin

Never thought of that but people are not clean and it’s a great reason to not use touch screens.

Although, it probably does give the immune system a good workout.


72 posted on 11/28/2018 8:32:01 AM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: DungeonMaster

A lot of “immigrants” in Iowa, isn’t there?
At least there is in NW Iowa, where the extended family is.


73 posted on 11/28/2018 8:33:11 AM PST by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: Red Badger
'I haven’t eaten in a McD’s in Decades!..........................'

You're not missing much. I can count on one hand the number of times I've stopped at one in the last several years, and usually out of convenience/necessity. Ever since they buckled under pressure and took beef tallow and 'pink slime' off their ingredient list, the food just isn't the same.

74 posted on 11/28/2018 8:37:37 AM PST by Viking2002 ("For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind." Hosea 7:8)
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To: Rurudyne

So I guess there are no south paw mooselimbs?


75 posted on 11/28/2018 8:37:37 AM PST by US_MilitaryRules (I'm not tired of Winning yet! Please, continue on!)
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To: PapaBear3625

You’s still have the same hands preparing and packing your food. How many patrons touch the cash register screens?


76 posted on 11/28/2018 8:39:02 AM PST by GingisK
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To: BenLurkin

And on any public touchscreen ATM’s even have an odor.


77 posted on 11/28/2018 8:50:49 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: TheNext

Sheldon: I had to sanitize my hands because the university replaced the paper towels in the rest rooms with hot air blowers.

Penny: I thought the blowers were more sanitary?

Leonard and Howard: Why? Don’t!

Sheldon: Hot air blowers are incubators and spewers of bacteria and pestilence. Frankly it would be more hygienic if they just had a plague infested gibbon sneeze my hands dry.


78 posted on 11/28/2018 8:50:51 AM PST by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: BenLurkin

The cure for that is to not eat at fast food restaurants; any of them!


79 posted on 11/28/2018 8:54:48 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: BenLurkin

McDonald’s is your kind of place,
They serve you rattlesnakes,
French Fries between your toetoes,
Hamburgers up your nose
Last time I went there, they fried my underwear
McDonald’s is your kind of place!


80 posted on 11/28/2018 8:55:48 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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