General Chat

Deb,

I always wipe down the shopping trolleys. Especially since I have a toddler and baby who have to sit in them.

Rose

Knackered,

You'll get a kick out of this.

We had one of those warm roasted chickens the other night and were all sick 24 hours later. It was the last one left when we arrived. Never again! Even the cat had an upset tummy.

Rose

Eww. I expect it is on the steering wheel too then, when you drive home...oh yuck lol

I'm a hand washer, not compulsive, just a habit probably because of my occupation.

A few years back I took the first of my food safety courses. The health inspector (who taught the course) mentioned a study that had done on shopping cart handles. Beside all the usual nasties that were on the handle, a large percentage of the carts contained seman. Yuk!

I have noticed that the grocery stores here have sani wipes next to the carts, about time.

Deb

i think the problem is we are brought up in sterile world now

i use to play in the dirt and go scrumping never washed the apples always ate them before i got home, kids are kept too clean now have a lower immune system.

I used to pleat cows tails as they stood being milked..I cant remember ever being told to wash my hands. I also used to lick the condensation of the bus windows,oh,my!! how minging was that? lol.

Well I'm still here to tell the tale lol.

Marion

Shopping trolleys are disgusting,makes me feel ill when i see babies in the front seat sucking the handle,have you ever seen them being cleaned,?
I haven,t gill

Bella

Oh yes agree with you, I won't eat chicken and pork as the bacteriia works it way through the fibre of meat, where as red meat bacteria only lays on the outside which is why you can eat it red.

I use London buses regularly but always carry a little bottle of antiseptic hand rub/wash with me and can be seen walking down the street `washing` my hands in the stuff. Lol

Your right Lorraine, being vegetarian wont stop you from getting food poisoning, but the fact that vegetarians do not eat meat, poultry and fish will more than halve the risk of contracting it.

being a vegetarian won't stop you getting germs off food one of the worst culprits is salad, any food served at room temperature can give you food poisoning. I refuse to go to carvery restuarants the food sits on hot plates luke warm your asking for an upset stomach if you eat it.

food should be eaten at 63c or above or for chilled foods below 8c.

I'm also paranoid about toilets carry alcohol gel with me won't use hand dryers and try to open the toilet door with my elbows, my sister thinks its hilarious but after going to Cuba on holiday she was glad of the hand gel the loo's there are disgusting.

I am surprised that not so long ago, there seemed to be new rules and regulations saying chiller cabinets had to have those long thick plastic strips hanging in front of them, not sure why, maybe to stop flies?, but certainly they appeared in all the local supermarkets etc. Now when I go into our local Somerfield or the Tesco near my son's, there are croissants, cakes and rolls etc all out for anyone to touch, sneeze or cough over etc yet they don't have anything in front of them, and the plastic strips seem to have disappeared from the chill cabinets. I will never buy an unwrapped cake etc because of them being left out in the air, there was a pigeon in the roof area of Somerfield's recently so could have pooped on the food lol Late in the day, the young staff come along and pick up the rolls, croissants etc and bag them up into bargain bags, but sometimes they don't use the tongs to pick the items up,,,,,, urgh!

LIzx

lol.........being vegetarian .No Chance!, that goes for the hot dog/burger stand, the ever revolving bacteria collecting kebab or the 'eat as much as you like' buffet at the indian/chinese..some might say i'm paranoid!..but healthy.

you know how tempting those lovely warm cooked chickens are in the big supermarkets!

well dont go there

YUK

I saw a man with a small child outside the restaurant in our local Sainsburys. The child was sitting on the stack of trays people were going to put food on! The man was oblivious!

Also they have a low food cabinet with uncovered cakes and gateaux where people queue. I've seen people sneezing and coughing all over the cakes, particularly small children, who I've also seen picking cream and bits off the cakes to eat while their mothers aren't watching. I wouldn't buy anything out of this cabinet and I'm surprised H & S allow them to use it.

Anyone know?

Kebabs..I have often wondered, if they are being cooked as they turn round etc what happens when the shop closes at night? ie do they put a part cooked 'chunk of whatever is in it' in the fridge,then reheat?

Marion

Col, that's awful, and what about respect for the poor chap who had died.

I have never eaten a kebab from a shop in my life and don't think I would start now lol

Lizx

We just had a kebab shop owner fined in the Midlands for preparing kebab dishes 6ft from the corpse of an employee who had died. Police investigating the death immediately closed down the shop after the owner was observed spitting on the floor as the body decomposed a few feet away.....yuck

I often wondered why Her Majesty always wore gloves in public. Now I know. Don't blame her either now that I have read this posting.