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Go behind the scenes of supermarkets and restaurants and you'd be amazed how some places handle the food they are preparing.
Ever see one of the undercover food documentaries on TV? I remember one time seeing this dude drop an entire bin of lo mein noodles onto the floor at a chinese buffet. He pushed it all back into the bin using his feet and then put it back into the buffet selection for people to eat. The problem is the surfaces and people working with their hands. They put raw chicken to be seasoned on the preparation table, and then lettuce is on the same spot, or your veggies being sliced there. They go to the bathroom and don't wash their hands. Bugs crawling around, flies landing on things left uncovered.
Supermarkets are just as bad for those who avoid restaurants. They repackage meats all the time and change the dates. Things sitting in the warehouse with rats running around.
I was at a friends house once for dinner and I walked into the kitchen and she was rinsing off the chicken breasts with them sitting in the fucking sink. I couldn't believe it. Where you wash your dirty dishes you have the chicken sitting? She was like well its going into the oven anyway and all the germs will get cooked off. Yeh, true, but still that just grossed me out. At a barbecue the guy cooking dropped the plate of hot dogs ready to be cooked onto the grass and he just picked them up and tossed them all on the grill.
I've only had one really bad food poisoning. Came from bad fish at a dinner. Must have puked till I thought I was dying. Finally I told my wife at 3AM I had to go to the emergency room, this was getting seriously painful and scary. Then on the fucking way to the hospital I was laying flat on my tummy in the back seat and said to her pull over I'm gonna puke again. Pulls over and I push the door open and one of those god damn grass sprinklers is going and nails me right in the face. So I got to the emergency room soaking wet, with my hair sticking up in all directions, looking half dead in my pajamas, twisting and writhing from the stomach pain and the nurses in the adimitting area are looking at me like I just got out of the psycho ward, and were hesitant to even approach me. It was hilarious.
You have to keep surfaces disinfected and spotless wherever you are prepping food, rinse your fruits and veggies thoroughly, they harbor loads of microscopic critters,your hands washed, things stored at the proper temps and cooked thoroughly. Toss out leftovers and perishable food in your frig after 3 days. Its all common sense stuff must most people don't do it.
Statistics show about 1 out of every 3 chickens in the supermarket contain bacteria.
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