This story is not about fancy, sciencey stuff like DNA contamination of COVID vaccines but about basic dirt and filth in various products and environments we trust.
For cultural reasons, many of us assume that we here in the West are clean, that foods and medicines sold to us are pristine—not free of unthinkable toxins, perhaps—but at least, not disgusting in a classic way.
Well, sorry, we’ve been living in a fantasy world. That bubble is bust.
Whole Foods slapped (mildly) for unsanitary (not mildly) conditions at a kitchen in MA (2016)
AP:
The Food and Drug Administration has sent Whole Foods Market a letter over “serious violations” at a Massachusetts kitchen, warning the grocer that food prepared there “may have been contaminated with filth.”
I worked in Cafeterias and Kitchens as a Plumber – I don’t eat out very often.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
This is the stuff you have an immune system for. I refuse to worry about it unless a place serves up a dead mouse or huge fly.
Bezos should be forced to eat all the filth.
Last time I used a salad bar was at a Whole Foods, several years ago. Got food poisoning, first time in decades.
I would go to a Souplantation… except covid demolished them. Actually, the brutal government’s boot on their neck demolished them.
I guess Whole Foods wants to serve you the “whole foods” experience – including adding back the dirt and disease that the food originally came out of.
I’ve eaten crawfish out of neighborhood ditches, fish from oxygenation ponds & oysters from closed rivers because of storm run off. Only thing that most killed me was a salad from Outback. I don’t eat uncooked anything anymore.
And yet we are forced to eat the shit being served out of Washington.
That’s why you pray before eating your meals. You will survive anything.
If it is prepared by hippies or a company whose charter is based upon hippy-dippy bullshit, I simply pass.
In the end this is on management. You’ll clean as little as the bosses let you get away with in most instances.
My first actual job (punching in/out) was as a dishwasher. My first day I made the cooking sheet pans look like new. The next day the head chef/owner complimented on how he was amazed that I had gotten them so clean. He then explained how much time it took to get them dirtied up like that as it actually made them more stick resistant. Told me not to clean them so well and gave me a quarter raise.
The real filth enters our bodies through our eyes and ears, not our stomachs.