I worked in a small fast food joint for a short time during my freshman year in high school. Another employee who I’ll call Dave, 'cause that was his name, was fond of deep frying any flies he could catch. The scary part was, he didn’t get fired until the third time he got caught.
pepperlandgirl, that isn’t gross. I’m talking about servers eating a slice of pizza that was already half-eaten. A whole, untouched pizza, why not? Heck, even a slice off a partially eaten pizza. But pizza that some stranger has already bitten off? If you’re truly starving, sure, but why take that chance if you can afford food of your own?
**My favorite rude behavior story happened when I was working a large and very crowded catered event. We were having trouble getting the passed appetizers to the back of the room, so I filled up my tray, lifted it high over my head and waded into the crowd. A well-dressed woman (who had payed a goodly sum to attend this party) reached up, grabbed my sleeve, and tried to pull my arm down! High society, my ass.
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Grrrr…I used to really hate this when I was waiting tables. Okay, not only is it incredibly rude, it is also potentially dangerous. Same with people letting their kids run around restaurants. The rudeness is bad enough, but they’re also risking their kids getting scalded by hot coffee of bashed in the head with a hot fajita skillet. I guess stupidity and rudeness really do go hand in hand.
I knew a girl who would pick up her plate, hold it close to her mouth, and use her fork to shovel the food into her mouth and then proceed to lick the plate clean! It was really disgusting.
I can’t stand to see someone eat after someone else. If it’s a family member it’s o.k. but I knew a girl in high school who would take whatever food we didn’t finish and eat it. We had to stop eating lunch with her because we would get so grossed out. She would eat one of our half eaten tacos/burritos even after we smushed it up and mixed it with everything else on the plate. So disgusting!!
Thanks guys. I’ll never eat in a restaurant again.
My dad used to get grossed out when we let the dog lick the plates after meals.
Heck, they were going into the dishwasher!
I used to know kids when I was younger that wouldn’t think twice to pick up their ice cream after it fell in a pile of dog shit and continue eating it. YECCCCCCCH!
Actually, dogs’ mouths are a hell of a lot cleaner than human mouths, and the dishwasher’s water temperature kills whatever germs are in there, so it really isn’t a big deal anyway, unless you have some issue about feeding a dog people food.
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What do dogs do? Eat dead things they find, lick themselves in the crotch, and sniff each others’ butts. Ain’t no way a dog’s mouth is cleaner than mine!
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Only thing I can think of regarding the OP is a cow orker at the McD’s I worked in back in 1991. Sneezed all over a six-tray of Big Macs and served 'em up. I forget if anything was done with them but several people witnessed it.
Not that most of you needed any added impetus to avoid Mickey D’s like the plague.
I was in Vegas, and at about 2am had a hankering for a Strawberry sundae, so I went to the Baskin-Robbins and ordered one. The weirdo behind the counter made my sundae very slowly, and when he was done had a severe cough attack, like from some serious disease, and hacked and gagged all over that sundae! Then he looked at me and said the price. I paid and left, but tossed it in the nearest trash can. I would have said something to him, but I really just wanted to get away from there as fast as I could.
A girl
From: http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mmouth.html
“In other words, the majority of the human cultures had pinpoint colonies in light growth. The majority of the canine plates looked (and smelled) like that gunk that gets down in your garbage can after the raw chicken got left in there. One was actually green and I swear I heard it chuckling to itself. Science ain’t for sissies.”
I work with a woman who not only wants food off
your plate, but once when I went to the grocery
store during lunch and she saw me come in, she
grabbed the bag and started going through it.
I asked her what she was doing to MY groceries,
and she said “Just looking for some crackers or
something.” I told her I didn’t want her stealing
my food, and she said “What’s wrong with taking it?”
In the train to work, every now and then there’s someone (usually a guy) picking his nose and eating whatever he got.
I always try to read my newspaper with the utmost concentration but from the corners of my eyes I always see more than I want to see.
I kid you not…when I was a kid working at McD’s, a woman came in and changed her “stinky” baby (if you get my drift) on the ordering counter – with lots of people in line all around her. OMYGOD I almost fainted.
I worked for a few weeks in a hospital cafeteria and patient trays came down with needles on them pretty frequently. I was expected to just take them off with my bare hands. Ugh.
–tygre
I used to patronize a dim sum restaurant in Monterey Park, California. It’s called “Ocean Star,” and had the best dim sum I ever ate. Then came the famous “sting” operation by the local news team, during which they took a hidden camera into the kitchen. Lots of unsanitary kitchen behaviour was shown on the news, but the worst of all was when a cook PULLED COOKED CHICKEN OFF THE BONE WITH HIS TEETH. The chicken was then used to make up other recipes. I guess that was how they did things from where he came from. I have not been back to Ocean Star.
I really hate to admit this, but the grossest things I’ve ever seen that involved food I perpetuated myself. In my time I have:
- worked at a McDonalds where I dripped sweat all over the food. (I know this sounds incredibly gross, but read the next two and you’ll see why it didn’t occur to me that this was a BAD thing.)
- On a $1 bet ate a cookie that had been sittting on a table in my high school cafateria for two days.
- On a $5 bet drank an unidentified liquid from a glass in college. After quaffing it, I learned its main ingedients were pepper, ice cream, and spit. I got the money, though. No one had ever seen anything like it.
I’m not pround of all of this…well, maybe a little. I can’t believe I actually did shit like this once. It’s amazing I haven’t fallen on a dirty soup spoon and got AIDS yet. I have noticed a tendency to get MUCH more squeamish as I get older though.
My BF eats things I would never DREAM of. If someone leaves food out on the counter over night, he doesn’t think twice about eating it for breakfast the next morning. He claims it’s fine. And I mean everything. He also eats off of other people’s plates because he “hates to see food go to waste”. :rolleyes: I don’t understand, this boy is not starving. He’s not even thin. He even believes in the “30 sec rule” Not the “5 sec rule” or the “10 seconds rule”, but the 30!!!
I guess it’s ok though, cuz in 20 years he hasn’t got food poisoning yet.
tatertot: If I need to cough/sneeze, I do it on my shoulder also. I mean, the WORST place to do it is probably into your hand.
Olentzero: When the guy sneezed into the Big Macs, were they wrapped? It’s, er, slightly less gross if it just got on the wrapper.
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Cow orker? I thought it was a misdemeanor to ork a cow in the state of Virginia. You should’ve notified the cow police immediately.
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~~Baloo
People who do that should be shot.
