I dropped 1c in the soup. WTF do I do?

LD 50

Ok, so I had some change in my hand and was having a look into the pot of soup and I think I dropped 1c into it. Should I say something and get the whole lot thrown out, it wouldn't get replaced and I'd get chewed out. Or just leave it and hope nobody notices?
People are hardly going to get metal poisoning from it, and it's not likely to get put into someone bowl. It'll prob just get rinsed down the drain at the end of the day.

So what would you do?

dr.bollocko

Keep it to yourself mate or they'll all want one.


/groan.

Biggins

Have/had you a second pot and a strainer?

PK2008

Eat the pudding.
Eat the pudding.
Eat the pudding.
Eat the pudding.

Wazdakka

Piss in the pot...


It's the only way to neutralize the poisioning effects of the 1c coin.

magicianz

wash the soup and it'll be grand!

Joey the lips

Your lucky it could heve been 1p

enda1

LD 50 wrote: »

Ok, so I had some change in my hand and was having a look into the pot of soup and I think I dropped 1c into it. Should I say something and get the whole lot thrown out, it wouldn't get replaced and I'd get chewed out. Or just leave it and hope nobody notices?
People are hardly going to get metal poisoning from it, and it's not likely to get put into someone bowl. It'll prob just get rinsed down the drain at the end of the day.

So what would you do?

Leave it.

Sure the soup is being heated so I guess any bacteria will be killed.

mathie

Fast Food Nation describes the following so I wouldn't worry...

The working conditions in these meatpacking plants were brutal. In The Jungle ( 1906) Upton Sinclair described a litany of horrors: severe back and shoulder injuries, lacerations, amputations, exposure to dangerous chemicals, and memorably, a workplace accident in which a man fell into a vat and got turned into lard. The plant kept running, and the lard was sold to unsuspecting consumers.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Health/Cogs_Machine_FFN.html

anniehoo

Rubber glove...go fishin!

GavRedKing

Could be worse, you could have dropped the screw in the tuna

Gulliver

Any change?

My name is URL

Tell them it's fortified with copper for extra health benefits

Fago!

Call the waiter. I'm sure he's used to people complaining of stuff in their soup. Hair and what not.

Bonito

If it was in the soup kitchen, you've just made some hobo's day later when he finds spare change in his soup. God bless you Op.

CreepingDeath

LD 50 wrote: »

So what would you do?

Rename the soup "Oxheads or tails", push it as a promotion.

LD 50

mathie wrote: »

Fast Food Nation describes the following so I wouldn't worry...

The working conditions in these meatpacking plants were brutal. In The Jungle ( 1906) Upton Sinclair described a litany of horrors: severe back and shoulder injuries, lacerations, amputations, exposure to dangerous chemicals, and memorably, a workplace accident in which a man fell into a vat and got turned into lard. The plant kept running, and the lard was sold to unsuspecting consumers.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Health/Cogs_Machine_FFN.html

Grand. Compared to that, my case is nothing. And I'm going to deny all knowledge of everything. They can't prove a thing.

FarmerGreen

Is that an LD50 test?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_lethal_dose

geeky

LD 50 wrote: »

Ok, so I had some change in my hand and was having a look into the pot of soup and I think I dropped 1c into it. Should I say something and get the whole lot thrown out, it wouldn't get replaced and I'd get chewed out. Or just leave it and hope nobody notices?
People are hardly going to get metal poisoning from it, and it's not likely to get put into someone bowl. It'll prob just get rinsed down the drain at the end of the day.

So what would you do?

This is some kind of metaphor, isn't it?

irish_goat

Leave it and deny all allegations against you.

Abrasax

Dip your fingers quickly in the soup then bless yourself with it.
It'll be grand, then.

Kasabian

Jesus just strain the soup

Bazzy

be careful if you get jesus to do it he might turn it into wine again awful trouble about the place then!

mathie

lonad wrote: »

Jesus just strain the soup

Is that be said in the same vain as 'Michael row the boat'?

PK2008

lonad wrote: »

Jesus just strain the soup

Strain the spuds while you're at it :pac:

Sinfonia

LD 50 wrote: »

Ok, so I had some change in my hand and was having a look into the pot of soup and I think I dropped 1c into it. Should I say something and get the whole lot thrown out, it wouldn't get replaced and I'd get chewed out. Or just leave it and hope nobody notices?
People are hardly going to get metal poisoning from it, and it's not likely to get put into someone bowl. It'll prob just get rinsed down the drain at the end of the day.

So what would you do?

And in which fine restaurant might this have happened?

geeky

mathie wrote: »

Fast Food Nation describes the following so I wouldn't worry...

The working conditions in these meatpacking plants were brutal. In The Jungle ( 1906) Upton Sinclair described a litany of horrors: severe back and shoulder injuries, lacerations, amputations, exposure to dangerous chemicals, and memorably, a workplace accident in which a man fell into a vat and got turned into lard. The plant kept running, and the lard was sold to unsuspecting consumers.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Health/Cogs_Machine_FFN.html

Unfortunately, FFN and people who quote The Jungle frequently neglect to mention that the book is fiction. Really, really boring and trite fiction based on fairly extensive research, but fiction nonetheless.

I'm sticking with my belief that the OP is a metaphor to ask what people would do if they've fupped up a little bit and think it'll be ok if they keep quiet.

Standard Toaster

Just blame the well-meaning but disorganised and constantly confused Spaniard waiter Manuel.

¿Qué?
¿Qué?

mathie

geeky wrote: »

Unfortunately, FFN and people who quote The Jungle frequently neglect to mention that the book is fiction. Really, really boring and trite fiction based on fairly extensive research, but fiction nonetheless.

After Hours. The bastion of facts.

orourkeda

Take it out.

mathie

orourkeda wrote: »

Take it out.

And what about the coin?

sirgandi

If nothing else it'll help the immune systems of the soupees. The world is getting too sterile anyway...

orourkeda

mathie wrote: »

And what about the coin?

Eat it

biko

Wait for someone to choke to death on it, then point the Garda to this thread.

orourkeda

biko wrote: »

Wait for someone to choke to death on it, then point the Garda to this thread.

Is this your vehicle?

http://www.knowledgerush.com/wiki_image/2/2d/1c_comm.png

biko

The coin is small and flat and should stay on the bottom, just make sure to take soup only from the top and it'll be fine

LoanShark

Boil the Bejaysus out of the soup and HOPEFULLY the coin will melt and all you have to do is give it a quick stir

Being a chef you get to know how to cover a FEW auld sins!!

On a serious note WTF where you doing with a fist full of change in the kitchen in the first place?

LoanShark

anniehoo wrote: »

Rubber glove...go fisting!

FYP


can't believe it sat for so long without someone else changing it!

funky penguin

LoanShark wrote: »

Boil the Bejaysus out of the soup and HOPEFULLY the coin will melt and all you have to do is give it a quick stir

Being a chef you get to know how to cover a FEW auld sins!!

On a serious note WTF where you doing with a fist full of change in the kitchen in the first place?

...over a pot of soup.....

doubtfir3

Throw in a few more coins.. and bigger denominations.. in fairness you may as well give someone a chance of getting a decent "present" in their soup!

phantom_lord

ugh, surely from the pov of how much bacteria and dirt is on it would mean you should throw it out?

The Force Kin

get a long piece of poo and dip it into the soup, the coin should stick to it and you should be able to remove it, thus ridding the soup of any further bacteria.

LD 50

LoanShark wrote: »

Boil the Bejaysus out of the soup and HOPEFULLY the coin will melt and all you have to do is give it a quick stir

Being a chef you get to know how to cover a FEW auld sins!!

On a serious note WTF where you doing with a fist full of change in the kitchen in the first place?

Wasn't in the kitchen. But I get what you mean. I was seeing how much money I had and was checking the soup at the same time.

biko wrote: »

The coin is small and flat and should stay on the bottom, just make sure to take soup only from the top and it'll be fine

That's what I'm hoping for.

Capt'n Midnight

Just use a magnet to retrieve the coin.

NothingMan

This looks like a job for... do, do do... Souperman!!!

slimjimmc

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Just use a magnet to retrieve the coin.

Should work, it is 94.35% steel afterall, though hardly necessary as I suspect the soup is cold by now:D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_coins

--LOS--

Leave it OP, the coin would have just sank to the bottom anyway, most likely not going to end up in someone's bowl.

CrazyRabbit

Put €50 in coins into the soup. It increases the chance that someone will notice, but at least they won't complain about it since they'll be €50 richer.

Mint Sauce

yuck, i wouldn't use the coin again, vegetables and other healthy stuff would have came in contact with it

mail4liam

LD 50 wrote: »

Ok, so I had some change in my hand and was having a look into the pot of soup and I think I dropped 1c into it. Should I say something and get the whole lot thrown out, it wouldn't get replaced and I'd get chewed out. Or just leave it and hope nobody notices?
People are hardly going to get metal poisoning from it, and it's not likely to get put into someone bowl. It'll prob just get rinsed down the drain at the end of the day.

So what would you do?

Just charge €1.99 a bowel? and say your change is in the soup?

Well Shirley Temple found animal crackers in her's!

jimmycrackcorm

Put some flies in the soup. At least people are used to that.