salad counters in supermarkets

jamesr123

Lads can this be allowed these days? I'm sure most of you have seen it in tesco ect.. A salad counter left unattended in the middle of the floor and people are left to pick out the likes of tuna, egg mayo, onion ect.. How can it be left like that for any scumbag to put their hands on the food?

D1stant

What are you suggesting? Salad-Bar Bouncers?

kneemos

Always like to leave a gob in the potato salad when passing.

Seachmall

Unless someone is infecting them with swine flu (remember that?) then I don't particularly care.

Maximus Alexander

Imagine the damage one sociopath with a bag of powdered nuts could do?

Augmerson

I once seen a child putting things into it. This child was fairly ****ing grubby and had snot all over his face and was just chucking in plastic forks and crap and touching it all with his hands. I'd never touch that stuff after that. Same with those sweet things at the cinema, they are sometimes called Sweet Factory? Saw a child rummaging through those once, wasn't even wearing a diaper (his parents were of That Particular Ethnic Community) and it disgusted me no end. Be careful where and what you eat.

pale blue dot cotton

Some of the crap the supermarket sells as food, I think a dirty pair of hands maybe rubbing off some salad is the least of your problems.

Mr. Incognito

There is nothing in a salad counter one cannot make in minutes at home.

If you are that lazy you deserve every germ your lazy ass collects

genericguy

Augmerson wrote: »

Saw a child rummaging through those once, wasn't even wearing a diaper (his parents were of That Particular Ethnic Community) and it disgusted me no end. Be careful where and what you eat.

Caravan-using nomadic tribesmen by any chance?

Oh, and "diaper"?

Augmerson

genericguy wrote: »

Caravan-using nomadic tribesmen by any chance?

Oh, and "diaper"?

Yes - the people who travel or travellers if you will.

Hmm yeah, you know those things you use if you **** yourself? Nappy like.

theblaqueguy

I often scratch my scrotum and or ass
Then I place that hand all over the various salad choices:D

SimonTemplar

There was a case a few years ago of some psycho covertly spraying urine and faeces over food in Tesco in the UK
http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/Algerian-chemist-jailed-years/story-11866576-detail/story.html#axzz2kTJ6GCL1

I stopped using open salad counters since then.

Banjo String

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

There is nothing in a salad counter one cannot make in minutes at home.

If you are that lazy you deserve every germ your lazy ass collects

I dunno.

Them stainless steel containers, and the wee plastic tubs would be a right bollox to knock together in the garage.

(at least with my toolbox they would)

Grayson

SimonTemplar wrote: »

There was a case a few years ago of some psycho covertly spraying urine and faeces over food in Tesco in the UK
http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/Algerian-chemist-jailed-years/story-11866576-detail/story.html#axzz2kTJ6GCL1

I stopped using open salad counters since then.

Daifallah, who had fantasies about biological weapons to cause public alarm, was also found guilty of having an offensive weapon, namely a catapult with marbles.
Today Judge Carol Hagen said security agencies had labelled Algerian-born Daifallah, who has a degree in industrial chemistry, a very high risk to public safety.
She sentenced him at Bristol Crown Court today to concurrent sentences of three years, five years and two of nine years for the contamination offences and 12 months for possession of a weapon.

lol

dr.bollocko

Have you seen that state of the hot delis in those supermarkets between breakfast and lunch?

Wizened bacon, cardboard hashbrowns, hairy sausages. It's sickening. Try a sausage roll around 10:30. They'd knock teeth out.

paconnors

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Have you seen that state of the hot delis in those supermarkets between breakfast and lunch?

Wizened bacon, cardboard hashbrowns, hairy sausages. It's sickening. Try a sausage roll around 10:30. They'd knock teeth out.

Is that 10:30 at night? lol

Teyla Emmagan

Always disgusting, salad counters. The raisins in everything (raisins!!), the carrot salad fork in the mashed potato, the sweetcorn in the tuna (surely a health volition in itself?), the congealed surface on EVERYTHING!!!!

It's amazing any of us are still alive.

MagicMarker

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

There is nothing in a salad counter one cannot make in minutes at home.

If you are that lazy you deserve every germ your lazy ass collects

People buying ready made food out of convenience? Oh the horror...

Banjo String

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Have you seen that state of the hot delis in those supermarkets between breakfast and lunch?

Wizened bacon, cardboard hashbrowns, hairy sausages. It's sickening. Try a sausage roll around 10:30. They'd knock teeth out.

We don't really have delis in Ireland though, not in the true sense.

Seriously, walk into a deli in New York for example, pastrami, salami, olives, pickles, beautiful sandwiches, club, /Cuban / blt etc. Endless amounts of choices of condiments and sauces etc.

Dublin deli.

Pierres sausage rolls. Jambons. Pies.
Ham sandwich, chicken fillet baguette.

Trying to eat healthy here is nigh on impossible, bar preparing it yourself the night before. :mad:

thecatspjs

Balls, I get lunch from salad counters. I used to anyway...

Ignorance is (was) bliss

kneemos

Supervalu stuff is the business though in fairness,wouldn't really care what's in it.

Cookie_Monster

If someone wants to stand there and count salad who are you to stop him?

jjbrien

Ever seen the roast chicken at the end of the day in Dunnes or Tesco?

liliq

Wish I hadn't read this thread.

*heaves

monkeysnapper

I worked in a leading supermarket and they put all the out of date salads into the salad bar ,

131spanner

A lad in my class got banned from the local Supervalu over them! He used to half fill the tub, weigh it and get a sticker. Before putting the sticker on, he'd throw another scoop of stuff into the tub.

For a dim enough lad, he was on the ball.

whupdedo

Augmerson wrote: »

I once seen a child putting things into it. This child was fairly ****ing grubby and had snot all over his face and was just chucking in plastic forks and crap and touching it all with his hands. I'd never touch that stuff after that. Same with those sweet things at the cinema, they are sometimes called Sweet Factory? Saw a child rummaging through those once, wasn't even wearing a diaper (his parents were of That Particular Ethnic Community) and it disgusted me no end. Be careful where and what you eat.

Roma ba××××ds I'd imagine

fussyonion

That's why I don't buy those salads.

On a side note, I was in a really fancy cafe today in town (y'know the type; big posh coffees and fancy cakes) and the cakes, displayed on a three-tiered stand, were attracting dozens of midges.
People were still buying the cakes, which baffled me.
What baffled me more is why the proprietor can't invest in a few plastic dome lids to stop this happening...

dr.bollocko

Banjo String wrote: »

We don't really have delis in Ireland though, not in the true sense.

Seriously, walk into a deli in New York for example, pastrami, salami, olives, pickles, beautiful sandwiches, club, /Cuban / blt etc. Endless amounts of choices of condiments and sauces etc.

Dublin deli.

Pierres sausage rolls. Jambons. Pies.
Ham sandwich, chicken fillet baguette.

Trying to eat healthy here is nigh on impossible, bar preparing it yourself the night before. :mad:

And yet we have half the working nation getting it's lunch from a petrol station day in day out. I don't understand how so many people can happily munch down the ubiquitous hot chicken roll regardless of the quality of the food on offer. If we stop eating this crap they'll stop slinging it.

fussyonion

kneemos wrote: »

Supervalu stuff is the business though in fairness,wouldn't really care what's in it.

Funny you should mention that particular supermarket.
I worked as a deli assistant for a while in that supermarket and I was told, by my boss, to stir the salads/egg mayo/tuna & sweetcorn-mayo mix/etc every few hours to get rid of the dirty great grey skin it had formed.

I was also told that, at night when the shop was closing, to cover all the salads and stuff with clingfilm, then the following morning, uncover and stir again...repeat all day.

Meat often fell on the floor (sliced corned beef, ham etc) and there was no way you were to throw that away; that went back onto the pile of meats on display, and we also had to turn those slices of meat around every few hours.
None of this stuff is actually fresh.

Ironically, the cream cakes and donuts in SuperValu ARE fresh and are delivered every day. The bread-rolls are also baked *all day* too, which nobody seemed to realise because come four-o'clock, there'd be a big basket of rolls waiting to be thrown away.

kneemos

fussyonion wrote: »

Funny you should mention that particular supermarket.
I worked as a deli assistant for a while in that supermarket and I was told, by my boss, to stir the salads/egg mayo/tuna & sweetcorn-mayo mix/etc every few hours to get rid of the dirty great grey skin it had formed.

I was also told that, at night when the shop was closing, to cover all the salads and stuff with clingfilm, then the following morning, uncover and stir again...repeat all day.

Meat often fell on the floor (sliced corned beef, ham etc) and there was no way you were to throw that away; that went back onto the pile of meats on display, and we also had to turn those slices of meat around every few hours.
None of this stuff is actually fresh.

Ironically, the cream cakes and donuts in SuperValu ARE fresh and are delivered every day. The bread-rolls are also baked *all day* too, which nobody seemed to realise because come four-o'clock, there'd be a big basket of rolls waitingy to be thrown away.

Don't eat meat from SV.Two bad experiences.

Shark

After a bout of food poisoning from eating coleslaw that I got from a salad bar put me off ever buying anything from them again. Disgusting germ infested things. Homemade is the only way now.

Sam Kade

A woman in super valu put her finger in the coleslaw licked it off and dipped her finger in again for a second helping :eek: The manager saw it and when a customer questioned him he made nothing of it :mad:

Freddy Smelly

jamesr123 wrote: »

Lads can this be allowed these days? I'm sure most of you have seen it in tesco ect.. A salad counter left unattended in the middle of the floor and people are left to pick out the likes of tuna, egg mayo, onion ect.. How can it be left like that for any scumbag to put their hands on the food?

but supermarkets have cctv watching ya in case your shop lifting

Butterface

I worked in the deli in Dunnes years ago. We were constantly topping up those steel containers of salads without double checking the dates and making sure the older stuff was still in date. We were only kids and the deli manager rarely made an appearance behind the counter to check on us. The sliced meats that didn't sell in the deli part during the day would be used the next day in the sandwich bar. It could be there for a few days.. think that's pretty standard practice.

I have so many horrible stories of bad food safety practice.. yet it hasn't stopped me from purchasing food from supermarkets. Likewise, the stories I've heard from restaurant kitchens hasn't stopped me from eating out.

eqwjewoiujqorj

What about the Cuisine de France / open display bakery section?

One well known British supermarket here has an open bakery section.

The instore 'bakery' puts pastries out in the open display and also in see through plastic containers (two per pack) every morning.

One would think the ones in the packages are fresher and have less germs but in fact some of the pastries are leftover from the open display and they put them in the plastic containers and sell them the next day.

Missyelliot2

Only this evening, was witness to the 'shuffle it around' theory!
In a shop - coleslaw/potato salad ….and all that's healthy was mixed and churned ….the dry bits that were on top, were elsewhere!

For my two cents - don't buy this from anywhere.

(I have bought this germ lots of times- post mixing and oblivious!)

face1990

After a long drive, quite late in the evening, I stopped into a petrol station deli (called 999, or 112 or something like that).
The stuffing looked grand until she took a spoonful of it out and I saw that under the surface it was about 5 shades lighter - it'd been there so long the outside of it had visible discoloured.

I've never been able to enjoy their chicken stuffing mush ever since

kumate_champ07

theblaqueguy wrote: »

I often scratch my scrotum and or ass
Then I place that hand all over the various salad choices:D

heard something about someone injecting mercury into oranges years ago

Sigourney

face1990 wrote: »

After a long drive, quite late in the evening, I stopped into a petrol station deli (called 999, or 112 or something like that).
The stuffing looked grand until she took a spoonful of it out and I saw that under the surface it was about 5 shades lighter - it'd been there so long the outside of it had visible discoloured.

I've never been able to enjoy their chicken stuffing mush ever since

That'd be 911 On The Run.
Ahem.

kumate_champ07

Banjo String wrote: »

We don't really have delis in Ireland though, not in the true sense.

Seriously, walk into a deli in New York for example, pastrami, salami, olives, pickles, beautiful sandwiches, club, /Cuban / blt etc. Endless amounts of choices of condiments and sauces etc.

Dublin deli.

Pierres sausage rolls. Jambons. Pies.
Ham sandwich, chicken fillet baguette.

Trying to eat healthy here is nigh on impossible, bar preparing it yourself the night before. :mad:

the nicest food I had in America was in a New York deli, maybe it was their special sauses and generous portions of meat/fish, the food was delicious and good value.


found it online, **** the menu is making me hungry! http://www.allmenus.com/ny/new-york/4764-aristocrat-deli-gourmet/menu/

looking_around

I only have one word OP.

"eewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww"

well, it's more of a sound.

___

I used to love me a tuna sandwich from various places, .. ordered one somewhere, and saw where they scooped it from was quite discoloured and they lumped it onto the bread. I politely handed it back.. "that aint fresh"..

blegh.

Not comfortable eating that stuff now, unless I made it myself S:

padd b1975

Banjo String wrote: »

We don't really have delis in Ireland though, not in the true sense.

Seriously, walk into a deli in New York for example, pastrami, salami, olives, pickles, beautiful sandwiches, club, /Cuban / blt etc. Endless amounts of choices of condiments and sauces etc.

Dublin deli.

Pierres sausage rolls. Jambons. Pies.
Ham sandwich, chicken fillet baguette.

Trying to eat healthy here is nigh on impossible, bar preparing it yourself the night before. :mad:

America is hardly the shining light we should follow when it comes to healthy eating.

Oranage2

I use to work in a supermarket…

That is all!


Though one of the worst things I've seen was a guy filling his container with tuna salad, he then weighed it and put the sticker on, that's not all, he then disgustingly proceeded to add more tuna to the container, I lost all faith in humanity since then.

.jacksparrow.

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

There is nothing in a salad counter one cannot make in minutes at home.

If you are that lazy you deserve every germ your lazy ass collects

Well sorry!!!

Some snobbery in this thread I tells ya.

loveBBhate

The use of the word 'scumbag' in the OP has me weak Seems to be only myself so far, I've seen the term used times a plenty on Boards but to describe salad bar crime lords sounds absolutely hilarious imo

suicide_circus

I mostly like to collect my finger and toe nail clippings over the course of a month or two then sprinkle them over the supermarket saladbar when noone is looking, mostly.

Lingua Franca

Oranage2 wrote: »

I use to work in a supermarket…

That is all!

Really? Nothing to contribute, then?

Though one of the worst things I've seen was a guy filling his container with tuna salad, he then weighed it and put the sticker on, that's not all, he then disgustingly proceeded to add more tuna to the container, I lost all faith in humanity since then.

Oh.

Whilst that is theft, it's hardly "disgusting" when juxtaposed with the food safety and hygiene violations posted here.

looking_around

Lingua Franca wrote: »

Really? Nothing to contribute, then?




Oh.

Whilst that is theft, it's hardly "disgusting" when juxtaposed with the food safety and hygiene violations posted here.

I guess they're posted needed a major "Sarcasm Alert"

kneemos

Lingua Franca wrote: »

Really? Nothing to contribute, then?




Oh.

Whilst that is theft, it's hardly "disgusting" when juxtaposed with the food safety and hygiene violations posted here.

We're using that word now?

jjbrien

I remember when I was working about 10 years ago in Tesco in the city centre we were asked to clear some of the shelfs of the big multipack crisps as we had to clean the shelfs. When we took the first load off we found some of the packs near the back were gone out of date over 2 years ago. Seams like they were just packed on top of each other we even found some were even older than 2 years old. I make sure to check the dates on stuff now when im shopping.