Eating off another persons plate

pat_cork

Right so I'm working as a waiter in the states and when I'm clearing tables and I see a lump of meat or chips I put them aside for myself.
No one really gives a **** bar 3 waiters who tell me it's absolutely disgusting, they say I coumd get dieases which I highly doubt fron sonething that hasn't been touched. I can see nothing at all wrong with it, the best of food for free otherwise I'd have to spend about $10 for a coupe of mouthfuls, I get half price food but its still ****ing robbery.
So am I the bollox or is it those other 3 *****? Thank you

Renegade Mechanic

I actually puked a little.. Well nah but it is siiiiiiiick!:D
People tend to push their food round the plate and stab it a few times with the fork theyve been slobbering all over..

Arthur Beesley

both?

gramar

pat_cork wrote: »

Right so I'm working as a waiter in the states and when I'm clearing tables and I see a lump of meat or chips I put them aside for myself.
No one really gives a **** bar 3 waiters who tell me it's absolutely disgusting, they say I coumd get dieases which I highly doubt fron sonething that hasn't been touched. I can see nothing at all wrong with it, the best of food for free otherwise I'd have to spend about $10 for a coupe of mouthfuls, I get half price food but its still ****ing robbery.
So am I the bollox or is it those other 3 *****? Thank you

So you pay $5 dollars for the best of food and it's still ****ing robbery?

Hmmm something not quite right here methinks.

Arthur Beesley

gramar wrote: »

So you pay $5 dollars for the best of food and it's still ****ing robbery?

Hmmm something not quite right here methinks.

portion size...

FairytaleGirl

Personally I find it gross, but that's just me. I mean a person is eating off a fork then pushing food around their plate with it, we all do it even if we don't eat the whole thing.

SweetChaos

Eww disgusting , how can you now be sure they didn't spit it back on the plate

no no no no no

Sam Kade

I know of a man that went to the butcher section of his local shop to get the meat they were throwing out :eek: He said if there were maggots on it just wash it off under the tap before cooking. That was back in the 80's.

Sam Kade

SweetChaos wrote: »

Eww disgusting , how can you now be sure they didn't spit it back on the plate

no no no no no

Maybe he could just spit on their plate next time they come in for a meal problem solved

FURET

OP, you do realize that years from now when those 3 waiters have moved on in life and are looking back, they'll tell the story over a few drinks "of how years ago I worked in a restaurant and there was this Irish fellow who used to eat the scraps left by customers to save himself 5 dollars, 'lumps of meat and fries' he used to say. He couldn't see anything wrong with it, the dirty bastard." And then everyone will laugh.

BeerWolf

Sam Kade wrote: »

I know of a man that went to the butcher section of his local shop to get the meat they were throwing out :eek: He said if there were maggots on it just wash it off under the tap before cooking. That was back in the 80's.

Try Casu Marzu cheese.

Bon appetit !

:pac:

Sam Kade

FURET wrote: »

OP, you do realize that years from now when those 3 waiters have moved on in life and are looking back, they'll tell the story over a few drinks "of how years ago I worked in a restaurant and there was this Irish fellow who used to eat the scraps left by customers to save himself 5 dollars, 'lumps of meat and fries' he used to say. He couldn't see anything wrong with it, the dirty bastard." And then everyone will laugh.

More of a mean cnut than a dirty bastard, if he were sniffing the toilet bowls after customers using them you could call him a dirty bastard then

Sam Kade

BeerWolf wrote: »

Try Casu Marzu cheese.

Bon appetit !

:pac:

:eek: No thanks

Shane-KornSpace

That's nasty. I wouldn't eat a strangers scraps unless I had no choice.
They could have sneezed or coughed all over it!

barney4001

good for you pat keep at it

BeerWolf

OP, you never know if someone's sneezed all over your food...

I'd rather have the unserved food that would go to waste otherwise at the end of the day.




No problem eating off people's plates that I know of, who I know are hygienic at least...

Sam Kade

Shane-KornSpace wrote: »

That's nasty. I wouldn't eat a strangers scraps unless I had no choice.
They could have sneezed or coughed all over it!

Did you ever eat out of a communal crisp bowl or chip bowl?

Shane-KornSpace

Sam Kade wrote: »

Did you ever eat out of a communal crisp bowl or chip bowl?

I'm sure I did as a kid, but I don't do it any more. Especially in pubs where most men don't bother washing their hands after handling their dirty knobs and taking a piss.

mad muffin

OP is a hobo…

pat_cork

Sam Kade wrote: »

Did you ever eat out of a communal crisp bowl or chip bowl?

You're in the ball kid. Never thought about that before but it's a lot worse than what I'm doing at least only on person wss at my dinner.

A burger costs $18 and I get it for $9 but I'd eat 2 not a bother so what's wrong with taking 10 quarter burgers and chips amd having a decent free meal

fatherted1969

JOEY DOESN'T SHARE FOOD !!!!!!!

bee06

How do you know the fries they didn't eat had fallen on the floor or something. Yuck!

diomed

Don't like that.
Another thing I hate is a family member who asks me for some of what I ordered (fork poised), and asks me do I want to taste some of their meal. No. Never.

Plazaman

So Johnny The Yank with a mouth full of herpes comes in, orders food, then repeatedly puts his fork into his herpes riddled mouth dragging out some saliva with it before putting the fork back into his food again. And then you go and eat it Pat?

Jaysus man, you letting the side down something fierce. Show a bit of dignity man and stop robbing food (PS that's what your doing, someone has paid for something and you're taking it).

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

That's nasty!! I thought you meant like a normal person. I'd eat off the same plate as my boyfriend (and even that annoys him) but random strangers? Dayum you high gurl?!

BeerWolf

LexieOnRale wrote: »

That's nasty!! I thought you meant like a normal person. I'd eat off the same plate as my boyfriend (and even that annoys him) but random strangers? Dayum you high gurl?!

Implying people eating out ain't normal?

CPSW

They could have spit all over the food for all you know, disgusting!!!

fatherted1969

JOEY DOESN'T SHARE FOOD !!!!!!!

cluelez

CPSW wrote: »

They could have spit all over the food for all you know, disgusting!!!

reading posts like that I assume you all do it after the meal - so you partners/moms/yourselves can have a bit more fun while dish-washing.

This way of thinking IS disgusting.

cluelez

SweetChaos wrote: »

Eww disgusting , how can you now be sure they didn't spit it back on the plate

no no no no no

another one with imagination - or own house rulez

RoboRat

People drink civet coffee, actually they pay mega bucks for civet coffee and that has been shat from a cat

Karl Stein

Pat runs around eating left-overs like a hungry Honey Badger and he doesn't give a ****.

pat_cork

Plazaman wrote: »

So Johnny The Yank with a mouth full of herpes comes in, orders food, then repeatedly puts his fork into his herpes riddled mouth dragging out some saliva with it before putting the fork back into his food again. And then you go and eat it Pat?

Jaysus man, you letting the side down something fierce. Show a bit of dignity man and stop robbing food (PS that's what your doing, someone has paid for something and you're taking it).

How the **** is that robbing you clown? It's going into the bin anyway.

cluelez

RoboRat wrote: »

People drink civet coffee, actually they pay mega bucks for civet coffee and that has been shat from a cat

''Genuine Indonesian kopi luwak is collected from the droppings of a wild cat-like animal called the luwak (the common palm civet, Paraxorus Hermaphroditus), a shy, solitary nocturnal forest animal that freely prowls nearby coffee plantations at night in the harvest season, eating the choicest ripe coffee cherries. It can't digest the stones – or coffee beans – of the cherry, so craps them out along with the rest of its droppings. The beans are collected by farm workers. Cleaned and washed, they have acquired a unique and highly prized taste from their passage through the luwak's digestive tract and the anal scent glands they use for marking their territory. Being wild, hard to collect, variable in age and quality, and very rare, kopi luwak is not a commercially viable crop, but just an interesting coffee curiosity. That's why I bought some.''

cluelez

pat_cork wrote: »

How the **** is that robbing you clown? It's going into the bin anyway.

don't ask them - they weren't hungry before.

Deer

This is reminding me of the time my friend and myself went for a coffee on a day trip to Dublin and my friends boyfriend waited outside because "why should I pay for a coffee when I can get one free at home?" Saving scraps from customers plates is a tad miserly and unhygienic do you not think?

cluelez

Deer wrote: »

This is reminding me of the time my friend and myself went for a coffee on a day trip to Dublin and my friends boyfriend waited outside because "why should I pay for a coffee when I can get one free at home?" Saving scraps from customers plates is a tad miserly and unhygienic do you not think?

OH Deer,

are you complaining because your friends b/f didn't want something that you wanted? - childlish attitude - moan about it elsewhere?

shruikan2553

When I drop food I put it on the plate again so it saves someone cleaning up my mess. Hope you have a clean floor at work.

Deer

Why did you edit your reply cluelez? Where you told me to go away?

Why is it childish to think someone is a tightwad for not buying a coffee in Dublin on a day trip when he could get it free at home in Cork?

I am interested - please explain why so I may get some insite into the minds of tightwads to get to know them better...

It may help me lose my childish ways :-)

CPSW

cluelez wrote: »

reading posts like that I assume you all do it after the meal - so you partners/moms/yourselves can have a bit more fun while dish-washing.

This way of thinking IS disgusting.

Sorry to disappoint you cluelez, but I'm not a plate spitter unfortunately, nor a person who would eat scraps off other strangers plates.

mack81

pat_cork wrote: »

You're in the ball kid. Never thought about that before but it's a lot worse than what I'm doing at least only on person wss at my dinner.

A burger costs $18 and I get it for $9 but I'd eat 2 not a bother so what's wrong with taking 10 quarter burgers and chips amd having a decent free meal

you eat 10 quarter pounders as a meal?

osarusan

mack81 wrote: »

you eat 10 quarter pounders as a meal?

10 quarter burgers - the quarter left over on a plate x 10.

cluelez

Deer wrote: »

Why did you edit your reply cluelez? Where you told me to go away?

Why is it childish to think someone is a tightwad for not buying a coffee in Dublin on a day trip when he could get it free at home in Cork?

I am interested - please explain why so I may get some insite into the minds of tightwads to get to know them better...

It may help me lose my childish ways :-)

to add:

OH Deer - just for laugh!

cluelez

CPSW wrote: »

Sorry to disappoint you cluelez, but I'm not a plate spitter unfortunately, nor a person who would eat scraps off other strangers plates.

I think you are... you mentioned this type of behavior - you have it in your mind, don't you?

cluelez

@mad mufin - what are you thanking for ? -- looking for a friends on boards? huh. typical childish type another one... grow up farmers!

PLUG71

Its a trampy thing to do eating strangers left overs ffs.:eek:

PLUG71

pat_cork wrote: »

How the **** is that robbing you clown? It's going into the bin anyway.

Ha ha theft by consumption!:D

cluelez

OP - do what you feel is right to do. Don't mind the ones who are at the moment ''richer'' than you. This may change pretty quick in both ways. Best of luck.

jiltloop

You said originally that you would eat untouched bits of meat that were left on the plate but now you're saying you would eat a quarter of burger left on a plate??

The first one is border line, eating half eaten burgers off a stranger's plate is disgusting. Someone's chops have been around that thing already!! I can imagine a burger bun soggy from some customer's saliva and you're diving in there and eating it.........
:eek:

Day Lewin

Dunno - if the food is clean, and he's still perfectly healthy...he's probably got a better resistance to infection.
After all, diners cannot check if teh waiter who serves their food has washed their hands...or if the chef has e-coli...life is risk!

As kids we used to prise chewing-gum up off the street and suck it gleefully - (long, long ago, LOL) - we never got sick. Honestly!

PLUG71

cluelez wrote: »

OP - do what you feel is right to do. Don't mind the ones who are at the moment ''richer'' than you. This may change pretty quick in both ways. Best of luck.

He works in a place that sells food surely he could get fresh food from the kitchen if he tried hard enough