Handling cash and food

WhiteWalls

As far as I can see it seems to be perfectly acceptable for people who work in chippers to take cash off you, give change and then turn around and start preparing food?

johnnyskeleton

Bloody cheek. They should keep the free chips coming none of that payment guff

biko

No glove no love

Micky Dolenz

I was in a chip shop one night and asked your man "do you have chicken wings?"
He says "I do"
I says " great, fly over there and get me a big of chips"

Saralee4

They don't really touch the food though do they well not the person that takes the money? im sure there are a lot of other worse things that go on in chippers if your going to be worrying about that!

dirtyden

WhiteWalls wrote: »

As far as I can see it seems to be perfectly acceptable for people who work in chippers to take cash off you, give change and then turn around and start preparing food?

Do you pay for your food and then go disinfect your hands before you eat it?

I mean you have to handle money to pay too.

WhiteWalls

I have seen them with my own two eyes physically touching food after handling cash. I would not consider myself to be overly fussy but that is disgusting

johnnyskeleton

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I was in a chip shop one night and asked your man "do you have chicken wings?"
He says "I do"
I says " great, fly over there and get me a big of chips"

Whats a "chip shop"?

WhiteWalls

dirtyden wrote: »

Do you pay for your food and then go disinfect your hands before you eat it?

I mean you have to handle money to pay too.

I always wash my hands before I eat

SEPT 23 1989

Do you wear tissue boxes on your feet OP?

Saralee4

WhiteWalls wrote: »

I always wash my hands before I eat

So if you went to a fast food place, paid and then you would go to the toilet and wash your hands before eating?

or if you bought an ice cream, you would wash your hands before eating it? every time?

Micky Dolenz

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

Whats a "chip shop"?

Em, a shop that sells chips, chicken, fish and the like.

FunLover18

WhiteWalls wrote: »

I always wash my hands before I eat

Waste of time and water. We have immune systems for a reason. Don't get me wrong, I'm fairly hygienic, shower every day, wash hands after the toilet, but there's a limit. I can't worrying about every Tom, Dick, and Harry who handled my cash before me; down that path madness lies.

wandatowell

There's a deli I use that is a one woman operation and she makes your sandwich with gloves on (obviously). You hand over money one gloves comes off and is thrown into a bin, she gives you the change and then another clean gloves comes on and the next customer is served.

Apart from her sandwiches being very nice its the main reason I use her business.

sammyjo90

I used to work in a chipper and we never touched the food with our hands, it was all tongs and other various utensils. Don't think I've ever seen a fast food worker touch my food with their hands.
I'd be more worried about the guy who's just come back from break and you don't see them wash their hands!

Jawgap

I think of you are eating from a chipper regularly, food poisoning is the least of your health concerns.....

Pwindedd

FunLover18 wrote: »

Waste of time and water. We have immune systems for a reason. Don't get me wrong, I'm fairly hygienic, shower every day, wash hands after the toilet, but there's a limit. I can't worrying about every Tom, Dick, and Harry who handled my cash before me; down that path madness lies.

Totally - Ya got to ingest a few germs to build immunity - old expression "you've got to eat a bucket of dirt before you die" springs to mind.

Could just be coincidence but I rarely get sick and even when I do it's just a cold and if I drink hot vinegar, lemon, honey and cinnamon it usually nips it in the bud and I'm grand.

kneemos

Never ceases to amaze how obsessive people will get about hygiene.

FunLover18

Pwindedd wrote: »

Totally - Ya got to ingest a few germs to build immunity - old expression "you've got to eat a bucket of dirt before you die" springs to mind.

Could just be coincidence but I rarely get sick and even when I do it's just a cold and if I drink hot vinegar, lemon, honey and cinnamon it usually nips it in the bud and I'm grand.

kneemos wrote: »

Never ceases to amaze how obsessive people will get about hygiene.

I have to laugh when new parents insist on sanitizing everything and then wonder why their child is always sick :rolleyes:

WhiteWalls

kneemos wrote: »

Never ceases to amaze how obsessive people will get about hygiene.

Do you realize how dirty money is?

Jawgap

WhiteWalls wrote: »

Do you realize how dirty money is?

It's ok - the cocaine residues help kill the bugs.....

FunLover18

WhiteWalls wrote: »

Do you realize how dirty money is?

How many people do you know who have died or gotten sick as a result of dirty money?

Señor Fancy Pants

WhiteWalls wrote: »

Do you realize how dirty money is?

Depends how much you launder it.

somuj

WhiteWalls wrote: »

Do you realize how dirty money is?

Do you realize the more germs in your gut the healthier your immune system.

lazeedaisy

Jawgap wrote: »

I think of you are eating from a chipper regularly, food poisoning is the least of your health concerns.....

Define regular?

We eat from a chipper every Christmas eve without fail

heldel00

My sister used to work in a deli and a girl came in one day, asked for a salad sandwich. Little sis started to make the sambo and the girl said "can I have a new chopping board from the shelf?, can you get another knife from the drawer?, can you get new butter from the fridge? No don't use the top sheet to wrap sandwich, bin that and use the next one? etc etc ...
Little sis did as asked but inquired as to whether she had allergies or what and she said "no I'm a vegetarian."
This a bit much???

Jawgap

lazeedaisy wrote: »

Define regular?

We eat from a chipper every Christmas eve without fail

I do more often than that - considering the food is plunged into boiling oil, I'm not really that worried about bugs

For Forks Sake

heldel00 wrote: »

My sister used to work in a deli and a girl came in one day, asked for a salad sandwich. Little sis started to make the sambo and the girl said "can I have a new chopping board from the shelf?, can you get another knife from the drawer?, can you get new butter from the fridge? No don't use the top sheet to wrap sandwich, bin that and use the next one? etc etc ...
Little sis did as asked but inquired as to whether she had allergies or what and she said "no I'm a vegetarian."
This a bit much???

In the words of Monty Python, she should've sliced 'er in two with breadknife.

ScumLord

sammyjo90 wrote: »

I used to work in a chipper and we never touched the food with our hands, it was all tongs and other various utensils.

I think it would be quite an impressive feat to assemble a hamburger with just a tongs.

LizT

Jesus I'd love some chips now.

dirtyden

WhiteWalls wrote: »

I always wash my hands before I eat

Have you ever eaten a 99 ice cream?

Deenie123

There's a thread on here about personal hygiene... And lots of people debating about whether showering daily is overkill.. Anyway, someone even harked back to a weekly wash in a tin bath in front of the fire.

But even in those days people were told to wash your hands before you eat. Now it turns out that some people weren't even taught THAT as children?! For crying out loud!

Tin Foil Hat

WhiteWalls wrote: »

I always wash my hands before I eat

A) No, you don't.
Unless you artificially impregnate cows for a living, you need a kick up the hole for even trying. There really is no need. Humans would be extinct if we were that fragile.

To Elland Back

I'm firmly in the camp of, if you see someone do gross things with your food, I can't touch it. If I see nothing, then Nom, Nom, Nom

Ranchu

I wash my mouth out before I speak.

thelad95

What's even more disgusting is that person with a cold working in a deli who wipes their nose in their glove. So many times I've seen it happen.

Senna

If you are that worried about what a customer can see, you'd never eat again if you seen what can happen behind the scenes. And I don't necessary mean in the kitchen, I mean your food from production till it gets to the fridge.

I can't wait till all these stuck up assholes and their "only drink craft beer" see what happens in some small breweries, and no that level of alcohol won't kill piss.