salad counters in supermarkets

jamesr123 · 12-11-2013 10:50PM #1

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 · 12-11-2013 10:51PM

What are you suggesting? Salad-Bar Bouncers?

kneemos · 12-11-2013 10:53PM

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

Seachmall · 12-11-2013 10:57PM

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

Maximus Alexander · 12-11-2013 10:58PM

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

Augmerson · 12-11-2013 11:01PM

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 · 12-11-2013 11:02PM

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 · 12-11-2013 11:02PM

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 · 12-11-2013 11:04PM

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 · 12-11-2013 11:06PM

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 · 12-11-2013 11:08PM

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

SimonTemplar · 12-11-2013 11:09PM

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 · 12-11-2013 11:13PM

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 · 12-11-2013 11:14PM

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 · 12-11-2013 11:18PM

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 · 12-11-2013 11:22PM

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 · 12-11-2013 11:26PM

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 · 12-11-2013 11:28PM

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 · 12-11-2013 11:29PM

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 · 12-11-2013 11:29PM

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

Ignorance is (was) bliss

kneemos · 12-11-2013 11:31PM

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

Cookie_Monster · 12-11-2013 11:44PM

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

jjbrien · 12-11-2013 11:56PM

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

liliq · 13-11-2013 12:01AM

Wish I hadn't read this thread.

*heaves

monkeysnapper · 13-11-2013 12:05AM

I worked in a leading supermarket and they put all the out of date salads into the salad bar ,

131spanner · 13-11-2013 12:07AM

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 · 13-11-2013 12:12AM

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 · 13-11-2013 12:14AM

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 · 13-11-2013 12:16AM

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 · 13-11-2013 12:18AM

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 · 13-11-2013 12:27AM

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.

salad counters in supermarkets

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