Why are cakes and pastries left out for flies to hop off of them in shops?

Shergar6 · 25-05-2016 10:00PM #1

You see the most delicious looking tarts, crumbles, pastries, cakes, buns, breads that your heart would be longing for but its on the counter/table where everyone is coughing over and flicking their dandruff onto and in the summer the flies are hopping off of them

How do the Health and Safety crowd let them away with it?

Has anyone else been turned off from buying because of hygiene reasons or does it not bother any one else?

If anyone works in Centra or the rest - what gives? Why can't they be covered with those see through covers?

Temptamperu · 25-05-2016 10:01PM

and kids with their rotten little hands touching all the tasty treats.

mud · 25-05-2016 10:04PM

And sausage rolls left under the deli lights for hours, so hard they could be used as a weapon and yet still sold as food.

thegreatgonzo · 25-05-2016 10:07PM

Shergar6 wrote: »

Has anyone else been turned off from buying because of hygiene reasons?

Yes. Salad bars, pick and mix sweets, etc etc. I get a mental image of a sweaty itchy looking man simultaneously scratching his arse and sneezing before reaching in and handling all the good stuff. It's my mother's fault, she painted this picture when we were children.

fineso.mom · 25-05-2016 10:07PM

If the flies only hopped off them it wouldn't be so bad. It's what they do when they land is the problem.

Ohbethehokey · 25-05-2016 10:09PM

It hasn't killed me yet

Pass the buns this way

Lyaiera · 25-05-2016 10:12PM

I've used the same plate three days in a row not washing it in between. Brush the crumbs off, and sure isn't the pasta sauce already dried into the plate. I really don't feel like I can judge them.

25-05-2016 10:15PM

Meh. Some people are way too fussed over hygiene.

Shergar6 · 25-05-2016 10:15PM

Lyaiera wrote: »

I've used the same plate three days in a row not washing it in between. Brush the crumbs off, and sure isn't the pasta sauce already dried into the plate. I really don't feel like I can judge them.

Ok gross but at least it is your own germs and mess. Hundreds of people walk around supermarkets and cafes spreading all kinds of germs/nasty habits around

ToddyDoody · 25-05-2016 10:16PM

Cling film them all and let God sort them out.

Shergar6 · 25-05-2016 10:17PM

Lia_lia wrote: »

Meh. Some people are way too fussed over hygiene.

Its not being fussy to not want a few dozen people's dead skin cells/germs in the food i am buying.

My main point is how does it get past Health and Safety inspectors?

Ohbethehokey · 25-05-2016 10:19PM

Shergar6 wrote: »

Its not being fussy to not want a few dozen people's dead skin cells/germs in the food i am buying.

My main point is how does it get past Health and Safety inspectors?

Maybe the have risk assessed it and it's grand?

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 25-05-2016 10:24PM

Lyaiera wrote: »

I've used the same plate three days in a row not washing it in between. Brush the crumbs off, and sure isn't the pasta sauce already dried into the plate. I really don't feel like I can judge them.

:eek: :eek: :eek:
How

25-05-2016 10:25PM

Shergar6 wrote: »

Its not being fussy to not want a few dozen people's dead skin cells/germs in the food i am buying.

My main point is how does it get past Health and Safety inspectors?

I really don't see the big deal. Food you buy in restaurants often gets handled by a few people before it gets to your plate.

Lyaiera · 25-05-2016 10:30PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

:eek: :eek: :eek:
How

I didn't feel very well for a few days and I never got around to doing the washing.

Shergar6 · 25-05-2016 10:45PM

Lia_lia wrote: »

I really don't see the big deal. Food you buy in restaurants often gets handled by a few people before it gets to your plate.

Not the same thing

FizzleSticks · 25-05-2016 10:48PM

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25-05-2016 10:53PM

Shergar6 wrote: »

Not the same thing

Why not?

Collie D · 25-05-2016 11:10PM

Lia_lia wrote: »

Why not?

A chef will most likely (although not certainly) have washed his hands before serving it up whereas a kid's hands have probably been up his nose before they go in the pick and mix.

RandomName2 · 25-05-2016 11:14PM

Lia_lia wrote: »

I really don't see the big deal.

Lack of hygiene (or fly vomit) never did me any harm. Apart from the couple of times I got gastroenteritis. That was genuinely unpleasant.

Minderbinder · 25-05-2016 11:22PM

I was in Tesco in Newbridge a while ago and there was a woman getting pick n mix using her hands as shovels instead of the shovels. That put me off for a while but I could only resist for so long.

wakka12 · 25-05-2016 11:22PM

Yeah I think about this but then I also think about how people didnt have fridges and freezers not so long ago and ate a lot of very spoilt food by our standards today and most of them turned out okay.
We are too fussy

ixoy · 25-05-2016 11:28PM

When I was on holidays in Marseille, there was a small stand selling pastries. A number of wasps were crawling over the pastries that were being sold. Made me feel ill looking at it.

Call Me Jimmy · 25-05-2016 11:38PM

won't kill ye, in fact ye could probably use the germs m8

goz83 · 25-05-2016 11:48PM

Was in dunnes years ago. A fat old lady who smelled quite strongly of urine was squeezing the loaves of bread. And i sh!t you not, but she sneezes into her hand and then goes over to fondle the fruit without choosing her bread. Sick!

I also knew a guy who when he was around 12-13 would pick his nose and quite purposely wipe in on the sesame seed buns.

So yes, I would agree with food being covered over and the death penalty to be administered to any nacker who gropes food with their snotty, grubby hands.

Harry Palmr · 26-05-2016 12:02AM

Think of these germs as constitution strengtheners that taste nice. How do you expect to survive the weakening of the global penicillin stock if you refuse to toughen up?

RIGHTisRIGHT · 26-05-2016 12:31AM

Shergar6 wrote: »

You see the most delicious looking tarts, crumbles, pastries, cakes, buns, breads that your heart would be longing for but its on the counter/table where everyone is coughing over and flicking their dandruff onto and in the summer the flies are hopping off of them How do the Health and Safety crowd let them away with it?

Has anyone else been turned off from buying because of hygiene reasons or does it not bother any one else?

If anyone works in Centra or the rest - what gives? Why can't they be covered with those see through covers?

OP I started a thread like this a few weeks ago and I was just dismissed also.
I think most people are just sheep and they will not find anything wrong with anything unless the media or Government pushes it and it's backed up by peer pressure.
My threads was just about peoples germs on the food insects and other flying nasty things did not ever cross my mind.

Food on open shelves not wrapped is just pure sick.

Put something in the wrong bin or dismiss global warming and you will see loads of people get their panties in a twist.:D

Ohbethehokey · 26-05-2016 12:33AM

RIGHTisRIGHT wrote: »

OP I started a thread like this a few weeks ago and I was just dismissed also.
I think most people are just sheep and they will not find anything wrong with anything unless the media or Government pushes it and it's back up by peer pressure.
My threads was just about peoples germs on the food insects and other flying nasty things did not ever cross my mind.

Food on open shelves not wrapped is just pure sick.

How many people has it killed? Peer pressure, yeah, that trumps science every day of the week.

RIGHTisRIGHT · 26-05-2016 12:37AM

Ohbethehokey wrote: »

How many people has it killed? Peer pressure, yeah, that trumps science every day of the week.

Neither me nor the OP have claimed anybody has been killed.

It's is disgusting yuk.
If I am paying for food I want it wrapped.

Ohbethehokey · 26-05-2016 12:38AM

RIGHTisRIGHT wrote: »

Neither me nor the OP have claimed anybody has been killed.

It's is disgusting yuk.
If I am paying for food I want it wrapped.

So you can destroy the environment with excess packaging waste, sounods like a plan, round up the mob

RIGHTisRIGHT · 26-05-2016 12:40AM

Ohbethehokey wrote: »

So you can destroy the environment with excess packaging waste, sounods like a plan, round up the mob

Why are cakes and pastries left out for flies to hop off of them in shops?

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