Common things you avoid at restaurants?
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Can be food, or anything really. Last week, it suddenly dawned on me about this "serving utensil" and the likelihood of it being thoroughly cleaned after every use.
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Can be food, or anything really. Last week, it suddenly dawned on me about this "serving utensil" and the likelihood of it being thoroughly cleaned after every use.
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people
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Pasta
Pasta
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Haven't been to a China
Haven't been to a China Buffet in quite a while. If I visit one, I avoid the 'Sushi Rolls'.
Any restaurant that has packets of sugar at the table, I always grab a handful of the Aspartame ones for Ant poison.
I can't figure out if FOM' s dish is "Chicagoland Pizza" or Lasagna with canned artichokes.
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Cameras
Cameras.
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Food trucks
Food trucks
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restaurants
restaurants
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Seafood in a landlocked state
Seafood in a landlocked state,,,
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What’s that dish pictured
What’s that dish pictured there FOM?
I don’t avoid anything as a rule maybe I avoid the specials sometimes because I think they’re trying to get rid of it.
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It's a "koto" Detroit style
It's a "koto" Detroit style pizza from Brown Dog in Telluride.
Great pizza ... and I'm someone from Chicago who prefers NYC slices in general
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Koto ~
Koto ~
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Letting any food I am about to eat, hit the sides or bottom of that plastic French Fries basket, that has never been cleaned, ever.
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Anything Alfredo.
Anything Alfredo.
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I NEVER put my utensils on a
I NEVER put my utensils on a table without some sort of plate or napkin for them to lay on.
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Communal condiments...
Communal condiments...
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Calamari ever since I found
Calamari ever since I found out that pig rectum is a substitute.
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Do tell.
Do tell.
If true, I see your point. If you're in the mood for pig rectum, you order a hot dog.
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table near the john.
table near the john. anything that requires a sneeze guard.
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Fish on Mondays
Fish on Mondays
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^^^^^This, me too. Salad bar
^^^^^This, me too. Salad bar here in VT got a bunch of people sick recently!
Bar fruit. Most bar tenders do not wash their fruit before prepping it. Ewwww. Most serving utensils are put through a washer that should get them pretty clean. Tuna is frequently reddened up with shark blood according to a buddy in the seafood industry.
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Fish on Mondays<<
Fish on Mondays<<
Hmm. Monday Fish & Chips special at our local-ish diner.
Seriously, tho, anyone else heard the calamari thing?
I remember seeing a thing with Lisa Loeb and Dweezil Zappa (can that be right?) where it said there was a huge market for chicken anus in the far east. In case you were wondering.
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Letting any food I am about
Letting any food I am about to eat, hit the sides or bottom of that plastic French Fries basket, that has never been cleaned, ever.<<<<
Yeah, those baskets are likely not washed very often either ... they use those for chips at a Mexican place I go to, but they line the top with tissue paper which normally does a sufficient job ... it's the tongs to grab the chips from the large bowl I have an issue with and always use a napkin to grab said tongs (and ladles for salsa). I'm always amazed at how many people lick their fingers at a restaurant.
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Most serving utensils are put
Most serving utensils are put through a washer that should get them pretty clean.<<<
I realize this is the goal, but does it work out like this in reality ... especially at a busy place where they're always in demand?
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Fresh fish is delivered on
Fresh fish is delivered on Tuesdays. Diner's probably frozen stuff anyway.
Never heard of the pig thing. I cook a few hundred pounds of calamari for our Italian club feast every year so I don't touch the stuff anymore.
The best fried calamari: toss with fried pickled cherry pepper rings and gorgonzola cheese while the calamari is hot. Marinara dip.
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Hand squeezed lime at a bar.
Hand squeezed lime at a bar. No fucking way.
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Tapwater.
Tapwater.
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Onions
Onions
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First I've heard of pig ass
First I've heard of pig ass masquerading as Calamari. There's one Italian place around here that makes great Calamari, both the 'traditional' and a spicy one with the Cherry Bomb peppers.
The other 4-5 places I've tried, you might as well be eating pig ass, or Arthur Treacher's fish & chips.
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>>Common things you avoid at
>>Common things you avoid at restaurants?
Meat gravy or fish unless I know it's good, ketchup from old looking containers, toilet seats, of its a manual toilet I use my shoe to flush. FOM if I was a waitress.
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Most decent restaurants get
Most decent restaurants get fish in every day....(except sundays, and even then some will get deliverys 7 days a week)....and any one ive ever worked at (many) sends silverware through dishmachine 2-3-4 times....and all modern machines not only wash, and rinse, but have a sanitizer cycle....its much more about where you eat...than what you eat.
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>>toilet seats, of its a
>>toilet seats, of its a manual toilet I use my shoe to flush.
Do not try and conceptualize, that is the same wash room that the cook of our food has their bio-breaks in, like I just I just did..
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Knot --
Knot --
Is that the Missus before & after the 'All KFC Diet' ??
Thanks for sharing !!
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Healthy Food
Healthy Food
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· How about places where the
· How about places where the waitstaff brings food and clears the table of your snotty napkins and slobbered plates? Any hand washing going on in between? I doubt it.
· Traveling in foreign countries I try avoid eating food that is cooked and served by the same person handling the dirty money in their all cash society.
· Also try to avoid eating in places where the tv is on.
Come to think of it I like to eat at home, besides my kids say the food is better at home.
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I like the Phö places
I like the Phö places (Vietnamese) and have never gotten ill there. But it's the nearly-boiling broth, to which you add the Basil and sprouts and flank steak.
Pretty close to Sterile lab technique.
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soup. most of the time.
soup. most of the time.
*bzzz*