Uncovered food for sale in shops ...

foodie66

that looks amazing but have flies hopping off of them and people's germs flying onto them all day - how is this allowed? Don't health inspectors say all food must be covered? I've noticed it in a a lot of petrol stations and well known shops. Obviously most people don't care, i just can't buy them knowing they have been out all day. :mad:

John Doe1

Ah yeah i see this all the time on the bakery items in spar on college green, sort it out lads

orourkeda

Man up

Cardinal Richelieu

A little bit of botullism never did anyone any harm.................

foodie66

orourkeda wrote: »

Man up

No! It's disgusting! Enjoy eating an auld one's bogey that she hocked up while having a coughing fit beside your pastry!!

Spunge

Its political correctness gone mad !

Coriolanus

foodie66 wrote: »

that looks amazing but have flies hopping off of them and people's germs flying onto them all day - how is this allowed? Don't health inspectors say all food must be covered? I've noticed it in a a lot of petrol stations and well known shops. Obviously most people don't care, i just can't buy them knowing they have been out all day. :mad:

Safefood told us all to wash food before eating it. Sure, the may have only mentioned fruit and veg, but they meant the croissants too ffs.

orourkeda

foodie66 wrote: »

No! It's disgusting! Enjoy eating an auld one's bogey that she hocked up while having a coughing fit beside your pastry!!

Snots are a dietary staple

orourkeda

Spunge wrote: »

Its political correctness gone mad !

Yeah. A few pubes never killed anyone

Ghost Buster

The one that bothers me most is licking the backs of stamps which have been slid accross a counter top where other people rest their hands, change and babys butts!!!!

pragmatic1

Good for the auld immune system.

Eroticfishcake

Ghost Buster wrote: »

The one that bothers me most is licking the backs of stamps which have been slid accross a counter top where other people rest their hands, change and babys butts!!!!

Do they not have self adhesive stamps, didn't think there were licky ones anymore.

Ghost Buster

Eroticfishcake wrote: »

Do they not have self adhesive stamps, didn't think there was licky ones anymore.

Well 'la de bloody da'!!!!!;)

carfiosaoorl

How do you think we managed before plastic wrap was invented? Personally I think too much wrapping is used on food products. Its bad for the environment and I have to pay to dump it :mad:

Adhamh

Any harmful microbe living on food is a single-celled organism that has adapted specifically to live in that very unique environment- for you to get sick by eating it it would have to survive your saliva, a temperature change of 20 degrees within a few minutes (enough to make us highly uncomfortable, let alone a single-celled bacterium which cannot regulate its own temperature) and spend about 18 hours stewing in the hydrochloric acid of your stomach while being bombarded by tens of thousands of enzyms a second and other digestive bacteria.

So, the chances of getting sick from uncovered food are billions to one.

Billions to one.

im invisible

So, the chances of getting sick from uncovered food are billions to one.

but still they come

foodie66

Adhamh wrote: »

Any harmful microbe living on food is a single-celled organism that has adapted specifically to live in that very unique environment- for you to get sick by eating it it would have to survive your saliva, a temperature change of 20 degrees within a few minutes (enough to make us highly uncomfortable, let alone a single-celled bacterium which cannot regulate its own temperature) and spend about 18 hours stewing in the hydrochloric acid of your stomach while being bombarded by tens of thousands of enzyms a second and other digestive bacteria.

So, the chances of getting sick from uncovered food are billions to one.

Billions to one.

But i still don't want to be eating an auld ones bogey!

How do you think we managed before plastic wrap was invented? Personally I think too much wrapping is used on food products. Its bad for the environment and I have to pay to dump it

Didn't say it had to be plastic wrapping. A simple net/glass covering would suffice. They would still be on display to entice people but not putting off those of us who are grossed out by dandruff, snot, hairs, skin cells, dust, fly/bee **** etc etc on the cakes and pastries.

I just don't get how it is allowed with health inspectors. I know a few people it is putting off so they are losing custom from it.

alie

im invisible wrote: »

So, the chances of getting sick from uncovered food are billions to one.

but still they come

Was in a supermarket Yesterday and a small child licked the icing sugar off every uncovered mince pie.

foodie66

alie wrote: »

Was in a supermarket Yesterday and a small child licked the icing sugar off every uncovered mince pie.

I rest my case!

alie

foodie66 wrote: »

alie wrote: »

Was in a supermarket Yesterday and a small child licked the icing sugar off every uncovered mince pie.

I rest my case!

I have also seen a lovely big sneeze land on a salad bar, its disgusting.

Ghost Buster

This thread is a shining example of why those facking ads for Dettox Spray etc should be banned "IF YOU COULD SEE HOW GERMS SPREAD BLAH BLAH"

Ghost Buster

alie wrote: »

I have also seen a lovely big sneeze land on a salad bar, its disgusting.

And the guys who work in the bakerys jizz in the bread and those ARENT chocolate chips in your cookies.

Tails142

It's just nasty, puts me off buying anything for sure. Saw a kid lick a muffin by the till in douglas and kaldi once and then put it back. Bet the person who bought it thought how lovely and moist it was

Abi

foodie66 wrote: »

that looks amazing but have flies hopping off of them and people's germs flying onto them all day - how is this allowed? Don't health inspectors say all food must be covered? I've noticed it in a a lot of petrol stations and well known shops. Obviously most people don't care, i just can't buy them knowing they have been out all day. :mad:

Always thought this myself, I wouldn't buy anything uncovered. I don't have a sweet tooth myself, so they're not my gig and it wouldn't bother me - but all those buns and croissants and shyte are never covered. Same with fruit etc.


yick.

foodie66

Abi wrote: »

Always thought this myself, I wouldn't buy anything uncovered. I don't have a sweet tooth myself, so they're not my gig and it wouldn't bother me - but all those buns and croissants and shyte are never covered. Same with fruit etc.


yick.

I love them, the heart goes out of me to bring a couple home to have with coffee but no way. I wouldn't enjoy it.

At least we can wash fruit, even though i've seen people bite into an apple as they leave the till :rolleyes:

bullets

There was a program on Sky a few years back where they
were using shock tactics to show the viewer how there was millions
of bacteria growing in your Christmas Turkey a day or so after cooking it.

I remember my old man telling me when growing up on the farm
the Turkey(s) after they were cooked could be left for more than a week
in the open store room (non-refrigerated) and nobody ever got sick no matter what they ate.

Stomach Acid and immune system goes a long way.

~B