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Re: What's the point of wearing rubber gloves...
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Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:56:34 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Pete White wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
> > Holey moley, did you just hit a hot-button for me!  I'm not fluid-o-phobic, but
> > in most circumstances don't care to have other people's DNA deposited on me or
> > my food or my purchases without my express permission (I even mention this as an
> > "I hate" item on my LUGNET profile).  Especially bothersome to me is when a food
> > service worker has trouble opening his mylar glove, so he puts the wrist-end to
> > his mouth and blows in it to inflate it.  I mean, why not just urinate on my
> > sandwich, while you're at it?
> 
> It's also funny (maybe not) when sandwich-makers used their gloved hand to
> take your money and return change, then return to sandwich production.
> I hate to think what lurks on paper money passed from hand to hand, though in
> Australia we have plasticised notes, which may lessen the risk (slightly ?).

Have you ever heard the phrase "what does not kill you makes you stronger"? I'm
a big fan of food hygeine, but I also feel that germs are a friends too!

Scott A

> 
> There has been some items in the media recently about doctors' neckties......
> http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/27/1088274627585.html
> 
> > Don't get me wrong--I have great respect for people stuck in the food service
> > industry (having spent too many years there, myself), but this particular
> > behavior drives me to fury.
> 
> I have respect for food industry workers as well, but from anecdotes I have
> heard from workers in the canned fruit, bread-making and fast food industries,
> we would probably die if we knew what ends up in our mouths. Accidental
> contamination is different to wilful contamination.
> 
> pete.w (....not eating anything are you ?)



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(...) I once saw a friend (a microbiologist) pick up his ice cream sandwich from where he'd dropped it in the dirt, and he ate it without pause or brushing it off. When a few of us expressed our disgust, he noted that "the dirtiest thing we eat (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) It's also funny (maybe not) when sandwich-makers used their gloved hand to take your money and return change, then return to sandwich production. I hate to think what lurks on paper money passed from hand to hand, though in Australia we have (...) (22 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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