OT - food open to the air in shops..

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Former Member

Maybe I am just being picky but I really have a problem with cakes, bread rolls, salads etc being exposed to the open air and not being covered in supermarkets etc.

Most illnesses are spread by droplet infection... a couple of years ago I was in Morrisons and was going to help myself to their salad bar. The salads were all open with no screen etc, This guy next to me sneezed all over them

I just thought . ergghhhhhh. And have never gone near the salad bar again.
And its the same for croissants - with all the public health scares about, who wants to eat a croissant that has been left in the open in a busy supermarket.
Yuk!
Do others feel the same? Or is it just me that is the faddy twit.

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charlisockMember

I feel the same as well. Apart from salad, I think the only things I've seen out in the open are fish and meat, but I'm a vegetarian so it doesn't affect me that much.....

Now you've made me scared of the salad bar

7/14/109:31 AM

Former Member

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I feel the same as well. Apart from salad, I think the only things I've seen out in the open are fish and meat, but I'm a vegetarian so it doesn't affect me that much..... Now you've made me scared of the salad bar

At least you can cook fish and meat.
Re the salad bar....sorry

7/14/109:33 AM

suzybeanMember

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a couple of years ago I was in Morrisons and was going to help myself to their salad bar. The salads were all open with no screen etc, This guy next to me sneezed all over them

OMG I just clutched my tummy to stop me from wretching....I try not to think too hard of such things

7/14/109:33 AM

Former Member

Sorry Suzy - it has put me off for life.

I just like to care and share

7/14/109:34 AM

suzybeanMember

Thanks anyway Issy...but ewww.

7/14/109:36 AM

Former Member

Shall I tell you about my weird washing hands after going to the toilet fixation?

7/14/109:37 AM

charlisockMember

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At least you can cook fish and meat.

Fair enough

7/14/109:37 AM

jacksonbMember

i was at the deli counter in the local co-op, no one was serving s this girl rushed over from unloading a delivery trolley ,asked me what i wanted, i said some bacon,she didn't wash her hands and her finger was bleeding.

oddly nuff she caught me of my more charitable days so i bought the bacon and dumped it in the in the bin on the way out.

people eh?

7/14/109:42 AM

Blizz'ardMember 10 years

Oh, I'll eat most things.

*** goes to check bins near jackson's house ***

7/14/109:46 AM

Dame_Ann_AverageMember VIP10 years

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Oh, I'll eat most things. *** goes to check bins near jackson's house ***

Shabby?

7/14/109:52 AM

DirtyprettygirlthingMember

I can't use salad bars...

I thought too much about it when I found out that the rim of clear plastic was called a sneeze guard!

bizarrely it doesn't bother me when its bread rolls and stuff... which is stupid.

7/14/109:52 AM

suzybeanMember

Reference:dame

Shabby?

7/14/109:54 AM

El LoroMember VIP10 yearsModerator

And apart from sneezing, unwashed hands, there's also our good old friendly fly which we've all seen on cakes etc in bakers. And I don't think the avearge fly washes their feet after they've been visiting rather unhygienic places which we'd rather not think about.

Strangely enough, I tend to buy packaged foods, and fruit and veg I buy loose, I wash before use.

7/14/109:56 AM

Blizz'ardMember 10 years

Reference: Dame Ann

Shabby?

*** removes silly hat ***

7/14/109:55 AM

DirtyprettygirlthingMember

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*** removes silly hat ***

*keeps silly hat on*

7/14/1010:05 AM

CroctacusMember

It bothers me not at all....a few germs and dirt here and there help to build your resistance to illness

7/14/1010:23 AM

MentalistMember

Hate the salad bar, ever since I saw a child pick his nose then go over and pick up some pasta salad with his bare hands. Didn't like the pik 'n' mix in Woolworths either

7/14/1010:34 AM

Garage JoeMember

How odd! I found a hair in my Morrison's salad last night. It wasn't one of Mrs Joes, nor mine-I don't have any. I then had a moments thought about the liklihood of what you describe. It hasn't put me off though.

7/14/1010:38 AM

suzybeanMember

Up until about 5 months ago, one of my kids was medically imuno-suppressed so a few germs and someone else's snot over a salad leaf meant a lot to us, kinda like the difference between life and illness/death

7/14/1010:46 AM

Jeggo (Ben`s Buddy/Member of JJ`s LS]Member

I never buy those danish pastries, croissants etc that aren`t covered up. Everyone breathing all over them and kids touching them - no way.

7/14/1011:17 AM

Karma_Member

Why cant they have this stuff covered with those mesh/net cover things you can get from the Betterware catalogue? (about the only thing in there that isn't a load of shite tbh). I've got a couple and they're great!

I like to see gloves, an apron and hair tied in a hat on anyone serving or handling food. When you think what can live under dirty fingernails.... *shudders*

7/14/1011:27 AM

Former Member

Oh I feel better now that I know I am not alone.
Croc I do agree with you about the whole "little bit of dirt before you die" theory. But to me this is whole scale germ warfare.

7/14/1011:56 AM

Smarting ButtocksMember

A local Pizza place in my town never recovered from being prosecuted after a diner found a severed finger tip in her coleslaw after a kitchen accident.

7/14/1012:03 PM

Karma_Member

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A local Pizza place in my town never recovered from being prosecuted after a diner found a severed finger tip in her coleslaw after a kitchen accident.

Well that's made my spag bowl go down a treat!

7/14/1012:08 PM

RexiMember 10 years

ewwwww SB

Isadora - I am sooo glad there is someone else like me. I never, ever buy from the salad bar, or buy unwrapped bread, pastries etc that people could have poked and prodded and sneezed over.

I thought I was weird

7/14/1012:09 PM

Garage JoeMember

Mrs Joe maintains that the biggest danger to human health is the mayonaise which they insist on soaking stuff in.

7/14/1012:18 PM

MoonbeamsMember

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Mrs Joe maintains that the biggest danger to human health is the mayonaise which they insist on soaking stuff in.

I'd agree with mrs Joe.

7/14/1012:30 PM

Former Member

I think that that really put me off was when we were at the height of piggy flu and people were saying that handwashing was paramount... but also swine flu was spread by sneezing... need I go on?

7/14/1012:33 PM

CroctacusMember

yeah but swine flu was a con.....half the people that purportedly had it only had normal flu....and it killed less people than flu does every winter.

I have know someone to die from flu but no-one directly known to me got swine flu.

7/14/1012:36 PM

DirtyprettygirlthingMember

I only directly knew one person with swine flu... same age as me, mum of two teenage kids.

Dunno where she got it from but she was in hospital with it for 3 weeks! Bizarrely, none of her family got it... and they dunno where she got it from

7/14/1012:38 PM

Former Member

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eah but swine flu was a con.....half the people that purportedly had it only had normal flu....and it killed less people than flu does every winter. I have know someone to die from flu but no-one directly known to me got swine flu.

I actually had a good friend who did have it and she was so ill.

The thing is, they wanted a flu epidemic - the powers that be had planned for one and swine flu fitted,
The trouble is, people are a lot healthier than years ago so it was never going to be as doomy and gloomy as they wanted. They just had to try and justify the huge amount of public money spent.

7/14/1012:40 PM

Smarting ButtocksMember

Swine Flu was a bit of a con. I was diagnosed with it via phone call to my GP and given a code for Tamiflu prescription. I went into town (on the bus) to collect it, the chemist made me wait outside while she prepared it as apparently I should not have collected it myself. I didn't know I was supposed to get someone else to get the prescription for me. And anyway as I live alone I needed other essentials so needed to go out anyway. They was no pandemic in this town due to me being out and about with my germs.

7/14/1012:45 PM

DirtyprettygirlthingMember

I have to say thats its one of the few things I don't miss about working... the colleague transmitted plagues...

I remember one woman sitting at her desk about 15 feet away from my desk, sniffing, coughing, sneezing... she shouldn't have been there...

so there was me... opening the windows.... trying to keep my distance... so she decides she is cold... but can't handle her fan heater (she brought her own in) directly on her... so she points it at me... ensuring its air intake bit is aimed at her..

she was sooo trying to infect me!

7/14/1012:50 PM

Former Member

Coughs and sneezes spread diseases..

7/14/1012:52 PM

CroctacusMember

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The trouble is, people are a lot healthier than years ago so

You say that but as a kid I don't remeber any kids being asthmatic and needing inhalers. Nowadays loads of kids are (thankfully none of mine) which I'm convinced is directly proportional to the use of all the antibacterial cleaners and some kids not being allowed to get dirty.

7/14/1012:52 PM

ClumsycatMember

well, thats it for morrisons salad bar for me

7/14/1012:55 PM

DirtyprettygirlthingMember

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Coughs and sneezes spread diseases.

yeah... & if you wanna be uber sure you spread it.... incubate it in a fan heater first... and propel it at your co worker!

7/14/1012:56 PM

Karma_Member

Reference: Sal

but no-one directly known to me got swine flu.

I had it

Jeez it was bloody horrible. Nothing like normal flu at all - hard to describe but I felt absolutely friggin shite for a week, like I was on my last legs. And it came on VERY quickly aswell. I think those that genuinely had it knew it.

7/14/1012:58 PM

Former Member

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Coughs and sneezes spread diseases.

yeah... & if you wanna be uber sure you spread it.... incubate it in a fan heater first... and propel it at your co worker!

it is bloody selfish to go to work with a heavy cold or stomach upset. It is not noble or self sacrificing cos everyone else then gets it.

7/14/101:00 PM

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