For what it’s worth, I was a line cook for 15+ years and I’ve only fucked with one person’s food in a serious way.
I’ve put out half-assed food. I’ve giggled with the waitress while destroying some asshole’s mouth with “smoking tonsils” hot sauce additive. He was a dick to my server and asked for wings as hot as possible. Malicious compliance.
I’ve spitefully skimped a pricks burrito on meat. I’ve hooked-up dope customers that treat all the staff like human-beings by making their food with extra care.
Only one person has ever driven me to hock a giant loogey in their food. They were an employee/driver/dealer/shitbag. And I’d do it again.
It’s not difficult to not get fucked with, just treat the people that make and serve your food with basic human dignity. If you get shitty food or service, maybe think about how much the essential worker serving you is getting paid. Think about what you feel entitled to from an essential worker that will never be paid a median income. Have some empathy and class solidarity.
Fuck tipping culture, but tip your server well. If you can, let the kitchen know you care. Send some drinks or tips their way. Or positive feed back.
Problems happen. You are not a jerk for pointing out (politely) a fuck-up. Just keep in mind that, ultimately, it’s the owners and management that are responsible for a bad restaurant. You have no power to change that except by “voting with your dollar”. And that is kinda bullshit, too. Just remember that no matter how mean or shitty you treat a worker, it doesn’t help anything except your inflated sense of entitlement.
Just please have some empathy.
Funny we hug a line between mass acceptance that you don’t fuck with food and selfish behaviour around disease.
“Wear a hair net.”
“Of course.”
“Wear a mask.”
“Fuck you, let’s wreck the planet.”
“Wear a condom”
“Okay.”
“That’s a candy bar wrapper and a rubber band…”
“SAME CONCEPT ASHLEY!!! GOD!!!”
Damn it Archer!
Another reason “I’m a rugged individual don’t tell me what to do” people are absolute fools.
Benefitting from untold quantities of rules and regulations, thinking it’s all their personal merit, wanting to swing an axe at the branch they’re sitting on.
I’ve had people tell me that “the market” would solve the problem is people were selling tainted food. idiots.
Such short memories.
The market gave us sawdust and chalk in bread. Regulation took it back out.
Right?? I’m like, didn’t you learn anything in high school history? But then I know that conservatives have been attacking education for decades, and a lot of people just kind of slept through school.
Let’s not forget the river fires!
I can’t think of a single time industry self regulation has ever resulted in a government not having to step in and level a petty fine to stop something from happening.
As far as I know, all media age-appropriate ratings in the US are industry self regulation. The government has threatened action but never actually stepped in.
Well to be fair, regulations like these don’t get added for things people don’t do.
Have you worked in a restaurant? You ever drink a Slurpee?
Trust me, you’re alright eating plenty of things you wouldn’t do consciously. I’m trusting my immune system to be able to fight off whatever contaminants it finds more than the people in the whole line of farm to plate.
Even commercial food processing, eg grain to flour, has acceptable contamination limits for things like rodent feces and even rodents and that limit isn’t zero.
Your immune system doesn’t work against lead
A good reason to treat everyone with respect, if you needed one.
Are there people who don’t actually know the concept of cooking your own meals?
This applies to groceries too. Why wouldn’t it?
Cooking food generally makes it safe to eat. If you are the only person handling it between cooking it and eating it you’re probably ok. But in a restaurant or something, it could be tampered with during that time, or it could be old and kept warm at a temperature that isn’t high enough to kill bacteria.
Lots of Americans especially.
This is actually my very favorite kind of reasoning to oppose to conspiracy theorists. I don’t use food though, because people rarely think of death as a consequence of tampering with food: I use air travel.
“So you say I shouldn’t trust anyone, I see… So you don’t fly anywhere?” “What has that anything to do with it?” “Do you realize how many different people are involved in running checks just to keep you alive at any given moment of a flight and even in the airport?”
Usually these people drive everywhere and are borderline against the existence of public transport, so using trains or subway lines doesn’t work.
I haven’t flown in years and don’t drive
Damn! You are a tough cookie. Do you go to the barber?
Or buy food from a store? Can you imagine the amount of people involved in that and how many nations
Or use tap water to wash your food?
True, my parents are from Pakistan and the difference from Scotland is staggering
I’m also trusting billions of freeloading foreigners (bacteria) to help digest the food in my intestinal tract and not go rogue or provoke cancer on a daily basis.
I feel it’s rude to call them freeloading, without them we wouldn’t be able to digest nearly as much food.
Calling them freeloading then going on to say in the same sentence that they help. Also I wouldn’t call them foreigners. Pretty sure they’re native
The FDA will allow like a whole cockroach to get blended into a jar of peanut butter before they even give a shit.
If you live in a developed country with some sort of food standards you are probably going to live just fine eating 99.99% of the things you see in a daily basis.
As for restaurant workers making mistakes… Yeah. If you’re the type of person who gets repulsed by your own hair falling into your food maybe avoid eating out. I have pulled someone else’s hair out of my food and kept eating. Shit happens and I already paid for the food. It would have to be like a bloody bandaid or something for me to actually send back food.
a developed country with some sort of food standards you are probably going to live just fine eating 99.99% of the things you see in a daily basis.
Soooo, America before they fired everyone?
Your trusting the lowest paid strangers to not have tampered with your food
The only thing that I trust is that I can’t trust anyone that I don’t know and trust personally.
Eat out you mean? I ain’t that worried about my canned beans and rice being contaminated and I can’t afford to eat out.
Why wouldn’t it be possible for canned food to be tampered with? Someone had to harvest them and can them
Every time you breathe you hope people have not farted in your general direction.
Speak for yourself.
Smells like elderberries
Welcome to anxiety
one of the ways that I get a paranoid schizophrenia patient to eat is by only giving them sealed foods. it generally means they’re living on junk food for a week or so, maybe a month, but to borrow a phrase from labor and delivery nursing “FED is best” (some people will tell you breastfeeding is the only healthy option for a baby but ultimately they gotta eat, so do what you gotta do). I also try to open and pour drinks in front of them, even if it’s a container I can’t give to them like a metal can.
Relatedly, never abuse your pizza delivery driver. He has unsupervised access to your food, and he knows where you live.
