You Cannot Be Serious! (Sandwich Edition)

[Jester]

Quoth patiokitty

And for some reason, you never did seem like the sort who'd drink spilled beer off the floor so no worries there...

Perhaps not to you, but to many people, apparently I did.

Also, to add to this, many years ago a colleague of mine assumed, quite incorrectly, that if I had to choose between women and beer, I would choose beer.

I love beer, but SERIOUSLY? No.

[Gizmo]

Quoth patiokitty

What I meant was more during prepping the ingredients in the back - do up a batch of chicken and then change your gloves before handling another meat (as part of the prep for the meats they either get individually wrapped portions or sectioned out into little boats that we then dump onto the bread without touching the meat with our gloved hands while making the sandwich.

I have a friend who won't eat at this sort of place because he can't be sure they do that. He's got a problem with red meat which shuts down his system and once ordered a sandwich from a deli/sub shop and they didn't change gloves often enough - ended up in hospital for a few days due to the cross contamination of the juices.

(He's not sucky so he didn't make a huge fuss over the incident afterwards though I think he might have told them in a "please be aware these conditions do exist way")

[patiokitty]

Jester, all I can say to that is ALL THE BOOBIES! Um, yeah...I'm in a weird frame of mind right now.

Gizmo, I can fully understand where your friend is coming from. It's this sort of thing that makes me hyper-vigilant when it comes to changing my gloves over and I have no problem enforcing the constant glove changing in my store as a result.

[AyreBiskits]

gloves. make sure they don't have holes in them

a couple of weeks ago, i went to a way of sub near my office. Tuna on honey oat, nom!! everything was fine until i saw one of the sandwich makers put her gloved hand in one of the veggie bins. this woman had very decorative 3-inch nails POKING OUT OF HER GLOVES!! not just one or two nails, all of them!! why bother even wearing gloves then?

i did send in a complaint because i'm not good with in-person confrontations. the district manager did contact me and said it was resolved but now i can't go to that store anymore. now when i want a tuna on honey oat bread, i have to go a couple of more blocks out of my way. and now i'm more aware of how they make the sandwiches too.

[wolfie]

Quoth Jester

I don't care if the floor was sparkling. Despite common perception of me, even if my BEER spilled on the floor, I would not lick it up, no matter how clean the floor was, no matter what the beer was.

Quoth patiokitty

And for some reason, you never did seem like the sort who'd drink spilled beer off the floor so no worries there

That's a given. After all, beer doesn't have a high enough alcohol content to kill germs. 30 year old Pyrat cask rum, on the other hand...

[Jester]

Quoth wolfie

30 year old Pyrat cask rum, on the other hand...

Pyrat Cask 1623 is actually a FORTY year blend.

But the alcohol content in it is no higher than a typical rum. It is 80 proof/40% ABV, just like Bacardi. Just far, far, FAR tastier than Bacardi!

[Ironclad Alibi]

Quoth Jester

I don't care if the floor was sparkling. Despite common perception of me, even if my BEER spilled on the floor, I would not lick it up, no matter how clean the floor was, no matter what the beer was.

I am reminding of a certain commercial for Carling beer (probably NSFW).

[patiokitty]

Quoth AyreBiskits

gloves. make sure they don't have holes in them

a couple of weeks ago, i went to a way of sub near my office. Tuna on honey oat, nom!! everything was fine until i saw one of the sandwich makers put her gloved hand in one of the veggie bins. this woman had very decorative 3-inch nails POKING OUT OF HER GLOVES!! not just one or two nails, all of them!! why bother even wearing gloves then?

i did send in a complaint because i'm not good with in-person confrontations. the district manager did contact me and said it was resolved but now i can't go to that store anymore. now when i want a tuna on honey oat bread, i have to go a couple of more blocks out of my way. and now i'm more aware of how they make the sandwiches too.

Three-inch decorative nails? How that woman would even consider getting something so long while working with food is beyond me. And here I was contemplating getting a nice sport-length gel nail manicure and wondering how that would pan out...my nails have gone to shite in the short time I've been working at the Way of Sub - it's all the dishes I do and all the handwashing that is required

[Eisa]

Wow. That is disgusting.

[Jetfire]

Last night I stopped at the local sub place after running some errands (picked up a hanging strawberry planter and some tomato plants for my deck garden). Since my hands were full, and there wasn't a line, I indicated I needed a moment and dropped my stuff off on a table before heading back up. The Bread/Meats artist after seeing my 1 moment indicator, took the time to do some other tasks in the back (no problem so far), including putting garbage bags back in the behind the counter garbage bins (there was one next to the cash and one next to the meat station). What quirked me a little, is immediately after she did that, she just put on a fresh set of gloves and got the bread and meat ready.

Granted, I didn't say anything about it, but this thread was at the back of my mind as I saw that.

Just before that, I'd seen an ambulance coming down the highway behind the store; the lights were just changing but even with the Ambulance coming down with lights and siren blaring, 2 cars cut across the highway to make the turn going in the opposite direction. To the point the ambulance did have to slow down almost to a stop at the light. Those people did have the green light, but the ambulance was pretty obvious, especially for the second person. *sigh*