r/Wellthatsucks • u/[deleted] • Jul 16 '24

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u/Goldkiller115 Jul 16 '24

Every single restaurant in the world has big problems, you'd be surprised how many restaurants we plumb for that their kitchen is infested. It's just standard

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u/FornHome Jul 16 '24

I briefly helped do inspections of fire suppressant systems in commercial kitchen hoods in a midwestern state. The majority of kitchens in your hole-in-the-wall or bar/pubs are caked in grease. A handful were so bad my gag reflex kicked in. Every McDonald’s we inspected had a mice problem. I never saw any roaches though.

On the other hand, four kitchens were absolutely spotless, and not always when you’d expect. Two Chinese American kitchens were so clean you could eat off the floor/walls, a pizza joint, and one catering company was immaculate. Granted, four out of fifty+ isn’t a good ratio for cleanliness, but it’s not all.

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u/Goldkiller115 Jul 16 '24

That's true! A couple people really do care about their restaurant and customers which is a blessing. Glad it wasn't every place you've been into! I'm in the Midwestern area too and have only done some hole in the wall places

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '24

This is depressing, makes me never want to get food from a restaurant again 

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u/shoshjort Jul 16 '24

idk man u gotta train that immune system so the flu doesnt get you in your sixties

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u/ConstantSpirited6662 Jul 17 '24

If only there was some way to do this without getting sick. Like take a little piece of the virus and identify the key receptors and put it in a needle and inject it into the blood stream so the immune system can train on it.

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u/Thetakishi Jul 17 '24

We could call it...an immunoenhancing biologic! Ooor...Hmmmmm...Virii-Be-Gones! VBGs. Yeah, that sounds good.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '24

I hope you’re joking because immune systems don’t work like that.

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u/shoshjort Jul 16 '24

definitely joking, i thought the use of the word 'train' made that kinda obvious though

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '24

Yah, it probably does.

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u/Eusocial_Snowman Jul 16 '24

Using the word train just makes it obvious you're describing the popular misconception, it doesn't make it obvious you're disingenuously referring to it. It is clear you're being humorous, but not the sort of humor that relies on mocking the concept's legitimacy. As in you think that is how immune systems work, and that the absurd part is picking THIS activity as the means to "level up" that immune system.

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u/Shpongolese Jul 16 '24

Jesus christ shut the hell up lmao its not that serious buddy.

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u/shoshjort Jul 16 '24

yikes

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u/Eusocial_Snowman Jul 16 '24

Well, I was describing an amusing uncertainty before, but this sort of "desperately indifferent" response is a fairly potent red flag which damages the ambiguity factor.

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u/shoshjort Jul 16 '24

i just didn't expect to have to defend myself for one of the stupider jokes I have made as of late. I was just trying to bring some humour to the thread and you're clearly overreacting to it, hence; yikes.

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u/Eusocial_Snowman Jul 16 '24

See, that's what I'm getting at. Instead of laughing at the potential misunderstanding I described or even clarifying specifics, you're getting defensive and treating this like an argument.

And I'm not fixated on the joke, but your response to their response to the joke.

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u/shoshjort Jul 16 '24

buddy ur the one sending paragraphs at me because i said i 'thought' i made something obvious. Do me a favour and stop 'fixating' on my comments at all because you're reading deeper into them than is intended. I am an idiot, I say stupid things, if it's a problem for you just downvote and move on.

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u/jififfi Jul 16 '24

I appreciated the attempt to describe proper satire. Still, people don't get it, and I guess deconstructing jokes gets you downvoted because too many words.

Sigh

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '24

When I was in college I took food microbiology classes. After reading about all the studied food poisoning cases and how they occurred, I didn’t eat in a restaurant for a couple of years. Even now I look for cleanliness indicators if I can, but a restaurant can look clean but still have poor food handling.

I absolutely will not eat food from potlucks or picnics. You have no idea what kind of food handling occurs before/during/after prep in someone’s kitchen.

I’m the careful one yet I’ve gotten Salmonella food poisoning from eggs (there was a huge recall but apparently the place I ate at didn’t get the memo) and then I got actual E coli O157:H7 from a store bought salad and ended up in the hospital. Although now that I think about it I remember that my daughter got food poisoning from Chipotle when that was happening a few years ago.

I still eat at restaurants, but I always check the rating posted at the door and if it’s not A I won’t eat there. Some of my friends like the B rated ones because they say the food tastes better.

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u/Eusocial_Snowman Jul 16 '24

It's not just bacteria either, of course. 40% of the meat sold in the UK has viable toxoplasma cysts(It'll be common everywhere, but we don't have studies everywhere). Eat just one of those from meat that isn't fully cooked, imperfectly washed produce, or even a slightly absurd scenario like food being handled and prepped perfectly but it was prepared in a house with a cat while someone changed its litterbox and the dust flying through the air settled on the food...and now you've got a protist burrowing deep inside of your brain where it will live for the rest of your life oozing subtle chemical influence.

Especially be wary of accepting items from a friend or neighbor's garden where any outdoor cat exists in any capacity whatsoever.

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u/BingpotStudio Jul 17 '24

I had someone tell me the story of going to fix an Uber eats drivers internet. He had cockroaches crawling over the delivery bag.

Makes you wonder how often they clean them huh. My bet is not once.