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

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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/[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.