I am usually not the obsessive-compulsive germophobic type. I don't freak out over a little dirt and I certainly could care less if my books and CD's and stuff aren't properly categorized. I don't have a major freak-out if stuff is a little askew or if a person near me sneezes or coughs or something. However, put me in a place involving meal preparation and I become a completely different person. If the place where the food is being prepared isn't sparkling clean or I see the person preparing the food isn't wearing a hairnet and gloves or is coughing and sneezing and touching their face and hair, I can't eat there. I can't eat at a table that hasn't been cleared and wiped off. I see dirt and grease on the counter and I lose my appetite. I've often said something, only to receive weird looks and rude comments from the employees. One thing I don't miss about college is the school cafeteria. That place was the worst! :barf:

Does this sort of thing happen to anyone else?

it happened to Jerry in an episode of Seinfeld

Originally posted by ThirteenInchEscape
it happened to Jerry in an episode of Seinfeld

You mean the one where he saw that Poppy didn't wash his hands after using the bathroom, then was making his pizza?!!

Hey Kristen!! I can't say that I'm that bad when it comes to restaurants, but being a former fast-food manager, I'm much more aware of the way things are done in restaurants--fast food & sit-down. Even something as simple as scratching your face if you're preparing food is not allowed.

You want to hear something gross? I had an employee who was a great employee otherwise but she had a really bad habit of when she was making the sandwiches, and she would get ketchup or mayo or whatever on her fingers, she would lick her fingers. Ugh!!

Our local newspaper prints recent restaurant inspections from local restaurants. There was a cajun place I loved going to. They got an absolutely horrible inspection a few years ago. I haven't gone back since. I don't care if they fixed the violations, it only took that one time.

I play with my dog while cooking sometimes, so you know, whatever.


Boiling/baking kills germs anyway :)

Once I found a fly in my baked potato. The potato was wrapped in foil and the fly was between the foil and the potato.:eek:

I hate when you go into a restaurant and find HAIR in your food! It just grosses me out ... why can't people wear hairnets?!

Originally posted by Penny Lane
Once I found a fly in my baked potato. The potato was wrapped in foil and the fly was between the foil and the potato.:eek:

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I was once served a ghostly white boiled chicken with f-ing FEATHERS at a pub in England. That's English cuisine for you.

Originally posted by Chambers
I was once served a ghostly white boiled chicken with f-ing FEATHERS at a pub in England. That's English cuisine for you.

I can go on and on about English food.

In England I had a
crunchy baked potatoe,
Crunchy peas
Cajon chicken that wasn't the least bit spicy
A Frosted donut that wasn't sweet

Do the English not have taste buds or something? Do they not care what stuff taste like?

Its sad when you have to go to McDonalds for a decent meal :lol:

Originally posted by I am Him
I can go on and on about English food.

In England I had a
crunchy baked potatoe,
Crunchy peas
Cajon chicken that wasn't the least bit spicy
A Frosted donut that wasn't sweet

Do the English not have taste buds or something? Do they not care what stuff taste like?

Its sad when you have to go to McDonalds for a decent meal :lol:

They even put BLUE cheese on their pizzas. :barf:

Yeah...Victoria Station is the only place offhand that I can think of that has halfway decent foods. :lol:

the dump I work in is a horrible enough experience every time I go

that's how i am.

I'm not really like that. But one time there were ants crawling on the wall of the booth we were in. That was seriously nasty.

If I think about the unsanitary conditions that may go on in the kitchen of restaurants, I would get pretty sick. I try not to think about it because I am squeamish that way. And oh yes, the tables must be very clean when I sit down. If they don't do it right, I don't care... I'll just say, "Missed a spot!"

Hey, Mary... remember when there was that hair in my french fries? :barf:

Originally posted by Cashodeen
If I think about the unsanitary conditions that may go on in the kitchen of restaurants, I would get pretty sick. I try not to think about it because I am squeamish that way. And oh yes, the tables must be very clean when I sit down. If they don't do it right, I don't care... I'll just say, "Missed a spot!"

Hey, Mary... remember when there was that hair in my french fries? :barf:

That reminds me of the first couple hours I was in England. The hotels are really weird over there - when you first check in, you can't check in til 1pm...so they have a luggage room. :crazy: Anyhoo, after all that was done and said, we went to Victoria Station and ate at the deep pan pizza restaurant there...meangya there was this LOOOONNNNNGGGGGG strand of hair in my soda. I was all ":barf:" when I saw that and asked for a new cup.

Once, at Bob Evans, my dad found a centipede in his food...we haven't eaten there since...

And once, at TGIFridays, we found a tag from like a shirt in our bleu cheese dressing

And once, we went into Wendy's and the guy kept wiping his nose and there were flies EVERYWHERE...yucky

I hate yucky restaurants

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Originally posted by Janice
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Oh ewwwwwwwww :rofl:

And Laudie... I would DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE if there was a centipede in my food. Just curl up and die.

Originally posted by Cashodeen
If I think about the unsanitary conditions that may go on in the kitchen of restaurants, I would get pretty sick. I try not to think about it because I am squeamish that way. And oh yes, the tables must be very clean when I sit down. If they don't do it right, I don't care... I'll just say, "Missed a spot!"

Hey, Mary... remember when there was that hair in my french fries? :barf: Yes! WHAHAHA! It was at this old fashioned burger joint next to our old HS. I said "Just eat them! It's probably yours anyway!" I said that in a convincing way just to see what her reaction would be. The reaction wasn't good back then and it probably won't be now.

Also....I was at this pizza place. I was watching my pizza's every move as it was being prepared because I was starved and this dude picked his nose while he was preparing MINE. JERK! I wasn't hungry after that. :barf:

Does almost eating a pubic hair in one's soup count as horrible? ;-7

P.S. Who's the monkey with the Glock? :)

Oh yes. My friend told me that at a local pizza place around here, they spit in their pizza and use moldy dough, they just scrape the mold parts off.

I've told my mom numerous times, but she still gets pizza from there. Ugh. Give me processed Pizza Hut over spit any day.

Originally posted by -*Forever*-
My friend told me that at a local pizza place around here, they spit in their pizza.


I never understood what the point was in spitting in the food. Don't they realize if the health department found out they could be shut down?

One time my sister found a fake nail and a peice of plastic in her mashedpotatoes at a Dennys!

I hate the fast food joints that let you see the people who make your food.

Like, I once went with a bunch of friends to a McDonalds that another friend worked at. He was making my hamburger, and as a joke he started picking wedgies and picking his nose and crap like that. I got so mad at him! And he got fired a week after he started working there!

One time way back in elementary school this boy found a worm in his green beans. It was so disgusting.

Originally posted by Pedantic
Does almost eating a pubic hair in one's soup count as horrible? ;-7

P.S. Who's the monkey with the Glock? :) Sounds as horrible as my french fries...

As I read more, stories keep coming to me.

In 3rd grade, my two friends were eating the school chicken nuggets and in them... was...

A TOENAIL.

:barf:

Originally posted by MaryElizabeth
Yes! WHAHAHA! It was at this old fashioned burger joint next to our old HS. I said "Just eat them! It's probably yours anyway!" I said that in a convincing way just to see what her reaction would be. The reaction wasn't good back then and it probably won't be now. :rotflmao: Only you could make a joke like that after seeing those french fries . Most people's first reaction would have been like mine--utter disgust, but no... you say in a serious tone, "Just eat them! It's probably yours anyway!" :barf: :barf: :barf:

Originally posted by Pedantic
Does almost eating a pubic hair in one's soup count as horrible? ;-7

P.S. Who's the monkey with the Glock? :) I'm best friends with Cashodeen. We went to school together. I first met her in 1st grade, then she transferred from that school but came back in the 7th grade, and that's when our real friendship started. I'm new here...since August 6th.

Yes that does count has HORRID and VILE. :lol:

Originally posted by Cashodeen
:rotflmao: Only you could make a joke like that after seeing those french fries . Most people's first reaction would have been like mine--utter disgust, but no... you say in a serious tone, "Just eat them! It's probably yours anyway!" :barf: :barf: :barf: Hey, I know firsthand about how you react to things. That was why I did it and you know I do things to get a rise out of you. It was funny and you know it. Don't even try to make me look twisted. :p :lol:

Originally posted by Cashodeen
Hey, Mary... remember when there was that hair in my french fries? :barf:
that happened to my mom at burger king, she said there was a bunch of hair in it like they just swept it off the floor.

I'm an obsessive-compulsive, paranoid and perfectionist. So, it completely grosses me out if I were to see dirt and stuff everywhere. When I went to Iran, we only ate out once. They have really good Persian restuarants (obviously), but we were so sick of rice, we wanted pizza. So, we go into a nice little restaurant and the guy looks like he doesn't want to serve us and I'm trying to ask him if he can do personal pizzas with vegetables and no meat and stuff and he just looks at me and says "no. read the sign." He told me the size of the pizza and even showed it to me and when ours came...it was a lot smaller. He was such a jerk, and he kept acting as if he didn't want to serve us. My parents got food from a Persian restaurant and brought it in to eat and they kind of ticked him off, but that's still no way to treat us. He gave us these USED disposable cups (they had little sugary drops on them from soda) and food! Oi! The pizza was the worst thing I have ever eaten in my life. The cheese wasn't really cheese, there was no sauce, he put some weird herbs on it and stuff. Not a fun experience....

Oh man! Some of the stories are making me LMAO. :rofl:

I have one that happened to a friend of mine a long time ago and it wasn't a fast food one...but it is food-related.

Many years ago, they brought a jar of pickles from the supermarket. They went home and then started eating the pickles from the jar. Then at one point, they looked in, and there was a SEVERED FINGER floating in the jar! :barf:

That was soooo gross. :eek:

One time I was at a restaurant and I didnt chew my sweet and sour chicken piece enough and it got jammed in my throat.... I was choking for 5 mins before someone came and squeezed my tummy or something and that made it go down...

That was pretty scary........

Im taking full advantage right now of slightly better conditions.... (I hope I can get thru these 4 tabs)

Yes! WHAHAHA! It was at this old fashioned burger joint next to our old HS. I said "Just eat them! It's probably yours anyway!" I said that in a convincing way just to see what her reaction would be. The reaction wasn't good back then and it probably won't be now.

:rofl: This is why I love this site. I now have no memory of this, but it’s so on brand for back in the day. I feel like 18-year-old me ate those crinkle fries. And I probably cleared the leftovers of everyone at the table. Bless my metabolism and biliary system of the early 2000s. Is name redacted still open? I miss that place.

Is name redacted still open? I miss that place.It is impossible to tell if a place is open when you redact its name. :lol:

As I read more, stories keep coming to me.

In 3rd grade, my two friends were eating the school chicken nuggets and in them... was...

A TOENAIL.

:barf:This post from 2004 was ahead of its time. Fans of The Middle know about the episode where Frankie eats her son Axl's toenail clippings because he put them in a chip bag. :crazy:

I found a plastic bread bag tie in my chicken tender at raising Canes! :barf: I never went back! :barf:

It is impossible to tell if a place is open when you redact its name. :lol:

:lol: I was quoting my bestie in real life. She’d know the place I meant. Not like she’ll see this thread unless I text her. :rofl:

Good news, it is still open! I googled it. Been there since the 50s!!! I should go there any report my findings back here.

I found a plastic bread bag tie in my chicken tender at raising Canes! :barf: I never went back! :barf:

Grrross. :grr:

Is it true the chicken is rather bland because it’s all about the sauce? We don’t have a Cane’s in these parts, so I make the copycat version, which of course, I have no idea how it compares. Supposedly Walmart’s Chicken Dipping Sauce is the same. (Not to be confused with Walmart’s Chicken Finger Dipping Sauce, which is supposedly the Chick Fil A copycat.)