In article >,
Cydrome Leader > wrote:

> In chi.eats jmcquown > wrote:
> > Gregory Morrow wrote:
> >> Now THIS will make ya hurl, kids...:
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/h...ice02.article#
> >>
> >> Hold the ice: What's in your glass might surprise you
> >>
> >> COLD TRUTH | 'Someone's not washing their hands properly': 1 in 5
> >> samples from restaurants, bars found to have high levels of bacteria
> >>
> > I don't understand this. Ice in a restaurant is is made by a machine. Ice
> > is place into glasses via an ice scoop. While I certainly believe too many
> > people don't wash their hands, I sincerely doubt they are grabbing ice with
> > their bare hands to fill glasses.
>
> concept 1
>
> ice machines are inherently filthy. They circulate water forever across a
> plate or tray that's chilled.
>
> Imagine a fish tank, but colder and with more hands going into it, and
> less people cleaning it.
>
> concept 2
>
> a cup is the ice scoop is most situations. Even if there is an ice scoop,
> the handle gets touched with a "hand" and then that gets tossed back onto
> the bin.
>
> And people are lazy and never clean stuff. Even those k-cup coffee
> machines get ****ing rank unless you strip them down. Soda fountains are
> really bad.
>
> Still, if you have an immune system, you should be good.

Y'know, if we don't get our MDA of FCB with our ice, we're going to
have to get it some other way...

.... like tamales.


ice is nice.

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