Do you really care if the Subway sandwich artist is wearing gloves or not?

I wonder if it is not state law if the food preparers wear gloves or not. Some states no gloves, others lots of gloves.

 

Yep. state laws very all across the U.S.. Now excuse me as I take my greasy hands that I just used to shake things with and go make me a tuna sandwich. I let the tuna sit in the sun awhile as I want a warm meal and the micro wave is broke..

 

Requiring gloves while handling ready-to-eat foods varies state to state. In Ohio, it's required by law.

Regardless of a glove requirement, the sandwich "artist" should wash his or her hands every time:

- they change gloves
- they touch their hair, face, clothing, cell phone
- they handle money

How often do you actually see that being done? Swapping gloves or keeping them on when they touch filthy cash negates the whole thing anyway. If you want to be a stickler about it, they need to wash and dry their hands (PROPERLY, which means up to the elbows, and turning the water off after they dry their hands, using the paper towel) and then put gloves on. Chances are that box of gloves is already pretty nasty because they've just been shoving their sweaty mitts back in there after handling cash every time.

Either way you're probably gonna get a few microns worth of pube or a microgram of feces in there unless they actually know what they're doing, and trust me, nobody at Subway is paid well enough to follow food handling by the book.

 

Oh my, back to Subway again. That means I have to tell this again. Folks, if you have read this before, forgive me, but I can't let a Subway thread pass by, (if I see it,) without relating this.

I was delivering in Cedar City, one time, years ago. Stopped at the subway there. Got my sandwich and drink and was sitting in the "dining room." There was a young fella who was cleaning tables. He was obviously developmentally disabled. He was also obviously well known and liked by customers, as a lot of them stopped to chat with him and call him by name.

Anyway, the dining room had emptied out, and I was the only customer in there. This kid was wiping down tables and straightening things out. He picks up a salt shaker, looks around to see if anyone is watching, (I don't know if he thought I was chopped liver, or if he just didn't see me,) then he LICKS the top of the salt shaker, then wipes it off on his shirt!

This is true, but the cooks in the back of the house, are not out making change and handling other stuff customers have handled. OTOH, when you take a look at some of these cooks, just their general hygiene is kind of scary!

Now see, I wouldn't have any experience with that! Since I've never been a "good looking people!"

Some of them, it is even a stretch calling them human!

But how about if HE is a SHE!
Just kidding you pattyj, I don't mean anything by it!

Uh, yeah. The skanky old lot lizzard is possibly as clean as that hot woman is!

There's a lot of truth there! We are "sterilizing ourselves to death." (And I don't mean that in a reproductive sense.) But I don't EVER drink out of a garden hose here. We have two water systems. Irrigation water, and culinary water. Drinking from the hose would be akin to sticking your head in the river and taking a big swallow!

Now WHY do I think the type of "glove" you are referring to, just might be a different than what the OP had in mind?

 

LOL! It's raining guys, remember your ru.....err...gloves!

 

comes to mind when leaving the parking lot of a truck stop LOT LIZARDS lol you said that and i had to respond

 

Hi G/MAN, well, I disagree. Germs are mutating to the point that modern anti-biotics aren't working anymore, so a "few germs" could indeed kill you.

 

[QUOTE="semi" retired;4385209]Hi G/MAN, well, I disagree. Germs are mutating to the point that modern anti-biotics aren't working anymore, so a "few germs" could indeed kill you.[/QUOTE]

True, but if they do, it won't matter too much to you anyway!