Ick

[helwen]

Or, yet another reason I'm glad I don't eat out as much as I used to....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17789410/

fitzw was telling me about a similar incident at a market in NYC as well.

One of my favorite restaurants in this area though is Ruby Tuesday, which is very careful with their foods and we've never had a problem there. Another good one is Eastside Grill (Cajun), and they get as much of their veggies from local producers as possible.

Comments

[baronessmartha.livejournal.com]

ugh.
some of that you can't wash off.
ugh.

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Yup.

Oh, and I decided I needed a new icon for stuff like this. Like it?

[baronessmartha.livejournal.com]

nice, want this one too?

[helwen.livejournal.com]

LOL Thanks, I think I will.

[nazrynn.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I have gotten (violently) sick from Ruby Tuesdays salad bar before, but it was a one-time occurrance, many moons ago. I've been back to the salad bar since, with no adverse effects from the leafy greens.

What with last year's e.coli outbreak from the spinach, you would think there would be more health inspections for produce, no?

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear it was a one-time thing. Our particular one is practically phobic about anything ending up in the wrong place, too. Someone had a dish that for some reason had a mushroom slice in the sauce. When we flagged a person to tell them about it (wasn't in the menu description), the manager came over, took care of it, thanked us profusely for letting him know, and told us he'd had the kitchen throw out the entire pot of sauce. They have a regular customer whose son is allergic to a lot of things but knows that the restaurant will take their needs seriously, so they take a lot of pride in their food being healthy and safe.

As for health inspections, yes more of them, and by inspectors who actually care would be good.