Grocery store snob

[Vine Abider]

15 hours ago, Neighbor said:

Food handling practices at homes are generally lacking in best sanitation  procedures.

As one of my old direct reports used to say, "Gee boss, we can't idiot proof the world can we!?"    We were watching a documentary on Teddy Roosevelt and how he went after the meat packing industry because of their abhorrent procedures.  The things they were doing at that time were way beyond disgusting and this reminded me that it was REALLY bad then!

An aside - in this documentary it was interesting to see how Teddy, who many historians rate as a top 5 president, labeled himself as "progressive." Even though he was a Republican, he saw that some things in private industry needed to be regulated by the federal government, for the wellbeing of the public, which I generally agree with (at least in a limited scope).  And he died while trying to win a third term to enact many more ideas that were considered progressive.  The documentary said 15 years later his distant cousin, FDR would pick up the progressive mantle and really go far with it. However, many would say (including me) that FDR took the legendary "New Deal" way too far, and the federal government has been increasingly and inefficiently bloated ever since.  Seems like mankind is always going to one extreme or the other . . . (I guess we need a Savior!)

[Neighbor]

State health department had us augment our little gym snack service room from a double sink, to a triple sink with three dispensers of sanitizing soaps and rinses, plus a separate hand washing sink, a separate garbage disposal sink, and a separate floor level slop sink.

Plus had to have counter top space to air dry all utensils and plates. And had to have a certified food manager.  We served hot dogs, soda, all  on paper plates and  in cups, no utensils.  

Had to do the same for our church and update the grease trap too. Still the deaconesses would bring in dish towels,  their home dish soap, and fail to use the sanitizer, and air dry  plates and glasses  and cups.

They also actually  poured unused communion cup contents back into the grape juice jar and froze the unused wafers for next time. All with a waste not want not attitude.

I would throw it all out on Mondays and buy  fresh for each communion. They never asked how it was there was always a new jar and a new package of wafers come next communion next month. Did that for many years.

Nobody ever got sick that I know of, not even  with people bringing pot luck for up to  five hundred people.

I was always more concerned about  a fire starting from those sterno pan  heaters sitting on paper tablecloths on plastic folding tables in the hallways.

Amazingly no one got sick and we never torched the place either! Always a good time was had by all.