We're all aware of places people eat out that cut corners and if we aren't then Gordon Ramsay's "Kitchen Nightmares" has brought that home. You see it all the time, you'll walk into a supermarket let's say and see on the hot table some gangster meatloaf, some gangster spinach lasagna rolls that have already been in the packout section and are expiring that day, some overdone gangster chicken, gangster mac & cheese, gangster turkey burgers. So some hapless soul will get a little diarrhea, it ain't gonna kill you. You hope nobody will notice, it's Thuganomics but a really good chef friend of mine gave me an important piece of advice one day, he's a proud Culinary Institute of America grad and you could say it's the #1 Rule of Cooking -- If you're not willing to put it in your own mouth don't have somebody else put it in theirs.
That's what she said to me.
Seems like a simple enough rule to follow, kinda like the Golden Rule of Food.
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ReplyDelete..tis why I always keep a large bottle of gangster Pepto-Bismol on hand.
Also watch out for those premade sandwiches in the deli when you go to the supermarket. Word on the street is they use a bunch of old cold cut ends. The roast beef's the best one.
ReplyDeleteHaving known people who have worked in supermarkets two things. First you have the issue of shrink which the idiot honchos are obsessed over which generally defined means keeping what you throw out to an absolute minimum so this is how you wind up with diarrhea food on the hot plate. Two, supermarkets have made alot of use out of think tanks in the past. These people who are hired by the supermarkets meet say in a house somewhere and come up with rules or the way things are and if you notice the way things are never change, you'd sooner get Obama to come out of the closet and admit he's a socialist. So basically you wind up with full-timers getting only one day off a week and part-timers getting close to full-time hours but without the full-time bennnies which is unethical and got Wal-Mart in alot of trouble. Think tanks, designed to keep the average worker behind the 8-ball.
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