"Nancy Young" wrote:
> Andy wrote:
>> Nancy Young wrote:
>>> Andy wrote:
>>>
>>>> Somewhere (I think here at rfc), I read, never order a BLT at a
>>>> restaurant. It's the simplest form of slop they can make from
>>>> yesterday's ingredients, or something?
>>>
>>> What slop? It's bacon, fresh lettuce, fresh tomato. Toast.
>>>
>>> If you wouldn't order a BLT, then you wouldn't order a club
>>> sandwich, either. If you don't trust the restaurant to make
>>> those sandwiches for you, you should not be there.
>
>> I guess I've been told.
>>
>> Sorry.
>
> (laugh) Andy, what leftover slop could be on a BLT? That's
> all I'm saying.
> nancy

A BLT is almost always a safe choice, but it can still be quite unsavory...
unrefrigerated bacon can spoil rapidly, unwashed lettuce can harbor
botulism, tomatoes sliced with the same knife used to slice sammiches for
the past four hours without washing can make you really ill, as can
mistreated mayo. One really needs to eyeball the eatery carefully for clues
suspect of schmutz... if the waitress is wearing a skirt barely covering the
crease of her butt cheeks then you don't want to eat there... because then
you know where the cook's hands have been... don't laugh, it's absolutely
true, there's more truth to "Kiss my grits" than you wanna know. If any
food handlers are chewing gum don't eat there... gum chewing produces excess
saliva, just where do you think they spit.

The signs in the restrooms for employees to wash their hands are essentially
decor, because like half of food workers are illiterate, and even of the
other half that can read better than half don't wash. Ever watch folks in a
public rest room, most just walk out the door, of those who wash it's a mere
perfunctory formality, most just wet their finger tips and wipe em on their
clothes.

There's worse, a lot worse... if you knew what really goes on behind the
closed doors of restaurant kitchens you'd never eat out.

The safest food to eat out is pizza, because mostly it's prepared right
before your eyes, and immediately before it's served it spends 15 minutes
being autoclaved... even if there's a honker in the sauce if it can burn
your palate you know it's sterile.