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Default Best bit of action you've seen in a resto

Andy wrote:

> When I was a dishwasher at the famous French restaurant in my youth, I
> watched one waiter in his tuxedo walk some cleared plates into the kitchen
> and grab an uneaten portion of rack of lamb in his bare hands and bite off
> a huge mouthful before dumping the plates in the bin for me to clean. It
> totally grossed me out. I don't remember if he washed his hands. Never saw
> anything like it before or since.


What part was gross? Eating from the "busboy buffet", or not washing
his hands before doing so? The existential distance between wearing a
dinner jacket and eating someone else's scraps?

I don't find either one particularly disturbing unless I am missing
something here.

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