"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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> On 2014-12-20 3:53 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>> On 12/20/2014 3:10 PM, sf wrote:
>>>
>>> Saw an interesting segment on The Kitchen called Into It and Over It.
>>> My favorite response was from Sunny. She's over people licking their
>>> fingers to open plastic bags at the grocery store
>>
>> Why does she care? The people are opening those bags for their own use.
>> They're not standing around licking their fingers and handing out open
>> plastic bags to other people.
>>
>
> I would be more concerned about people picking things up and putting them
> back down, especially baked goods. I figure that the rest of us stand a
> much greater chance of catching someone else's cooties produce and baked
> goods that have been manhandled than from the bag that someone else put
> their stuff it.
>
> I don't know about everyone else here, but I don't have much faith in
> tongs. Sure, they save people from having to touch the items, but what
> about the bacteria on the tongs from all the people handling them?

I've not really given tongs and bacteria any thought, but I really hate to
see a butcher handling meat without gloves.

Cheri