On Sat, 07 Jan 2017 01:52:12 -0600, Alan Holbrook >
wrote:

>U.S. Janet B. > wrote in
:
>
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>>>
>> Again, I have to ask. Where the heck do you shop that you are exposed
>> to such awful conditions for food? Apparently the hinterland of New
>> York is uncivilized.
>>
>>
>Doesn't happen often, but this time I completely agree with Sheldon.
>People from good families, who went to the best schools, who have Ph.D.s,
>and are on the boards of directors of national charities still don't always
>wash their hands after using the bathroom. And their snotty-nosed brats
>who open the bins and stick their hands into the product may not have been
>sanitized before Mommy took them shopping.
>
>As far as hinterlands being uncivilized, my first wife's family were West
>Virginia hillbillies living in a "holler" near a town that was very upscale
>because it had a traffic light, and they were amongst the cleanest people I
>ever met.

Very true, I've found inner city people have the poorest personal
hygiene, they're used to living all crowded together like lab rats.
There are no open bin bulk spices sold anywhere near where I live, the
big box stores I shop here in the boondocks sell bulk herbs and spices
this way, all in tamperproof containers:
http://i65.tinypic.com/2qvdx84.jpg