Would it bother you if the girl behind the counter in the bakery sneezed on the bread you were about to buy?

[Bluebell99]

I was queuing to buy bread in the bakery this morning, got to my turn and the girl said, excuse me, and then turned away from the counter and sneezed behind her where the uncovered loaves of bread were. She then turned back to me to ask what I wanted without washing her hands or anything. I said "Actually that's put me off" and so I left without buying anything and she looked surprised! I wasn't snooty about it or anything but couldn't face the thought of bread with particles of snot on it. Was I unreasonable. It's lovely bread btw.

YANBU, I won't even buy cakes, bread etc if they're in those open display cabinets, who knows who's touched them. I notice even M & S have them, disgusting I think.

Will you lot who ate saying 'if I told you what happens in a bakery etc... You would never eat there again' just say what the problems are?! I want to know!

I have a friend who worked in a bakery, the nozzle for the sausage roll filling got blocked and she was told to unblock it with the other end of the brush they used to sweep the floors, a pig snout and trotter was pushed out, to this day she will never eat as much as a bread roll she has not baked herself
I just try not to think about it!

YANBU at all. Ewwwww

It actually reminds me of something that happened to me when my 3 year old DS was a newborn. We'd got home from hospital and the visiting midwife made a big thing about how you had to have clean hands to handle babies and she went off, washed her hands, only to come back, sneeze into her hand, then shove her hand in DS's mouth to look for tongue-tie! If I hadn't have been sleep-deprived, exhausted and hormonal I'd have questioned her but I let it go in my haze

having made jam and know how picky I am about removing all insects/maggots from the fruit I KNOW shop jam hasnt been prepared so carefully and so is full of bits of maggot

YANBU at all, yuck!

yes, it would bother me. i wouldn't buy the bread and i'd complain. likewise if they don't wash their hands after being out of the shop - a well-known bread and cake chain.

I've seen wine made. Grapes cut straight off and crushed without washing - so stalks and bugs and all. And crushed by the bare, sweaty, fungus infected farmer's feet. You know feet actually have a lot of faecal matter on them, runs down in the shower. I know it ferments and it all adds to the taste, but still...

I get the heebeegeebees at the butchers when they pick up the sausages and handle the money with the same gloves on.

And what about all those cookery programmes on TV where people (including proper chefs) stick a spoon in something to taste and having done so put the spoon back in to give it a good old stir before serving...

And it's not just the staff. I remember on hols once I was in a lunch queue at a self service place when the person in front of me turned around and sneezed all over my tray of food. I didn't know how to respond, didn't want to eat it and was never so glad as when the guide appeared to tell us to get back on the tour bus.

Not sure what the best thing to do is. It wouldn't be the restaurants fault after all. Probably just go without. I tend to be wary of snivellers at self service places now.

yanbu.
that is gross.

She should have turned sideways and sneezed as close to the floor as she could, and into her hands if she didn't have a hankie, and then ^immediately gone and washed her hands.

the money-handling thing is exactly why you have different staff cooking/assembling food from taking your money in places (like burgerking etc)

They're allowed to pour the drinks and bag the fries, because they don't touch the food with their hands, after handling money.

It may be unpleasant, but only because you saw it happen. All the posters saying "eewwww" and "I'll never eat again" need to understand that they are still alive! What are the consequences of consuming any of these "tainted" foods?? None!!

Yadnbu!
We have a butchers van in our village twice a week. The butcher and his wife stand outside the van smoking, then go back in and serve the meat without gloves.
I really feel like taking them a box if plastic gloves and some antibac hand gel but being a bit rubbish about confrontation, I just get my meat elsewhere. Real shame though.

Argy, what are the consequences of eating this tainted food?

Never hand food poisoning after a dodgy kebab/ party nibbles etc? I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy!

Well, loopy, I did have what I thought was food poisoning once after a wedding but my husband insisted it was the red wine. I was in bed for 2 days. I suppose I was really thinking about the low level lack of hygiene that happens thousands of times a day that has no real effect - like bugs in flour and gobbing in the soup...

I went to a chip shop once and as the man was serving us he sratched the end of his willy (through his trousers) we walked outside with the chips and put them in the bin, gross! Should have said something really.

Do you lot all eat cheese? Drink wine? Bacteria and yeasts are what makes this stuff. Without bacteria cheese would just be milk!