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Fast-Food Ice Dirtier Than Toilet Water
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Posted on 03/02/2006 10:35:01 AM PST by XR7
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70 percent of the time, ice from fast food restaurants was dirtier than toilet water. Ick.
And I always thought asking for icewater with my burger was the healthier thing to do.
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posted on
03/02/2006 10:35:02 AM PST
by
XR7
To: XR7
Plus, she said, all of her friends chew on ice, and it drives her crazy. This will put a stop to that right quick.
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posted on
03/02/2006 10:36:16 AM PST
by
thoughtomator
(I understand Democrats' impatience; If Kerry were President, Iran would have nuked Israel by now)
To: XR7
I think i'm going to hurl...........
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posted on
03/02/2006 10:36:25 AM PST
by
jw777
To: XR7
My dog is looking very smug as I read this...
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posted on
03/02/2006 10:36:31 AM PST
by
Kenton
To: XR7
You didn't get that memo?
I will take a number 7, with super-sized fries and extra large toilet bowl water....
to go!
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posted on
03/02/2006 10:36:55 AM PST
by
jdm
(I do not allow any liberal to swim, er, ride in my car.)
To: Kenton
To: XR7
Some of the things you expect to be clean get a far worser cleanliness regimen than some of the things you expect to be dirty.
Toilets are probably cleaned more often than restaurant pepper/salt shakers. Therefore one can expect the latter to be dirtier than the former.
Same with keyboards and telephones.
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posted on
03/02/2006 10:38:43 AM PST
by
CarrotAndStick
(The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
To: XR7
To: Kenton
LMBO! I'm sure my cat will have a purr at my expense, too...
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posted on
03/02/2006 10:41:09 AM PST
by
L,TOWM
(Liberals, The Other White Meat)
To: XR7
Very smart girl. This is going to be one of the classic school science projects, like the one decades ago where the student built accelerometers to measure the maximum g-force a package was subjected to, and mailed them in ordinary packages and packages labeled "fragile", "special handling" etc. All of the accelerometers recorded very high forces, except for the ones the post office broke.
To: jw777
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posted on
03/02/2006 10:44:38 AM PST
by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
To: XR7
Problem is, most kids that work in fast-food restaurants don't even wash their hands after they use the toilet.
A study done in a public men's restroom at JFK Airport in NYC...this was OBSERVED behavior...showed that 41% of men who used the restroom didn't wash afterwards. An almost equal number of women were the same.
No wonder this bright young lady found those germs!
All together now...
Ewww.
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posted on
03/02/2006 10:45:19 AM PST
by
hoagy62
(Revolution is now the only option....)
To: XR7
Both Roberts and Katz said that the ice is likely dirtier because machines aren't cleaned and people use unwashed hands to scoop ice. Toilet water is also surprisingly bacteria-free, because it comes from sanitized city water supplies. So basically she is testing tap water from the toilet and tap water with human had contamination from ice handling. Results not at all surprising.
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posted on
03/02/2006 10:45:37 AM PST
by
JimSEA
(America cannot have an exit strategy from the world.)
To: sheik yerbouty
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posted on
03/02/2006 10:45:42 AM PST
by
jw777
To: sheik yerbouty
"Yes, I'll have 2 E Coli burgers, a side order of raw sewage, and a diet swamp water."
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posted on
03/02/2006 10:48:17 AM PST
by
hoagy62
(Revolution is now the only option....)
To: CarrotAndStick
Therefore one can expect the latter to be dirtier than the former. It depends on how you define "clean." Toilet water still have chemicals and deposits in them, including the agents from cleaning solutions.
Salt and pepper shakers basically have your obligatory bacteria on them.
To: XR7
I wonder about bagged ice?
I wish there were testing standards, I do like ice, but I don't want to tote it from home all the time.
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posted on
03/02/2006 10:49:53 AM PST
by
norraad
("What light!">Blues Brothers)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
That's true. Maybe I should have stated 'organically inactive'.
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posted on
03/02/2006 10:50:06 AM PST
by
CarrotAndStick
(The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
To: XR7
In Houston they have a regular reporter of these kinds of things!!
Slime!!! In the Ice Machine!!!!!
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posted on
03/02/2006 10:50:24 AM PST
by
rawcatslyentist
("Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous"---Hobbes the Tiger)
To: hoagy62
Problem is, most kids that work in fast-food restaurants don't even wash their hands after they use the toilet. And those who wash their hands thoroughly still have to grab that door handle to exit the restroom.
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