Actual photos from salad bar I encountered (not in Gloucester) yesterday.
Is there anything more disgusting than those greasy black plastic salad dressing handles oozing with the bacteria from the thousand or so people that had just minutes before picked their noses, wiped their butts, grabbed onto the (almost as skeevy) black escalator hand rail and then handled the very same ladle that you are about to grab to pour on your dressing? Just typing this and having to re-live it in my mind I’m doing everything in my power not to throw up in my mouth.
Just picture those black plastic greasy handles all smeared with the fingerprints of the thousand or so customers that had handled yhem before you. Blech.
It’s like a huge science project with a culture of viruses just circulating all over the salad bar petri dish waiting to infect you with the norwalk and other viruses.
There you were trying to do the right thing, and instead of eating the burger and fries you went with the salad. But what you didn’t take into account was the bajillion or so calories from that thousand island dressing you glopped onto your virus infected petri dish salad.
Might as well do yourself a favor and order the burger next time kid…just saying.
Good Morning Gloucester 
I’ve had a microbiologist tell me that it is far safer to be french kissed by your dog than to eat from a salad bar.
Stella? What do you think? Who’s a good girl?
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Paul and Joey totally agree, I must say though that the salad bar at Crosby’s in Manchester is very clean and well kept up…. but most of the time, yuck..
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I had the pleaseure of dinning with my brother this day… &for anyone who knows me well ,can only imagine how truly grosed out I was… I could bearly take a sip of my drink… & of course my borther just could let this issue go and continued to gross me out the entire time we were their! The thought of eating food that wasn’t fried was completly out of the question. Absoutley nasty…. nothing worse than a dirty resturant…& for the record I did share my box of anti-bacterial wipes with our table!
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I used to love salad bars when I was younger, inhaling several plates at a sitting when they were of the “all you can eat” variety, but as time has gone by I’m progressively more skeeved out by the concept.
Looking back,though, it’s a wonder I’m not dead several times over!
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I think of them (and “free” samples at specialty grocery stores) as science experiments, otherwise called the Hepatitis buffet. Ugh.
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you are right! GROSS!
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:-))))
I thought I was just being obsessive and neurotic, but I’m so relieved it’s not just me that thinks this way!!!!
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Seriously? Talk about PHOBIC!!! Sheesh.
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Could a person build up a tolerance to germs by going to the salad bar once in a while?
Whatever doesn’t kill you…makes you stronger.
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