Foo - Subway woman sticks finger in mouth

OK, so I stopped in my local Subway after my ride this morning. I proceed to the counter, nobody in line, no employees in sight. A moment later a subway employee emerges. She looks nice enough, but I noticed two things as she approached the order station. (1) She didn't wash her hands, and (2) she stuck her finger in her mouth right before she reached the glove station. She reaches for the gloves and I say excuse me, I would appreciate it if you could please wash your hands...especially since you just stuck your finger in your mouth. She smiles and says, "oh, I was just eating a piece of candy." So she sticker her finger back in her mouth, as if to illustrate. And I'm like WTF, you just did it again. So she sticks it in a 3rd time, still smiling, oblivious to the fact that I am complaining about it. As she starts to put on the gloves, I just walk away and go next door.

I really wish they would go back to the days before gloves. Food workers seem to think that flimsy plastic gloves are a substitute for hygiene.

Was she sucking on that finger...? Damn.. I'm going to the wrong subways.

There was a documentary on the CBC about how most palces don't operate safely. The camera followed this one woman who worked for the Health Dept in Vancouver. She called the gloves the employee protection. Most employees of shops like subway think that because they have glovs on, they're protected. Well, they are, maybe, but the worker is also touching the knife, the meat, veggies, the cash register, the money etc with the same glove. kind of a misconception about what a gloves actual purpose is.

Subs always taste best when made with bare hands.

The gloves are actually for THEIR protection, not yours (see avatar).

The gloves are actually for THEIR protection, not yours (see avatar).

LoL

Was she sucking on that finger...? Damn.. I'm going to the wrong subways.

As long as she pulled it out of her mouth slowly with "do me" eyes too....heaven!:roflmao:

Dood, and you're complaining? Should asked her what she could do with a 'carrot'.

Dood, and you're complaining? Should asked her what she could do with a 'carrot'.

Bite it, then eat it...

my staph infection. let me show it to you

I saw someone from the local Jimmy John's sub shop take out the trash while wearing a pair of those gloves. I thought maybe it was just because the trash was really nasty, but she didn't throw them in the dumpster along with the garbage... She just went back inside.
I bet she went right to the counter and made someone's lunch after that, and they felt safe because she was wearing her food-service gloves like a good employee ought to.

I couldn't order pizza for 6 months after seeing Poppy come out of the bathroom without washing his hands and then massage the dough in the kitchen (Seinfeld reference).

I tell you, I once had a guy at Subway get up to the sneeze guard and threaten to have some friends of his hunt me down after he started an argument over a similar situation. I mentioned this to a security guard, but he still works there to this day. Of course, I suppose in a way that's punishment enough.

Considering his rotund-ness, I shoulda asked him if his friends were Ben and Jerry.

I saw the title of this thread and thought oh, oh, bulimic sandwich maker.

really though, the whole idea of wearing gloves while doing food preparation I think kinda densensitizes people to all the stuff they touch.

When I worked in foodservice we didn't wear gloves, but we were waaay more aware of what we were touching and the importance of keeping everything clean.

Why do gourmet chefs in all of those wack cooking shows never use
gloves and people never have an issue with it ?
Are part time high school kids the only ones who can spread kooties ?

Ill stick with Doritos and Raman Noodles, thank you ! :beer:

Dood... It's Alton Brown!

Why do gourmet chefs in all of those wack cooking shows never use
gloves and people never have an issue with it ?
Are part time high school kids the only ones who can spread kooties ?
Generally speaking, they engage in regular hand washing. Did you know that most restaurant kitchens where they rarely use gloves but wash their hands properly almost always have higher health department scores than the kitchens where they use gloves all the time?

Thats sort of what I figured Donna, but still....this could go off on a few different
tangents so Ill mercifully give it a rest :roflmao: Its something Im clearly out of my
league discussing :roflmao:

It is a constant issue with my Wife, who really enjoys top shelf food stuff and I , who has
a phobia/paranoid complex about eating out or in front of other people, our differences....
She wants to engage the Waiter D in conversation about the sauce and I want to slip him
an extra fiver to stay away from the table. I thinks its weird and too personal to engage
in the feeding process/ritual in the manner it is enjoyed by most people. When an event
comes up that requires the restuarant ritual it take a few days to ready myself for it, mentally. :eek:

Oh wow, Lem. Well, I have an allergy to natural rubber latex. It's illegal in Oregon to use those gloves in food service, but I always have a miserable time visiting Washington, California and Michigan because everyone wants to use my trip as an excuse to go out to eat. It's so stressful trying to find a restaurant I can eat at, I'm usually not that hungry anymore. I would much rather cook a nice meal in someone's house.

I dined with a Turkish college professor before and in thier culture they use
thier hands for a lot of stuff we use silvrware for. It was difficult to get used to.
I expected to hear my Mom yelling at him at any moment, all dinner long :roflmao:

You're eating at a Subway, you can't expect much. Be very wary of employees older than 21, because you know that by this time if they can't get a real job...

Kinda worries me that this kind of thing would not gross me out at all. I wouldn't give it a second thought. But I'm not a very normal guy.

I've eaten things I hit with my car.
Should have asked her to put *your* finger in her mouth. :D

Was she hot?

I swear I had to sit here thinking for 5 minutes, trying to figure out why you were worried about the ticket lady on the subway sucking her finger.

D'OH!

I was in a Subway a few weeks ago. I was giving the guy behind the counter my order when he either coughed or sneezed in to his bare hands, and then reached for the gloves without washing his hands. I just told him that I changed my mind and left; he seemed totally puzzled as to what had just happened.

Oh wow, Lem. Well, I have an allergy to natural rubber latex. It's illegal in Oregon to use those gloves in food service, but I always have a miserable time visiting Washington, California and Michigan because everyone wants to use my trip as an excuse to go out to eat. It's so stressful trying to find a restaurant I can eat at, I'm usually not that hungry anymore. I would much rather cook a nice meal in someone's house.

Wow, I had no idea that latex allergies could be so sensitive. I'm surprised that it's still legal to use latex gloves in food preparation at restaurants.

The only time I've been able to eat food handled with latex gloves has been when it was deep fried afterwards. The temperature was high enough to denature the proteins that make my life more complicated. Bills to ban them come up in state legislatures all the time. The Malaysian rubber lobby has deep pockets. :mad: Their line is that NRL allergy is a psychosomatic illness. There is a much higher instance of it amongst people of European ethnicity versus Asian ethnicity, so maybe that's true in Malaysia. I just know I don't like shelling out $$$ for an ER visit after eating out.

OK, so I stopped in my local Subway after my ride this morning. I proceed to the counter, nobody in line, no employees in sight. A moment later a subway employee emerges. She looks nice enough, but I noticed two things as she approached the order station. (1) She didn't wash her hands, and (2) she stuck her finger in her mouth right before she reached the glove station. She reaches for the gloves and I say excuse me, I would appreciate it if you could please wash your hands...especially since you just stuck your finger in your mouth. She smiles and says, "oh, I was just eating a piece of candy." So she sticker her finger back in her mouth, as if to illustrate. And I'm like WTF, you just did it again. So she sticks it in a 3rd time, still smiling, oblivious to the fact that I am complaining about it. As she starts to put on the gloves, I just walk away and go next door.

I really wish they would go back to the days before gloves. Food workers seem to think that flimsy plastic gloves are a substitute for hygiene.

Write to Subway and enjoy your free sandwiches. Just make sure you redeem the coupons at a different location...

I saw a kid at Mrs. Field's spit on the floor once--I wrote them about it, did the whole I'm a health care provider/this is an outrage thing and got a coupon for 6 dozen free cookies. And I had absolutely no intention of even buying a cookie that day. :D