EW

A Florida student found that the ice at fast food restaurants is actually dirtier than the toilet water at the same establishment.

(Thanks to Unholy Slacker)

Comments

[Not My Usual Alias]

I think I'll start bringing my own beverages now.

[WVplantman]

My dog finds toilet water quite refreshing so it must be clean.

[WVplantman]

Then again, he also licks his own butt on occasion.

[Wiredog]

That's why I made sure my shots were up to date before I went to Florida a few years ago.

[HogsAteMySister]

Marvin Zindler would LOVE this place.

[HogsAteMySister]

And this time with the LINK. Hopefully...

Marvin Zindler would LOVE this place.

[Steve]

Cleaning hard-to-clean machines is low on the priority list at many fast food places.
I once asked a worker at a chain place how often they cleaned the soft-serve "ice cream" machine?
"Once a week." she said proudly.
"OK. Open it up."
Blank stare.
I opened it for her and lifted the side access. There were about a thousand roaches at home back there.
"Boy, they multiply fast in a week." I said. I never called a person a liar on the job. (That gets you shot).

[Ms. Flukey]

Never.eatting.out.again.

[Loudmouth]

Floaters in your float. Stinkers for drinkers. Dirt in your Squirt. Lice in the ice. Bugs in the jugs. And of course, bacteria in your cafeteria.

[ligirl]

yay loudmouth -

mush in your slush, cocktrail...um, yeah, in your cocktail

[MartiniShark]

What do you expect when you order the sundae with Feces-pieces?!

[oldfatguy]

Based on my many years in fast food service and also in delivery to eating places at another time in my life I am personally amazed that there are not ten thousand deaths a week from food related poison. On a side note, never insult a waiter or waitress. No telling what you will be eating.

[Jonadab]

Well, yeah.

First of all, the ice machine sees constant use. Every hour, sometimes more often, somebody or another is scooping ice out of there into a portable bin and carrying it to the drive-through window's little ice reservoir and/or the one behind the front counter. Employees think of the ice as clean, so they have no qualms about reaching in there. Sometimes when it's hot people reach in there with their fingers and take out ice cubes for various purposes (e.g., to put it down a co-worker's shirt). None of this makes it _visibly_ dirty, so nobody ever thinks the thing needs cleaned.

The tank on the back of the toilet, on the other hand, is "gross" (because it's a toilet), so nobody ever puts a hand in there. The bowl itself gets dirty stuff put in it, obviously, but it also gets emptied and rinsed with running water dozens of times an hour. Water is a remarkably effective solvent, and just in case that's not enough, they clean it with strong chemicals at least once a day (3-5 times a day if it's McD's). I'm not saying I want to drink out of the toilet (I mean, you never know what somebody put in it and then flushed only once RIGHT before you arrived), but I am not at all surprised if on a given occasion it happens to be cleaner than what comes out of the ice machine.