Health: Expose: Hotel Room Drinking Glasses

[Guest guest]

Hey Karen,

First .. thanks for posting this .. it will educate a lotta folks.

 

The following video really gives you food for thought, esp. when you

> see that the hotels caught are not just cheap motels. Kinda makes

> you appreciate the cheap plastic-wrapped plastic cups that come in

> some hotel rooms! I know that in a couple of European hotels I've

> been in, it's been tough to be sure that the glasses you find after

> the maid has left your room are really clean, but I've never given it

> a second thought in U.S. hotels... until now! I guess it's time to

> add disposable cups to my (already overly long) packing list!

>

> How clean are the drinking glasses in your hotel?

>

> http://www.snotr.com/video/662

>

> Karen

>

 

I'm not surprised and I reckon many other folks aren't either. If you pay

peanuts you get monkeys .. and if you don't have firm standing operating

procedure you get shortcuts, and if you do have a good SOP you gotta accept

that folks do best those things the boss checks.

 

As for single use plastic .. I won't use them cause the hands that bagged

them might have just wiped a butt.

 

When I was young and reckless and single I have often drank from waterways

where there might be a dead critter .. or person .. laying in the water

upstream .. even drank out of a few rice paddies in the 'Nam .. didn't want

to but from time to time it was necessary. Now I demand glass in the room

and I wash it myself .. no way will I allow my family to drink from

hotel/motel plastic or a glass that we have not personally cleaned.

 

I am also not too happy eating in restaurants .. we don't do the fancy ones

... mostly hit Captain D or the local Mexican or the local Kuntry Kitchen

Korner for catfeesh and Suthran chow .. and all of them provide bottled

water .. for a cost .. and we pay that cost.

 

There is only so much care we can exercise eating in restaurants .. almost

all use hot water dishwashers but still one can deposit funk on a

plate after it has been cleaned.

 

Lots of folks in the know have long said we might not eat in many fine

restaurants if we could watch the preparation of the food. That statement

was driven home when a buddy in Turkey told me that his son had said .. who

worked in the Panda Chinese Restaurant in Gazi Osman Pasa .. tolld him that

it was a norm for workers to throw uneaten portions of food back into the

pot. We have two Chinese Restaurants here in Paris and I love Chinese chow

... but we don't go to them .. we bought a Chinese chow cook book and we now

cook it ourself in a wok.

 

Y'all keep smiling :-) Butch http://www.AV-AT.com