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I eat from salad bars all the time. You're worrying about nothing. What are you afraid of? Do you eat in restaurants?
Catching a stomach bug. General nastiness. Yes, I eat in restaurants often and I've never had any problems. Maybe I'm already immune to the germs? I haven't vomited in over 20-25 years and I just want to keep my streak going.
Eat away at salad bars, olive bars and snicker bars, they're all filled with disgusting things that are best not to think about, but our ancestors survived before Purell and are surviving in areas without our "highly" regulated food standards. Also, as someone else mentioned, you might want to build that immunity as our new President seems intend on appointing people to run departments that they have a vested interest in dismantling.
It's a brave new world, go to your grocery store and eat!
Ok, I'm eating it now. It was a mixture of olives, cheese, and salami but somehow I only managed to get olives and cheese and like one little piece of meat.
I will say, I have never heard of anyone getting sick by buying from a salad bar at a grocery store. Aren't those olives in some sort of brine? Brine is disinfecting.
Well, perhaps there is no record of this having taken place at a grocery store, but the largest bio-terror attack in US history took place at several restaurant-based salad bars in--guess where?--the state of Oregon!
Because it did actually happen at several Oregon restaurants, then--clearly--the potential exists for something like this to happen at any facility. Do I eat at salad bars? Yes, I do, but the potential still exists for contamination, and I essentially hope for the best.
Last week, at the soup bar at my local Whole Foods, there was a strange old man wearing a Deerstalker Cap, and I observed him ladling-out small quantities of Chicken Noodle Soup, and then picking pieces of chicken out of the ladle. I immediately changed my plan to have soup for lunch that day, although the extremely high temperature of their soup bar probably served to kill whatever microbes he had on his hands.
And--yes--the brine in which the olives are marinated is pretty much capable of destroying disease organisms, due to its composition of both vinegar and salt.
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You mean all the snotty nosed little kids who pick their nose and then reach up and handled the food? The people who take things out and then put them back? The people who pull off 3-4 cups and run their fingers inside each one as they put back the ones that they aren't going to use? The shuffling sneezing people who don't look aside while they sneeze?
I don't buy at the salad bar, but I've seen them do it at the bulk bins. I only buy from the bulk bins that have dispensers. Otherwise I go to the back and buy full unopened bags.
I will say, I have never heard of anyone getting sick by buying from a salad bar at a grocery store. Aren't those olives in some sort of brine? Brine is disinfecting.
I'm in Fresh Market almost every day and I've NEVER seen this. Kids usually aren't tall enough to reach the salad bar. Ditto for Whole Foods and Publix.
I just spray bug spray on it. Really improves the flavor too.
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