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Post by lollygagger on Mar 23, 2017 14:58:12 GMT
Some friends of mine worked on a pork pie production line one Christmas. I know what they did. I haven't eaten one since. Are all your mates dirty bastards? Fact is that the same thing applies to hotel kitchens and almost any food production facility. There will always be stupid dirty bastards who will gob into the food or worse, just for kicks. I recall the Sheraton Hotel in New Delhi where some of our group were staying; they had constant tummy troubles. When I visited them for dinner I rejected the bottled water brought for me because the seal was broken when it was brought to the table. They didn't have a clue why. I didn't get sick. Next morning they were sick, as usual. A waiter can make $1 on an empty water bottle filled with tap water if he colludes with the bar manager. PS. never warm up cold meat (especially pork and chicken) unless you know its background, or risk gastroenteritis. Bored youths on night shift, pub first. It was never going to end well.
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Post by Delta9 on Mar 23, 2017 15:00:15 GMT
PS. never warm up cold meat (especially pork and chicken) unless you know its background, or risk gastroenteritis. Bullshit
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Post by thebfg on Mar 23, 2017 15:02:19 GMT
Some friends of mine worked on a pork pie production line one Christmas. I know what they did. I haven't eaten one since. Are all your mates dirty bastards? Fact is that the same thing applies to hotel kitchens and almost any food production facility. There will always be stupid dirty bastards who will gob into the food or worse, just for kicks. I recall the Sheraton Hotel in New Delhi where some of our group were staying; they had constant tummy troubles. When I visited them for dinner I rejected the bottled water brought for me because the seal was broken when it was brought to the table. They didn't have a clue why. I didn't get sick. Next morning they were sick, as usual. A waiter can make $1 on an empty water bottle filled with tap water if he colludes with the bar manager. PS. never warm up cold meat (especially pork and chicken) unless you know its background, or risk gastroenteritis. I don't know about pork but as long as chicken is quickly cooled, stored at 5'c or less and when reheated, heated to 85'c for at least five minutes then you shouldn't have an issue as long as it was originally cooked to over 165'c I would never reheat meat twice and I will only ever reheat meat that I have cooked. That's a good con with the water. Well spotted.
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Post by lollygagger on Mar 23, 2017 15:49:12 GMT
I would never reheat meat twice and I will only ever reheat meat that I have cooked. Agree. The con with the water, though - just shows what slimey bastards Indians are. I can't believe anyone could seriously type that. I must be missing the joke?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2017 16:02:09 GMT
I am going to put the fox on ignore. I cannot stand any more of his sweeping generalisations, and, frankly, the utter drivel he spouts.
Pathetic.
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Post by Delta9 on Mar 23, 2017 17:00:43 GMT
However, the Witch accidentally bought some mango chutney in a jar which stated 'Made in India'. I threw it in the bin straight away. Made with Indian water? Simply not worth the risk. Mrs Balls mango chutney I will accept. Biology and Chemistry to A-level standard here. A waste of some good chutney. There is no water used to make mango chutney, but even if there was, the canning process used when it's sealed in the jar sterilises the contents.
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Post by bodger on Mar 23, 2017 17:43:34 GMT
Yes, sorry - I have added (some) into that. Heat of the moment thought. I'm afraid all of the Indians I have met have been untrustworthy - apart from one who worked for the same company as me but then I only talked to him in lunchbreaks, he seemed OK: he told me what he thought of Indians and the Indian government and said what is good about living in Europe is that here you can say what you think, in India they'd send someone round to silence you. Everything I have read and heard about India makes me not want to go there. like many countries, the best food to eat is fresh cooked to order at roadside stalls; just avoid salads (and in India anywhere the cows are crapping and eating food off the stalls). ........ if the locals eat the food it is probably safe. a total of 5 years in India. I didn't find them particularly untrustworthy, but it appeared that they are taught that the correct answer to any question is the answer that will please you and create the least inconvenience for them. There is no real concept of 'the truth'. Of course there is always corruption, but that is almost universal; the difference in India is that it is all done, more or less, in the open.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Mar 23, 2017 17:48:17 GMT
Anyway the answer to the original question is that pork pies should be eaten cold, otherwise all the snot runs down your chin before you get the chance to gobble it.
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Post by bodger on Mar 23, 2017 17:51:20 GMT
I recall the Sheraton Hotel in New Delhi where some of our group were staying; they had constant tummy troubles. When I visited them for dinner I rejected the bottled water brought for me because the seal was broken when it was brought to the table. They didn't have a clue why. I didn't get sick. Next morning they were sick, as usual. A waiter can make $1 on an empty water bottle filled with tap water if he colludes with the bar manager. Old Stories from Canalworld. No. 854 you have a good memory. not everyone on TB will have seen it. The other observation on that hotel is that the kitchens were reputed to be filthy. However there was also (and still is in the renamed Maurya hotel) a tandoori restaurant (the Bukhara) that was at one time the only restaurant in Asia listed among the top ten in the world; the kitchen was located in the middle of the dining hall, surrounded in plate glass on 3 sides, and the environment was as clean as a whistle, as were the staff. Food to die for, eaten off a wooden platter using your fingers, with a bib tied round your neck by one of the waitresses.
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Post by Stumpy on Mar 23, 2017 18:05:47 GMT
They call them "Growlers" down here in MoonRaker country 😊 Whatever for?! A growler has a totally different meaning here in the East. 'Cos they make you guts growl and produce copious amounts of gas 😆
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2017 18:16:36 GMT
Growlers in South Yorkshire too.
Rog
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2017 18:36:48 GMT
A growler is a small iceberg or a beer jug!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2017 18:48:16 GMT
If tap water contains vegetable matter it can make you sick even though it is technically sanitary. I've heard, but can not prove, that it is a good idea to drink a teaspoon of the hotel water when you arrive and this will give your body's defence mechanisms time to build anti-bodies.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2017 18:51:31 GMT
I hate hotels.
Only ever been in one but it was one too many
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Post by Delta9 on Mar 23, 2017 18:55:08 GMT
A growler is a big hairy minge.
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