Show this to your fast food loving friends -- is it enough to make the go cold turkey?

And, you should see what some of your friends and family members do in their own kitchens!

Those delicious cookies that Aunt Wilma brings over are full of roach droppings. Cousin Bob picks his nose while he's rubbing those secret spices into his famous ribs.

The only way to make sure that your food isn't tainted is to grow it and prepare it yourself. We all know that's not practical.

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.

In fact, I really get a bit nervous when anyone else does the dishes here!  

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."

So many stories from the time I spent working in resturants but the one that sticks out is the time I worked in a sole food resturant and the waitress actuall served 2 customers spoiled black-eyed peas. But get this:

The customers actually liked the black-eyed peas and wanted more.

And there is no such thing as bad black-eyed peas.

Hey, wait a minute!  How could you possibly be blaming the condition of the food on the waitress. Have you monitored your misogyny and your privilege today?  Well, have you?

Actually, the waitresses did NOT want to serve them, the customers came into the resturant for some black eyed peas. Trust me, I was with them when they found them in the frig in the kitchen; they smelled bad.

Then of course, there was the time where the sunlight was shining on the water station in a way that one of the waitresses couldn't tell the difference between a glass of water and a glass of apple juice. Soooooo...she sipped out of both glasses, made the distinction, and served the water and the juice.  

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Actually all the other hits did come back for shoes, including one "Solefood" in Tribeca, NYC that does serve sneakers on a plate!

And oh yes, even way back then, we used to slip nasty things into the food of customers who were exceptionally abusive toward the staff. Of course, one employee took it to new heights after a new owner took over the store and started bullying the workers. I won't go into too much graphic detail, but he did demonstrate how to empty a crowded restaurant very quickly by simply urinating on a hot griddle right in front of the entire store.

Of course, that's not what turned me veg. It was a lunch break during which my best friend and coworker very lightly draped a napkin across the surface on the beef patty after removing the top of the bun. That napkin was sopping wet with grease, and he didn't apply any pressure to it or rub it in or anything-all that came up just from light contact.

Eat at home, you'll live longer.  

My dad was a steelworker
My mom was a kitchen girl
and that's why
I'm a socialist.
-from an old song I used to hum to myself

Not to say it doesn't happen. However, I remember how hard that work was, how little the money was, how demeaning the corporate structure could be to employees, and I watch how customers treat them. They are the working underclass, and they are the ones getting SHAFTED in every direction. They're not getting a living wage. They don't have health care, and if they do, it's not much of anything to speak of, and money being taken out of a paycheck already too low to live on. They're treated like servants and machines by the customers.

I'd be angry and resentful too, is all I'm saying.

- Abraham Lincoln.

Now the Fudd's years were few in comparison to my years at Denny's.  Now Denny's has had a bad bad rep for decades - to poor customer service, racism, and a whole host of other things.  Almost 10 years I spent at the same location is independantly owned by a franchisee who owned just the one store for 15 years and just opened his second.  I NEVER saw anything like this happen there.  I mean yeah we'd get the nasty rude evil customers frequently and we'd talk about doing bad bad things, but we never would - because we go out to eat as well and we wouldn't want the same thing to happen to us.  And trust me, when I started waiting tables at Denny's in 2000 we were making $2.45/hr plus tips, Illinois' server's wage at the time.  So you could imagine how miffed we were if we were mistreated by our guests, and left shitty tips even though we did absolutely nothing wrong.

I think I was just fortunate enough to have worked with good people who would stop to think about their "would-be" actions for a moment and then walk away from the situation.  Thank goodness.

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