Boy I hate to be the first one to post a response, but I just picked a big semisoft booger out of my right nostril, and I am running it across the scroll wheel on my mouse, while I read this, thinking about pizza cheese, and wondering what my girlfriend was doing with my toothbrush last night. She hates it when I ignore her and I watch Southpark instead.

Suck it up, prepare to spew;

Your jest is found in mucous glue.

That's my two cents for this discussion.

Wow, um...did people need a video to know that kind of shit happens? It goes on all the time, and people are fired for it. I've seen gross stuff at places many times, it doesn't prompt me to boycott the whole chain. I just don't eat their for as long as siad nasty remains. Like a Baskin Robins I stopped going to because I saw the server sneeze in the ice cream. My problem was with the unhygenic moron, not the company who didn't know he was doing that.

They idea that they'd lose business nationwide is...idiotic.

Uh, sorry. Bodily fluds on food is not funny unless you're in junior high school. Diseases really can be passed on this way. All restaurants need to teach this simple concept to their employees and fire those who don't get it. Please don't encourage this behavior by likening it to real humour.

Right. The parts that would sicken him would be that his profit margin might go down, shareholders would demand a cut in his year-end bonus, and other guys down at "the club" would make wise cracks about his business.

Like Mr. Previous said here, this stuff goes on all the time. Whether its done for YouTube or not. I'm sure that the vast majority of the time someone isn't shooting a movie when employees decide to pull some hi-jinks for their own amusement. Or, as he notes, employees who aren't very aware they're spreading their bugs all over the place are working on our order. Whether its in front of us or behind the closed doors of the kitchen.

Don't think you're immune, but also don't be so paranoid that you believe its happening to your food each and every time you order out or go out to eat.

I gather that midwesterners are a rude and simple folk.

As anybody who has ever worked in a restaurant can tell you, Evil Things can happen to your food before the dinner prince/ss delivers it to you with a flourish (or a clatter, depending on the venue). I've worked with cooks who smoked a cigar the whole time they were working, who handled everything with bare hands, who dropped stuff and picked it up, brushed it off, and nonchalantly tossed it in the saute pan. The more sophmoric stuff--one sous chef made himself a penis out of stretchy bread dough, tucked it under his apron, and had some fun wagging it at the other staff--also happens, not just because "the hospitality industry" is the bottom-line entry level business in these Unitey Steaks but because it is a refuge for people without the attention span or the tolerance for drudgery that office work requires. If you are extremely germ-conscious, or immune compromised, or squeamish--don't eat out.

I just think of it as a learning experience for the immune system.

I never ate at the restaurants that I worked at. I don't know, call it what you will...

Yes, nasty things happen at restaurants. I remember when working at a Burger King, they found a case of freezer burned Whopped Jr. patties in the walkin. Those things had the consistency of shoe leather, seriously. Instead of tossing them, and they were OLD, the manager said 'cook'em up and serve 'em'. They didn't improve with the cooking... People dropped burgers on the floor and served them. And you know what's funny? People bitch about 'french food being so gross'. If people only knew...

Anybody remember Ginos? When I was a teenager many many years ago I worked at one. We had a salad bar, and there was a family of mice beneath it. The female teenagers working there, and I was one of them - we all thought the little mouseies were SO CUUUUUUTE - we fed the family. Which expanded. We just wiped off the little turds that appeared on top of the salad bar. Anyway a health inspector came, didn't find the mouse colony quite so cute, shut us down, and the manager fired us all. I don't eat at fast food places. Ever.

Respiratory infections affect the nose, throat and lungs; they include influenza (the "flu"), colds and pertussis (whooping cough). The germs (viruses and bacteria) that cause these infections are spread from person to person in droplets from the nose, throat and lungs of someone who is sick.

http://www.doh.wa.gov/phepr/handbook/prevent.htm

I am seriously starting to wonder about Mr. Keillor mental health. Putting food up your nose and serving to customers is not funny. At all.

...But you'll let boogers on food slide?

Yuck!

And I repeat, yuck!

Maybe in sixth grade. After that, it's just disgusting, unsanitary, inconsiderate, and, I hope, illegal. Yes, such things do happen. They should be dealt with in gross detail on a need-to-know basis, like the autopsy of a malformed stillborn baby.

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Typical anti-business and short-sighted analysis. Keillor, crap & sneeze on your own food and post it on youtube if that's your version of funny. Leave the adults to run the business world as they see fit. And I'll thank my lucky stars that liberals are aberrations in the corporatosphere.

delivery for Mr. Keillor...

When I was a teen, my best friend and I went to Libertyland, Memphis's tepid attempt at a theme park. Now closed, so there's no fear of sinking their brand by this posting.

We discovered that running the pronto pup stand was a boy who had often harassed us in school. He was delighted to have an out-of-school opportunity to impress us, and he proceeded to brag about how he passed the boring hours when there were no visitors to the sweltering summer park. He would hold the batter compartment open until a fly landed on the lid, then slam the lid, catapulting the fly into the batter. Bonus points for more than one fly at a time; he did five while we watched. The batter was thick with little black specks and blobs.

Needless to say, we didn't buy a pronto pup that day. In fact, although I have a secret soft spot for nasty fair food, I have never eaten a pronto pup since.

Anyway. As someone who has immune system problems, I can't say that disease on food is a good joke. But is there any evidence that these employees actually served this food to anyone?