Protein Salad in Dickson (what to do with a problem meal)

Waiting For Godot said :

I remember a TV show called Fear Factor where one of the segments involved participants eating maggots. Harden the f*** up!

I wanted to go the Fear Factor, but was too afraid. To be fair, those people (on the show) were mentally prepared to eat maggots. It’s probably not an possibility that occurs to you as you tuck into your chicken caesar salad.

I’ve bitten into fruit and bitten into a worm – big deal, you’re sort of prepared to accept the risk of that. When it comes to food prepared for you by humans, that expectation is much lower (though maybe it shouldn’t be).

Waiting For Godot said :

I remember a TV show called Fear Factor where one of the segments involved participants eating maggots. Harden the f*** up!

I’ve seen them eating a horse uterus on that show. Not that you’d find a horse uterus in your salad – I hope.

I remember a TV show called Fear Factor where one of the segments involved participants eating maggots. Harden the f*** up!

I had a similar experience at a well known establishment in Queanbeyan during a work party. I ordered a cheesecake for desert, and upon receiving the cake, I found mold growing on it. I advised a staff member, who barely apologised before offering a replacement. I didnt accept the replacement, and went without desert.

I found out the following day, that the desert had been charged to the bill, which the boss paid without checking. Sadly, this was a venue that I visited probably once a month before this incident, but have not returned since.

at least your salad was fresh

Flys frolicking on the food during storage or preparation seems to be the real problem. Maggots emerge from their eggs within eight to 20 hours of being laid.

Mr Waffle said :

That’s what you get for ordering the “Bear Grylls Special”… just be glad you didn’t have to bite the head off a lizard!

Goddamn, beat me to it. Watching Bear Grylls plucking maggots out of the eye sockets of a dead, decomposing seal nearly made me barf.

I think the problem lies not so much with the maggots themselves, as where they came from; that is, what else was in the meal that was bad enough for maggots to be eating?

To be fair maggots aren’t going to make you sick. Not a good look though.

I find nothing unusual in slip-ups in food preparation occasionally, it’s a fact of life that critters will find ways to defeat even the most stringent countermeasures, what I do find extraordinary is the reported attitude of the establishments who have been notified of a problem.

Get with it cafe owners! If a customer reports a foreign object found in a meal, take the initiative and take steps to assure the customer that all necessary steps will be taken to find out what went wrong, get customer’s details, wrap the offending meal in gladwrap and advise that ACT Health will be asked to help investigate the incident. Refund the meal and give a voucher for a replacement.

ACT Health should be able to help in situations where the complaint has been manufactured, something that must always be considered a possibility, and in the meantime at minimal cost you’ve done what you can to restore your reputation.

That’s what you get for ordering the “Bear Grylls Special”… just be glad you didn’t have to bite the head off a lizard!

Obviously wasn’t Rainbow Dreams. 😛

After suffering food posioning from a well known dial a pizza chain I contacted health protection. They advised that in food poisoning cases one should keep some of *erm* what your body evacuates for them to test.

EErrrkkkk!
Dont go back
Thanks for the advice

That’s a bit nasty. Good tips though.