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Would you still go to your favorite restaurant if you found out it had multiple health code violations?
Asked at Massachusetts Streets on July 21, 2012
“It depends on what the violation is. If it’s something like a knife being left out too long on a counter, then I wouldn’t care. But if it is like a human head in the dishwasher, not so much. ”
“No, I would not eat at a place that has been cited multiple times. I work in the kitchen, and if you wouldn’t eat it yourself, don’t serve it. Throw it away. ”
“No I wouldn’t. That’s all I would be able to think about.”
“If they don’t label the bleach, whatever, but I would prefer not to find hairs in my food.”
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Comments
RoeDapple 10 months ago
I prefer to eat where you can see the activity of the kitchen.
RoeDapple 10 months ago
Happy Spooner's Day.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 10 months ago
Every night is a spooner's night in my book.
Sporking, not quite as often.
labmonkey 10 months ago
Don't shock her, Spock her.
Frankie8 10 months ago
July 22. A day named for the Reverend William Archibald Spooner (born at London, England, July 22, 1844, warden of New College, Oxford, 1903–24, died at Oxford, England, Aug 29, 1930), whose frequent slips of the tongue led to coinage of the term spoonerism to describe them. A day to remember the scholarly man whose accidental transpositions gave us blushing crow (for crushing blow), tons of soil (for sons of toil), queer old dean (for dear old queen), swell foop (for fell swoop) and half-warmed fish (for half-formed wish).
Thank you, Roe, had to look this up, I thought you meant people who sleep like spoons nestled together. LOL
I ate once at the Mad Greek and it was the worst food I have ever had, could not eat the desert so I didn't have to pay for it. I was told they were trying a different vender. I thought they cooked the food on site. Isn't that why they have a kitchen?
I wonder if they ever inspect LINK and the Salvation Army kitchens. They are the two soup kitchens in Lawrence.
RoeDapple 10 months ago
Well . . . that too.
RoeDapple 10 months ago
pm me.
rantor 10 months ago
wow
clueless
RoeDapple 10 months ago
For your entertainment rantor! glad you enjoy it!
Paul R. Getto 10 months ago
The system is seriously underfunded (on purpose) and more political than anything else. Just about any restaurant can be cited any day someone shows up. Food and vermin go together and this is a constant challenge. One approach: call roaches water bugs like they do in the fancy joints in New York City.
Pywacket 10 months ago
LJW needs to add the "like" button to the OTS responder section. Ben's comment = gold!
One of my favorite restaurants ever was, by any standards, a greasy spoon. Sometimes there would be a faint oil slick across the top of the coffee in the cup. But it was 2:30 a.m. and you were drunk and that coffee tasted damn good, and so did the hand-made hamburgers and fries, so you didn't care.
For the most part, we benefit from enforcement of health standards. We want violators to shape up or shut down. Especially if it's a place in which we have little or no emotional investment. And especially if it's in the here and now. Our kids might get sick from eating there, dammit!
But when you think about such enforcement as it might have applied to a beloved place from your own youth, owned by a local guy who sponsored local baseball and bowling teams, where your mom met her friends for after-school Cokes and shakes in the 1950s, where your best friend got her first job, and the waitresses called everybody "Hon," a rule about storing raw chicken parts on the same cooler shelf with sausage links and cheese slices doesn't seem to matter so much.
While I never heard of anyone dying after eating at my hometown burger spot, it was, by any standards, today's or yesterday's, a dive, a hole, a joint. I would give anything to walk in there for one more oil-slicked cup of coffee and one more juicy burger basket with those hand-cut, skin-on fries. I loved that dive, grime and all. And I wouldn't want to remember it any other way.
Frankie8 10 months ago
A human head in the dishwasher? You scrub it down with a bristle brush, stuff it and bake it. Go to a movie and you will learn these things. Seriously, no one is wondering what happened to the body?
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