Say I go to a restaurant and find a hair in my food. Are there any actual health risks?
Does it make a difference if I:
- Find it in the dish, remove it, and keep eating
- Take a bite, find it in my mouth, and remove it
- Ingest it
This was inspired by a recent news story about a certain authoritarian butthole cosplaying as a food service worker. I did try to look it up (er, search it up?), but the top hits were lengthy meandering articles, or totally off-topic stuff like foods to prevent hair loss. So naturally I gave up and opted to consult the hive mind instead.
It’s not so much the hair itself as it being a symptom of god knows what else.
A lot of food safety laws are built around the highest levels of safety because you never know how vulnerable one of your patrons might be. I have no idea about the actual health impacts but based on that I assume it’s another minor vector for foodbourne illness that alone has a really small impact.
I’m more worried about what it means about the rest of the kitchen’s cleanliness. Hairnets/hats are easy, so if they can’t do that then what else are they forgetting?
It’s the “remove all brown m&m’s” rider of food service
honestly I think it is less about health or safety and more about the disgust people feel - it really might just be irrational and nothing more
Yeah, the ick factor is high.
Nah, it’s just the ick factor. Dirty hands can definitely contaminate food but the occasional hair won’t. Sure is gross, tho.
I doubt it, unless for some reason you eat a large quantity of it.
Oops all hairs: Sandwich edition.
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