Student finds toilet water cleaner than ice at fast food restaurants
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Now, I've seen American fast-food restaurants: dingy greasy shacks, they're staffed with lazy, apathetic fat kids or - when they can't get lazy fat kids to do the work - hard-working people who don't speak English very well. Unfortunately, too little of the more capable latter type of employee.
Having used the restroom in a few of them, I've learned that something can be clean but not tidy, and, more imporantly to me, tidy but not clean. The idea that lazy staff would be poking their unwashed fecalform hands into the ice machine isn't that hard to fathom.
I just hope that civilised kids are a bit better about cleanliness.
New Tampa, Florida [America] - 12-year-old Jasmine Roberts is a seventh-grade student at Benito Middle School in New Tampa.Interesting article, although it did need some translation to Civilised English.
When it came time for her to choose a science project, she wondered about the ice in fast food restaurants.
Jasmine Roberts, 7th-grade student:
'My hypothesis was that the fast food restaurants’ ice would contain more bacteria that the fast food restaurants’ toilet water.'
So [Miss] Roberts set out to test her hypothesis, selecting five fast food restaurants [within] a ten-mile radius of the University of South Florida.
[Miss] Roberts says at each restaurant she flushed the toilet once, [the] used sterile gloves to gather samples.
Jasmine Roberts:
'Using the sterile beaker I scooped up some water and closed the lid.'
[Miss] Roberts also collected ice from soda fountains inside the five fast food restaurants. She also asked for cups of ice at the same restaurant's drive thru windows.
She tested the samples at a lab at the Moffitt Cancer Center where she volunteers with a USF professor. [Miss] Roberts says the results did not surprise her.
Jasmine Roberts:
'I found that 70-percent of the time, the ice from the fast food restaurant's contain more bacteria than the fast food restaurant's toilet water.'
Now, I've seen American fast-food restaurants: dingy greasy shacks, they're staffed with lazy, apathetic fat kids or - when they can't get lazy fat kids to do the work - hard-working people who don't speak English very well. Unfortunately, too little of the more capable latter type of employee.
Having used the restroom in a few of them, I've learned that something can be clean but not tidy, and, more imporantly to me, tidy but not clean. The idea that lazy staff would be poking their unwashed fecalform hands into the ice machine isn't that hard to fathom.
I just hope that civilised kids are a bit better about cleanliness.
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