COOKIES! discussion

I read this in "Hints from Heloise" today and while I am not shocked over this too much, it does make one wonder.

The letter was a reply to a previous column that I had not read, but it involved a woman who was shopping at the grocery store when she observed another shopper OPEN a bottle of BBQ sauce, stick her finger in said bottle, TASTE the sauce and PUT IT BACK ON THE SHELF! The observer notified the manger who said that he would take care of it. A week or so later, the letter writer found the SAME OPEN BOTTLE ON THE SHELF!

The question was, what would you have done? One woman replied that before everything was sealed, she purchased ice cream that had 2 finger trails in it from someone who sampled it and put it back. One reader said that they would have confronted the other shopper since the manager is more interested in keeping customers instead of rocking the boat.

I don't know about confronting the other person, as now you don't know how someone will react to you being in their face. Telling someone in charge sounds to me to be the best way of handling it, and making sure that it is handled. This to me is where social media may be handy, not showing the person behind the offense per say, but mentioning it on Yelp! or Twitter may be what it takes to make sure that the store does handle the situation properly.

I know that many of us are guilty of tasting a grape or two since the days of you MUST buy this gargantuan bag or nothing days are here and we don't want to pay a fortune for literally sour grapes. But tasting sauce from the bottle and putting back? Come on! Not only is that rude, but it's gross, and shame on the store for not disposing of the product right away. I am checking EVERYTHING even more closely than before.


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That is just plain disgusting. I had a somewhat similar incident at Giant Eagle. I was considering a donut from the case when I saw bugs flying around inside the case. I told the bakery worker... her response was that she would try to chase them out. YUCK! How about tossing the contaminated product? I promptly found a manager who CLAIMED it would be dealt with. He went off in that direction, so maybe. Just maybe. Needless to say, I will never again purchase ANYTHING from that case.

I am leery of those kind of cases just for that reason and for unsupervised children.

Gross... This is why I always check the seals before I buy something.

I was at a popular hotdog place once (people were lined up around the block during lunch hour), and the cooks were right where everyone could see them. I saw one of these guys scratch his sweaty arm with a spatula and then flip a burger... and people still at there! Disgusting!

And I love hotdogs! But this definitely traumatized me from hotdog stands for life.

I shudder at what I see on "Restaurant Impossible". I am not a habitual viewer, but I have stumbled upon it on occasion and I am horrified at what some of these places had going on in the back. I wonder what the health department in these places were thinking.....yeesh!

Kim wrote: "I shudder at what I see on "Restaurant Impossible". I am not a habitual viewer, but I have stumbled upon it on occasion and I am horrified at what some of these places had going on in the back. I..."

Did you ever watch "Kitchen Nightmares" from Gordon Ramsay? That was a pretty disturbing show too. Ick.

Same thing as above. I don't watch those shows so I DON'T have to wonder about where I am eating.....