Food Hygiene

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The other day on discord, I was having one of those funny conversations with the boys and we were talking about someone eating insects. The whole conversation was gross but also very funny due to how they were reacting to it but then it got me thinking about the things we eat.

There's this restaurant right on my street that I don't go to because of how dirty the place always is. It's kinda like an open space so you can see everything, where the food is being cooked and all of that and trust me when I say it is very dirty. But yet there are people who goes there almost on a daily basis to eat, maybe because the food there is cheap compared to other restaurants.

I also remember one time during high school, my class teacher was teaching us about food hygiene and she had told us a story of how she had gone to buy some fruits from this roadside store and how she had seen the lady who is the owner of the store, packing her kid's poop with a nylon bag (just like people do when their dogs poop on the road), and she had come to cut up her fruits without washing her hands.

My class teacher said she ended up throwing the fruits away after she left the shop. And then there's another story that I probably have told here before, about how my brothers friend had gone to an eatery on our street to get some food and while the lady was adding some stew to someone else's food, she had scooped up a huge cockroach from the pot of stew. Of course she didn't throw the stew away, she only removed the cockroach and continued her business.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that as long as we buy certain things outside, we can never be a hundred percent clean when it comes to food hygiene. I mean we could try, but trust me when I say we've probably eaten some really nasty things out there, we just don't know it.

Imagine if my brother's friend had not been there when they saw that cockroach, he would have eaten that food, the same thing applies to my class teacher. If she had been a minute late to that shop, she wouldn't had seen that woman packing her kid's poop, and she would had enjoyed her fruits.

I guess the best thing we all can do for ourselves in this situation is to always go for medical checkups, because you never really know when one could eat something that's really going to mess us up.