Originally Posted by Fly Away

I worked there in 87/88 - ordering the ingredients etc. thank God I didn't have a job on the factory floor. Plum jobs were available - like the sugar shaker, (stood all day on a ladder shaking an equal mixture of sugar and spit over cakes) Wonder if you tested any of the cakes that were accidentally trodden on and put back on the conveyor!!!

Originally Posted by asher

omg

thats it no more bought cakes

Originally Posted by Reedy

I never used to eat them!!!!

Peter's was as bad - they had a poor person who used to spend all day de-foiling pork pies, talk about monotonus and if they switched off and didn't keep up all the pies would pile up on a rotating table and start to overflow onto the floor - so you couldn't even daydream

Originally Posted by Fly Away

See Asher, it's all factory food! Don't get me started on what happens in cafe kitchens!

Originally Posted by Fly Away

I have a friend who works in the blackcurrent squash factory. Did you know that you can't get the earwigs out of the blackcurrents, so they don't bother................

Fancy a glass of squash...........

So that's cake and squash off the list - you'll be no fun at the next kiddie party!

Originally Posted by Fly Away

See Asher, it's all factory food! Don't get me started on what happens in cafe kitchens!

Originally Posted by Reedy

Dunc has seen some grusome things in restaurants...

One in particular an american themed one (in the bay) he will not touch as he was working in the lift shaft there were millions of cockroaches

Originally Posted by Fly Away

I have a friend who works in the blackcurrent squash factory. Did you know that you can't get the earwigs out of the blackcurrents, so they don't bother................

Fancy a glass of squash...........

So that's cake and squash off the list - you'll be no fun at the next kiddie party!

Originally Posted by Fly Away

Thank God, I have never eaten there!! Know where you mean though!

It's a good job that a bit of dirt doesn't hurt us too much.................

Originally Posted by asher

thats ok my youngest is 19

Originally Posted by asher

I know what happens in cafe kitchens many the time we chucked the frozen sausages on the floor to separate them

Originally Posted by Reedy

I did an audit once in a well known blackcurrant squash factory - probably the same place!!!

There was glass everywhere - so bad I abandoned the audit

Do you know that food specifications often include ppm (parts per million) of insect larvae, wings, eggs etc.

One of the worst is flour!!!!

Originally Posted by Fly Away

Phew, close shave there!



OMG! I know enough not to complain about a meal. Just leave it!

Originally Posted by Reedy

I did an audit once in a well known blackcurrant squash factory - probably the same place!!!

There was glass everywhere - so bad I abandoned the audit

Do you know that food specifications often include ppm (parts per million) of insect larvae, wings, eggs etc.

One of the worst is flour!!!!

Originally Posted by asher

we would be much more allergic without the bit of dirt

Originally Posted by asher

Originally Posted by asher

ah you worked in one as well!