SC - Feast Beverages

[RichSCA at aol.com]

Sorry, but at this comment (fast food iced tea) I have to step on my sister's 
soapbox.  You remember her - she's the microbiologist that does (did) food 
product safety inspections and checks - she is never on the list, but I stand 
on her box for her now and then. 

Never, ever drink ice tea from a fast food restaurant.  She did an inspection 
of all major chains in Atlanta, and a few other big cities, of their ice tea 
and everyone did NOT pass.  In fact, some were so bad she said it almost made 
her sick to test it.  Seems most places think that to wash the canister out 
with warm or hot water is enough.  After all, it's just drink. Even those 
that washed it with soap where shocked to learn that did not kill the "bugs". 
 Seems the bugs really like to live in the spout thingy.  To be properly 
cleaned it has to be removed (and some are NOT removable) or the old bleach 
or disinfectant thing has to be done.  Those that live in Atlanta might 
remember this - she (rather her results) made the new for a few days.  She 
also made 20/20 herself on the Tyson chicken thing.   

She also did the testing on fast food chains and discovered that of all the 
fast food places that failed "Hardee's" failed the most if you checked them 
after they started doing lunch (breakfast was okay).  Now this might not be 
true of Hardee's now - they may have changed their ways after the report.   

Once when we were living in Utah, I was nagging the husband while we were 
driving down the road one afternoon.  He "playfully" pulled into a Hardee's, 
parked and turned to me and said, "If you don't stop, I'm going through this 
drive-through and ordering you an ice tea!"   Oh, what a fate worse than 
death!!  What would my sister say?

Rayne


In a message dated 3/7/00 12:59:41 AM Central Standard Time, 
lilinah at earthlink.net writes:

<< Mordonna wrote:
 >For those new to the list, we had a discussion on here not so very long ago
 >on the proper way to sweeten tea.  Most of us born in the South who learned
 >to cook in the South aqreed that it must be at room temperature or warmer to
 >be properly sweetened.  Colder temperatures result in having undisolved 
sugar
 >crystals and having to use much more sugar to get the proper degree of sweet
 >taste.
 
 I don't remember that thread, but then i rarely drink iced tea, even 
 in "real" life. Only when i'm compelled to eat in a fast food 
 restaurant by the members of the Puritan guild i'm in when we're 
 working a fair. And then unsweetened with a squeeze of lemon and no 
 ice. (i really dislike drinks on ice and i don't have sensitive teeth)
  >>