Next time you eat at a restaurant, think twice before adding pepper to your food
When you go out to eat, the chef at the restaurant in question often knows what they’re doing and you’ll probably get very tasty and well-seasoned food. Nevertheless, you might want to add that extra bit of flavour to the food by adding a bit of pepper. You really shouldn’t do that, though, and here’s why.
There are a lot of bacteria on a pepper shaker.
Pepper shakers
It’s not the toilet, doorknob or cutlery that is the dirtiest thing in a restaurant, but – and you’ll see this coming by now – the pepper shaker and the menu! According to research done by ABC News, pepper shakers contain 11,600 bacteria. This research was conducted among 12 restaurants in New York, Arizona and Ohio. Additionally, the salt shakers turned out to also contain E.coli! The menu contained even more bacteria, apparently, with a whopping 185,000 bacteria
Cleaning
How come those menus and pepper shakers are so gross? Jonas Sickler, director at ConsumerSafety.org, knows what the cause is. He explains to Reader’s Digest that it’s all about a lack of dedication at the part of the restaurant. “Most pepper shakers are only wiped down if they appear dirty, and even then, only with a damp cloth.” Sickler can also tell us that the shakers are never emptied out which means they never get cleaned on the inside.
Children
Sickler also explains that children cause quite a few bacteria to end up on the shakers. According to him, a lot of parents let their toddlers and young children play with the shakers to make sure they stay relatively calm and don’t cause too much of a ruckus. “This means they will be covered in drool, and whatever else that is on the toddler’s fingers.
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