Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

tell the poster above to open is eyes and read about dirty restaurants

I am warning good people about the bad places to eat .
cook your own food not food that is handled by people who are not going to eat the crap

That reminds be, it must be time for the Darwin Awards!!!


"Named in honor of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, the Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it."

Dirty restaurants are to be shamed into cleaning up their kitchens under a ‘scores on the doors’ hygiene rating system launched today.

All food establishments, from restaurants and pubs to take-aways and supermarkets, will be expected to display a sticker giving a rating of 0 to 5.

A zero will carry an ‘Urgent improvement necessary’ warning on the black and green stickers.


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no you're not .... you're just talking absolute rubbish as always, based almost solely on prejudice

genuine fact is that far and away the greatest source of food poisoning comes from the home

It is funny, but I have always had the impression that TANKER is an immigrant himself. It would at least explain his poor grasp of the English language.

Our waiters don't wipe down the menus between customers...

...or salt and pepper, or bottles of ketchup and mustard. It may come as no surprise to a germaphobe that restaurant kitchens are bacteria paradise. But bugs dwell on tabletop items too. Good Morning America sent a team of scientists to swab the items on the tables of 12 restaurants, including the items mentioned above. They found that menus carried the most germs, with an average count of 185,000 bacteria—nearly 16 times that of the second most germ-infested item, pepper shakers. (Everyone looks at the menu. Not everyone loves pepper.) Next time you're out, place your order. Then wash your hands before you eat.


Read more: http://www.rd.com/slideshows/dirty-restaurant-secrets-the-kitchen-

echo it is all from the press you silly man I only cut and paste

Here is something for our older posters.

Cocoa 'might prevent memory decline'

Drinking cocoa every day may help older people keep their brains healthy, research suggests.
A study of 60 elderly people with no dementia found two cups of cocoa a day improved blood flow to the brain in those who had problems to start with.
Those participants whose blood flow improved also did better on memory tests at the end of the study, the journal Neurology reported.
Experts said more research was needed before conclusions could be drawn.
It is not the first time cocoa has been linked with vascular health and researchers believe that this is in part due to it being rich in flavanols, which are thought to have an important role.
In the latest study, researchers asked 60 people with an average age of 73 to drink two cups of cocoa a day - one group given high-flavanol cocoa and another a low-flavanol cocoa - and consume no other chocolate.
Blood flow
Ultrasound tests at the start of the study showed 17 of them had impaired blood flow to the brain.
There was no difference between those who drank flavanol-rich cocoa and those who had flavanol-poor cocoa.
But whichever drink they were given, 88% of those with impaired blood flow at the start of the study saw improvements in blood flow and some cognitive tests, compared with 37% of people whose blood flow was normal at the beginning of the study.
MRI scans in 24 participants found that people with impaired blood flow were also more likely to have tiny areas of brain damage.
"We're learning more about blood flow in the brain and its effect on thinking skills," said study author Dr Farzaneh Sorond a neurologist at Harvard Medical School.
"As different areas of the brain need more energy to complete their tasks, they also need greater blood flow. This relationship, called neurovascular coupling, may play an important role in diseases such as Alzheimer's."
The researchers said the lack of difference between the flavanol-rich and flavanol-poor cocoa could be because another component of the drink was having an effect or because only small amounts were needed.
Dr Simon Ridley, head of research at Alzheimer's Research UK, said this was a small study but that it added to a wealth of evidence.
"A cocoa-based treatment would likely be very popular, but it's too soon to draw any conclusions about its effects.
"One drawback of this study is the lack of a control group for comparison, and we can't tell whether the results would have been different if the participants drank no cocoa at all."
But he added: "Poor vascular health is a known risk factor for dementia, and understanding more about the links between vascular problems and declining brain health could help the search for new treatments and preventions."

hay yes it was out last month

the uk GOV keep on about cutting out junk food and smoking drinking
surely the GOV should be WARNING the public about the dirty restaurants
and takeaways which is costing the NHS milions .and destroying peoples health

There are web sites where you can look up the hygiene rating given by councils to restaurants.

Pictured: The moment two British girls were caught 'trying to smuggle £1.5million of cocaine out of Peru hidden in food bags'
Michaella McCollum Connolly, 20, and Melissa Reid, 19, arrested last week
Girls from Northern Ireland and Scotland photographed at Lima airport
Anti-drugs squad officers found nearly 6kg of cocaine hidden in suitcases


Read more: http://www.dailymail
they should be hanged

all drug pushers should be hung

Check your favourite restaurant/pub etc here

http://ratings.food.gov.uk/enhanced-search/en-GB/%5E/%5E/alpha/0/%5E/%5E/1/1/10

now take swab tests on your home kitchen work tops and chopping boards
how often do you use disinfectant on them?
are you meticulous as to what foods are used on which boards?

and now have your fridge inspected by your local EHO to see if you comply with even "safe storage" leaving aside commercial regs

and don't forget your dish and drying-up cloths either
how often do you change them?

At least restaurants keep different chopping boards for cooked and raw meat.

and fish and vegetables
they also have to have a separate hand-basin with scrubbing brush, and i'm sure a host of other regs

for sure some food establishments are pretty disgusting to say the least, but then so are many homes.

funny how the french seem pretty unconcerned about many of these "nanny state" regs

my kitchen is spotless . and only use towels that we put in the bin .

of course .... you're almost certainly anal about it too