12 Year Old GROSSESS ME OUT! Fast-Food Ice Dirtier Than Toilet Water

[Ioo]

More power to this 12 year old girl, she has offically put me on a diet. Great job!


http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/story?id=1641825&page=1

Feb. 20, 2006 — Jasmine Roberts never expected her award-winning middle school science project to get so much attention. But the project produced some disturbing results: 70 percent of the time, ice from fast food restaurants was dirtier than toilet water.

The 12-year-old collected ice samples from five restaurants in South Florida — from both self-serve machines inside the restaurant and from drive-thru windows. She then collected toilet water samples from the same restaurants and tested all of them for bacteria at the University of South Florida.

In several cases, the ice tested positive for E. coli bacteria, which comes from human waste and has been linked to several illness outbreaks across the country.

[ThomCat]

1. If you have ever worked in a fast food restaurant

you know that those ice machines NEVER get cleaned out. If they have rats or roaches (and they do) then there WILL be feces in that machine.

[Phx_Dem]

4. My tip to people is:

Don't drink ice-tea in fast food or ANY restaurant. The dispensers never get cleaned.

[Ioo]

8. I have! in Tampa Florida!!!!

[Phx_Dem]

2. Good for her

Maybe the health dept. in florida should hire her, given that she actually accomplishes something, how novel.

[Ioo]

6. Agree - At 12 she thinks of this, by 30 Cures Cancer!

I mean it, this gal is smart!

[leveymg]

3. Must have been this chain of fastfood restaurants

[tridim]

15. That actually looks really good

Even with the toilet shaped bowl holder, which I assume is actually some sort of charcoal warmer.

[displacedtexan]

5. Great story! But... Yuck!

I'm getting a bit Monk-ish lately, and now this???

Hey, how did you do that sig line blog headline change?

Is it an animated gif?

[im10ashus]

11. You can right click and choose properties.

Then copy and paste:

[KurtNYC]

7. So I can only imagine what the ice is like on airplanes eom

[Ioo]

9. With or Without Snakes?

WHere the hell did "Snakes on an airplane" come from

[wicket]

12. I can't wait for that movie!

:D

[mopinko]

10. glad they let here have bacteria

here in chicago, it is policy that science experiments not use anything dangerous. like bacteria.
dumbing down, dumbing down.

[unblock]

13. wow! i never knew toilet water was so healthy!

:sarcasm:

[hootinholler]

17. Yep, Dogs been drinking it for years...

So when you stop with your pup, don't get him ice for his water.

-Hoot

[otohara]

14. Same Thing With Your Cell Phone

turns out you should replace them often, that was all over the news last week - run for your life!

[-..__...]

16. Reminds me of the flies and ice scene from Clerks 2.

"hey, this tastes like piss and flies"


BTW... thanks for posting that (there are some things I'd just rather not know about :-( ).

[porphyrian]

18. That's not very surprising, the bins are almost never cleaned.

If there aren't chunks of crap visible floating in it causing someone to complain, ice is just added to the bins again and again. However, after this story, I wouldn't be surprised if that becomes a regular duty assigned to employees from now on.

[Catherine Vincent]

19. SLIME IN THE ICE MACHINE!!!!!

She could become this city's Marvin Zinder, investigative reporter. He has a daily "Rat and Roach Report" on the ABC local news in Houston. He's also the reporter that raided the chicken ranch (Best Little Whote House in Texas)in LaGrange, Texas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Zindler

[Sequoia]

20. I always rinse my ice off before I use it in a drink.

I don't like that frosty look and clear ice makes for a cleaner drink. Or so I thought.