I had a nightmare similar to this (i eat a lot of bananas) where i opened a banana but on the inside of the flesh was some ungodly black video-game-level corruption inside the banana and a tape worm thing and some bugs were in it. Thanks for reminding me, pal.
Friendly reminder that the companies that stock and run most university mess halls are the same ones that operate most prison cafeterias, AKA the absolute cheapest option for people who don't have a choice but to deal with it
You know what's funny about those companies though, even 20 years ago when I was in school, they regularly monitored all of the equipment and warming stations for safe serving temperature. They also took hourly samples of soups, chilis, and other hot serve items to defend against potential lawsuits. Friends on staff* told me they submitted the samples daily to a lab testing company and stored them for an unknown period of time in case there were reports of food poisoning or someone were to file a lawsuit. The fact samples were collected hourly and submitted daily to an external company for storage and testing. Because they could get a report basically at any time in an unknown future, the samples were all "just in case" with the regularity of the sampling and recording the time of collection for each sample and sending the samples daily to the lab was assurance in and of itself they were trying to reduce their risks as much as possible. The sampling of the prepared food was just a part of the normal routine of food preparation and serving. While incidents occurred on occasion and our dorm was notorious for rodent issues between the in-building cafeteria and student rooms, Aramark was meticulous about meat temperatures, egg preparation, and food borne illness prevention. It's kind of astounding that we don't hear about contamination and sickness more often given just how many people (prisoners, students, hospital staff and patients, senior care facilities, conference centers, and others) Aramark and similar companies serve on a daily basis. * I made friends** with a few of the dining hall staff and asked what they were up to as I regularly saw them ladling hot items into plastic bags. ** And when I say "made friends" I mean we even maintained our friendship after I had graduated. We went on a group vacation and roomed together the summer of my sophomore year.
@@rugbybeef Im not saying I dont believe you, Im just sayin theres some unreasonably big numbers associated with your statement..... So, lets assume 6 soups, 4 chilis, and another 6 hot serve items (these include vegan friendly options), times I assume 16 hours of operation, gives 256 samples a day AT MINIMUM, times 30 days a month.....that is storing 7680 samples a month. Per kitchen. Even running that many samples (and honestly, if universities were smart they could use the bio courses to run the tests therefore giving the course lab materials, the students experience, and take the load off an outside entity therefore reducing cost overhead for the service......but Unis arent ran smart....And yes, I do realize the conflict of interest, but that is what integrity is for, kiddies. Ya know, we used to have that back in the time you've been lied to about how terrible it was.....) is unrealistic. And that is just the numbers for a single kitchen. I am going to say if this in anywhere near truthful, its a rarity. That being said, there are plenty of cafeteria workers, and dining hall kitchen staff that take their job seriously, very seriously. And dont fuck around when it comes to food safety (Yes, I know it plays better into the zeitgeist sensationalism addiction if I were to offer the confirmation biased view that 'EVERYTHING IS AWEFUL AND NO ONE CAN BE TRUSTED THEY'RE ALL IDIOTS!!! FIND OUT HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF WITH THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK!!!' ....but that mental disorder most of the world shares is kind of the problem, and more people need to be shamed into acknowledging the WANT the horrible story and willingly refuse to consider a view less doom and gloom more unbiased and ....horror of horrors.... against that very confirmation bias they hold....even....maybe....from the progression of a reasonable person trying to make it through the world. And leave the clandestine super villain crap to people that can actually write half decent story plots....). However 1 bad apple will give an entire campus the baby apple splatters.
@@mandi8345 What are you talking about this was a dormitory not a buffet, there were three hot foods in warmers: at breakfast there was oatmeal period, then for lunch and dinners typically two hot soups and one more stew or chili style item 11-3 and 5-9. Samples at (8, 9, 10 am) × 1 = 3, then 3 × (12, 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9) = 24. The whole day was about 30 samples. Everything else was prepared in the oven where a minimum temperature for duration of time standard was achieved before serving. There was a made to order grill station with standard like burgers, hot dogs, and I forget what else. Finally, a stirfry/omelette/pasta station with a caution about foodborne illness of undercooked meat warning for cases where students specifically ordered rare (and even then, you could only getat best medium rare never actually get rare).
@mandi8345 You have no idea what you are talking about. You assume you have to run all the samples which is NOT how this system works at all. You don't nearly any of the samples, you simply freeze them and wait for a report of an incident before any testing. Even then, you ask the patient what they ate and only test what was actually consumed. I doubt they test the samples more than once or twice a month. Second, you are assuming waaaayyyy too many items need to be sampled. Most items are fine baked in an oven and served under heat lamps or in stream trays. These don't need to be tested as they are kept at safe serving temperature throughout the service. So as I just said it was maybe 30 samples a day. Then, the storage amounts sent to the lab were about a ladleful after stirring the soup/chili. The lab would then take a sample from this and store it into an aliquot vial most likely. Or just leave it in the original ziplock like baggie it was stored in. I expect the lab company aliquotted the sample provided into cryotubes and would store them in freezers (possibly a fridge I did blood and urine sampling so we used -80°C at my research job). They would be labeled, dated, and boxed. In this format a months worth of samples would be 900 samples in 9 boxes in a rack that holds 16 boxes, 4 racks per shelf, 6 shelves per freezer. 4 cafeterias so at most a shelf in one Thermo Scientific -80°C freezer like I had at work would cover our entire campus for the month. After at most 30 days, remember it's food poisoning and if there is a need to assess whether the dorm is poisoning folks that's like a 72 hour highest risk window until onset of symptoms. Using biology students is wrong on so many levels. Because of the potential need for testing on demand if a food borne illness is suspected from a dinner service, they must have staff available 24/7. They must assession and store the samples without gaps, interruptions, or hiccups so students and workstudies are not the ideal workers for the task. Next, the sample results are potentially necessary for the defense of the company in a court case, and whether they were handled correctly, whether the tests performed correctly, and any contagion was identified rapidly and accurately is critical to potential more sick folks. These are exactly the reasons you want trained lab technicians, chain of custody with standard operating procedures, and folks who can testify in court if it were necessary. Because the testing would be rare, could be demanded at any time, and would require legal accuracy due to the inherent liability of a misidentification or bad lab procedure, there is no way to use students in that process. You are correct that running all those samples would be insanely expensive and burdensome, that's why it was primarily a storage operation. Further, the way it was portrayed was that it was rarely if ever actually called upon however the company required it so the staff collected the samples. And yes, I 100% agree with you that the staff I knew took their jobs very seriously and many of them worked at our dorm for years. They were unionized from before Aramark's arrival and had retirement plans (some even had pension programs), bennies, and supported their families from their job. Many (like my friend) saw the students as people they were helping to care for and looked out for us too. And to be clear, if we are talking about apples, one bad apple will give one maybe two students the shits (if they eat it and dont have it hand grenade style explode nuclear bomb style (i mean c'mon wtf) all over that student). If you mean staff members as bad apples, even over 100 years ago public health departments were able to identify a food worker who didnt routinely wash her hands and had a notorious history if getting the rich families she worked for sick with her peach melba. She was discovered by public health dept after 8 of the 11 families she had last worked for reported having become sickened. She was quarantined for nearly two years, March 1908-February 1910. Upon release she was ordered not to work as a cook. When a series of new outbreaks began nearly everywhere she worked, they identified her by descriptions and handwriting samples where folks got sick. She was found working in a hospital kitchen and had sickened 25 women and two had died. In 1915, she was again quarantined on the public health grounds sadly until her death in 1938. Her name was Mary Mallon, whom you may have heard of, so-called "Typhoid Mary". We can identify these bad apples too.
Yeah dude I miss my old jobs employee dining food tbh it was garbage but it never made me sick and it was nutrients for 3 dollars that I could take out of future paychecks
Yeah, I'm honestly very impressed with my college dining hall after hearing this insanity Even my high school never got anyone sick as far as I'm aware
I free write scripts in my freetime, a few weeks ago I was forced to eat at the shitty buffet dining hall for 2 of my meals because i didnt want to starve. This plus a risotto(?) That had a this cheese sauce that acted like glue and tasted like it somehow expired. This plus a friend of mine being put on fluids after eating at the dining hall inspired a few lines in the script i was writing. What im saying is, if you get food poisoning, prepare to receive inspiration
I have a buddy in Uni who got so sick from the dining hall that he was gone for two weeks. He was a big guy prior to his illness, maybe 180lbs. I vividly remember seeing him for the first time since he got better, he lost so much weight I thought he had contracted the plague. Bro nearly died, the illness cut about 40lbs from him.
I respect the burger flipper allowing himself to be engulfed in flames staring at his boss while the eternal flames of burger take him either to a better place or a cash settlement
Midway through my first college year, I decided to stop going to the dining hall and just live off of freezer foods. It probably saved me from getting sick all year.
I ate mostly canned food for 5 years because I got off work at 4am and nothing was open and I was exhausted but now I’m pretty sure I have multiple kinds of bowel cancer
Love how the chicken at 1:04 is so decently made. Then at 1:47 Jeff pretty much said "fuck it" and made the chicken like a 7 year old who discovered Microsoft Paint.
@@emberthecatgirl8796yup, I got a bad case of the flu and lost 6 in 1 week My jiujitsu teacher asked what training I was doing to slim down so quick and I didn’t have the heart to tell him I just forgot to get vaccinated against it that year
The worst part is that most universities force you to eat their slop if you live on campus because, to the university, you're not suffering enough if you're residing in their housing.
I once saw a dining hall food worker getting chewed out by his boss for not wearing gloves, getting a cut on his hand, and not bandaging the cut while continuing to bleed into the food. The boss didn’t even make him get a bandaid or put gloves on after that. He just went back to work after getting chewed out.
Honestly, my college dining hall is run by them, and the worst I've seen/experienced is mushy/overcooked noodles or sometimes crunchy/undercooked rice. The food is well cooked (sometimes overdone - but after hearing this, I'd rather have dry chicken than medium rare chicken), but some meals are actually really good, and the staff look fine. So it must vary by region and school.
Anyone who walks out the door of wherever they work, blaaarghs, then goes right back to work is a gdmf’n hero. Will give you that its perhaps not the level of resilience encouraged in medical/culinary pros, still well ‘ard.
About the white water, I believe that is an issue with the filters not doing their job, and knowing the extensive budget of such organizations I don't think anyone cared enough to fix it.
Yeah...I ate at the pasta bar a lot for a reason. Its pretty difficult to fuck up boiling water and canned sauce. There was also the similarly inedible salad bar, lovely things like canned mac and cheese, and the uncanny ability to get both worse and more expensive each sucessive semester. I ate at dining halls for 3 semesters, I think I only got food poisoning once, and it was never this bad. One thing that is notable is the tradition of power milk. The finest pre/post workout, laxative, and practice stomaching whatever ungodly cooler concoction the frats cooked up for 8:01 day.
Food poisoning nearly got me locked out of the U.S. back in 2020 Thank you to all you saints at that one Ecuador airport for trusting we didn’t have covid…
My freshman year, there was an incident of food poisoning that basically shut down half of campus. An employee of the on-campus pizza joint (that offered free on-campus delivery!) came to work sick with a stomach bug. (Campus rumors at the time was that it was norovirus) Due to unrelated issues, I only had a milkshake from the attached milkshake cafe when my roommates and I went to the pizza place to get some dinner and play a few rounds of pool. As a result, I only spent the following morning violently evacuating from both directions at the drop of a hat, not the entire day like my roommates and half of campus. Unfortunately, no classes were canceled as the outbreak happened on Saturday.
1:56 Actually, it's much cleaner to not use plastic hand wrappers, *but* keep washing their hands with soap regularly. But, if they can't bother to wash their hands, plastic hand wrappers are better.
Is there any reason you could provide why that would be the case? Why wouldn't gloves be better in most cases and then switching out the gloves regularly?
I remember my friends got an apple from our dining hall, and they ran a little experiment to see how many preservatives were in it by seeing how long it took to finally start rotting. They waited 2 entire weeks and nothing changed at ALL so they gave up and just threw it full force at the wall until it broke, which took multiple throws
At my uni, the main dining hall was notorious for their signiture medium rare chicken- frozen on the inside, charred pure carbon on the outside. The year before my freshman year, they had to close it down due to ecoli outbreaks. Ngl it helped me go vegetarian, because the odds of food poisoning from a lukewarm salad bar was significantly less from luke warm undercooked meats. One time, i ordered a sunny side up egg from the grill bc there was no edible food otherwise. I brought my own bread for an egg sandwhich. Anyways, the cook served it to me r a w. Like, yes, the yolk should be runny, but it shouldnt be swimming in uncooked egg whites. To combat stealing, the school charged a fee on the meal plan to account for kleptos stealing diningware, which then justified the masses to steal more because they literally paid for it. I was friends with someone who stole the milk machine, which was 2x the size of their body
the water fountains in my schools library had LEAD FILTERS UNDERNEATH IT, presumably to filter out the stuff cuz old pipes (build in the 1970's) and there was buildup of minerals on the head of the fountain. Fun times. I still drank it though, and I'm glad I was a commuter and didn't need to pay for dining hall.
In middle school there was a kid who decided to dump his innards into a water fountain. I don’t think i saw anyone drink from it for a whole year until it was replaced
I remember last semester during finals week on that Monday I got food poisoning from my dining hall and I was in so much pain that I just couldn’t study for the rest of the day. Thanks uni!
I once made the horrific mistake of eating at a hospital cafeteria, because me & my mom were visiting my very-ill grandmother. I had nachos. What I didn't get, was nachos. What I was served, and attempted to eat from, were stale chips with a ""cheese sauce"" that I am 100% certain was some kind of microwaved Kraft Singles that had bedn left open under the sun for 3 days. The most violently ill I have -ever- been.
I was supposed to be at the hospital for 3 days, get some overnight bloodwork done and stuff. They thought I was borderline diabetic, but I was actually just living off of the hospital vending machine via the parents of people in my ward that could come and go (I couldn’t, the rona was a big thing). In the end I had to stay there a week becuse one of the docs I had to visit caught rona and his replacement wouldn’t be around for a few days. Best thing is that it was all useless either way.
I'm so sorry you had to go through that. It makes me glad my school didn't require us to have a meal plan, i just graduated and i haven't been to the dining hall since my freshman year. I've also only had food poisoning once and it happened recently, luckily it lasted less than 24 hours (though it took a few days to be able to eat regular food without wanting to puke) it is not something i would wish upon my worst enemy (well... maybe i would, as long as i didn't have to be around them)
Reminder for aspiring students that not every college/university/whatever-the-fuck-they're-all-higher-education-institutions or dining hall is like this, I got off fairly lucky with my university having two separate dining halls (technically 3 but the other was in the union as a glorified mall food court) that were both maintained pretty nicely, even despite one of them having an all-you-can-eat approach If anything you should probably call your area's safety board/administration/whatever-the-fuck to TRY to get stuff like this checked out, although judging by what I've seen with companies as of late, the fines that may come of this are gonna get transferred to being a _you_ problem NOW SOME OF MY UNI'S COURSE ENROLLMENT SOFTWARE AND COMMUNICATION, THAS A DIFFERENT BEAST FROM THEIR FOOD
my college cafeterias were never this horrific but i can believe this being true without even a second of doubt, especially when you started detailing the student theft
funfact about medium rare chicken: its actually a sort of america specific problem. the bacteria that people are concerned about is actually heavily regulated in other countries iirc. but im going to assume they weren't importing chicken from a country that actually gives a rats arse about diseases in their chickens
Medium-rare chicken was my downfall. It happened frequently enough in the chicken sammys that I stopped eating at the dining hall altogether. Also, ever see the tea have a lovely mold layer on the lid? yeah our cafeteria forgot that you have to clean out the containers lol. i love paying tens of thousands and getting less than prison amenities!!!!!!
Damn. And I thought my school was bad about food. I’m so sorry about what happened to you. That sucks. If it makes you feel any better, my uni sucked about food too, but it wasn’t anything in comparison to what happened to you! For us, rumour had it we were sharing the same food as the local hospitals and prisons in the area. I got sick from food at my old uni constantly. I ended up losing a bunch of weight because I was so jaded because of the food. I ended up saving money and going to get food from a grocery store or from the local CVS to feed myself instead. There was also an incident where the dorm sewer pipes leaked into our food (the dorm I lived in was attached to one of the dining halls.). So that was gross. And another where there was a bacterial illness outbreak in campus food (I was lucky enough to dodge that bullet though.). I think it might have been e.coli, but I don’t really remember.
The sunflower seeds - bell pepper guy did it for straight up nutrition. Sunflower seeds have plenty of minerals and vitamins, and are an actual viable source of vitamin E. Bell peppers have a lot of vitamin C. The guy should've also drank milk to get B12 and K2, though it's not enough.
Man... 40 seconds in, and I've already found myself back in the trenches. The last (hopefully) and worst time I got food poisoning was from a torta I ate at this little Mexican restaurant back in 7th grade. I spent that whole weekend dropping bombs in the bathroom like it was the UK during the Blitz. I'm almost 20 now, but I still feel the pains from that weekend when I find myself unfortunate enough to recall it.
I once bit into a pickle spear at the dining hall only for a searing pain to engulf my tongue and throat, I can only guess that somehow the brine had become so concentrated that the pickle had soaked up pure acetic acid. Dining halls are magical places
I went from studying at an (admittedly shitty) US college to a university in Europe. Not only is the canteen food here much better quality than the cafeteria food back home, it’s cheaper. I was charged about $11 a meal in the USA, and now pay about $5
My college's dining hall was also really bad too. It's crazy just how bad it is. When I used to work at a restaurant absolutely none of that kind of stuff was allowed at all. When I was in college 1/3 of my diet was vegetables from the dinning hall. After I left for the summer, I started eating mostly McDonald's, and I felt way better.
My university during covid had such a infestation issue that i knew multiple friends who found cockroaches or worse pieces of cockroaches in almost everything.. others who caught mice fleeing the kitchens. Others who caught food poisoning cases. Im lucky on both cass because i never just scoop and dump from any self serve places so id inspect a lot before i grabed anything and i have an iron stomach. Last summer they gutted the whole thing and now the "kitchens" are completely out for full view behind the stations for everything but the dish station and some of the "main dishes". I still dont trudt it and only eat shit i basicly watched them cook.
This is a place where calling the inspector/FDA/firedepartment about an issue was basicly a freshman hazing ritual. From Black mold in the dormatory's air systems, to aforementioned dinning hall disasters, to having third story classrooms with barred windows and a "sticky" door during the hottest days of september. The walls were actually just cinderblocks.. however they painted them with something that was the slippiest most disgusting texture ive ever seen in prison grey. Nothing stayed up on it for longer than a day. Not packing tape, not gum, not gorilla tape, not hot glue, not leather or acrylic glue, 3M? Haha no. The kids who got stuff to stay up actually were hanging it from the oddly loose and wiggly ceiling tiles. My freshman dorm got torn out over the summer because enough students got together with accounts of the disgusting appearance despite our poor cleaning lady's best attempts to stop wood rot 😭, to petition the council. Things seem to be getting better after the new president got elected but goshdam am i not sticking around to find out.
We had several restaurants on Campus, but the buffett style food hall named Shatz, well, aptly named because in my freshmans dorms experience, was 50/50 of getting explosive diarrhea everytime you ate there. But not usually food poisoning. You just had to be within 50' of a bathroom for the mext 2 hours
I am eternally grateful that my college cooks everything in-house (Ordered from a food supplier like Sysco or U.S. Foods and prepared/cooked by staff in the D.C.)
One time I found half a cricket inside the lettuce in my cafeteria grade burger. I figured too late where the other half was, I was so pissed I almost finished the cricket, but I needed it as evidence for a replacement burger (with a chance for a second free cricket).
Best advice I can give as someone who is forced to either tough it out for nine hours on cheese sandwiches or renounce my dignity at the school cafeteria and eat worse food than convicts: Get a thermos and pack yesterday's leftovers or cook oatmeal or something early in the morning.
A lot of kitchens prefer the people handling food to NOT wear gloves for that exact reason. Recently washed hands aren’t really inherently dirtier than a pair a gloves. And people who don’t wear gloves tend to wash their hands more. Whereas people who wear gloves tend not to change them as needed because “I’m wearing gloves it’s fine”
Suddenly, I don't feel so bad about my old school's cafeteria anymore. While we had a lot of poor quality food, I don't remember anyone getting food poisoning. Good lord
One tip for the first day of food poisoning: whiskey is great for the first day but you still need to see the doctor if taken more than 12 hours after intake
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@@captaincapitalis1205 at least he apologised
@@captaincapitalis1205 I mean I don't know what you were expecting from "Trying Not to Puke: Tales from the Dining Hall"
My history teacher once peeled a banana in his college cafeteria only for spiders to crawl out.
Sounds like a horror movie plot
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To my knowledge the main species of spider that goes inside bananas is uh very venomous. So that could have been a lot worse
I had a nightmare similar to this (i eat a lot of bananas) where i opened a banana but on the inside of the flesh was some ungodly black video-game-level corruption inside the banana and a tape worm thing and some bugs were in it. Thanks for reminding me, pal.
Might be deadly. LA TARANCHLA
Jeff has gone through the ringer, this poor soul 💀
Getting a beef and rice bowl so totally garbage that you go pescatarian is insane, that poor friend must’ve gone through the RINGER
Friendly reminder that the companies that stock and run most university mess halls are the same ones that operate most prison cafeterias, AKA the absolute cheapest option for people who don't have a choice but to deal with it
You know what's funny about those companies though, even 20 years ago when I was in school, they regularly monitored all of the equipment and warming stations for safe serving temperature. They also took hourly samples of soups, chilis, and other hot serve items to defend against potential lawsuits. Friends on staff* told me they submitted the samples daily to a lab testing company and stored them for an unknown period of time in case there were reports of food poisoning or someone were to file a lawsuit. The fact samples were collected hourly and submitted daily to an external company for storage and testing. Because they could get a report basically at any time in an unknown future, the samples were all "just in case" with the regularity of the sampling and recording the time of collection for each sample and sending the samples daily to the lab was assurance in and of itself they were trying to reduce their risks as much as possible. The sampling of the prepared food was just a part of the normal routine of food preparation and serving. While incidents occurred on occasion and our dorm was notorious for rodent issues between the in-building cafeteria and student rooms, Aramark was meticulous about meat temperatures, egg preparation, and food borne illness prevention. It's kind of astounding that we don't hear about contamination and sickness more often given just how many people (prisoners, students, hospital staff and patients, senior care facilities, conference centers, and others) Aramark and similar companies serve on a daily basis.
* I made friends** with a few of the dining hall staff and asked what they were up to as I regularly saw them ladling hot items into plastic bags.
** And when I say "made friends" I mean we even maintained our friendship after I had graduated. We went on a group vacation and roomed together the summer of my sophomore year.
Fun fact: schools get lower priority from food serving companies than the actual prisons in question
@@rugbybeef Im not saying I dont believe you, Im just sayin theres some unreasonably big numbers associated with your statement.....
So, lets assume 6 soups, 4 chilis, and another 6 hot serve items (these include vegan friendly options), times I assume 16 hours of operation, gives 256 samples a day AT MINIMUM, times 30 days a month.....that is storing 7680 samples a month. Per kitchen.
Even running that many samples (and honestly, if universities were smart they could use the bio courses to run the tests therefore giving the course lab materials, the students experience, and take the load off an outside entity therefore reducing cost overhead for the service......but Unis arent ran smart....And yes, I do realize the conflict of interest, but that is what integrity is for, kiddies. Ya know, we used to have that back in the time you've been lied to about how terrible it was.....) is unrealistic. And that is just the numbers for a single kitchen.
I am going to say if this in anywhere near truthful, its a rarity. That being said, there are plenty of cafeteria workers, and dining hall kitchen staff that take their job seriously, very seriously. And dont fuck around when it comes to food safety (Yes, I know it plays better into the zeitgeist sensationalism addiction if I were to offer the confirmation biased view that 'EVERYTHING IS AWEFUL AND NO ONE CAN BE TRUSTED THEY'RE ALL IDIOTS!!! FIND OUT HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF WITH THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK!!!' ....but that mental disorder most of the world shares is kind of the problem, and more people need to be shamed into acknowledging the WANT the horrible story and willingly refuse to consider a view less doom and gloom more unbiased and ....horror of horrors.... against that very confirmation bias they hold....even....maybe....from the progression of a reasonable person trying to make it through the world. And leave the clandestine super villain crap to people that can actually write half decent story plots....). However 1 bad apple will give an entire campus the baby apple splatters.
@@mandi8345 What are you talking about this was a dormitory not a buffet, there were three hot foods in warmers: at breakfast there was oatmeal period, then for lunch and dinners typically two hot soups and one more stew or chili style item 11-3 and 5-9. Samples at (8, 9, 10 am) × 1 = 3, then 3 × (12, 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9) = 24. The whole day was about 30 samples.
Everything else was prepared in the oven where a minimum temperature for duration of time standard was achieved before serving. There was a made to order grill station with standard like burgers, hot dogs, and I forget what else. Finally, a stirfry/omelette/pasta station with a caution about foodborne illness of undercooked meat warning for cases where students specifically ordered rare (and even then, you could only getat best medium rare never actually get rare).
@mandi8345 You have no idea what you are talking about. You assume you have to run all the samples which is NOT how this system works at all. You don't nearly any of the samples, you simply freeze them and wait for a report of an incident before any testing. Even then, you ask the patient what they ate and only test what was actually consumed. I doubt they test the samples more than once or twice a month.
Second, you are assuming waaaayyyy too many items need to be sampled. Most items are fine baked in an oven and served under heat lamps or in stream trays. These don't need to be tested as they are kept at safe serving temperature throughout the service. So as I just said it was maybe 30 samples a day.
Then, the storage amounts sent to the lab were about a ladleful after stirring the soup/chili. The lab would then take a sample from this and store it into an aliquot vial most likely. Or just leave it in the original ziplock like baggie it was stored in. I expect the lab company aliquotted the sample provided into cryotubes and would store them in freezers (possibly a fridge I did blood and urine sampling so we used -80°C at my research job). They would be labeled, dated, and boxed. In this format a months worth of samples would be 900 samples in 9 boxes in a rack that holds 16 boxes, 4 racks per shelf, 6 shelves per freezer. 4 cafeterias so at most a shelf in one Thermo Scientific -80°C freezer like I had at work would cover our entire campus for the month. After at most 30 days, remember it's food poisoning and if there is a need to assess whether the dorm is poisoning folks that's like a 72 hour highest risk window until onset of symptoms.
Using biology students is wrong on so many levels. Because of the potential need for testing on demand if a food borne illness is suspected from a dinner service, they must have staff available 24/7. They must assession and store the samples without gaps, interruptions, or hiccups so students and workstudies are not the ideal workers for the task. Next, the sample results are potentially necessary for the defense of the company in a court case, and whether they were handled correctly, whether the tests performed correctly, and any contagion was identified rapidly and accurately is critical to potential more sick folks. These are exactly the reasons you want trained lab technicians, chain of custody with standard operating procedures, and folks who can testify in court if it were necessary. Because the testing would be rare, could be demanded at any time, and would require legal accuracy due to the inherent liability of a misidentification or bad lab procedure, there is no way to use students in that process.
You are correct that running all those samples would be insanely expensive and burdensome, that's why it was primarily a storage operation. Further, the way it was portrayed was that it was rarely if ever actually called upon however the company required it so the staff collected the samples.
And yes, I 100% agree with you that the staff I knew took their jobs very seriously and many of them worked at our dorm for years. They were unionized from before Aramark's arrival and had retirement plans (some even had pension programs), bennies, and supported their families from their job. Many (like my friend) saw the students as people they were helping to care for and looked out for us too.
And to be clear, if we are talking about apples, one bad apple will give one maybe two students the shits (if they eat it and dont have it hand grenade style explode nuclear bomb style (i mean c'mon wtf) all over that student). If you mean staff members as bad apples, even over 100 years ago public health departments were able to identify a food worker who didnt routinely wash her hands and had a notorious history if getting the rich families she worked for sick with her peach melba. She was discovered by public health dept after 8 of the 11 families she had last worked for reported having become sickened. She was quarantined for nearly two years, March 1908-February 1910. Upon release she was ordered not to work as a cook. When a series of new outbreaks began nearly everywhere she worked, they identified her by descriptions and handwriting samples where folks got sick. She was found working in a hospital kitchen and had sickened 25 women and two had died. In 1915, she was again quarantined on the public health grounds sadly until her death in 1938. Her name was Mary Mallon, whom you may have heard of, so-called "Typhoid Mary". We can identify these bad apples too.
never gonna complain about bad cafeteria food again, these stories wouldve made my cafeteria look like a michelin star restaurant
Yeah dude I miss my old jobs employee dining food tbh it was garbage but it never made me sick and it was nutrients for 3 dollars that I could take out of future paychecks
Somehow my food in middle school was worse 💀
@@malegria9641 yeah that was actually super dumb we needed more food in middle school missing any nutrients at that age causes life long damage
@@malegria9641 we got like highly processed bread and tomato sauce with some shredded cheese that sat in a factory for who knows how long
Yeah, I'm honestly very impressed with my college dining hall after hearing this insanity
Even my high school never got anyone sick as far as I'm aware
COLOR? IN MY STORYTIME WITH JEFF VIDEO?
Dhall either made me shit logs that look like they were cut down by Paul Bunyan himself or have me shitting more liquid than a garden hose bro
The last time I gambled on the fish at my college's dfac, I'm pretty sure my ass temporarily generated more thrust than a Falcon 9 rocket.
I free write scripts in my freetime, a few weeks ago I was forced to eat at the shitty buffet dining hall for 2 of my meals because i didnt want to starve. This plus a risotto(?) That had a this cheese sauce that acted like glue and tasted like it somehow expired. This plus a friend of mine being put on fluids after eating at the dining hall inspired a few lines in the script i was writing. What im saying is, if you get food poisoning, prepare to receive inspiration
I really want to know some of these lines
Yes I can definitely tell from this comment that you write scripts
I have a buddy in Uni who got so sick from the dining hall that he was gone for two weeks. He was a big guy prior to his illness, maybe 180lbs. I vividly remember seeing him for the first time since he got better, he lost so much weight I thought he had contracted the plague. Bro nearly died, the illness cut about 40lbs from him.
WHAT "COLLEGES" ARE YOU ATTENDING?? THEY SEEM MORE ACADEMIC PRISONS THAN SCHOOL
We need to know!!!
American, american colleges lol
Many private colleges are like this currently. I go to one in PA and it describes my experience almost too the T
Welcome to The United States of America. Enjoy your freedom squirts and don't forget you are paying through the nose for this service.
Fr this place sounds like hell
I respect the burger flipper allowing himself to be engulfed in flames staring at his boss while the eternal flames of burger take him either to a better place or a cash settlement
Midway through my first college year, I decided to stop going to the dining hall and just live off of freezer foods. It probably saved me from getting sick all year.
I ate mostly canned food for 5 years because I got off work at 4am and nothing was open and I was exhausted but now I’m pretty sure I have multiple kinds of bowel cancer
Love how the chicken at 1:04 is so decently made.
Then at 1:47 Jeff pretty much said "fuck it" and made the chicken like a 7 year old who discovered Microsoft Paint.
Cholera experience
EIGHT POUNDS? Thats gotta be life threatening levels
As a primary schooler I lost between 4 and 5 kilos (8-11 pounds) from getting a mouthful of cenote water.
I once got food poisoning when I was like 13 that made me lose 6kgs, though it helped with my weight loss😂
@@amantemotshewa3611 Did all young teens go through their double dragon phase?!?
@@emberthecatgirl8796yup, I got a bad case of the flu and lost 6 in 1 week
My jiujitsu teacher asked what training I was doing to slim down so quick and I didn’t have the heart to tell him I just forgot to get vaccinated against it that year
The worst part is that most universities force you to eat their slop if you live on campus because, to the university, you're not suffering enough if you're residing in their housing.
dining hall stake fans are shitting and crying rn
„stake“ is probably more accurate than you intended
They're always shitting
Bro think he Dante with the circles of hell this man has to go through ☠️
I once saw a dining hall food worker getting chewed out by his boss for not wearing gloves, getting a cut on his hand, and not bandaging the cut while continuing to bleed into the food. The boss didn’t even make him get a bandaid or put gloves on after that. He just went back to work after getting chewed out.
I HAVE TO STUDY VECTOR CALCULUS, BUT NOW A VIDEO IS OUT, DAMN IT JEFF THE DEADLINE IS HERE
LOCK IN LOCK IN LOCK IN
@@storytimewithjeff SPEEDRUNNING THE 150 PAGE PDF VROOOOOOOOM
Me too!
If you’re visiting a college and the dining hall is ran by Sodexo. DO NOT GO THERE.
Sodexo has committed many war crimes against my stomach
Honestly, my college dining hall is run by them, and the worst I've seen/experienced is mushy/overcooked noodles or sometimes crunchy/undercooked rice. The food is well cooked (sometimes overdone - but after hearing this, I'd rather have dry chicken than medium rare chicken), but some meals are actually really good, and the staff look fine. So it must vary by region and school.
My college served me a burger once featuring their specialty: moldy buns
Bruh.
(Directed ar your college)
My school's food is absolutely disgusting and barely fit for human consumption, but at least it's never outright unsafe to eat.
Anyone who walks out the door of wherever they work, blaaarghs, then goes right back to work is a gdmf’n hero. Will give you that its perhaps not the level of resilience encouraged in medical/culinary pros, still well ‘ard.
About the white water, I believe that is an issue with the filters not doing their job, and knowing the extensive budget of such organizations I don't think anyone cared enough to fix it.
Yeah...I ate at the pasta bar a lot for a reason. Its pretty difficult to fuck up boiling water and canned sauce.
There was also the similarly inedible salad bar, lovely things like canned mac and cheese, and the uncanny ability to get both worse and more expensive each sucessive semester.
I ate at dining halls for 3 semesters, I think I only got food poisoning once, and it was never this bad.
One thing that is notable is the tradition of power milk. The finest pre/post workout, laxative, and practice stomaching whatever ungodly cooler concoction the frats cooked up for 8:01 day.
Food poisoning nearly got me locked out of the U.S. back in 2020
Thank you to all you saints at that one Ecuador airport for trusting we didn’t have covid…
My freshman year, there was an incident of food poisoning that basically shut down half of campus.
An employee of the on-campus pizza joint (that offered free on-campus delivery!) came to work sick with a stomach bug. (Campus rumors at the time was that it was norovirus)
Due to unrelated issues, I only had a milkshake from the attached milkshake cafe when my roommates and I went to the pizza place to get some dinner and play a few rounds of pool.
As a result, I only spent the following morning violently evacuating from both directions at the drop of a hat, not the entire day like my roommates and half of campus.
Unfortunately, no classes were canceled as the outbreak happened on Saturday.
1:30 That's not very nice! It's an insult to Papa's Pizzeria to even remotely associate it with such disgusting people
You know there's a problem when you've been to prisons that treat their high risk prisoners better than some colleges treat their students.
1:32 lol the violations☠☠☠☠☠☠
5:01 no longer solid☠☠☠☠☠☠
8:18 lol everyy man for sldef
Time to call a surprise health inspection, FDA or local city.
1:56 Actually, it's much cleaner to not use plastic hand wrappers, *but* keep washing their hands with soap regularly. But, if they can't bother to wash their hands, plastic hand wrappers are better.
Is there any reason you could provide why that would be the case? Why wouldn't gloves be better in most cases and then switching out the gloves regularly?
Jeff I really hope one day you have a college story to share that does not involve mental trauma. Best Wishes! ❤
Watching this while eating actually made me more grateful for my food.
I remember my friends got an apple from our dining hall, and they ran a little experiment to see how many preservatives were in it by seeing how long it took to finally start rotting. They waited 2 entire weeks and nothing changed at ALL so they gave up and just threw it full force at the wall until it broke, which took multiple throws
As a current freshman in college, dhall went from better than high school to "just go to the chik fil a we have"
Bradley university?
HOLY SHIT JEFF COOKED ANOTHER VID
Given the topic, he didn’t cook, that’s why he ate at the dining hall /j
At my uni, the main dining hall was notorious for their signiture medium rare chicken- frozen on the inside, charred pure carbon on the outside. The year before my freshman year, they had to close it down due to ecoli outbreaks. Ngl it helped me go vegetarian, because the odds of food poisoning from a lukewarm salad bar was significantly less from luke warm undercooked meats. One time, i ordered a sunny side up egg from the grill bc there was no edible food otherwise. I brought my own bread for an egg sandwhich. Anyways, the cook served it to me r a w. Like, yes, the yolk should be runny, but it shouldnt be swimming in uncooked egg whites.
To combat stealing, the school charged a fee on the meal plan to account for kleptos stealing diningware, which then justified the masses to steal more because they literally paid for it. I was friends with someone who stole the milk machine, which was 2x the size of their body
Every time I would come back for a new semester I would immediately get food poisoning because my stomach hadn’t readjusted to dining hall “food”
the water fountains in my schools library had LEAD FILTERS UNDERNEATH IT, presumably to filter out the stuff cuz old pipes (build in the 1970's) and there was buildup of minerals on the head of the fountain. Fun times. I still drank it though, and I'm glad I was a commuter and didn't need to pay for dining hall.
In middle school there was a kid who decided to dump his innards into a water fountain. I don’t think i saw anyone drink from it for a whole year until it was replaced
I remember last semester during finals week on that Monday I got food poisoning from my dining hall and I was in so much pain that I just couldn’t study for the rest of the day. Thanks uni!
love ur content jeff ur nonchalant, nihilist, and monotone vibe is very entertaining 🙏
I once made the horrific mistake of eating at a hospital cafeteria, because me & my mom were visiting my very-ill grandmother.
I had nachos.
What I didn't get, was nachos.
What I was served, and attempted to eat from, were stale chips with a ""cheese sauce"" that I am 100% certain was some kind of microwaved Kraft Singles that had bedn left open under the sun for 3 days.
The most violently ill I have -ever- been.
The irony in this is strong.
God, I wouldn't expect the food to be good, but a medical institution's food should absolutely be safe
@@birb7353but they get more money when you need medical attention
I was supposed to be at the hospital for 3 days, get some overnight bloodwork done and stuff. They thought I was borderline diabetic, but I was actually just living off of the hospital vending machine via the parents of people in my ward that could come and go (I couldn’t, the rona was a big thing). In the end I had to stay there a week becuse one of the docs I had to visit caught rona and his replacement wouldn’t be around for a few days. Best thing is that it was all useless either way.
There have been incidents of people dying of botulism poisoning from eating spoiled, canned, nacho cheese. Thank goodness you're all right.
I'm so sorry you had to go through that. It makes me glad my school didn't require us to have a meal plan, i just graduated and i haven't been to the dining hall since my freshman year.
I've also only had food poisoning once and it happened recently, luckily it lasted less than 24 hours (though it took a few days to be able to eat regular food without wanting to puke) it is not something i would wish upon my worst enemy (well... maybe i would, as long as i didn't have to be around them)
how has this guy been through so much this has to be a divine punishment of sorts
Reminder for aspiring students that not every college/university/whatever-the-fuck-they're-all-higher-education-institutions or dining hall is like this, I got off fairly lucky with my university having two separate dining halls (technically 3 but the other was in the union as a glorified mall food court) that were both maintained pretty nicely, even despite one of them having an all-you-can-eat approach
If anything you should probably call your area's safety board/administration/whatever-the-fuck to TRY to get stuff like this checked out, although judging by what I've seen with companies as of late, the fines that may come of this are gonna get transferred to being a _you_ problem
NOW SOME OF MY UNI'S COURSE ENROLLMENT SOFTWARE AND COMMUNICATION, THAS A DIFFERENT BEAST FROM THEIR FOOD
my college cafeterias were never this horrific but i can believe this being true without even a second of doubt, especially when you started detailing the student theft
funfact about medium rare chicken: its actually a sort of america specific problem. the bacteria that people are concerned about is actually heavily regulated in other countries iirc. but im going to assume they weren't importing chicken from a country that actually gives a rats arse about diseases in their chickens
Medium-rare chicken was my downfall. It happened frequently enough in the chicken sammys that I stopped eating at the dining hall altogether.
Also, ever see the tea have a lovely mold layer on the lid? yeah our cafeteria forgot that you have to clean out the containers lol.
i love paying tens of thousands and getting less than prison amenities!!!!!!
Damn. And I thought my school was bad about food.
I’m so sorry about what happened to you. That sucks.
If it makes you feel any better, my uni sucked about food too, but it wasn’t anything in comparison to what happened to you!
For us, rumour had it we were sharing the same food as the local hospitals and prisons in the area.
I got sick from food at my old uni constantly. I ended up losing a bunch of weight because I was so jaded because of the food.
I ended up saving money and going to get food from a grocery store or from the local CVS to feed myself instead.
There was also an incident where the dorm sewer pipes leaked into our food (the dorm I lived in was attached to one of the dining halls.). So that was gross. And another where there was a bacterial illness outbreak in campus food (I was lucky enough to dodge that bullet though.). I think it might have been e.coli, but I don’t really remember.
My community collage had lot of dumb problems but your stories make me feel grateful i went there and not somewhere else
Most functional and hygienic rimworld kitchen
Upton Sinclair would have had a field day with this one.
The sunflower seeds - bell pepper guy did it for straight up nutrition. Sunflower seeds have plenty of minerals and vitamins, and are an actual viable source of vitamin E. Bell peppers have a lot of vitamin C. The guy should've also drank milk to get B12 and K2, though it's not enough.
If the dining hall was as bad as you described, i think you should sue or call someone because that can't be legal in any country
At least the Humilk wasn’t Manmilk
Man... 40 seconds in, and I've already found myself back in the trenches. The last (hopefully) and worst time I got food poisoning was from a torta I ate at this little Mexican restaurant back in 7th grade. I spent that whole weekend dropping bombs in the bathroom like it was the UK during the Blitz. I'm almost 20 now, but I still feel the pains from that weekend when I find myself unfortunate enough to recall it.
My school giving me the best medium rare chicken has made me realized that school food is bad
It really is a gamble and be causing some forms of eating disorders to happen
This why I have never eaten anything from a school that wasn’t in plastic and supplied from a commercial food company so the cooks couldn’t touch it.
Makes me thankful for our cooking staff actually caring about their jobs and being sanitary
towards the end I laughed so hard I hurt my ribs 😭😭😭
same
I once bit into a pickle spear at the dining hall only for a searing pain to engulf my tongue and throat, I can only guess that somehow the brine had become so concentrated that the pickle had soaked up pure acetic acid. Dining halls are magical places
As someone about to enter college and who has a dining plan this gives me lots of confidence
5:23 😭😭
When you start to take a comedy college course dude??
I went from studying at an (admittedly shitty) US college to a university in Europe. Not only is the canteen food here much better quality than the cafeteria food back home, it’s cheaper. I was charged about $11 a meal in the USA, and now pay about $5
My college's dining hall was also really bad too.
It's crazy just how bad it is.
When I used to work at a restaurant absolutely none of that kind of stuff was allowed at all.
When I was in college 1/3 of my diet was vegetables from the dinning hall.
After I left for the summer, I started eating mostly McDonald's, and I felt way better.
I love the faces on the flowers looking horrified
the way you describe the horrors you lived through made me gag in ways i have never gagged before
My university during covid had such a infestation issue that i knew multiple friends who found cockroaches or worse pieces of cockroaches in almost everything.. others who caught mice fleeing the kitchens. Others who caught food poisoning cases. Im lucky on both cass because i never just scoop and dump from any self serve places so id inspect a lot before i grabed anything and i have an iron stomach.
Last summer they gutted the whole thing and now the "kitchens" are completely out for full view behind the stations for everything but the dish station and some of the "main dishes". I still dont trudt it and only eat shit i basicly watched them cook.
This is a place where calling the inspector/FDA/firedepartment about an issue was basicly a freshman hazing ritual.
From Black mold in the dormatory's air systems, to aforementioned dinning hall disasters, to having third story classrooms with barred windows and a "sticky" door during the hottest days of september. The walls were actually just cinderblocks.. however they painted them with something that was the slippiest most disgusting texture ive ever seen in prison grey. Nothing stayed up on it for longer than a day. Not packing tape, not gum, not gorilla tape, not hot glue, not leather or acrylic glue, 3M? Haha no. The kids who got stuff to stay up actually were hanging it from the oddly loose and wiggly ceiling tiles.
My freshman dorm got torn out over the summer because enough students got together with accounts of the disgusting appearance despite our poor cleaning lady's best attempts to stop wood rot 😭, to petition the council. Things seem to be getting better after the new president got elected but goshdam am i not sticking around to find out.
remind me to never go to where this guy lives because his life sounds like a post apocalyptic world
Jesus. As much as everyone rags about the dining hall on my side of campus, we've at least never had to deal with all that
One time I got food poisoning at the dining hall the day before a midterm and I ended up failing a class because of it lol
you'll be cooking beef today, OH WE'RE COOKING BEEF ALRIGHT XD
I got so fed up with the shit food i was eating i only ate one thing fried chicken for 4 months and only stopped when my blood pressure jumped to 150.
I’m becoming more and more convinced that Jeff somehow figured out a way to post videos from Hell
I had a seafood dinner at my dorm cafeteria my sophomore year and got gastroenteritis so bad it made me lactose intolerant
We had several restaurants on Campus, but the buffett style food hall named Shatz, well, aptly named because in my freshmans dorms experience, was 50/50 of getting explosive diarrhea everytime you ate there. But not usually food poisoning. You just had to be within 50' of a bathroom for the mext 2 hours
ive been counting and im really glad your 4th use of colour was liquid shit as well as the 5th
That is why i always either bring stuff from home or go to food center
I am eternally grateful that my college cooks everything in-house (Ordered from a food supplier like Sysco or U.S. Foods and prepared/cooked by staff in the D.C.)
world eater timothy makes angron terrified
One time I found half a cricket inside the lettuce in my cafeteria grade burger. I figured too late where the other half was, I was so pissed I almost finished the cricket, but I needed it as evidence for a replacement burger (with a chance for a second free cricket).
2 VIDEOS IN 1 MONTHS???? The consistency is unreal 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯
Thank you for this story, it was very entertaining.
I feel I may benefit from this piece of information, in the near future.
Ok what the fuck?????
How did your school even exist?
It's America.
Best advice I can give as someone who is forced to either tough it out for nine hours on cheese sandwiches or renounce my dignity at the school cafeteria and eat worse food than convicts:
Get a thermos and pack yesterday's leftovers or cook oatmeal or something early in the morning.
Maomao from Apothecary Diaries be like:
Yooo wake up storytime with jeff posted
bro i almost stopped breathing i was laughing so hard
How has this college not been sued yet holy shit
Was this at Brown? My friends remember the Humilk fiasco lol.
A lot of kitchens prefer the people handling food to NOT wear gloves for that exact reason. Recently washed hands aren’t really inherently dirtier than a pair a gloves. And people who don’t wear gloves tend to wash their hands more. Whereas people who wear gloves tend not to change them as needed because “I’m wearing gloves it’s fine”
Suddenly, I don't feel so bad about my old school's cafeteria anymore.
While we had a lot of poor quality food, I don't remember anyone getting food poisoning. Good lord
One tip for the first day of food poisoning: whiskey is great for the first day but you still need to see the doctor if taken more than 12 hours after intake
Guts ahh backstory
Bro's school is a death zone 💀
watching this while eating hits different
I'm glad to be a commuter student next year!