April 20, 2009
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My “friend” showed me that nightmare of a video clip where a Domino’s Pizza employee is seen wiping his booger onto a sandwich he was preparing, and then garnishing it with a shred of cheese he had put up his nostril. I guess the video I saw was the abridged version, and there is an “uncut” original somewhere that shows this guy and his coworker doing other nasty things to someone’s food. But you know what? I don’t care if there is an unedited version floating around on the Internet! There is no way in Hell I’ll ever want to see it. I didn’t want to see this sh*t, and I definitely do not want to see that sh*t…and as for the “friend” who showed it to me, he is officially at the top of my sh*t list. I am going to dedicate the rest of my life to making sure he is miserable because, by showing me that clip of those evil imps desecrating a staple of every fast food-lover’s diet, I will probably never order a pizza from a franchise ever again. No more Domino’s, Pizza Hut, Papa John’s, or DiGiorno’s (that’s what you get for bombarding us with your “it’s not delivery, it’s DiGiorno’s” commercials)—I’m all about Red Baron and Tombstone pizzas now. I’ll even make my own pizza if I have to. It’s going to end up being a slice of bread drenched in spaghetti sauce and covered with shredded cheese, but at least it’s sanitary.
Boycotting these pizza franchises probably seems like an overly-extreme precautionary measure. After all, this gross video was of two insipid asshats working at a Domino’s out in Conover, North Carolina. If anyone were to feel the need to stop ordering pizza, it would be the customers serviced by the store those losers worked at because they were the ones exposed to contaminated food. I, on the other hand, am in Southern California—roughly 2,379 miles way from Conover—and order my pizzas from Pizza Hut, not Domino’s. My food is far, far away from the reach of those two nasty employees. And in any event, their crappy conduct should not tarnish the reputations of Domino’s Pizza or its workforce, or the reputation of any other pizza franchise.
Besides, the employees in the video clip were making oven-baked sandwiches, not pizzas, so maybe their grossness was limited to just the sandwiches. Who would order a sandwich from a restaurant that specializes in pizzas anyway? I wouldn’t. Getting a sandwich from Domino’s Pizza is like using an online dating service to find someone who isn’t butt ugly: it’s just not happening. All you’ll get out of it is a date with someone who looks like a leathery monster, and a ton of disappointment—which just so happens to be the same reaction you’ll have when you end up eating a booger sandwich.
Anyway…
Of course, let’s not forget the whole “it could happen at any restaurant” argument. Hey, I hear you, and I agree that there is a risk of consuming toxic food no matter where you go. And refusing to order pizza from a Domino’s, Pizza Hut, or Papa John’s is not going to protect me from the possibility of finding a pube or ass dirt in my meal. I know this, but it’s not going to make me change my mind about boycotting pizza franchises. Being aware of the risk that I am eating food that has been tainted by a crazy food server is not the same as actually seeing the employee tainting food. Once you’ve seen the latter, it is hard to disassociate that memory from the restaurant he worked at or the food he prepared. In this case, I cannot look at a pizza without thinking of how that guy wiped his booger on something someone ended up eating. It was so disgusting that I don’t think I’ll be able to eat a pizza without doing some CSI-type investigating first:
So not worth it!
Comments (28)
I saw that “video” this weekend and was equally put off.
But here’s the thing…there is no true food safety unless you are willing to live on a farm and raise all your food and make your own feed for the livestock.
Anything that comes prepared or packaged in anyway- which is everything we can buy at stores, is vulnerable – hence the peanut butter, spinach, tomato, etc scares we’ve had that last few years.
So since everything is suspect, and we must eat, it makes the Domino’s thing seem less traumatic. We can just eat and pray it’s a rare fluke that won’t happen to us.
I’d rather not know, but thanks anyways.
You know what? It is equally disgusting that I heard that people don’t wash their hands at McDonald’s. The bosses/employers don’t enforce … hygienic practices there. However, at Subways, I hear that the employers tell you to wash your hands every time you do something, or possibly every hour (I don’t remember).
It’s disgusting that some fast food places don’t FORCE you to stay clean! Ick.
Btw, the pictures at the bottom were hilarious.
BWAHAHAHA!!! Fourth!
I miss making pizza’s minus the carpal tunnel in both hands -.- To me there’s no level of sanitation far greater to be emphasized than intelligence and common decency which is always lacking.
Ugh, glad I haven’t seen that video. Have you seen the movie “Waiting?” I suggest that you do not watch it if you want to continue eating in restaurants.
I understand completely. I saw an employee at a sub restaurant handling food with an open sore on his hand and no gloves on two occasions. I refused to ever eat at that restaurant ever again, even years after that employee was fired.
In-N-Out and Chipotle are the only places I trust.
I worked at high-class restaurants and a fast food chain, and the fast food place was more sanitary. Maybe because fast food places have a higher turn over and those bad employees aren’t there long.
great illustrations, haha, dude as long as you drink some alcohol with each meal, I’m sure that’ll take care of these germies
Hahaha I love your illustrations!!
LOL I love your drawings
FOOD BOOGERS! BLARG!
Haha I love pizza, so I’m sure I would eat it despite any booger cheese youtube videos. Btw, if you really want to be turned off on pizza, there is an adult themed video site called “big sausage pizza.” Use your imagination.
Once, I found a cockroach on my food. XD Well, knowing that some folks wipe boogers in their customer’s food, it’ll take a while before I eat in another restaurant, fastfood or not. And I like your drawings, especially the pizza guy’s facial expression.
i don’t want to know……..
Ha thank god I haven’t seen it yet.. Although lately in NZ there’s been flies and maggots found in food, one was on a pizza and the other was in a frozen food of some sort.
Nothing like an added extra for tastiness
I never ate Domino’s to begin with, and I rarely eat pizza at any franchise. Those two employees were put in jail, and I’m glad. To be trashy enough to actually do that to someone else’s food and then be DUMB enough to post it online is beyond words. I like frozen pizzas better anyway.
I haven’t seen any of the videos. I think I would be sick if I did! Ick
this is why I prefer not to eat out in the first place.
lol!!! the facial expressions on those characters are priceless!!
but bad food preparation can happen anywhere, even in the factories where they package frozen food…the only way to avoid it is to make your own food, which we’re probably too lazy to do. So we gotta just suck it up and take the risk. Or we can try to be really nice to the servers.
I always imagine if you give your waiter/waitress hell, they’ll SPIT on your food before it gets to you! hehe
Haha, eww. I’m with you – I’d rather not think about it AT ALL.
You should only try small restaurants and the ones where you can see the people cooking your food. Yeah you can never actually be safe. But you know, I’d rather cook for myself. But now I don’t care about eating cockroaches cause of some evil healthkicker articles about mars bars being 13% or whatever %age being insects/ spiders. Ah lovely healthkicker… It ruined prawns for me too, you know? Not to mention coke…
LOL…your cartoons always make me laugh.
I would be disturbed if I saw that video…but stuff like that can happen anywhere.
why would you talk about a video and not link to it…rude.
LMAO! your reaction was pretty funny hahaha
but ok, that’s disgusting. gonna make me think twice before i take that giant bite of good ol’ pizza -.-
I long for the day when I eat something tainted from a fast food franchise and earn the ability to sue for millions.
Dude… now I’m going to be paranoid.
Your drawing of the pizza delivery guy is too cute.