Retail Hell Underground

Rudest Custy Encounters: Bitch Throws Coffee On Retail Slave

From: Retail Drone 456

While working at a deli/bakery/coffee shop combo restaurant, I was working on a custy's order.

She had told me whipped cream on her mocha, and didn't mention what type of milk. So I defaulted and used 2%.

She took one swig of her coffee, and grimaced... and promptly threw it at me, getting me drenched in hot coffee, and demanded that I make her one on the house.

Grrrrrrr.

--Retail Drone 456

 

 

Rudest Custy Encounters: A Long String Of Foul Language For Ten Seconds Of Waiting

From: DeliWorker

This happened about two weeks into my job working at a grocery store deli.

It's a weekday evening so the place is dead and me and a co-worker are standing at the counter chatting with each other. This woman walks up to the counter and just stands there glaring at me.

I'm in a pretty good mood so I make eye contact with her and smile thinking she's going to tell me what she wants. When she doesn't say anything I ask if there is anything I can do for her.

She then lets loose with the longest nastiest string of curses that I had heard in a long time. She then starts yelling at me for being a lazy asshole and purposely making her wait (10 seconds) and that the store needed to stop hiring stupid inconsiderate kids (I'm 23 mind you).

Me and my co-worker just stood there dumbfounded while she continued to berate us. Eventually, she stopped cursing me out long enough to bark her order at me and then thankfully left.

Totally ruined the rest of my night though.

--DeliWorker

 

 

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 Yes they have.... any one ever try this?

 

 

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Awesome Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Meat Display

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Crusty Throws Tantrum Over Coffee

From: Laughing Barista

A customer's wife didn't order coffee, just a sandwich, and thought that coffee comes with the sandwich (as opposed to getting it at a discount if ordered together with the sandwich).

When I told him that he'd have to pay for it he screamed, bitched me out and told me that I wasn't helping him because he was Spanish.

My boss asked me what happened and I explained it.

He called the guy an asshole.

--Laughing Barista

 

Crazy People Encounters: Cheese Goes Bad, And It's The Deli Slave's Fault?

From: Iliketurtles

At the moment, I'm studying in a really smaaaall town and the only job I found that pays good is one of the 4 grocery/supermarket stores here. And for sure we have a lot of crazies!

So.. one day I'm in the ham/cheese/olives/meat 'department' and as I'm finishing the deliveries I hear a loud; ''XCUSE MISS' and I spend the next 20 minutes explaining her than her precious Regato won't be spoiled if she keep it in the fridge for 1 week.

Two weeks after she comes in again, looking angry and screaming. After I get call out from the register to the deli she turns and literally screams/spits on my face. She's waving the rotten cheese and saying that she left her cheese outside the fridge, and it went bad!

It took her another twenty minutes to understand that if you leave this kind of cheese (a local one, expensive and sensitive as hell) outside the fridge long enough, it won't just go rotten; there'll be a fucking whole new world developing upon it.

Although another memorable moment of my life was a soccer mum asking me why I gave her 'penis shaped sausages' in front of the precious hellspawn.

They are handmade, meaty sausages ma'am! They're meant to be shaped like this, all sausages are for fuck's sake!

Oh the joy of working at the grocery..

--Iliketurtles

 

Close Enough Food Labeling

 

 

 

 

 

Sausages Made With Baby Poo? Scientists Say It's a Possibility

From The Independent: 

Researchers say they have discovered way to ferment sausages that could turn the fatty meat product into a health food similar to probiotic yogurts. The secret ingredient? A type of bacteria found in baby faeces.

Although this may sound like either the stupidest or the most disgusting thing you’ve heard scientist get up to in recent years, the research - published in the February issue of the journal Meat Science (yes, that’s also a real thing) – is actually a fascinating insight into the common usages of bacteria in the food instury.

Bacterial fermentation is already a big part in making sausages and many varieties (including favourites such as pepperoni and salami) owe their rich and tangy flavour to bacteria, which even create lactic acids that stops the development of germs in the meat.

However, while traditional manufacturing techniques mostly rely on the bacteria that occur naturally in raw meat, researchers in Spain have been experimenting with adding probiotic bacteria instead. The reason for the sensationalist headlines? They've been collecting their samples from human faeces.

Now, to go over the whys and wherefores of probiotic bacteria a little, the term is one that's applied generally micro-organisms that are believed to provide various health benefits. Ever since the invention of the microscope, scientists have known that the human body is full of various bacteria - a primitive form of life typically just a few micrometres in length.

However, in the beginning of the 20th century scentists began to suspect that the bacteria that lives in the human gut (typically around 100 trillion bacterial cells) might actually be helping us out, breaking down the foodstuffs that our stomach acid can't handle and tackling the nastier germs we might accidentally ingest.

In recent decades this has led to many theories that adding probiotics to foodproducts will help with a number of ailments - anything from gastrointestinal disorders such as constipation to allergic reactions. Although the science surrounding this is still not entirely conclusive, this doesn't stop researchers finding new ways to add the human-friendly bacteria to our food.

With this particular batch of sasuges the probiotic bacteria used (specifically Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium) was sourced from 43 stool samples from healthy babies up to six months old.

This may sound like a bizarre step to take but it is in fact a standard (if not common) method for isolating probiotics. For example, Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG, a commercial strain found in a variety of yoghurts and ‘daily dose’ drinks, was first isolated from human faeces in 1983.

And why faeces? Because, if you’re on the hunt for naturally-occurring bacteria that have been busy helping the body, looking in the material that has recently passed through the body of a healthy individual is a good place to start.

Speaking to LiveScience about the research, co-author Anna Jofré, a food microbiologist at Catalonia's Institute of Food and Agricultural Research's (IRTA) food-safety program, added that “infant faeces are natural samples, easy to obtain.”

After isolating the bacteria from their samples (this process involves letting the bacteria develop in a petri dish – it’s not simply plucked from the faeces and dropped into the sausage), the researchers created six batches of fuet - a Catalonian pork sausage that's similar to chorizo minus the paprika.

Of the six strains of bacteria they used only one successfully took up home in the fermenting sausages, with the strain growing to levels of “100 million cells per gram of sausage”, enough – says Jofré – to “produce health-promoting effects to people”.

The sausages were all sampled by professional tasters who confirmed that the flavour was indistinguishable from that of regular fuet - even though they all contained less salt and less fat. You may not like the idea of sausages made in this way, but bacteria found in faeces is probably already a part of your diet - so don't complain when it makes your sausages healthier too.

via www.independent.co.uk

 

 

 

Butcher Takes Advantage of Valentine's Day

Reddit: Happy Valentine's Day from your local butcher.

I'll take the penis shaped one on the left!