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07/22/2007 Jono S. says:

It's happened to all of us:  Wait staff leaving the rest room without so much as a cursory handwash, a strand of hair or a fly in your soup, or your coughing-sneezing cold virus-laden server manhandling your food.  What is the funniest (or most unfunny) unhygienic dining moments?

I remember my first visit to *Jimmy Thai, a restaurant in Wheaton that used to exist where Super Chicken is now, or is that El Pollo Rico (moment of silence)?  Jimmy, the namesake of the restaurant and son of the proprietors, brought out our order of pad thai on a large bed of shredded cabbage.  A small cockroach was rapidly running around nonstop in circles on the plate, not being able to escape the forest-like weave of cabbage.  Jimmy did not notice the cockroach until I pointed it out to him.  He seemed more surprised than I was and promptly offered to replace the dish.  Instead, we cancelled the order.  Looking back years later, that incident was pretty comical.  Inadvertently bad things occasionally happen at any restaurant.  Yet somehow I never could stomach a return visit.  

*The real name of the restaurant has been changed even though the restaurant closed down almost ten years ago.
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07/23/2007 Mary Kay "(Well) Seasoned Yelper" S. says:

The first thing I thought of when I saw this thread was the current season of "Top Chef", and contestant Howie.  Every week, Howie busts ass over his dishes, and sweats up a storm.  I always see droplots of sweat hanging precariously from the end of his nose as he bends over the bowl/pot/plate.  Makes me say "Uck!" every time.
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07/23/2007 Paul W. says:

I cannot remember a meal I've had at Kramerbooks that did not end with severe intestinal distress. I keep going back, hoping for the best, but the wait in between meals has become longer and longer. Last time I was there was probably 3 years ago. ICK!

However, the bar is OK/bordering on fun at times, and the bookstore is great.
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07/23/2007 Kathleen M. says:

I was at a Waffle House in the A-tizzle with my siblings and we watched the waitress pick up a finished plate from a diner who was leaving, scrape the eggs onto a clean plate, and serve them up to an unsuspecting guest (probably a Yankee).

Did we stick around to eat our waffles and hashbrowns? Hell yes we did.

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