Well, this should make you hungry. The Rockland County (New York) has hit a Chinese restaurant in Nanuet with two health code violations. It seems that a kitchen worker discovered a novel way of crushing the garlic. Oh, it was very effective, mind you. It just wasn't, you should excuse the term, quite kosher.
He was crushing the garlic by stomping it with his boots.
NANUET, N.Y. – Stomping on garlic with your shoes on is apparently not the correct way to prepare takeout food. The Rockland County health department hit the Great China Buffet restaurant with two violations after a patron took pictures of an employee who was wearing boots while stomping on a huge bowl of garlic in the alley outside.
Health inspectors went to the Chinese restaurant after an employee at a nearby store, Dan Barreto, alerted them to the unsanitary act, which he had recorded on his cell phone.
"I go back there, and the guy's stepping on garlic," said Barreto, who used to eat at the restaurant. "There he was just jumping up and down on it, smashing it up, having a good time."
The health department does not consider a person's shoe or boot a proper instrument to use in food preparation, senior public health sanitarian John Stoughton said Tuesday.
We here at Blue Crab Boulevard are appalled that someone would be so unsanitary in the preparation of food. Boots are right out when preparing food around the Crabitat. We would never stoop to that level. We use these exclusively. They produce the perfect texture in the garlic.
