Gloves

  • Magic glove syndrome

    Posted: June 11th, 2011 - 3:57pm by Amy Hubbell

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    Amy Hubbell

    Gonzalo already blogged about the last episode of the Real Housewives of New Jersey in which the ladies were preparing for Thanksgiving. I, however, am a bit behind on my television viewing and just got to the episode today on the DVR.

    Caroline’s family went to visit their daughter Lauren’s boyfriend’s family at their Italian food store, Little Italy Deli. One of the men behind the counter handed Caroline a bowl of soup with a gloved hand, and then Marco (or Vito Jr’s brother) struck this pose (right, exactly as pictured). What’s the point of wearing sanitary gloves if you’re going to rub them on your unprotected hand? Apparently there is some cultural confusion about whom the gloves protect, the food handler or the client. In food safety language this is referred to as magic glove syndrome.

    Next on the show, they got Lauren behind the meat slicer. She had her left hand gloved and her right hand unprotected. Presumably she was using her left hand only to touch the meat. When she was corrected about slicer use, however, she touched the meat with an ungloved finger. 
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  • Magic glove syndrome

    Posted: June 11th, 2011 - 3:57pm by Amy Hubbell

    Author: 
    Amy Hubbell

    Gonzalo already blogged about the last episode of the Real Housewives of New Jersey in which the ladies were preparing for Thanksgiving. I, however, am a bit behind on my television viewing and just got to the episode today on the DVR.

    Caroline’s family went to visit their daughter Lauren’s boyfriend’s family at their Italian food store, Little Italy Deli. One of the men behind the counter handed Caroline a bowl of soup with a gloved hand, and then Marco (or Vito Jr’s brother) struck this pose (right, exactly as pictured). What’s the point of wearing sanitary gloves if you’re going to rub them on your unprotected hand? Apparently there is some cultural confusion about whom the gloves protect, the food handler or the client. In food safety language this is referred to as magic glove syndrome.

    Next on the show, they got Lauren behind the meat slicer. She had her left hand gloved and her right hand unprotected. Presumably she was using her left hand only to touch the meat. When she was corrected about slicer use, however, she touched the meat with an ungloved finger. 
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  • Gloves in food service: a false sense of security

    Posted: May 14th, 2011 - 8:08am by Doug Powell

    The New York City health code mandates that all fast food restaurant employees must wear plastic gloves when handling or serving food.

    But, writes Russell Marlow in the New York Times, it seems that many of those employees in New York think that gloves — no matter how long they have been on their hands — are some sort of amulet, a magical talisman that wards off any type of germ. As long as they are wearing them, they can do anything they like with their hands.

    I have often seen food servers go from cleaning to serving without changing their gloves. I have seen them eating, handling money, even smoking with their gloves on before going back to serving. I have seen them coughing and wiping their noses with their gloves. I have witnessed, on more than one occasion, gloved food servers taking out bags of garbage before returning to serving food with the same gloves.
     

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