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Curry Chat => Lets Talk Curry => Topic started by: lorrydoo on August 15, 2008, 02:29 PM
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Did anyone see Rogue Restaurants on BBC1 last night 14th August 2008. Hidden cameras were planted in two Indian restaurants in London and showed some of the most disgusting things imaginable. One clip showed an Indian cheff washing in the kitchen sink where the food is prapared and washed his feet, hands, face and then emptied his nostrils into the sink. It has put me off Indian restaurants for life. Just think, this could be the missing "taste" that we are looking for.
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Yes , saw it, unbelievable,
it snot what I'm looking for in my curries,
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it snot what I'm looking for in my curries,
Groan :P
I missed it but by the sounds of it I am glad I did :-X
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Foot scales and nasal mucous - that must be the missing BIR taste!
Off to the kitchen...
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Yeah it was disgusting HOWEVER one interesting point was when the undercover guy was being shown how to make tikka massala.Bearing in mind the restaurant prided itself on not using any artificial colours or ingrediants the chef then produce a big tub of Patak's kashmiri massala paste and proceded to spoon a large dollop into the pan with the comment 'that's what gives it it's flavour'.I've always wondered why my take-away has loads of massive Pataks pastes on it's shelves and why they really don't want you peering into the kitchen!!!!!
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It was bloody bad and mean't to be a fairly up market place- All I can say is more power to cooking your own curry.
Matt ;)
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I didn't see the program, but they probably only showed it, because it was so bad.
It's not usual practice
You occasionally get dirty people, in all manner of trades, not just BIR's.
Some people have less fortunate conditions than others,too.
Why, I know someone with "never ending flakey elbows", thank goodness she doesn't work at Kellogs.........
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Yes, true, a dirty bugger, is a dirty bugger, whatever job they are in.I worked in a few cafes here in Blackpool when i was younger and saw some practices that were dubious to say the least. Put me off pre made coleslaw for life for a kick off.
Talking of dirty kitchens, a Chinese takeaway 2 mins from me has just been shut down, 46 offenses he was charged with!!!
Samba Scott
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These dirty buggers used the sink 5 times a day as they were Muslim and obliged to wash before praying, which leads me to think that if a restaurant doesnt have a changing room then a lot will use the kitchen sink.
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These dirty buggers used the sink 5 times a day as they were Muslim and obliged to wash before praying, which leads me to think that if a restaurant doesnt have a changing room then a lot will use the kitchen sink.
When I use the phrase dirty buggers, I wasn't referring to the people in the rogue restaurant program directly, just people who don't care/ or to save money etc(like the Chinese near me that i mentioned) when producing food for human consumption. If a restaurant doesn't provide separate washing facilities for staff, then that's a major violation of health and safety standards. If an owner doesn't provide facilities for his staff then he should be penalized accordingly.
I don't care what religion dictates/ or what religion people practice,Hygiene comes before any religion, but if your washing your body in the same area that food is being prepared,, then I would say your in the wrong line of work.
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Missed it, OMG I feel ill!
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I once rented a room to a pastry chef at a very famous Golfing Hotel near Birmingham about ten years ago. This guy had won awards for his deserts. Anyway, he eventually fell seriously behind with his rent and unfortunately it got to the point where I had to ask him to leave. He did so, but you would not have believed the mess he left the place in. He had an unenviable collection of bottles of urine in his room because he couldnt be arsed to get up for a piss in the night!!! god knows how he filled them because the screw on caps were pretty small!
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Agreed Scotty but what annoyed me was the fact that the presenters were laughing and grinning broadly as they were comentating on the disgusting things that were happening. Would they have been so light hearted if it was a non Muslims praparing food for Muslim?
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me too i wacthed it and it was really horried thats put me off take aways cos who knows whats going at the back. i think that that places like that should be closed for life becouse if there open again it will be the same thing
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I have deleted my own post on this subject !! :-X
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Agreed Scotty but what annoyed me was the fact that the presenters were laughing and grinning broadly as they were comentating on the disgusting things that were happening. Would they have been so light hearted if it was a non Muslims praparing food for Muslim?
Lorrydo I didn't see the program in full so did not see the way the presenters/ people involved behaved, so would be wrong for me to comment on that. The only bit i saw was the presenter who spat out the food in the van.
regards Scott
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Did not see it on the day but watched it on iplayer yesterday ? disgusting the environmental health should shut them down ? filthy buggers..
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I think transparancy in restaurant hygiene is where it's at. I always like the takeaways with the window between the front desk and the kitchen that lets you see in. Still, I have to say that IMHO BIR takeaways are a little behind most other western establishments. I'm forever seeing my popadums being passed from the chef to the guy at front of house into my bag, just after he's taken my money and given me change etc. I get the impression they just don't know better. I don't think it's that they're intentionally doing bad things - I just think they would benifit from a basic food hygiene course.
That said, this is a massive generalisation and there are many BIRs that no doubt have adequate food hygiene procedures. However from what I have seen, I think that Chinese takeaways are generally far cleaner.
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Just watched it now here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00d1j54). ******* minging! :-X
I don't know why they've not been shut down. I also don't understand why it's an employer's responsibility to provide facilities for Muslim prayer time as suggested. Lack of convienient facilities is no excuse for the employees to be blowing their noses and washing their feet in the kitchen sink!!! As an undergraduate during summers I worked in Burger King and can assure you that nothing even close to that took place. These practises are not representative of most UK takeways. Still, it makes you wonder...
That said, the guy was a real pussy about eating the curry, it looked pretty tasty to me. ;D