2 weeks ago, me and Adam went out to visit our grade school classmate Dang, working as a management trainee in a famous original Filipino fast food chain. The term 'original' here means, 'not derived from something else.' I use the term original based on the fact that it was established in the Philippines by a Filipino entrepreneur not to mention the idea of fast food was taken from McDonald's which is an American restaurant. You can copy or replicate almost anything nowadays. I feel remorseful for that. It's like wearing a fashionable pin-striped trousers in a cozy coffee shop with the exact prints and fabric hanging on the windows and under your water goblets or folded into a fan on top of the platter. But it will be pity to see them on the awning of a vegetable or fruit peddler. I'm sure you won't stand beside it. You wish your companion won't point at it. Today, I won't be talking about fashionable trousers and cozy coffee shops but rather I will be sharing a horrible experience on food preparation. You see, in a developing country where high tech locomotives or MagLev (Magnetic Levitation) Trains to commute for home are not available, where not everything is accessible like your kitchen or your frige we dine with fast food. It's fast, cheap especially for the yuppies on the rush for a deadline or a spoiled hungry brat with mommy from the grocery. They love the give aways so much which were recently recalled from the market for its high lead content. The ones made in China though. Now going back, we decided to have lunch at Dang's so we can avail discounts from the manager's company privilege. We texted her to inform our visit and the privilege of having a discount will mean a relief on our meager allowance. But just like a lawyer in a court hearing or a surgeon making burr holes on the patient's skull, she was unable to respond our message. Right after we get through the door, she greeted us with a smile like the ones you see in fast food TV commercials. I knew she was reluctant you know. I bought one piece fried chicken, thigh part and a cup of rice while Adam ordered double. She swiped her access card on the register and the orders were automatically marked 10% down. We headed up to the second level and seated next to a bough of a mahogany tree right across the street. Dang was on duty so she wasn't able to join us upstairs. As I sliced into my fatty chicken, the insides were not deep fried to the bones. Bloody. I remembered the creepy crawlies that are not vissible with the naked eye. It contains lavish amounts of cholesterol approximately 60mg. Some of its components shall take form of flabs and love-handles in a matter of weeks of eating fast food but colonies of bugs, microbes can kill you in a matter of days! Here are bugs that can kill: 1. Campylobacter jejuni -> A bacterium common in poultry, leading cause of bacterial foodborne disease in the U.S. Exposure to a small number of it can cause illness. Recovery happens within a week. (Click on the image to view full size) 2. Escherichia coli O157:H7 -> Produces a powerful toxin that can cause bloody diarrhea and occasionally kidney failure. Usually from undercooked beef. 3. Salmonella enteriditis -> Any food smeared with animal feces will carry Salmonella. Poultry especially chicken and eggs are high-risk carriers. An emerging strain shows high rates of drug resistance. 4. Listeria monocytogenes -> Can thrive in refrigeration, it is found in many foods, including soft cheeses and processed meats like salami and hot dogs. Pregnant women, neonate and the immuno-compromised are highly susceptible. 5. Shigella sonnei -> Irrigation water contaminated with sewage or manure transfers Shigella to food. It is highly infectious and spread through physical contact. Children in day-care settings are most vulnerable. I told Dang about the bloody chicken and immediately she referred me to her senior manager. She offered me to take the same order but this time hot and well done but I refused. I was too full from Adam's fries, macaroni soup and rocky road sundae. The damage has been done so they better jab their fried chicken and patties with a pyrometer, to check if it reached the standard temperature that assures us from contacting food-borne diseases.2 weeks ago, me and Adam went out to visit our grade school classmate Dang, working as a management trainee in a famous original Filipino fast food chain. The term 'original' here means, 'not derived from something else.' I use the term original based on the fact that it was established in the Philippines by a Filipino entrepreneur not to mention the idea of fast food was taken from McDonald's which is an American restaurant. You can copy or replicate almost anything nowadays. I feel remorseful for that. It's like wearing a fashionable pin-striped trousers in a cozy coffee shop with the exact prints and fabric hanging on the windows and under your water goblets or folded into a fan on top of the platter. But it will be pity to see them on the awning of a vegetable or fruit peddler. I'm sure you won't stand beside it. You wish your companion won't point at it. Today, I won't be talking about fashionable trousers and cozy coffee shops but rather I will be sharing a horrible experience on food preparation. You see, in a developing country where high tech locomotives or MagLev (Magnetic Levitation) Trains to commute for home are not available, where not everything is accessible like your kitchen or your frige we dine with fast food. It's fast, cheap especially for the yuppies on the rush for a deadline or a spoiled hungry brat with mommy from the grocery. They love the give aways so much which were recently recalled from the market for its high lead content. The ones made in China though. Now going back, we decided to have lunch at Dang's so we can avail discounts from the manager's company privilege. We texted her to inform our visit and the privilege of having a discount will mean a relief on our meager allowance. But just like a lawyer in a court hearing or a surgeon making burr holes on the patient's skull, she was unable to respond our message. Right after we get through the door, she greeted us with a smile like the ones you see in fast food TV commercials. I knew she was reluctant you know. I bought one piece fried chicken, thigh part and a cup of rice while Adam ordered double. She swiped her access card on the register and the orders were automatically marked 10% down. We headed up to the second level and seated next to a bough of a mahogany tree right across the street. Dang was on duty so she wasn't able to join us upstairs. As I sliced into my fatty chicken, the insides were not deep fried to the bones. Bloody. I remembered the creepy crawlies that are not vissible with the naked eye. It contains lavish amounts of cholesterol approximately 60mg. Some of its components shall take form of flabs and love-handles in a matter of weeks of eating fast food but colonies of bugs, microbes can kill you in a matter of days! Here are bugs that can kill: 1. Campylobacter jejuni -> A bacterium common in poultry, leading cause of bacterial foodborne disease in the U.S. Exposure to a small number of it can cause illness. Recovery happens within a week. (Click on the image to view full size) 2. Escherichia coli O157:H7 -> Produces a powerful toxin that can cause bloody diarrhea and occasionally kidney failure. Usually from undercooked beef. 3. Salmonella enteriditis -> Any food smeared with animal feces will carry Salmonella. Poultry especially chicken and eggs are high-risk carriers. An emerging strain shows high rates of drug resistance. 4. Listeria monocytogenes -> Can thrive in refrigeration, it is found in many foods, including soft cheeses and processed meats like salami and hot dogs. Pregnant women, neonate and the immuno-compromised are highly susceptible. 5. Shigella sonnei -> Irrigation water contaminated with sewage or manure transfers Shigella to food. It is highly infectious and spread through physical contact. Children in day-care settings are most vulnerable. I told Dang about the bloody chicken and immediately she referred me to her senior manager. She offered me to take the same order but this time hot and well done but I refused. I was too full from Adam's fries, macaroni soup and rocky road sundae. The damage has been done so they better jab their fried chicken and patties with a pyrometer, to check if it reached the standard temperature that assures us from contacting food-borne diseases.
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