Nestle Turtles

One of the radiation therapists at work told me a story one day. She goes to a physiotherapist and there is a secretary that works in the office there.

One day, the secretary was driving to work and had a package of turles. It was one of those packages that come with 3, delightful, turtle shaped chocolates. How wonderful! She tore open the package and picked up one of the chocolates and inspected it. The turtle looked a bit strange. It looked like chocolate that was old and it had a weblike pattern on the surface. She did not eat it and brought it to work with her.

At work, the secretary showed the physiotherapist the chocolate. The physiotherapist rammed her finger into it and dragged her finger across the table. The choclate turtle was broken up and out spewed all these MAGGOTS! Some dead, many alive!














But oh, the story does not end there. The secretary went back to the corner store that she bought these turtles from and told the owner what had happened. She showed him the receipt, proving that she had only bought the chocolates the other day. The corner store owner said that that was impossible because he had just recently bought the a boxful from Sam's club the other day and showed her the receipt to prove it.
















Oh, "it's a big deal" alright! So the secretary tells the store owner that he better go check out the other chocolates. They go inspect the box of turtles and opened several packages. Sure enough, the whole batch of chocolates was contaminated with MAGGOTS!

The radiation therapist told me that apparently, chocolate makers are allowed a certain number of eggs in their chocolates because they just can't help it with all the flies around. I don't know if that's true or not.

Apparently this is not an isolated case. Check this out. This is a woman's complaint and correspondence trail after what she found in her Nestle bitesized turtles:

http://www.complaints.com/april2002/complaintoftheday.april21.13.htm

This is what stuck out to me:

"To my knowledge maggots eat rotting flesh, so what could be in this candy they could survive on?"

This woman speaks the truth:

"A maggot is the larval stage of the fly life cycle, famous for eating decomposing flesh"

(Wikipedia.org)

Maybe its the nuts? Maybe not.

Hygiene

Since i started working at the hospital, i've been much more conscious about hygiene and cleanliness. Radiation therapists have to be very conscious about keeping their equipment and hands clean because they come into contact with patients daily who may have their immune systems compromised. Even if patients do not have their immune systems compromised, not doing simple things such as washing your hands after every patient and using hand sanitizer can still lead to the spread of diseases!

Often, before i work out, i pick up a twelve grain bagel with strawberry cream cheese at Tim Horton's. i noticed something the last time i purchased a bagel and decided to watch the Timmy's worker like a hawk this time. i placed my order and the worker put on one, plastic glove on her right hand and brought my bagel over to the toaster with it. She then came back and asked me if i was charged yet. i said no and she proceeded to punch in my order with her right, gloved hand, took my money with her left, grabbed change with her right, gloved hand and handed it to me. She then turned around and picked up the two sides of my toasted bagel using her left and right hand and proceeded to spread cream cheese on it, using her left hand to hold down my bagel to make sure it stayed put.

Which incompetent Tim Horton's manager trained this incompetent Tim Horton's employee?!

i was a bit shocked and thought about saying something but i didn't. Like the manly man that i am, i ate that money flavoured bagel (Re: Spoiled blog).

The next time this happens, i'm gonna call her on it and see what she says.