Before Covid, I never got food poisoning (or maybe once in my whole life). I eat out too much given my hectic life, and have lived all over the country. I don't get food delivered, though.
During 2020, no food poisoning, but hygiene standards briefly went up.
Since 2020, I got food poisoning once or twice per year... until I moved to Europe in 2024, and have not gotten food poisoning since...
While there are problems with the ingredients in out food, it's not that kind of problem. I feel hygiene standards have sunk to all time lows. I'd guess it's in part due to questionable immigrants, and questionable environmental regulations making useful cleaners too restricted.
It feels like every piece of glass in public in the US is an oily, disgusting, fingerprinty meds now... and elsewhere, even in Canada, this doesn't seem to be the case...
It's not just hygiene standards, it's overall maintenance of any type.
Anyone but me notice that stuff with perforations - paper towels, toilet paper, tear off forms, etc just don't tear off as easily or cleanly as they used to? My theory is that regular maintenance is being ignored or deferred and the machines that perforate get dull.
Plus any sort of quality control these days seems to be a thing of the past so nobody's checking products anymore.
Before Covid, I never got food poisoning (or maybe once in my whole life). I eat out too much given my hectic life, and have lived all over the country. I don't get food delivered, though.
During 2020, no food poisoning, but hygiene standards briefly went up.
Since 2020, I got food poisoning once or twice per year... until I moved to Europe in 2024, and have not gotten food poisoning since...
While there are problems with the ingredients in out food, it's not that kind of problem. I feel hygiene standards have sunk to all time lows. I'd guess it's in part due to questionable immigrants, and questionable environmental regulations making useful cleaners too restricted.
It feels like every piece of glass in public in the US is an oily, disgusting, fingerprinty meds now... and elsewhere, even in Canada, this doesn't seem to be the case...
It's not just hygiene standards, it's overall maintenance of any type.
Anyone but me notice that stuff with perforations - paper towels, toilet paper, tear off forms, etc just don't tear off as easily or cleanly as they used to? My theory is that regular maintenance is being ignored or deferred and the machines that perforate get dull.
Plus any sort of quality control these days seems to be a thing of the past so nobody's checking products anymore.
Just my anecdotal observation and pet theory...