Will someone please tell Michele Fleury to grow up and realize that she’s in no danger of contracting the deadliest of deadly bacteria when eating at BU dining halls (“Dining halls show no glove for cleanliness,” Nov. 17, pg. 6)? Listen, in this world people die every day of real things. In some underprivileged areas of the world, people have to eat garbage to survive. So, I think you don’t have to worry so much about the trace amounts of raw egg underneath your plate from “contaminated” gloves. And on the topic of eggs, they can be eaten raw. Bodybuilders do it. Hell, I’m sure everyone has eaten raw cookie dough at some point in their life. So, worry about getting hit by a bus or being mugged in Allston. In a crazy metropolitan world, you owe it to yourself to unwind and have a damn burrito once in a while without working yourself into a tizzy.
And where the hell do you get off calling for workers’ gloves to be replaced after they touch anything “dirty?’ Do you know how much extra waste that will create? More garbage is then dumped in our landfills. And garbage is dirty. So, in the end, the world is a dirtier place because you were afraid of flu-like symptoms from a drop of egg on your bulkie roll sandwich. How dare you.
The rest of the world is waiting with arms open to welcome you into the world of the “five-second rule” and not washing your hands if you don’t pee on them. By your standards, myself and others probably live very unsanitary lives. But remember this — I haven’t died just yet. In fact, I haven’t had food poisoning for almost 10 years. And that was from those dirty bastards at Subway. So shut up about this “bacteria” or these “germs” you speak of and eat your damn burrito.
Jeff Wattenhofer COM ’05