exquisite tea posted:

As long as you're not eating bugs or typhoid, stories of unsanitary kitchen practices don't freak me out all that much. Human stomachs are pretty hardy things by necessity, it's not the end of the world if something falls on the floor. One time my spouse did catch a rock in her vegetable lo mein at the local Chinese restaurant, though. And we're not talking like a grain of sand, this was a legit piece of crumbled asphalt like the kind you'd find along a busy roadway. Later on we saw the same place listed in a health code violation watchlist for keeping food too low to the ground, which explains the rock. We got the meal free and never went back there again (we still go there).