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Grim said:
Exactly. If you ever plan on eating somewhere, don't work there. You'll see just how nasty a place really is. Anything that involves people is going to be inherently filthy. Just try getting adults to wash their hands regularly is a challenge, and your hands go everywhere. While the levels may be within acceptable FDA regulations, not everyone responds the same to every type of bacterium.

It's always interesting seeing the speciation of microbes where I work, because we get to see some pretty nasty shit.
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One thing working in a hotel kitchen will teach you, it's to wash your hands a LOT! (Food service is such a lovely job...)
 
Also have one of these (from https://www.mysticmonkcoffee.com): I particularly like the Midnight Vigils and the Hermit Bold (both dark roasts).

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DLam said:
plants that produce dairy are the absolute worst... If you were to see how ice cream is made and packaged, you would literally vomit at the thought of eating ice cream...
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The food processing plants are rough. We're vendors in multiple pork, chicken and turkey slaughtering/packing plants.
 
Thanks @Pink_Vapor. I guess I had in mind a smaller big ass. :(
 
I use a WW 2 handle less Navy mug I got when I visited the USS North Carolina 20-25 years ago, it’s the only cup I’ll drink anything hot out of, I’m too lazy to upload pics lol
 
Grim said:
I'm just giving you all shit, I know we are exposed to many nasty bugs every day. It's not those that you have to worry about, it's the one in a million, lottery winner of the micro world we should be concerned about. It's unlikely that we'll encounter them (not if the democrats have their way and we get more illegals) but it's better to be safe than sorry. Also refer to the new polio-like virus and the outbreak at the NJ children's hospital for reasons why to be aseptically minded.

But at least it'll keep others from using your cup.
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All my concerns are dealt with the moment I pour boiling hot liquid caffeine in the cup.

If anything survives that, I was meant to die anyway.
 
DLam said:
plants that produce dairy are the absolute worst... If you were to see how ice cream is made and packaged, you would literally vomit at the thought of eating ice cream...
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No, sir...I would happily continue to chow down on ice cream all day long.

In fact, I'd chow down on ice cream while watching a PETA-directed horror movie on how ice cream is made and packaged.
 
RetiredUSNChief said:
All my concerns are dealt with the moment I pour boiling hot liquid caffeine in the cup.

If anything survives that, I was meant to die anyway.
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There is actually a lot that doesn't die at 100C, which is why we sterilize equipment at NLT 121.5C and other components here at NLT 340C.

It's never a bad habit to keep things clean, hell, I completely scrub down my firearms after each use (they don't need it, but they still look new to this day). When a potentially lethal bug does come through, you're going to have to pay special attention to this and not touching your face.

Still I'm mostly joking.
 
Grim said:
There's probably poo in that dip....
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When you grow up you want to be they guy the news sends swabs of phones and keyboards too don't you? lol

FWIW, I put so much other junk in my coffee cup I have to wash it. The percolator does not get washed. And I might wash my cold brew bottle soon, might.
 
chiefjason said:
When you grow up you want to be they guy the news sends swabs of phones and keyboards too don't you? lol

FWIW, I put so much other junk in my coffee cup I have to wash it. The percolator does not get washed. And I might wash my cold brew bottle soon, might.
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No I actually wanted to travel the world, meet exotic people, and kill them.

It was only after I decided that I wanted to make money, and my father telling us he didn't want us to go into the service, did I decided to become a biologist.

I studied biology in college and after being employed by a pharmaceutical manufacturer for a few years, we had committed to sending everyone involved in manufacturing to a Bioworks course at the local community college. VERY REMEDIAL, but for most manufacturing personnel, it was lightyears beyond their comprehension. It did open their eyes to how nasty everything is, when we started swabbing everyday items and incubating them. You'd be surprised one thing that everyone uses every day that is incredibly filthy (it's your phone).
 
Grim said:
There is actually a lot that doesn't die at 100C, which is why we sterilize equipment at NLT 121.5C and other components here at NLT 340C.

It's never a bad habit to keep things clean, hell, I completely scrub down my firearms after each use (they don't need it, but they still look new to this day). When a potentially lethal bug does come through, you're going to have to pay special attention to this and not touching your face.

Still I'm mostly joking.
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Oh, I agree.

However, with respect to coffee mugs, it's not as if they're exposed to wildly unsanitary conditions as a rule. They're not used to scoop out toilet water or whatnot...they're pretty much limited to a single person who uses it for drinking coffee at a desk/table. So it's pretty much a collection of mostly the individual's germs in the first place.

AND...don't forget that it's not just hot water...it's hot caffeinated water. I'm pretty sure there are a lot of critters out there who don't handle the caffeine very well, especially when applied steaming hot. Caffeine migrating across cell membranes probably doesn't help cell chemistry much. Dunno about virus', though. But either way, a lot of bacteria and virus' don't survive well outside certain conditions...including dried up coffee mugs.
 
@RetiredUSNChief talkin about his collection got me to thinkin...I didn't realize I had this many from different places lol.

My UT cups. Dishwasher got the T on the middle one

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From a few places I visited. Little brown crockery one is from Poland.

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A few from German cities

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And the .mil themed ones

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Jeppo said:
@Chdamn
Where did you find her? :D
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Well we met when my best friend married her sister.

Later at the reception dinner we bumped into each other. I was like “Dammit Jew, you just got your kreplach in my ham sandwich”. And she was like “Dammit hillbilly, you just got your ham sandwich in my kreplach”.

But then we tasted it and it was delicious.
 
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Chdamn said:
I was like “Dammit Jew, you just got your kreplach in my ham sandwich”. And she was like “Dammit hillbilly, you just got your ham sandwich in my kreplach”.
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I guess, even back then, you must have been quite a sophisticated shopper. :)

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Chdamn said:
Several versions on Etsy.
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Your two coffee cups make for very poor timing in the morning!
Oh the hilarity of her pulling that out of her stocking, then trying to cover it up while surrounded by our three sons,their wives, two grandsons and the distraction of a one and three month olds.
It'll be a $30 laugh, then she'll throw it away :D
 
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