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Supersize Me 
Why don't you tools just do the right thing and go to Subway? My fitness world membership gets me a discount so all the more reason to go.
I've gotten just as sick at Subway as at other places. Anywhere there is meat that can be improperly stored or where there is mayo that is also not properly stored, you have the potential for big problems, and when you are counting on $6/hr employees, well that ain't saying a whole lot. There is also the whole cleanliness factor as well... Let me just say, I will never eat a steak & cheese from Subway ever again.
My house certainly isn't Serve-Safe certified and I don't even know what the acronymn HACCP stands for but I do try to follow the basic guidelines to avoid cross contamination.
After I've cut up the raw meat, I wash my hands before I start cooking. I don't use the same knife that was used on the raw meat to cut it after it has been cooked. I don't cut chicken and beef on the same cutting board even if I am making both at the same time. I don't cut vegetables on the cutting board that was just used for meat. If I am grilling a steak I use a styrofoam plate to take the raw meat out to the grill and when it is cooked, I place it on another clean plate.
Simple precautions are worth taking, but as Rob said sometimes it's the producer of the foods that is to blame.
Absolutely 100% agree here, and I do the same.
I was born in a place where you got water from the well outside. The people left food out overnight always. Granted their infant mortality rate was right through the roof but one thing is for sure, if you can make it there you can make it anywhere. New York has nothing on them. Understand that my parents never went to school. So when we got here food practices didn't change. They were clean and tidy but chicken wasn't viewed as a toxin. I personally have learned and use better habits while cooking but food to me just gets eaten. After watching TV shows where they test temperature and what not I'm still not convinced that that food would harm me. Food is my friend. Even Taco Bell.
I got REALLY sick, like near hospitalization, one time from eating some improperly prepared chicken, and I could TELL there was something wrong when I was eating it. I though, I'll be OK....that was a mistake. Not suing the restaurant was too, but they went out of business shortly thereafter anyway, so tells you something... The doctor said once you get sick from food poisoning like that, you become more susceptible to it in the future, and it only takes one time. You don't build up MORE tolerance for it as you get older, you grow LESS tolerant to it.
Crazy thing is that my sister is lactose intolerant. She almost didn't make it. Where I'm from, all babies need milk. Right outa the cow.
Hate to tell you this, but
ALL mammals are lactose intolerant. Look it up, I was surprised as well when I found that out. All babies need milk for nourishment and to pass on immunities and such, but unless you keep drinking milk regularly, you will become lactose intolerant also. I am proof of this, because I used to drink 2-3 glasses of 2% a day until I was about 17-18. When I moved out, I drank less and less until I pretty much stopped buying milk unless it was for cereal. Now I can't drink one glass of 2% without getting sick. I still like milk, but I have to drink lowfat or lactose free.
