Pizza toppings dropped on the floor

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It was a PR nightmare for Domino’s Pizza.  

Two employees recorded themselves as they carefully concocted a “special treat” for their customers. They ceremoniously dropped pizza toppings on the floor, mashed them around, scraped them up, and daintily arranged them on the pie. They stuck cheese strands up their own noses, extracted them, and giddily sprinkled them over the sauce. They squished and spit the condiments over the top. Then, they uploaded their creativity onto the internet for all to see. 

As my favorite contemporary comedian puts it, “Ya just can’t fix stupid.”  

Of course, the outcry was immediate. Domino’s Pizza was instantly plunged into the highest damage control alert possible. The two employees, who can only be called “Dumb and Dumber,” were fired on the spot. That particular Domino’s outlet was closed for a complete sanitation “do-over.”  

But for anyone who saw the video the damage was done. Did any of you see it?

Did you order a Domino’s Pizza the next day? Have you been haunted by this one single fact: do any of us really know where our food has been before it reaches our table at a restaurant?  

We can joke with our own family in the safety of home about a “five second rule.” But when someone outside our own gene pool is fixing the food . . . 

The entire “you-serve-me” food industry is based upon a certain level of trust. We trust others to prepare good, healthful, quality controlled food.

Without that trust, we would either all be eating only at home, or there would be a great number of employment opportunities for “food tasters.” Even official “food tasters” can’t protect us, though, from the lurking evils of salmonella or e.coli, toxins that we cannot taste and whose symptoms don’t show up immediately. Recently our “trust” in the food industry has been tested and tarnished by tainted spinach, tomatoes, and peanut butter. 

Trust is something we need and something God offers.  Do we have it?

–Author unknown

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