Basic food hygiene?

I agree Septima
Yes that’s the point I was trying to make

Septimia

If you watch some cookery programmes you can see that chefs and other staff in the kitchens of posh restaurants frequently put the food on plates with their bare hands. They might wash their hands but there's no guarantee that they haven't just touched something accidentally. It rather puts me off...

Surely they could just as easily have touched something inadvertently with gloved hands. I don't see the difference.

Septimia

If you watch some cookery programmes you can see that chefs and other staff in the kitchens of posh restaurants frequently put the food on plates with their bare hands. They might wash their hands but there's no guarantee that they haven't just touched something accidentally. It rather puts me off...

You can tell I have never worked in a commercial kitchen or watched many cookery programmes.

That would put me off too.

I somehow seem to remember a Uk law that people had to wear gloves for food preparation.
Maybe I have got that totally wrong.

I don’t think the wearing of gloves make any difference at all
MacDonalds do some lovely vegi wraps they are not all bad by any means

NotSpaghetti

Are you safer if the cook/food handler wears gloves?
www.salon.com/2010/10/13/food_handler_glove_laws/

Thanks for the link, but I dont read something that does not allow me to reject cookies.

I would certainly feel safer if someone wore gloves.
Personally.

If you watch some cookery programmes you can see that chefs and other staff in the kitchens of posh restaurants frequently put the food on plates with their bare hands. They might wash their hands but there's no guarantee that they haven't just touched something accidentally. It rather puts me off...

I am not a glove fan BTW but I note that my mother-in-law's part time carer puts them on after washing her hands to prepare snacks for my mother-in-law - even if she's just putting a biscuit on a plate.

Are you safer if the cook/food handler wears gloves?
www.salon.com/2010/10/13/food_handler_glove_laws/

I would think gloves are totally unnecessary just clean frequently washed hands

I have had McDonalds, KFC , Chinese, Indian etc.
Of all these years, the only time I had a tummy upset was when I had a ‘prepared’ salad from M&S, just saying.

Gloves are no guarantee, frequent hand washing is the way to go,

It is not a Health and Safety prerequisite for kitchen staff or those preparing food to wear gloves in the U.K.

It is their responsibility to ensure clean hands and no cross contamination by frequent hand washing.

Simple answer - don’t eat at McDonalds.
In fact don’t eat at Service Stations if you can help it