A new study says that the pepper shaker is one of the germiest items in most restaurants:
There’s no denying that it’s nice to let someone else do the cooking and cleaning on occasion. However, going to restaurants means letting someone else do the cooking and cleaning, which means their standards might not be quite up to yours. There have been many studies showing that there are a shocking number of items in restaurants many
including one culprit that is sitting on almost every restaurant table in the South. That’s why the next time you go out to eat, you just might want to skip giving the pepper a good shake.tagged along with a group of researchers from the University of Arizona as they went to 12 restaurants in three states—New York, Ohio, and Arizona—swabbing all the items on the tabletops and sending them back to their lab for analysis.
While salt, sugar, and the parmesan cheese shakers at pizza restaurants were all guilty of harboring germs, as well, pepper is their favorite place—and even scientists aren’t exactly sure why. "E. coli loves to grow there," Dr. Charles Gerba, a University of Arizona microbiologist, . "It’s a plant-based product. Maybe that has something to do with it." Gerba also thought that pepper may have more bacteria because it’s used more than, say, the sugar container.One other reason that pepper tends to be germ inhabited is that even upscale restaurants tend to focus on cleaning the kitchen, not the salt and pepper shakers. They may get the occasional wipe down from a busser, but the chances of them being spic-and-span are slim.
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