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Am I the Genius?

Health Inspectors, What's The WORST Thing You've Ever Found in a Restaurant or Shop?

Am I the Genius?

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Education, Self-improvement

4.6767 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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0:00.0

Health Inspectors. What's the worst thing you've ever found in a restaurant or shop?

0:06.1

I once finished up a food-borne illness investigation, not finding much that could have caused the

0:11.0

illness, so I left. I parked my car on the other side of the street and full view of the

0:15.0

restaurant I was just as. I watched the dishwasher come out the back door, light a cigarette,

0:20.1

smoke for a minute, then hunch

0:21.4

over and fricking hurl all over the grass. Then he took another drag and went back inside.

0:26.9

I have mild emotophobia, so I got a bit of a cold sweat and then ran across the streets and

0:31.6

basically dragged him outside. I've got a lot of stories, but that was the worst for me.

0:36.9

I was a health inspector long ago.

0:39.3

Was it a golden corral going through the kitchen area?

0:42.3

As I was squatting down to check a dishwasher, my foot broke through the tile floor and into a sewer pipe that ran underneath.

0:48.3

Cockroaches came boiling out of the hole.

0:51.3

Turns out the entire floor was rotten from a water leak in the sewer pipe.

0:56.1

Best or worst part, the general manager tried to fight me when I told them they had to close down

1:00.9

until they fixed the open hole into a pipe full of cockroaches and waste.

1:06.1

In the mid-80s, I managed a pizza delivery store, and the health inspector came by kind of late

1:10.7

and asked me to

1:11.5

step outside. He started apologising, but it was his job to follow up when they have a specific

1:16.0

complaint concerning food safety. But this one was odd. He proceeded to tell me that a customer

1:21.1

complained that while they were in the store, two male workers did the deed on the counter

1:25.7

and didn't even wash their hands. I very dryly responded

1:30.1

that that couldn't have happened as we always wash our hands after doing that on the cutting

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