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    A customer came through my line with pork, beef and chicken. I make my usual request about bags, and because it wasn't busy, asked if she wanted the meat bagged separately.

    Customer: "Oh yes, please. Oh, and ... chicken in one bag, pork in another, please."

    She added in a sort of embarrassed tone: "Just humour me ..."

    It sounded as though she'd been given flak or at least funny looks in the past. No idea whether this sprang from religion, something OCD-related, or what, but hey ... there was no lineup and she made the request right at the start, so no problem.

    She'd forgotten about the beef, by the way. IIRC, she asked for it to go in its own bag as well.
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  • #2
    Could be dietary or religious needs. At least she was nice about it
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    • #3
      I always bag chicken, pork, beef and fish in separate bags unless specifically told not to.

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      • #4
        Ditto. The biggest reason why I do is potential cross-contamination (odors and bacteria if the original package is leaking).
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        • #5
          Yeah, same here.
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          • #6
            Yes, I did that, too. They all need to be cooked to different temperatures so one might still have live bacteria if it were contaminated by another meat that needed a higher temperature.
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            • #7
              Always makes me wince when I see a cashier tossing raw beef, chicken and pork in the same bag.

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              • #8
                I have had people tell me to just toss all the meats into one bag ... what I normally try to do is put each package into a small produce bag (sometimes the customer has already done it). Because yeah, sometimes they leak. Ugh.
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                • #9
                  Yeah. Apparently there's complaints when my package leaks. And it requires more than a small produce bag....
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                  • #10
                    Quoth Kit-Ginevra View Post
                    And it requires more than a small produce bag....
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                    • #11

                      Ahem... what they say is...
                      Oh, what a beauty! I've never seen one as big as that before!
                      Oh, what a beauty! It must be two foot long or even more,
                      Such a lovely colour, so nice and round and fat,I never thought that one could grow as big as that.
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                      • #12
                        Quoth Dreamstalker View Post
                        Ditto. The biggest reason why I do is potential cross-contamination (odors and bacteria if the original package is leaking).
                        Psht. That doesn't exist anymore! Didn't you know that?
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                        • #13
                          K-G, my favorite version of that is Tim Curry on SNL
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                          • #14
                            Quoth YamiNoHime View Post
                            Who told you THAT fairy tail?
                            A couple of guys from Germany named Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.
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