Do you want me to serve your food to you raw and uncooked?!

[BowserKoopa1]

I was working behind the concession stand yesterday (again on my day off since I don't get too many hours on the schedule and will gladly take shifts so I have enough to cover my bills) and a lady comes up to me with her daughter.
SC: We'd like 2 hot dogs.
I go and check the grill, and I see the hot dogs are cooking still. She gives me a look like she knows what I'm about to say.
SC: Please don't tell me you don't have any ready yet.
Me: I'm afraid its going to be another 5 or 10 minutes since they're still cooking.
SC (muttering): You gotta be fucking kidding me.
She walks off in a huff. I'm standing there thinking what I did wrong?
Ok customers, I don't know how yall prepare your food, but when you make it, you have to cook it. If I sell the hot dogs before they reach the 155 degree temp they're supposed to be at so all the bacteria is killed, the customer can potentially get sick.
Also I'm surprised when I think of how goddam impatient customers are. They can't wait 5 or 10 minutes? Of course not! They're customers! I have a 4 year old nephew who has more patience than that lady did!

[underemployeed]

Um, yeah people do this all the time with our roller grill which they have access to. The fun part is we have not ready signs for everything that isn't ready, which is a foreign concept to most people. I don't usually mind the occasionally is it ready question if it looks kinda done because we often do forget to temp the food and pull the signs at the usual time it is ready when a lot of going on. However, we also have people who are standing RIGHT NEXT TO ME as I place hot dogs on the grill that haven't even thawed yet, look all pale and turn to me and ask "Are those hot dogs ready?" Which to mean is not a valid time to ask the question.

Also, I tell people I just placed all the food on the grill 5 minutes ago and it takes at least 45-90 min depending on what item, but X, Y, Z are in fact pulled forward and ready. They grab option W, buy it then complain it cold in the center....

[HYHYBT]

Raw *and* uncooked?

[Cookie]

Ick. People have no patience. Can't tell you how many times I've been tempted to pour liquid eggs on a plate and say "You want it?!" when people get impatient at the omelet station.

[Tiberious]

Were these the standard, like you'd get at the grocery hot dogs?

I might be mistaken, but last I checked, those were edible straight from the package. May not be all that tasty, but won't give you food poisoning either.

[HYHYBT]

Ick. People have no patience. Can't tell you how many times I've been tempted to pour liquid eggs on a plate and say "You want it?!" when people get impatient at the omelet station.

I've done something similar twice: one was for someone who didn't want to wait for fries, and when I *very obviously jokingly* offered raw ones he* said he'd take them. So I made him up a large order of frozen-solid fries; seeing them changed his mind, and he fortunately took it well. (but frozen fries won't make you sick, at least not in the amounts that you'd manage to eat.)

The other was a guy in Drive-Thru who wouldn't believe we actually -cooked- meat in the store; he thought it was all just warmed up in the microwave. "No, really, I'll show you, just a moment..." and I brought up a new case of hamburger patties and opened it in front of him there at the window.

*I say "he" out of convenience; at ten years later I don't actually remember

[underemployeed]

Were these the standard, like you'd get at the grocery hot dogs?

I might be mistaken, but last I checked, those were edible straight from the package. May not be all that tasty, but won't give you food poisoning either.

Actually you are partially true, I don't know exact temperatures but even with made up temps the concept is still same. So example goes, at refrigerator temp lets say 40 degrees you are perfectly safe to eat them. If you have them warmed to say 60 degrees because they have been sitting out, or just now on the grill, you have entered range where bacteria can grow, and now have to cook the temp to 140 degrees (actual temp required by health department here) which is the point they feel the bacteria will die off.

So, yes most fully cooked stuff in theory could be eaten out of the package but it better to just heat them up for taste reasons and health codes and whatnot.

[StanFlouride]

Were these the standard, like you'd get at the grocery hot dogs?
I might be mistaken, but last I checked, those were edible straight from the package. May not be all that tasty, but won't give you food poisoning either.

They are but when you star heating them up you have to finish the process before serving. There is a brief temperature window where any bacteria present will multiply. They contain small (what USDA considers 'acceptable') amounts which are just waiting for a chance to breed.
The rule of food prep and storage is heat it fast/cool it fast.

[Amina516]

Were these the standard, like you'd get at the grocery hot dogs?

I might be mistaken, but last I checked, those were edible straight from the package. May not be all that tasty, but won't give you food poisoning either.

Probably.

But how much bitching would they have to put up with if they served her cold hotdogs?

[mikoyan29]

The Raw and the Cooked...Wasn't that an album by the Fine Young Cannibals?

[cinema guy]

Our cinema hotdogs are pre cooked, chock full of preservatives and irradiated. They still have to be refrigerated and cooked to 63 degrees centigrade, even though they don't actually contain anything that might be considered food.

[BowserKoopa1]

The hot dogs we serve at our movie theatre are frozen. So we have to put them on some sort of grill that I guess quickly thaws them out, and it gives hot dogs those cool black marks on them, I guess to make them more appealing to the customer. Heh, a very long time ago when I was a kid, I wanted those little black marks on my hot dog, so I kept heating it up in the microwave. Yeah, I know what your thinking.... the hot dog exploded right? Wrong! The slice of bread I had it on (for smaller hot dogs from the grocery store, I don't want to taste as much bread, so I use a slice of bread instead of a roll) Was very very hard.
Anyway, back to the subject. After we have them on the grill for about 20 seconds, we put them on a different grill, the ones that roll and turn the hot dogs as they cook. We were told by managers (and the employee manual) to wait until they reach 155 degrees at least.

[Food Lady]

Were these the standard, like you'd get at the grocery hot dogs? I might be mistaken, but last I checked, those were edible straight from the package. May not be all that tasty, but won't give you food poisoning either.

The risk of food-borne illness probably is almost non-existant, but A. procedure is based on law and B. we don't know what happened between the supplier and us. I got soooooo sick of the complaining about the hot dogs when I did food. I even got in trouble for the waste, even though I threw them out after 4 hours like I was SUPPOSED to.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Our cinema hotdogs are pre cooked, chock full of preservatives and irradiated. They still have to be refrigerated and cooked to 63 degrees centigrade, even though they don't actually contain anything that might be considered food.

Oh, I already know that cinema hotdogs are the epitome of all evil.

The Cat: Nice movie collection. "Revenge of the Mutant Splat Gore Monster." "Die Screaming with Sharp Things in your Head."
Kryten: Gore movies. Weapons magazines. This place is a shrine to everything that's low and base. Everything that's designed to sicken the soul and shrivel the spirit. Urg. Toastie Toppers. Ugh. Cinema hot dogs. Ogh. Sweaty kebabs with stringy brown lettuce coming out. Ogh.
The Cat: Look at this music. "Hammond Heaven." "Karaoke Krazy." "Peter Perfect Plays Tuneful Tunes for Elderly Ladies." Let's get outta here.

As usual, cookies for reference. XD

[Magpie]

As usual, cookies for reference. XD

This only counts as cookie-worthy if you're making us guess whether it's from one of the books or from the show. (I have neither read nor watched enough to be able to guess at which it is, although I have done enough of each to know that it could also be both, verbatim in both cases).