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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 16 2006 4:00 PM

Submitted by ninjatoes. Edited By crispy.

Many people try to steer clear of fast food restaurants albeit for different reasons. It may be to avoid the fat and calories found in fast food, it may be because of a particular chain's business practices. There are dozens of reasons to avoid that fast food chain that resides on so many corners throughout America.

Now, here's another: poop in your pop.

Those ice-cold drinks from favorite fast food restaurants may not seem as refreshing after a seventh-grader's science project reveals what may lurk inside the cup.

Benito Middle School student Jasmine Roberts examined the amount of bacteria in ice served at fast food restaurants.

The 12-year-old compared the ice used in the drinks with the water from toilet bowls in the same restaurants. Jasmine said she found the results startling.

Her discovery: Seventy percent of the time, the ice had more bacteria than the toilet water. Of the bacteria found in the ice, three out of the five restaurants tested positive for fecal coliform or E. coli, organisms that come from the feces of warm-blooded animals.

Of course, everyone from the health department to the restaurants themselves have tried to "poo-poo" the contamination, citing that certain levels of bacteria are considered normal.

However, experts agree that no level of E. coli bacteria is considered normal or safe.

35 Comments

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waldo

I'm lost

June 2004

FEB 16, 2006 04:27 PM

She'll go far. If she learns to keep her mouth shut, anyhow.

Clio

SUICIDEGIRL

Netherlands

FEB 16, 2006 04:40 PM

Arghhhh!!!

Kris7

Bridgewater, MA

July 2003

FEB 16, 2006 04:46 PM

All togehter now:

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

MrStitches

Sag Harbor, NY

November 2003

FEB 16, 2006 04:52 PM

Eh, so what? How much fecal matter and whatever other god awful stuff do you think you ingest every day anyhow? It's on everything.

Lycoris

Toronto, ON

October 2005

FEB 16, 2006 05:15 PM

Yet another reason to ask for "no ice" when I order pop. Which is rare, but still. Ew.

PaulNikon

Melbourne, FL

February 2003

FEB 16, 2006 05:18 PM

Ever seen the self serve ice machines? They look nasty. I mean the general public comes in and fingers it. Yuck.

PaulNikon is a no ice kind of guy.

I'd do like a Slurpee though.

FreakPirate

Calgary, AB

November 2002

FEB 16, 2006 05:19 PM

MrStitches said:
Eh, so what? How much fecal matter and whatever other god awful stuff do you think you ingest every day anyhow? It's on everything.

I'm failing to see how this makes it any better.

There is no way in hell my drink should contain more fecal matter than my toilet which is designed to hold said fecal matter.

Seriously. Eew.

GramNegative

I'm lost

October 2004

FEB 16, 2006 05:21 PM

Damn I'm tired of the lame "... has MORE bacteria than your TOILET!!!111 OMG!"
I don't know about you, but I routinely but some really nasty chemicals in my toilet, so I'd expect it to have relatively few bacterium.

Yogurt probably has more bacteria than my toilet.

Maybe when they exclude good and neutral bacteria from the counts I will care how my food compares to my toilet.

[Edited on Feb 16, 2006 by GramNegative]

crispy

NEWSWIRE

Philadelphia, PA

FEB 16, 2006 05:43 PM

GramNegative said:
Damn I'm tired of the lame "... has MORE bacteria than your TOILET!!!111 OMG!"
I don't know about you, but I routinely but some really nasty chemicals in my toilet, so I'd expect it to have relatively few bacterium.

Yogurt probably has more bacteria than my toilet.

Maybe when they exclude good and neutral bacteria from the counts I will care how my food compares to my toilet.

[Edited on Feb 16, 2006 by GramNegative]

Um ... E. coli.

FreakPirate

Calgary, AB

November 2002

FEB 16, 2006 05:46 PM

crispy said:

Um ... E. coli.

Oh come on crispy. Everyone's eating E. coli these days.

GramNegative

I'm lost

October 2004

FEB 16, 2006 06:03 PM

crispy said:

Um ... E. coli.

Um .... "bacteria" includes more than just E. coli?

Seventy percent of the time, the ice had more bacteria than the toilet water. Of the bacteria found in the ice, three out of the five restaurants tested positive for fecal coliform or E. coli,

[Edited on Feb 16, 2006 by GramNegative]

crispy

NEWSWIRE

Philadelphia, PA

FEB 16, 2006 06:04 PM

DeadFuzzyKittens said:
Everyone's toothbrushes have feces all over the bristles too.(saw it on one of those myth shows)
Everything not soaking in bleach 24/7 is covered in bacteria.

[Edited on Feb 16, 2006 by DeadFuzzyKittens]

I saw that ... MythBusters on The Discovery Channel.

But why should shit-infected ice be acceptable?

Skism

I'm lost

September 2005

FEB 16, 2006 06:29 PM

ohhhh my fucking god...

Just one more reason not to eat that shit

SirLoins

Killeen, TX

October 2005

FEB 16, 2006 06:37 PM

But but but but... all the cool kids are doing it these days.

Callahan

Seattle, WA

February 2005

FEB 16, 2006 07:04 PM

I read a study once that showed that the average toilet seat, in the average public restroom has only a tiny fraction of the bacteria that the average keyboard in the average office building has.
Reason: Toilets get cleaned at least semi-regularly. Keyboards dont.
Personally, I've never cleaned my keyboard.
Would you think twice about typing and eating?

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