Marshalltown Maid-Rite Owner Protests State Ruling

[Phaedrus]

GREASY!!

Might as well throw them in the toilet, cuz they'll be there in half hour anyhow!!

You've never had a Taylor's Maid Rite. Which means you've never had a Maid Rite.

There is nothing greasy about them.

 

[GoCy]

You've never had a Taylor's Maid Rite. Which means you've never had a Maid Rite.

There is nothing greasy about them.

Unless if you order them "wet", where they scoop the meat from below the grease. We once forced one of my coworkers to eat 3 wet Maid Rites. After finishing, he had to spend 15 minutes on their krapper before we could leave the restaurant.

 

[RoseClone]

Update: My wife and I ate 1 1/2 Taylor's maid rites yesterday. Besides the onions kicking my *** (as always) we are both still alive and have never felt sick.

 

[swammi]

Health issues at Marshalltown Maid-Rite? Owner protests state ruling | GazetteOnline.com

This guy sounds like a close relative of Homer Simpson.

 

[3TrueFans]

This guy sounds like a close relative of Homer Simpson.

Herb?

 

[Angie]

I like that the new way to show your support of something is to join a Facebook group.

I have to agree with this. I always laughed when I saw people joining the "Save Battles!" group - if you wanted to save Battles at that time, you should have helped them pay the back taxes that they let get out of hand.

 

[cyclone1975]

I am a M'town native and I used to eat there quite a bit when I was younger.

I used to sit there and watch them cook the meat (they do it pretty much in front of you) and I often wondered how what they were doing was safe. Of course I kept on eating there and it has never made me sick. A little gassy maybe, but never ill.

 

[Wesley]

I am a M'town native and I used to eat there quite a bit when I was younger.

I used to sit there and watch them cook the meat (they do it pretty much in front of you) and I often wondered how what they were doing was safe. Of course I kept on eating there and it has never made me sick. A little gassy maybe, but never ill.

Obviously your system was adjusted to the stuff.


FDA/EPA probably does not like a cooker having raw meat floated to the top while heating/cooking.

 

[usedcarguy]

/sigh.. Chill out man. Yes, I do believe we should follow the health and safety rules that were put into law by the government. No, I don't have any stance whatsoever on the superiority or inferiority of the government employees who make the inspections compared to anyone else. I don't think a restaurant owner is by nature a much better person than a health inspector. I do trust them both to do their job.

These laws get put in place for a reason. Every other restaurant has no problem following them, so why not this Taylor's place? From what I have understood in this thread, cooked meat is stored in a container that is separate from the raw meat, but is still inside the same larger container that holds both of them. Is that correct? If so, as I said before, why take the risk?

You seem to be completely full of contempt for any law that regulates how food is prepared. That's fine, I suppose. But personally, I prefer being able to go to any restaurant in America and knowing that the food is guaranteed to be as safe as reasonably possible and I would guess that a lot of people share my point of view.

There are many, many, stupid laws that came about because of well intentioned people. Just because they are well intentioned doesn't mean that they are in the best interest of people. This is just one example.

 

[Angie]

Just a quick reminder - not really a need to aggressively attack others and call them names in a thread about stewed meat.

We also want to keep politics out of the same thread. Thanks.

 

[usedcarguy]

I just did, I said it was false. But to make it a sloppy joe you'd have to cook the meat with the ketchup, not just put it on top. I think we've found where your expertise ends, sloppy joes.

Ah, the because I said so argument. Didn't you blast someone in the cave last week for making that same argument? :smile:

 

[RoseClone]

Just a quick reminder - not really a need to aggressively attack others and call them names in a thread about stewed meat.

We also want to keep politics out of the same thread. Thanks.

:no:

 

[Angie]

:no:

It was rhetoric for effect. The point is, on either side of the debate, there is a poster or two who need to settle down.

 

[RoseClone]

It was rhetoric for effect. The point is, on either side of the debate, there is a poster or two who need to settle down.

mercy

 

[Dryburn]

I worked in the food service business for 27 years. I really don't see what the problem with their cooking and serving method is. It certainly is not the modern way to do things, but I don't see the health issue.

As long as the meat is held at a proper temp, and they take the necessary measures to avoid contaminants (like stuff dropping into it from above), there really should not be a problem.

As far as having cooked and raw product in the same device....that is not really that much of a problem. It's the same as is done on any grill in any greasy spoon diner, or for that matter, in any high-priced restaurant. You will have finished product and products in various stages of preparation on the grill......so.....same thing really.

If you really think this is so bad, then let me suggest to you that you never, ever visit the kitchen of any restaurant where you eat. You will not like what you see.

 

[3TrueFans]

Ah, the because I said so argument. Didn't you blast someone in the cave last week for making that same argument? :smile:

It was actually the "because that's the way it is" argument.

 

[agrabes]

The "holier than thou" Marshalltown Maid-Rite people are really bugging me.

I don't think it is a huge deal about how they cook their meat, but it doesn't sound totally safe, so I don't have a problem with what the state is trying to do.

What I do have a problem with is the owners claiming they don't have the money to upgrade the restaurant.

Additionally it really peeves me that you get ridiculed for using freaking ketchup. That is ridiculous.

This is pretty much my opinion on the matter too. Maybe I should have worded it more like you so I wouldn't get blasted by Phaedrus. Some people take sandwiches way too seriously...

 

[TarHeelHawk]

This is pretty much my opinion on the matter too. Maybe I should have worded it more like you so I wouldn't get blasted by Phaedrus. Some people take sandwiches way too seriously...

A Maid Rite is not just any sandwich.

 

[ThatllDoCy]

Maid Rite is the least of our troubles. Subway has infiltrated our entire Country.

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/03/50-sickened-in-lombard-sandwich-shop-outbreak.html

 

[garn91]

I saw the story last night on the news on the "rally" in at the resturant and I was thinking to myself that some people have way tooooooooo much time on their hands. All it takes is one person to get sick and it's over for that resturant