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Today's paper here in San Francisco has this brief article and lots of reader comments about finding hair in restaurant food:
Article in SF Chronicle
Back in the middle ages when I was a lad it was all to common to find a hair in your Beet and goat cheese salad, to say nothing of when the Norse came pillaging. You don't want to know what their chefs left behind in your meal.
Knowing some of those SF restaurants they would charge extra for hair in your salad.
Kevin
I remember during Celtic studies in school reading a piece by, I think it was a Roman (but don't quote me on that as it was nearly 30 years ago and my memory's fading fast), about the Celts. He ws very impressed by their food hygiene and said that men used to strain soups and drinks through their moustaches and if a dead mouse or rat was found in a bowl of food, they would remove everything within about an inch of the dead animal before eating the rest.
Makes you wonder what their standards of hygiene were like if that impressed him!
Actually putting my humour aside the Scandinavians had arguably the best personal hygiene for that time period. I assume that went for their food as well. I know much about the Viking period but not in the area of food preparation.
Kevin