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The mouse droppings on the silverware weren't even what got a Hyde Park restaurant closed
By adamg on Fri, 03/13/2015 - 9:11am
A city health inspector shut Little Haiti International Cuisine, 1184 Hyde Park Ave., yesterday for a series of health violations.
The "rodent droppings on serviceware stored as clean," were only ranked as "non-critical," which, by themselves, are not enough to get a place shut down. But the inspector also found:
Live adult and nymph roaches observed on multiple surfaces throughout kitchen shelves by hand wash , floor, behind equipment, on serviceware plates.
That was a "critical" infraction.
Then there were the "critical" infractions posing an immediate threat of food-borne illness, including cooked chicken made the day before being stored at room temperature for God knows how long and food in "freezer with excessive frost buildup and freezer burn."
Also, the inspector watched as employees failed to wash their hands between tasks, which might have something to do with the fact that a hand sink had no cold water, but even if it did, there were no paper towels - and no soap. Also, sinks supposedly used for washing utensils had no running water at all.
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You just made my stomach turn
Think about this report the next time you grab lunch somewhere.
edit: removed snide remark
I know it doesn't really
I know it doesn't really matter at this point, but could someone explain the meaning of the pictures on the restaurant's sign? (Seen on street view.)
Not sure but...
It ain't someone rubbing their full belly after a good feed at this place.
“Le Negre Marron”
It's a picture of 'Le Negre Marron' - a statue in downtown Port-au-Prince.
The “Negre Marron” is shown with left leg extended (broken chain on his ankle), and his left hand holds a Conch Shell to his lips. The conch shell was often used as a trumpet to assemble people. Quote
Created by the Haitian sculptor/architect, Albert Mangones in 1968 or 1969, the statue was commissioned by the Duvalier government to commemorate the slaves who revolted against France.
http://www.cecilsseashellcorner.com/maroons/
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Wow
That's pretty bad.. in this case, I'm glad the health department took action. People really could have gotten very sick.
Im surprised about the mouse droppings, those are a prime way to get nice illnesses we've mostly eradicated here in the US.
Barf.. now what do I want for lunch.........
Gross! Honestly this city
Gross! Honestly this city needs to hire more health food inspectors. We have way too many restaurants with barely any inspectors.
What would be even better
Massachusetts could go to a report card system with regular inspections like California has. Then you could look these things up on line.
Inspection reports online
Here: http://www.cityofboston.gov/isd/health/foodcourt.asp
Dempsey's
Not surprising this place hasn't been looked at in almost a year. It's so sketch: http://www.cityofboston.gov/isd/health/mfc/insphistory.asp?licno=21470
Nice job
You know you usually you read about violations and they are some minor thing like salsa being kept 2 degrees above the acceptable limit. Discovering major health violations like this reinforces the need for these inspectors.
But... were there cockroaches
But... were there cockroaches and mouse droppings on the rancid chicken meat? I mean, when it's that bad, you might as well go all the way.
Well that's a nice bit of symmetry.
Freezer burn is a health
Freezer burn is a health violation?
Not as-is
Freezer burn/excess ice build-up isn't a health violation per se. However it *is* indication that the food was exposed to air inside the freezer which could have contaminants depending on the condition of the rest of the freezer/contents. So, if you had some well-contained yet slightly freezer burned food, I bet you don't get a violation. If you have an open tray of uncooked ground beef that's completely browned from freezer burn next to an open tray of uncooked frozen chicken...well, you might have some issues.
Cockroaches (or micicles)
Cockroaches (or micicles) frozen in place in the freezer-burn might also get you a violation.
So was the inspector cloaked
So was the inspector cloaked like the phantom gourmet that workers didn't know they were being watch as they skipped the hand-washing?
And can we make 'for God knows how long' part of the official inspectors lingo on any write-ups that qualify? It adds an air of wtf? to the findings without being so crass...
but...but...but...
the mice were the bfast special.
No
Please, enough with the ethnic food jokes.
nothing intended....
...I would have said this about the local IHOP...oh well.
I've never heard Haitians
I've never heard Haitians eating mice. Is that a thing?
You must be confused
This is a Hatian restaurant - not a fraternity pledge breakfast or "reality" TV food challenge.
Aren't mouse droppings
Aren't mouse droppings dangerous to people, while roaches are disgusting but don't actually spread any human diseases?
IMO health codes overlap somewhat with safety, but they're not at all the same thing.
Actually no, roaches are
Actually no, roaches are worse, "Cockroaches can also passively transport microbes on their body surfaces including pathogens that are potentially dangerous to humans. Cockroaches have been implicated in the spread 33 kinds of bacteria, including E. coli and Salmonella species, six parasitic worms and more than seven other types of human pathogens."
While with mice you only have to really worry about hanta and that is if the droppings crumble and you inhale them or inhale the saliva or pee. Roaches crawling on your food, plates and silverware would make you sick more than mice.
How long
How long have you been waiting to drop that knowledge on UHub?
*thumbs up*