Plastic trays used at shopping mall food courts are as dirty as a gas station toilet seat, an investigation by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. found.
The CBC took swab samples from trays in three Vancouver-area malls and had them analyzed by the University of British Columbia.
"We saw as many bacteria on some food trays as we saw on a (gas station) toilet," university microbiologist Bob Hancock told the broadcaster.
This is why I don't go to malls. Maybe.
TBF, there are other good reasons not to go to malls.
Why would anyone use a gas station toilet seat as a base for comparing relative levels of bacteria? People’s butts aren’t particularly ‘germy’. Now kitchen sponges on the other hand…