At these buffet restaurants on the resorts where 1000 people gather for a meal, how many of them do you think have recently washed their hands? Even with sanitizer dispensers all over the place, it's too much trouble to squirt and rub. I have watched some people do the craziest things while dishing out their mountain of grazing fodder.
Child, 9 or 10, can't decide if he likes something, licks the serving spoon, decides he doesn't and puts the spoon back into the entree. Adult clearly suffering from allergies, blows his nose in a napkin he removed from a table, folds it up again and puts it back on the table. Child drops serving spoon on the floor, picks it up and sticks it back into the food. Finally, a lady sneezed all over the salad bar, wiped her nose with the back of her hand and proceeded to cut a hunk of bread at the bread station.
We may like to blame the hotels because it's easy and none of us would ever do anything to make someone else ill...like go to work when sick, send your child to school then they are sick and of course we are all fastidious with our hygiene in the buffet line.
He also needs to check the cook's a-hole if there are some eggs of helminths around it.
Keep your friends close and your banos closer.
It has been years since I stayed in a AI, but when I did I made it a point to get up early and eat a big breakfast while it was fresh then I'd snack on fruit and breads throughout the day. I'm always suspicious of food that is sitting out.
I find it odd that hot peppers don't seem to be popular at all in the DR. They do help kill some bacteria, and eating in places where food safety is not a priority, I'm surprised never to see them.
Dominican palates cannot tolerate hot peppers. lucky for them, because the local habaneros are some ferocious beasts.
There were a lot of Scotch Bonnet and Jalape?o peppers at the Presidente Supermarket in N. Miami yesterday. labeled "product of the Dominican Republic."
The DR is an island, but not a spice island, Salt and garlic seem to be the only spices that are commonly used among the Dominicanos I know.
Garklic, usually not enough. Salt, waaaaay demasiado.
Google translation:
PUNTA CANA - Tourists from home and abroad complain bitterly about food poisoning at hotels in the Dominican Republic. Review sites are filled with stories of upset stomach, nausea and diarrhea.
Two weeks ago, the newlywed couple and Michou Jeroen Venema died while on holiday in the country. According to local doctors died Dutch couple after eating contaminated fish.
Cases of food poisoning from raw burgers, ice cubes and tap water tainted fish on the Dominican Republic seem the rule rather than the exception. On TripAdvisor and Facebook are numerous complaints from travelers who had to spend their days on the toilet.
The situation might even be so bad in some hotels that frightened travelers rebook their vacation to stay in a hygienic place. One of them is the Dutch Jolanda Boogaard. De Telegraaf tells them that she has now changed her trip, but that fails many people. Boogard pointing her finger at tour operator TUI, which would refuse to accommodate people at another hotel. On the Facebook page of Riu Republica writes that the problems are known to TUI, but nothing is done to. "As long as there is money earned." TUI has not yet responded.
Also on the website of the travel giant vacationers are not mild in their wordings. About the hotel Sensimar Bravo someone says: "We have two sleepless nights we had spent on the toilet. Unfortunately there are no dining options "Another:" outside the hotel. Do not go unless you dream of getting diarrhea. "
A spokesman for Riu Republica, in the tourist resort Punta Cana, has announced in a statement that the hygiene regulations are strictly observed. "We want to emphasize that all our guests can eat and drink."
http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/26108258/__Buikloop_in_het_paradijs__.html
I still dont believe that the two deaths were caused by food poisoning. I have never heard of two young people dying from food poisoning and apparently they were on an excursion where everybody ate the same thing. Its possible they ate something different from a beach vendor but on Isla Saona I dont remember any beach vendors walking around. Something else happened here.
We have several different varieties of hot peppers growing next to us, apparently spread by birds. One is round and the size of a marble- beyond hot
. Another looks very similar to a scotch bonnet , and there is no reason they would grow here, however I haven't tried them. The third kind is like a Jalapeno in size and shape and the locals put it in with water, vinegar and some herbs and use it on goat. It's hot and yes the locals love it.
https://buckeyepepper.com/scotch-bonnet-yellow-dominican-republic.html
I know nothing about hot peppers of any kind because we don't like them. I've bought the little round hot ones accidentally [thought they were cachucha peppers/aji gustoso]. On our property are several hot pepper plants that have very tiny long peppers that I've never tried. Gave a bunch to Matilda and she said they were HOT.
Our maid [Dominican] uses them for her family, and I'm pretty sure they were originally planted by our Haitian ex-caretaker. Some Dominicans love hot peppers - and hot sauce!
those long green hot peppers are not that hot, but they are great for people who cannot tolerate real peppers like wiri wiri or scorpions.
So where are the moderators now?
Talk about bashing Dominicans.
So the entire country has food poisoning now.
SMH
They are tiny - about an inch long - and bright red. I googled, and they seem to be malagueta peppers. https://www.cayennediane.com/peppers/malagueta-pepper/