r/extremelyinfuriating • u/IrishStarUS • 2d ago
News Girl, 12, dies after drinking Twix milkshake because 'blender wasn't cleaned'
https://www.irishstar.com/news/world-news/girl-12-dies-after-drinking-37756077906
u/Bad-Luck-Guy 2d ago
This is a complex issue. Obviously, businesses have to clean their dishes between use. But a business cannot guarantee an allergen-free environment.
In the US, many food places like this have signs stating so, asking people with allergies to speak to management about their specific concerns.
When I worked at Starbucks, we rinsed blenders between each use, but if someone told me they had an allergy, I would run it through the big sanitizer first.
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u/Teredia 2d ago
One of my friend’s has a seafood allergy. She was prepping food at another of her friend’s place, the chopping board had been washed thoroughly but my friend still reacted to the seafood that was chopped on it earlier. Her hands swelled up like balloons n she had to go to hospital.
Even if things are washed, it doesn’t necessarily mean things will be safe if it’s an allergen, as you mentioned, putting the blender in the sanitiser, over just washing it, definitely helps more than just washing.
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u/Bad-Luck-Guy 2d ago
Yeah the quick rinse between drinks that Starbucks does is just a high pressure water blast. It doesn’t clean it. We did rely on people communicating with us.
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u/xboxchick311 2d ago
It's also infuriating to have a business post a link of a story like this just to drive traffic to their website. Look who made the post, folks.
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u/Tchaik748 2d ago
All the aggregators seem to be posting their links to this sub in particular. .
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u/AmandaaaGee 2d ago
While this is extremely sad and infuriating… if you have a deathly allergy to anything food related, you shouldn’t be taking risks like this.
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u/ChrisRiley_42 2d ago
The article said that the charges the owner pled guilty to included failing to display potential allergens.
Hazelnuts aren't that common a milkshake ingredient, so it would be normal for someone to expect them to be posted if they were used. Especially since the law requires it.
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u/pmmeyourboobas 2d ago
Victim blaming
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u/C_Hawk14 2d ago
Not everyone has (the same) allergies. If they have to deep clean devices before every use we'd get nowhere. So you rinse and repeat until there's an exception. If the exception doesn't announce itself..
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u/iNCharism 2d ago
Doesn’t matter if it’s victim blaming, he’s right. She shouldn’t have ordered the shake in the first place.
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u/-Invalid_Selection- 2d ago
Places are required by law to list all allergens that they use in food production. They didn't list it here, and the owner pled guilty to that very charge.
Blaming the victim knowing this (as it's in the article) is extremely infuriating
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u/HardLobster 2d ago
Literally everything is an allergen. You can quite literally be allergic to almost every substance on our planet.
It’s not possible to list every allergen in a product
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u/TheOtherOtherLuke 2d ago
As right as you are, there are common allergens, like tree nuts and peanuts that are usually warned against. It’s not unfair to assume that if they don’t have them listed, they don’t have them in the store, again, because it’s required to inform customers that your store used nuts.
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u/SeriouslySlyGuy 2d ago
This isn’t dressing up and getting raped. This is a willing decision to consume a food knowing that you have a serious allergy.
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u/kechones 2d ago
Mitigated somewhat by them being a 12-year-old girl. At first look, I don’t know that I’d really BLAME anyone here. What a terrible tragedy.
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u/SeriouslySlyGuy 2d ago
That just makes me blame the parents too. At 12 a kid should know what they are allergic to and how serious it is.
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u/-Invalid_Selection- 2d ago
They didn't list the allergens, the owner pled guilty to charges from that. Blaming her is exactly the same as blaming a rape victim
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u/Smiles-Bite 2d ago
Poor kid. I don't have any major allergies, just intolerances. You learn fast that these 'pop-ups' are a rule unto themselves and are NEVER up to code. Half the freaking people doing them don't even know standard food safety laws. I think at this point they need to be banned unless they have proof of hiring actual chefs and cooks, and people who should freaking know not to use the same blender for everything.
I do wonder why she didn't have an EpiPen?
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u/paradox-preacher 2d ago
my father is an idiot who disregarded a fathers note about his kids allergy. Because he didn't believe such thing exists, as a chef 30y ago...kid had some reaction.
I really hate egoistic and ignorant people who are dumb af.
I was even surprised he'd tell me that
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u/MajorDraw3705 2d ago
Restaurants are not as clean as everyone likes to think they are.
Source: The food poisoning symptoms I, as someone who actually does not use the raw meat spatula on cooked burgers at home, get nearly every time I eat at a restaurant.
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u/Phanatic88888 2d ago
This story is from 2023. Is this what Reddit does? Regurgitate news stories from three years ago?
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u/William_Shaftner 2d ago
Check the date of the article. Looks like the official inquest result was just released.
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