The cat has decided that she no longer cares for wet food - maybe there's just something off about this batch? She'll lap up the savory juices and then eat a few bites, and that's it.
I am washing her dish - the dishwasher is running at the same time, and the smell of the soapy dishwasher liquid is hard to miss. It smells like a mixture of bleach and semen - neither smell is very pleasant. I've tried four different brands, and they all smell the same.
The smell also takes me back to 1990, when I was a dishwasher at a Grand Canyon cafeteria. We had this handy dish-sprayer gizmo that hung down from the ceiling and let you spray off all the large chunks of food before sending them through the auto-rinser. There was some sort of solution automatically added to the water, and it has that same bleachy-seedy smell.
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I am washing her dish - the dishwasher is running at the same time, and the smell of the soapy dishwasher liquid is hard to miss. It smells like a mixture of bleach and semen - neither smell is very pleasant. I've tried four different brands, and they all smell the same.
The smell also takes me back to 1990, when I was a dishwasher at a Grand Canyon cafeteria. We had this handy dish-sprayer gizmo that hung down from the ceiling and let you spray off all the large chunks of food before sending them through the auto-rinser. There was some sort of solution automatically added to the water, and it has that same bleachy-seedy smell.
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One of the most disgusting things you have to put up with as a dishwasher is when people put out their cigarettes in the gooey goo of eggs over easy. The stub isn't so bad, it's the ashes.
Since my hands were wet all day, I'd end up getting all sorts of little cuts and scratches on my hands and arms. Since my hands were wet all day - with water and the solution - the cuts were very slow to heal. The spray went all over the place, and within a couple of hours of starting work, I would be thoroughly damp. By the end of the day, even my underwear was damp. I only had the job for two months, and somehow I never got around to getting a waterproof apron. There were no stores that sold them nearby, it was 85 miles to the nearest town.
We wore uniforms provided by the company. We wore white shirts and the pants had a pattern of tiny black and white squares on them - they looked gray from a distance. One of my coworkers looked exactly like Popeye's long lost brother. He was a seasonal employee, he spent half the year in Alaska working in various fisheries. Nice guy. No teeth.
The dishes were very hot when they came out of the auto-rinser, but your hands toughen up to it. Even then, you have to let the silverware pieces cool for at least 30 seconds before you grab em. Butter knives are especially hot.
There were two different rooms - the dishes/silver room and the pan room. The pan room was neat to work in because you could save money on food. This was food from the pots, pans, and steam trays, untouched by customers. So at the end of the breakfast period, they'd bring back a whole pan of pancakes, bacon, sausage, and so on. A big guy named Charlie usually worked the pan room, unfortunately.
Since my hands were wet all day, I'd end up getting all sorts of little cuts and scratches on my hands and arms. Since my hands were wet all day - with water and the solution - the cuts were very slow to heal. The spray went all over the place, and within a couple of hours of starting work, I would be thoroughly damp. By the end of the day, even my underwear was damp. I only had the job for two months, and somehow I never got around to getting a waterproof apron. There were no stores that sold them nearby, it was 85 miles to the nearest town.
We wore uniforms provided by the company. We wore white shirts and the pants had a pattern of tiny black and white squares on them - they looked gray from a distance. One of my coworkers looked exactly like Popeye's long lost brother. He was a seasonal employee, he spent half the year in Alaska working in various fisheries. Nice guy. No teeth.
The dishes were very hot when they came out of the auto-rinser, but your hands toughen up to it. Even then, you have to let the silverware pieces cool for at least 30 seconds before you grab em. Butter knives are especially hot.
There were two different rooms - the dishes/silver room and the pan room. The pan room was neat to work in because you could save money on food. This was food from the pots, pans, and steam trays, untouched by customers. So at the end of the breakfast period, they'd bring back a whole pan of pancakes, bacon, sausage, and so on. A big guy named Charlie usually worked the pan room, unfortunately.
MC- Careful about what catfood to feed the litty- there have been nationwide recalls of several brands for both dog and kitty food in the past month. All are resulting in kidney failure and deaths of hundreds of pets.
ReplyDeleteGo on the net to find out which ones are being recalled. Hope everything is well!
Thanks Sunny! Luckily, we don't have the pet food that was recalled, but I'm glad you mentioned it!
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