Roaches, expired veal stock and deadly mousse: Trump restaurants are infamous for ‘dirty dining’

[DonViejo]

TRAVIS GETTYS
19 SEP 2016 AT 07:53 ET

Donald Trump promised last week to hobble the “FDA Food Police” in an unusually specific policy proposal, but the restaurants he owns have gained a reputation over the years for “extremely poor food handling.”

One of his customers, Thomas Purgatorio, died from organ failure in January 1990, about four months after eating “salmonella-tainted mousse” at Buffet by the Sea in Trump’s Castle Hotel and Casino, reported The Daily Beast. His widow, who was also sickened by the bacteria-contaminated dessert, settled an $11 million lawsuit against Trump’s Castle for “hundreds of thousands of dollars,” Purgatorio’s daughter told the website, after Trump’s attorneys blamed the customer’s death on a pre-existing heart condition.

Trump’s attorney, Alan Kaplan, blamed the salmonella on bad eggs the restaurant bought from a vendor — but that’s exactly the sort of transaction the FDA polices.

President Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress overhauled the FDA’s food-safety system in 2010, after Bush-era policies were blamed for tomatoes tainted with salmonella and spinach with E. coli.

Republicans have pushed back against those changes since they were enacted in 2010, and they appear to have found a champion in Trump — who specifically complained about FDA rules inspections of food facilities, the temperatures for safely storing food and “farm and food production hygiene.”

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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/roaches-expired-veal-stock-and-deadly-mousse-trump-restaurants-are-infamous-for-dirty-dining/

[Vogon_Glory]

1. You Want A Gut Issue? Food Safety Is A Gut Issue!

You want a gut issue? Food safety is a gut issue. Food poisoning is a gut issue. Your health and the financial and health costs of food poisoning are a gut issue.

[underpants]

5. Correct. How seriously soulless do you have to be to champion getting people sick

and how it affects your donors' profits. I know some of this has to do with litigation and liability limits but for crying out loud.

[yellowcanine]

2. "Kaplan blamed the salmonella on bad eggs the restaurant bought from a vendor..."

This is an admission that the restaurant failed to cook the eggs properly - a restaurant should not be using raw eggs in mousse - they are asking for trouble.

[MineralMan]

3. Buffet Rule #1: Don't Eat the Steam Table Scrambled Eggs!

This rule applies to all buffet breakfasts. Just leave them and pick something else. I speak from experience.

[LynneSin]

11. Buffet Rule #2 - just skip buffets!

Many of these 'All You Can Eat' buffets are geared towards 'value diners' - people who think they are getting a great value for their money. But what these diners don't realize is to keep these buffets cheap, the restaurant owners also have to go cheap with the food they serve. One local AYCEB near my old office I use to call the 'Bacteria Buffet'. I ate their twice and both times I felt shitty afterwards. And it's not just bad quality of food, but the people who dine at those places can be disgusting! Overloading their plates with greasy food - I've watched people touch food with their hands (after coughing no less), lick serving spoons and just a general disgusting 'we don't care about our nasty eating habits and how they other diners' attitude.

I will do the occasional buffet at some high end places like the Green Room at the Hotel DuPont - but it's a breakfast buffet, it's a pretty high end affair and the eggs are made to order.

[underpants]

4. I thought the deadly mousse was in his hair

[MoonRiver]

8. LOL

[GWC58]

6. I skip

buffets altogether. They're not my "cup of tea."

[lonestarnot]

7. Roadkill stew recipe runs about $360 a plate.

[Madam45for2923]

9. Oh! This is the first time I heard of this!

WOW! I guess Trump will project this now onto Sec. Clinton.

[zonkers]

10. A fish smells from the head first. Trump gives not a shit about anyone. Not surprised.

[left-of-center2012]

12. Maybe Trump gets his orange glow from Trump food? n/t

[Liberalagogo]

13. It was the salmon mousse!