Another post on the same topic...

[conuly]

Despite the fact that this is untrue, many people believe that various health departments in the US ban bare feet in restaurants. You're not required to wash your hands, but the part of your body that doesn't come near the food or your mouth, that's supposed to be covered for "health reasons". That's not true.

I remember reading once that, in the Brady Bunch, the kids were never barefoot. If they got out of bed to go across the room for a book, they put on shoes or slippers. I don't know if that's true, but it seems unnatural for me, at least as bad as Lucy and Ricky's bed.

However, the silliest thing I ever noticed was this. Way back when, Lizziey dared me to 'liberate' some of 'dul's porn. Which I shouldn't've done since she wussed out of HER dare, but it was late, you get drunkish when you're that tired. And I noticed something scary. In all the "naked" pictures except one, they were wearing shoes. This didn't seem to be some sort of shoe fetish porn, but they all had shoes on. They theoretically stripped, and then PUT THE SHOES BACK ON.

I don't understand it. Didn't understand it then, either. What's so objectionable about the naked foot as compared to the naked hand, or nose, or... well, anything else? While I realize that pr0n != realism, these pictures really confused me. Why put the shoes back on?

There's something wrong in this society. Clearly. People have more hangups about the feet than they do about the privates! Gah!

Or maybe that was an weird bit of porn. Maybe.

Comments

[catsluvdmb.livejournal.com]

It's one of the things you can get marked off for in a health inspection of a restaurant. When I worked at Starbucks, we would always get .5 points taken off of the catagory that includes "hats, hairnets, closed toed shoes." It mainly has to do with safety in that if you spill a hot liquid or food onto your feet, you don't want to get scalded.

While I doubt the law directly applies to customers, I do have a friend who had gone to Wendy's and had the manager threaten to kick her out because she had taken her shoes off in the restaurant. My guess is they had an incident with the health inspector recently (and they can be total vindictive jerks in Wake County) so he was trying to cover his ass in case the inspector came back in for a reinspection.

[catsluvdmb.livejournal.com]

If I remember correctly the it was 18A.2616 or .2617 of the DoH handbook, though I may be completely off on that. I wonder if I still have that handbook laying around here somewhere.

[conuly]

It mainly has to do with safety in that if you spill a hot liquid or food onto your feet, you don't want to get scalded.

See, that's not what I was talking about. Even if it's not a health regulation, it's almost certainly an OSHA one.

If you can find that the law applies to customers, I'll concede the point, but not if it only applies for foodstaff.

[catsluvdmb.livejournal.com]

OSHA's a whole other can of worms that Starbucks is glad doesn't have much of a presence in NC I'm sure. Otherwise they'd be fined up the wazoo. If I can find my handbook still I'll scan in the page that has the regulation in it. It's just a matter of digging it up.