I am astounded that the LA Ciy Health Department has not cited all these restaurants who place plastic utensils with the eating ends pointed up. Plastic utensils should be stored with the handles pointed down, so that self-serve restaurants will not be spreading germs. Instead, so many establishments (especially mideastern ones) keep the forks, spoons and knives with the eating end pointing up.

Can you imagine (or do you care to?) the nose picking kid, the crotch scratching truck driver, the snot laden hands which are reaching into the utensils cup to grab a fork or spoon? How much disease is going around town because these establishments do not follow common sense sanitary rules?

It’s so easy. Eating utensils should be handled by the handles. Any other method of distribution is dirty and should be against the law.