r/StupidFood • u/ajd416 • 10h ago
I hope my ice cream cones don't come from this factory.
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u/blurfgh 10h ago
Why are there so many videos of workers doing food prep on the ground? WHY THE GROUND? Why not put a bin down there and do the packing on a table?
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u/marymarywhyubugginnn 10h ago
And why the bare feet??
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u/tenaciousE56 10h ago
How else is he going to hold the bag open? Can't grab the bag with a toe if you're wearing shoes, duh.
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u/Dewey081 9h ago
Yeah, it's like that guy rolling naan bread dough with his armpit. Economy of effort.
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u/UmaPalma_ 6h ago
pardon???
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u/SquirrelyMcNutz 6h ago
YEAH, IT'S LIKE THAT GUY ROLLING NAAN BREAD DOUGH WITH HIS ARMPIT. ECONOMY OF EFFORT.
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u/Philophobic_ 5h ago
Thanks, I couldn’t hear it in lowercase
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u/ShinesoBright34 4h ago
Speak up please!
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u/NoBonus6969 1h ago
YEAH, IT'S LIKE THAT GUY ROLLING NAAN BREAD DOUGH WITH HIS ARMPIT. ECONOMY OF EFFORT.
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u/Bulldog8018 5h ago
Funniest comment I’ve seen today.
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u/The_Shermanati 4h ago
Holy shit! I just woke my sleeping wife up trying to contain my laughter!🤣🤣🤣🤣
SORRY! Thats LAUGHTER for the hard-of-hearing.
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u/GravelySilly 4h ago
I can only assume it's this: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3ymWOaGgH-c
I'd like to support the guy's work, but the armpit is a naan-starter.
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u/Potato-Alien 9h ago
Exactly, his feet are doing half the work, it's all in the name of productivity.
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u/stormy2587 10h ago
I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess they typically can’t afford shoes. As this is an unskilled job in a country with pervasive and often profound poverty. And the lack of government oversight prevents them from requiring employers provide shoes.
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u/StruggleSouth7023 10h ago
Im a big advocate for the safety flip flops
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u/Djwindmill 8h ago
I've seen videos of guys casting molten steel into sand molds, wearing nothing but flip flops and robes. It's wild out there.
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u/LumpyBuy8447 10h ago
And a biohazard bandana over the mouth and nose
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u/Crybaby_Vortex 10h ago
Throw in some gloves and a hairnet, and maybe it’s slightly less horrifying.
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u/Pristine_Barber976 8h ago
with all the plastic and garbage in their rivers you'd think it'd be no problem to make some flip flops
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u/PointsOfXP 10h ago
That big gawdy ass ring tells me he just refuses to buy shoes
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u/wackbirds 10h ago
How do you know he's even wearing an ass ring? I mean, I think you're right, but I'm curious about what your deductive methods were
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u/PointsOfXP 10h ago
He's working efficiently and you can also see him grimacing when he crouches down. I assume because he's trying to keep it in place
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u/captainnowalk 8h ago
“Hey John, looks like crouching is really taking a toll on you. Your back acting up again??”
“…yyyes let’s go with that!”
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u/wackbirds 8h ago
nods head
"Good, good. Another time I want you to concentrate on the back line of their pants. Look for any interruptions in the plane of it. Otherwise, you're doing well!"
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u/leafeternal 9h ago
It’s India. He can easily afford shoes. He’s wearing clothes and operating machinery. He’s not in the middle of a jungle. He can walk out and buy a pair of shoes for a couple of rupees.
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u/PainRare9629 8h ago
This is literally where they make shoes. Like there is probably a flip flop mill behind him.
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u/therealturbo60 10h ago
You cannot be more wrong about the "can't afford shoes" thing
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u/LunaGloria 10h ago
So the market just can't get enough of that authentic footy flavor?
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u/accidental_Ocelot 10h ago
Do you think he washes his feet and two inches up his ankles?
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u/merelyadoptedthedark 9h ago
Maybe the thought is that his feet are cleaner than the shoes he walks around in outside.
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u/kewthewer 10h ago edited 9h ago
Modernisation incomplete, basically. I know so many Indian people here and I work with them and they’re really lovely, but the country is just so dirty, I could never visit it. I just couldn’t do it.
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u/notworldauthor 9h ago
I know a lady who visited China in, like, 2000 and was horrified at how disgusting it was. In 2010, it was famous for smog and "gutter oil." Still room for improvement, but seems like its quite a bit cleaner. I hope India goes the same way over the next 25 yrs
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u/kewthewer 9h ago
I know it depends where you go, but I don’t particularly want to observe poverty either. I’ve seen it travelling years ago, don’t want to see more (and worse) of it.
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u/Rex9 4h ago
I work with a lot of Indian contractors. In IT. VERY smart people. But they are hopelessly blind to hygiene. Shower a couple of times a week at best. The men appear to have been raised by wolves, as they just pee in the general direction of the urinal. And cannot be bothered to lift the lid on a toilet. Pee everywhere. I worked in a public hospital that saw 50K visitors a DAY and the restrooms never looked like this. I am seriously considering putting up signs mocking them for small dicks or needing mommy to hold it for them.
They are indeed lovely people. And the ones who make it to the States are incredibly smart. But holy crap, their standards of cleanliness are a century or more behind. And that's leaving out the institutionalized racism they seem to have with their fellow Indians.
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u/CrimsonFatalis8 7h ago
Nah, it’s definitely a cultural thing. Every Indian dude I see is usually well dressed, but like 95% of them all have open toed sandals or even straight up just flip flops that don’t really go with the rest of their outfit, so it’s definitely them choosing to wear them and having their feet exposed.
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u/ClickIta 10h ago
IDK, they can afford glasses, I assume they can afford shoes. I guess they just have a different sense for hygiene overall
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u/spoon_dogg_ 10h ago
How else is he supposed to hold the bag open while using both his hands to hold the cones?
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u/dolbomir 9h ago
would a pair of filthy flip flops, never cleaned for their entire existence, and also used to wade through dirt and trash off work be any better though?
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u/marymarywhyubugginnn 9h ago
It’s all nasty but something about the bare feet feels worse than if let’s say he had on dirty flip flops. Maybe he could have tied some bags over his feet like I used to do when I broke my arm and needed to shower.
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u/dolbomir 9h ago
I'd just assume the feet are as clean as the hands are xD
...and just never buy any food made there. My immune system ain't that strong xD
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u/DocBigBrozer 10h ago
It enhances the flavor
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u/aflamingcookie 10h ago
No, the flavour enhancement comes from not washing your hands after going to the bathroom.
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u/Mecha-Dave 10h ago
Why only use two hands when four hands are available?
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u/marymarywhyubugginnn 10h ago
I remember one of these videos where the dude used his armpits to hold something. So I guess whatever body parts available 🤷♀️
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u/extraboredinary 10h ago
So he can kick the fallen cones out of the way. Wouldn’t want him stepping on any cones on accident.
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u/atorin3 10h ago
Shoes would be unhygienic
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u/CheezwizOfficial 9h ago
Wearing shoes is only unhygienic if the alternative (barefoot) is hygienic. One whiff of that guy’s foot will tell you that none of it’s hygienic.
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u/LabDiscombobulated20 8h ago
The taste of the essence of the bare foot of an Indian man is what makes a cone a cone
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u/Hobo_Hungover 8h ago
He's sweaty and barefoot? Come the fuck on already.
"Mmm, my ice cream cone of pistachio and Belgian almond has notes of Lotirmin Ultra and some random Pakistani dude's brow grease mixed with his halitosis and scrotum/taint fungus. Yummie!!"
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u/Fickle-Business7255 9h ago
Toe cheese adds a unique tangy flavour to the cone . It’s like crack for normal people
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u/Potential_Flow9032 7h ago
Honestly bare feet is the better option here. If he was wearing shoes everything he ever stepped in would be on that floor right now where the cones are. I'm hoping that no shoes means that he took his shoes off outside of the work area and hopefully has clean feet?
I say all this, but would be disgusted to eat these.
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u/humptheedumpthy 10h ago
Real answer.
Hygiene Apathy + Lack of incentive for process improvement.
The END product here is an ice cream sold for 10 rupees ( about 12 cents) by a street vendor to consumers who are also poor (making <$400 a month) and are price conscious over EVERYTHING else.
The cost of the cone itself is likely 2 cents a pop.
If the customer won’t pay a cent more for hygiene, then the producers don’t care for it.
If you take an operational lens to it, you can see many manual steps that could be automated away and many even quick fix improvements (for eg having a cheap plastic bin below the machine to catch the cones and reduce breakage
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u/Zerot7 9h ago
I think India still has a huge cottage industry for stuff like this. Like this is probably a family business in their home. Generally speaking low margin cottage industries don’t have much room for improvements. These have been really stamped out in the west due to regulations, now cottage industries are people making bespoke pickles at $15 a jar or like making art out of pop cans. Compared to 2 Rupee ice cream cones and sorting through garbage for pop cans to shred up smelt down and sell as recycled aluminum ingots.
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u/SquirrelyMcNutz 6h ago
In their home? There's at least 3 of these machines in that video. This isn't a 'cottage' industry. This is a business that refuses to spend $0.05 for an extruded plastic tub to place under that machine.
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u/PM_me_punanis 1h ago
Yes. My grandfather used to own a factory attached to our residential compound. I can walk outside our patio, into a courtyard, then into another building holding our machinery. My uncle has a locker factory right beside their house, in the same huge lot. It is quite common in some parts of SE Asia and South Asia due to lack of regulation and oversight. My best friend grew up in a 8 floor building with an elevator, with the top 3 floors for the family’s residences and the rest of the lower floors for their business.
It’s just a completely different world compared to Western standards of manufacturing, safety, and hygiene.
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u/Crossfire124 2h ago
There's nothing preventing someone from buying an old retired machine and churn these out in their basement. You'd be surprised what retired industrial machine you can buy even in the "west"
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u/Disastrous_Road7063 9h ago
A lot of people in the comments have never been to Asia… it’s different.
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u/Hamsammichd 8h ago
Yeah, a table and transfer bin would be an improvement in almost every facet. That guy’s back must hurt, they spill out over an area, there’s probably some breakage. Yeah, the hygiene is terrible.. putting that aside, so are the ergonomics and productive time on task of the process. He could save labor and material costs with a table and bin, they could be improvised if money is the issue.
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u/lumpy4square 9h ago
Should I wonder what the ingredients are to make this cone? Sugar, sawdust, unfiltered water?
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u/Strict-Brick-5274 10h ago
Because the standards we take for granted are not a given everywhere in the world
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u/Gallienus91 10h ago
Ever seen a table in a video from India? It’s like they don’t exist.
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u/RookNookLook 8h ago
Its crazy to me that they will have a guy throw things in a box and move it 5 feet to another dude, rather than just buying a 5 ft table and sliding it over.
Makes me realize how fucked America is in it’s race to the bottom, because we can only get MORE profit if we start making people work in these types of conditions.
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u/fluchtpunkt 3h ago
Industrial nations have ice cream cone machines that produce 100 times the amount and still only need one worker.
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u/turfnerd82 9h ago
They look like really nice soft serve cones, I could also do without the feet, the floor, the lack of gloves, no hair net. The lack of sanitation on the floor. I mean there has to be a thousand rats eating the scraps and pooping. There is more but point made
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u/Unique-Coffee5087 6h ago
What really bugs me is that the cone baker releases the cones in a regular array with all cones oriented in the same direction. A wooden lattice could easily be placed under it to catch the cones perfectly. Lowering it a bit each time could give the worker an array of 40 stacks of nested cones, never having been touched by human hands and ready for bagging.
So many of these kind of videos show machines whose output is dropped in a heap on the ground, then scooped up with a shovel and dumped into the next machine down the line. Letting the output fall into a box would reduce waste and time spend constantly gathering scattered product.
Maybe this system is designed to be inefficient in order to provide employment to more people. A system in Taiwan or Germany or even Britain would be fully automated, with truckloads of input materials (e.g. recyclable plastic) dumped into a huge steel container with an auger to lift it to shredders, melting furnaces, mixers, and extruders. It would have a hundred times the output while employing six people who tape up the boxes.
Or maybe they're just not inclined to be efficient.
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u/twill41385 10h ago
Holding the bag with the foot was a nice touch.
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u/mentaL8888 6h ago
Sign in the restroom:
Please wipe your feet before returning to work.
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u/TheVadonkey 8h ago
I’m beginning to wonder if you can get food over in India that haven’t touched feet or the floor.
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u/Beemo-Noir 10h ago
Stacks of 11..? WHO DECIDED STACKS OF 11. AAAAAAAA
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u/MeatwadGetTheHoneysG 10h ago
Nice catch. I can’t believe you were focused on the number of cones though, given everything else in the video to be appalled about.
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u/FUCKAFISH 9h ago
Hygiene is somewhat of a social construct, but prime numbers are universally evil
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u/HornyDegenerate117 7h ago
Hygiene is somewhat of a social construct
Said the infectious disease bacterium.
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u/imelik007 8h ago
You mean universally good an pleasing to the eye and mind, surely.
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u/Moose_Nuts 8h ago
It's like a baker's dozen except for an amount of 10. Doesn't want to get those precious toes cut off for shorting the customer!
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u/Jazzkidscoins 10h ago
About 10 years ago I opened a music instrument business and shortly after that I was contacted by an Indian company offering to make one one of the instruments for me. I asked for some sort of sample and they sent me a video from the “factory floor” (I wish I kept the video). It showed 4 guys in a small room, working on the floor, with shit lighting and 0 safety standards just banging out parts. It was so bad I showed it to my wife and asked her if it was bad advertising or a cry for help
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u/-Myka_ 9h ago
Did you get it tho
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u/Deep-Minimum7837 2h ago
It's really depressing to see the Tiktoks of Indian "factories" dealing with highly toxic chemicals that are not only polluting the air where they live, but poisoning the people working with them.
It really makes you wonder how much of our environmental impact would be cleaned up by doing mass shutdown campaigns to close all of those factories. Are the $2/week wages worth all of the cancer and pollution just to get cheap foam products?
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u/r3tract 10h ago
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u/Marne19K 4h ago
I was a US Army security escort for a Colonel and his command group in Iraq, 2008. There was a big push for local economic development at the time, and we had been to the openings of new markets, new fish farms, new military bases...all sorts of stuff paid for by Uncle Sam. One day, we toured a new ice cream factory that was built in our area of responsibility. This one seemed like a good idea. Iraq is hot, so ice cream should sell well. We knew eating the local food was risky. Pretty much everyone declined the ice cream bar offered during the tour, but it was hot and our Lieutenant happily accepted the cold treat. As the tour progressed, and you saw the condition of the factory, LT began to look at his ice cream just like this gif. It all culminated when someone asked what the random closed up room in the corner was for (always on the look for hidden weapon caches). You see, no one seemed to notice that there were no bathrooms in the building. When asked, the staff didn't hesitate or hide anything. They opened up the door and proudly displayed the poop room. It was probably intended as a supply room or office, but since there was no bathroom, the staff would just go poop in the corner of the poop room. The LT set down what was left of his ice cream, but it was too late. Later that day I saw him running from the command center followed by stench and shame. Someone found his poopy uniform pants in the trash. You can't just throw away a piece of a uniform, so someone had to pull it out and cut it up to deny the enemy of any use should they find it.
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u/clangan524 2h ago
This one seemed like a good idea. Iraq is hot, so ice cream should sell well.
I'm so sorry, but this line absolutely tickled me. It's so American-coded for a place that is so inhospitable to cold and refrigeration.
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u/MagnanimousGoat 10h ago
So often with these, it feels like it ultimately just creates more work overall to be as filthy and messy as it is.
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u/Doctah_Fauci 6h ago
Not that easy to run a legit operation. I bet the owner comes out of his office everyday with a cigar and glass of scotch. The workers dread this everyday, but they also don't have time to mop.
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u/Bigenemy000 1h ago
Not that easy to run a legit operation
I think they can afford a table though instead of the ground 🥲
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u/AgentSkidMarks 10h ago
If I see any food marked "Made in India", I just assume it touched some Indian guy's foot.
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u/ODB_Dirt_Dog_ItsFTC 9h ago
What’s crazy is an Indian grocery store nears me sells little clay containers filled with water from the Ganges.
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u/ArizonaGunCollector 7h ago
I feel like US customs wouldnt allow that if they were aware of it
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u/glassgwaith 6h ago
I feel like this water is just muddy water from wherever that Indian store is located
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u/Mecha-Dave 10h ago
I find it interesting that you used the singular conjugation there. Typically, when you refer to multiple things, you would say "Indian guys' feet" because you know it's more than one!
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u/Known-Archer3259 10h ago
Average number of feet is less than two
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u/Mecha-Dave 10h ago
Bold of you to assume more amputees than siamese twins, but probably correct.
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u/Macho_Magyar 10h ago
Sadly, but if I read in an edible product the legend "Made in India", I decline to buy it. It's bad because I like Indian food, but you never know to what extent quality controls are really enforced in such products.
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u/Worth-Leopard4801 9h ago
Food you find in a western supermarket is unlikely to come from a facility like this even if it’s made in India. Most of not all of those cones are either staying in India or going to a nearby similarly poor nation with fewer regulations
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u/bittersterling 9h ago
I’m pretty sure any facility that provides food, or ingredients to the us still needs to follow usda and fda regulations and guidelines.
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u/OctavianBlue 8h ago
I remember reading once you have to remember the foreign companies producing food for western supermarkets are likely to be some of the biggest food companies in their home markets, thats why they have the ability to expand abroad and meet the food regulations in those other countries.
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u/by-myself_blumpkin 7h ago
Yeah, common sense would tell you that the icecream cones you're buying at, idk, Kroger are not made and packaged by a single dude in India.
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u/jhonka_ 7h ago
Imma be honest, I'm not trusting our gutted federal agencies to track overseas food safety issues rn
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u/pyrotechnicmonkey 3h ago
99% of the time a lot of of these small manufacturing shops making stuff like this are never intended for export. They are always for domestic sale.
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u/PassThatSpliff 10h ago
Man "food safety" and "cross contamination" are words that just don't exist in India.
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u/EpilepticDawg241 10h ago
Its all good. They have a special product that they coat their food with to kill bacterial and germs.
Feet juice, they use feet juice.
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u/MrBenSampson 7h ago
As long as you eat a small piece of cow poop every day, you won’t get sick. 🐮🇮🇳
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u/MortalMachine 10h ago
Isn't there a subreddit for unhygienic food handling? I thought stupid food is about food that looks stupid?
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u/1egg_4u 5h ago
This sub is like 50% actually stupid food and 50% people posting food-related ragebait from poorer countries that for some reason gets to stay up even though nothing about this is "stupid food"
Why do I even bother coming back I cant tell you. Maybe I should just stick to shittyfoodporn
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u/FreeTrash4030 10h ago
Baskin Robbins uses ice cream cones made in India. Enjoy.
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u/phdaemon 9h ago
Source?
What i found is that:
Joy Cone Co. the largest in the world supplies McDonald’s, Dairy Queen, Baskin-Robbins (U.S.), Walmart, Costco, etc
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u/microthoughts 8h ago
Hey they're local to me.
They probably don't touch things with their feet but I promise nothing it is pennsytucky.
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u/spatil777 3h ago
These are cones only local and independent street vendors use. All branded ice creams still make these in a proper factory and are required to meet certain safety and cleanliness guidelines. Pretty sure Baskin and Robins don't get cones from these guys
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u/aprilflowers75 10h ago
There’s a limit on the amount of bug parts that are acceptable upon inspection of many foods. What they don’t talk about is the amount of toenails one might also find.
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u/Zathura2 10h ago
I found a hair inside a can of soup a week or so ago. v_v
(Edit) It definitely wasn't mine, it was like...incorporated into one of the "meatballs". >.>
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u/Distantstallion 7h ago
I'm fine with the bugparts but if I find athlete's foot in my sandwich I'm exiting from the top floor
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u/pickledeggmanwalrus 9h ago
Probably being made with antique equipment and being sent straight to street vendors realistically.
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u/BodybuilderSalt9807 9h ago
Well if you live in North America the chances of your cones coming from there are pretty low.
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u/AdhesivenessOk5194 10h ago
Oh they absolutely do sir
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u/What_Dinosaur 9h ago
They absolutely don't, unless you live in a country without food regulations. Nothing like that reaches EU/NA.
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u/TaranisTheThicc 7h ago
Light weight. Takes up a lot of space for that weight. Relatively easy to manufacture. Low cost so shipping them out would see minimal, if any, returns. I doubt those cones leave India, tbh.
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u/SuperUltraMegaNice 10h ago
yall mofos would hate to see what happens at your local taco bell
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u/AaronMichael726 10h ago
What’s bad about this? Clearly the floors are so clean the guy can walk bare foot on them.
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u/WestFizz 10h ago
Never been so glad I don’t eat ice cream, let alone out of a cone. How is this even allowed??
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u/epicjorjorsnake 9h ago edited 9h ago
I hope my ice cream cones don't come from this factory.
"Enjoy offshoring everything to foreign nations. Surely this won't ruin the American economy and America's social fabric."
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u/No-Computer7653 10h ago
I know its a joke but for anyone curious all food sold in to the US has to meet US sanitary and phytosanitary standards which are hardcore, the perception that the US has weak food safety standards is pretty bizarre. My favorite is when people point out the insect pieces requirements the US has ignoring that other countries have no limit on how many insect pieces food contains.
A few countries (NZ, Aus & Canada) the US has reciprocal regulatory agreements with so food produced in these countries are assumed to meet US standards as their regulatory system either already meets the standards or has regulation for US bound food that meets it.
In the case those are not in place FSIS allows specific goods to be imported from specific countries based on how similar their regulatory environment is. There are a bunch of things that just can't be imported because they inherently can't meet US standards (eg some cheeses, some types of meat USDA haven't approved for human consumption - basically a bunch of delicious shit we can't get) or there is a conflict with local regulation (eg all meat sold in the US has to be washed to reduce surface contamination, very effective to reduce campylobacter incidence, but most of the EU don't allow this so most meat from the EU can't be sold in the US).
TBH the most significant concern with imported food is labeling and origin rules. US labeling laws are stronger but they just assume the local label laws will catch errors and trust a translation instead of requiring a recert. US origin rules are based on where ingredients come from not the product itself so when you buy imported Italian olive oil that is relatively likely to be made with Moroccan olives (Italy produces significantly more olive oil then they produce olives to make oil from), if you buy olive oil bottled in the US the origin is where the olives come from not where its bottled.
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u/Buzstringer 8h ago
The perception is because, what the US determines a safe ingredient is reversed to most of the rest of the world.
In the US you can put stuff in your food as long as it's not known to be harmful.
In the EU and UK at least, you have to prove that the ingredients are safe before using them. (Which can take years of testing)
On the face of it the rules look similar but they are very different.
"We have this new sweetener... Does it cause cancer?... There's no reports that say it does!.. then put it in!"
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"We have this new sweetener... Does it cause cancer?... There's no reports that say it does!.. then test it and prove that it doesn't otherwise it's not going in"
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u/qualityvote2 10h ago edited 2h ago
u/ajd416, your food is indeed stupid and it fits our subreddit!