Gadling

Yes.

Street meat is the best - I've never gotten sick off of it!

Oh my God, BB is obviously retarded. street meat doesn't have the refrigeration of restaraunts which would make sense why he called it the freshest! And also, he does say to use common sense, and go where the other people go. You aren't going to tell me that when visiting a foreign country, you would go eat at a place the locals wouldn't dare go. I am just happy knowing that people like BB, obviously don't make it out of the country much, because then he might actually realize, the world still works without refrigeration, and OSHA lurking around every corner. Sanitation is important. But BB was eating paint chips.

Possibly the author is (rightly) suggesting that we patrons tend to blindly trust the health safety standards of restaurants versus the more readily available observation of street vendor standards. While studying for a Microbiology degree at a major U.S. university, I worked as a chef's assistant in the swankiest restaurant in town. The manner in which my co-workers handled food, as they prepared $50 - $75 entrees, was appalling. I've since learned that a lack of cleanliness is quite common in the restaurant industry.