Words fail me

[karohemd]

I hope none of you have ever eaten a kebab at this place in Wolverhampton.

ETA: Warning: Comments that could possibly described as tasteless within. ;o)

Comments

[mr_malk]

The "'awful smell', thawing meat which was oozing blood and covered in flies, and a man smoking and spitting on the filthy floor" bothers me more than the corpse. After all, a dead body is just meat, and there's plenty of that in a kebab anyway (though hopefully the one is not sourced from the other).

Still, he you'd have thought that he cadaver guess that Environmental Health would have thought it a grave matter.

[undyingking]

I need a stiff drink after reading that comment!

[karohemd]

A controversial and probably not quite accurate view. Meat fit for consumption isn't actively decaying as much as a fresh body so you can get contamination when flies go from one to the other.
However, considering the description I doubt the meat was fit for consumption, even without a dead body in the same room.

The interesting question really is why there was a dead body in the first place. Was it the great uncle who had passed away? A customer with a severe case of food poisoning?

[mr_malk]

I doubt the meat was fit for consumption, even without a dead body in the same room

Indeed. That was just the final nail in the coffin!

Ahem. What I find curious is that the guy was comfortable enough with a corpse on his sofa to carry on prepping food anyway. It says that it was an employee... I'm trying to picture the circumstances... "Oh crap, one of the staff has just died, and we open in half an hour. Oh well, misplaced sentiment won't help him now, and these kebabs ain't gonna make themselves!"

[devalmont]

Meat fit for consumption isn't actively decaying as much as a fresh body

Not true, I'm afraid. The skin forms a natural barrier against a lot of the airborne bacteria which cause decomposition. Rotting in a body usually starts from within, usually in the bloodstream. The outside of meat has no protection, and would start to go off quicker.

[karohemd]

Erm, true. I think I was trying to get at something else but I'm not sure what...

[feanelwa]

You would hope the fresh meat would be in a fridge?