Sanitation in food preparation

Answer me this: How do the people who prepare food put on those little plastic/rubber gloves?Don't answer that. I'll save you the trouble. We all know what gloves I'm talking about right? The ones that ensure the sanitation of the foods we ingest. The ones that the people preparing the food slip on just before that assemble your shwarma, burger or sandwich.I was at Anat this morning waiting for my shwarma to be prepared. I am not one of those people who minds if someone touches my food with their hands. But I did find it fairly amusing that in order to place the plastic glove over his hands, the man serving me dug in a packet that contained the gloves with his bare hands (the ones I was meant to be protected from). He then used those bare hands to put the gloves on.Interesting. Is this whole sanitation movement simply something to appease the anal retentive among us? Or is there actually some value to the plastic gloves with more bacteria on the outside than the inside?

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