I sat and watch Team Wallraff last night on RTL (Germany's commercial network). It's a Sixty Minutes style show....except these reporters dress up in disguise and actually walk right into the middle of the story....digging awful deep into 'wrongs'.
The topic last night? Companies who prepare ready-to-eat type food for schools and old-folk's homes. The meat used for these dinners is out of date. The vegetables had mold. The kitchen areas are loaded with bacteria. By the time I got to the end of the show.....I was simply shaking my head. You can't walk into any cafeteria now, without thinking about where the food came from and who is in the back of the kitchen preparing it.
The German school system defends ready-to-eat situation because it's low cost and it's all they can afford (at least they claim that). The old-folk's homes claim the same thing.
The odd thing here is that over the past decade....Germans have emphasized nutritional eating situations. The experts have appeared on TV and in chat forums....pushing across how food needs to have X, Y, and Z. So the food preparation companies have complied. The general problem is that while 98-percent of food selections work within the rules.....you will run across situations where someone misses an expiration date or the only vegetables available might be questionable. Some of the workers appear to be lacking in decision-making or worried about what their boss might think if they throw stuff out in the garbage.
For the political chat folks? I suspect the show will drive more political chat.....more inspectors....and more criticism over what they demanded a decade ago....cheap but nutritional food.
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