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Originally Posted by manaboutown
They handle and sell unwrapped baguettes in France as well. I have watched them prepare food in exclusive restaurants in Paris, Nice and Bordeaux, arranging salads with their bare hands, perhaps wiping their hands on their aprons every once in a while, but not washing them or wearing hygiene gloves as most in food preparation now do in the US. People there see to have the sniffles a lot in winter...
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I've eaten in tons of restos all over France with dogs in attendance, and even repeatedly in one of our favorites with the owner's cat in my lap.
Never got the sniffles from eating a baguette or in a restaurant either. I don't know where you got your information. Our baguettes come in a bag or with a square of paper wrapped around the middle, and the server doesn't touch the bread. I think we're using too much hand sanitizer in the US and our immunities are diminished.
Except for twice from an airplane going to Italy, I haven't had a cold since 1992, after which I started taking a multi vitamin/mineral supplement.