Is it just my bad luck, or are food standards seriously dropping in 2023? The amount of times I've been getting cracked eggs, yogurt or sour cream with major rips and malfunctions on the plastic seal, mold in baked goods, frost damage on produce an fruits, red blood dripping chicken bones in rotisserie chickens (not light pink color) etc. has seemed exponentially higher than what I've encountered in nearly a decade. I've gotten food poisoning like half a dozen times in varied low to severe severity in 2023 alone vs probably half a dozen times in the last decade.
That's not even including successfully navigating away from obvious rotting fruits and veggies or sealed foods in clear plastic like salads or noodles. Are food standards actually worse? Grocery store employees at new lows of zero ####s given? A combination of both?
I remind myself to double and triple check food before cooking and consumption now.
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