I have a friend of mine who for the longest time has always ordered his drinks with NO ICE. When we first started to hang out I would poke fun at him that we didn’t live in Mexico and you could drink stuff with ice in it. His response was that the ice watered down the drink and made the drink too cold. Well, now he has one more reason not to have that ice in his Diet Coke.
A seventh grader from Tampa recently won her school science fair with an experiment that compared levels of bacteria in the toilets and ice machines of five different fast food restaurants. According to 12-year-old Jasmine Roberts, the toilets contained less bacteria 70 percent of the time. For the toilet samples, Roberts flushed each toilet and then scooped up some water with a sterile beaker. For the ice, she took samples from machines inside the restaurants as well as from ice ordered at each drive-through window. The samples were tested at Tampa's Moffitt Cancer Center where Roberts volunteers. The video that accompanies the story has footage of a graph comparing the bacteria in toilets versus ice. Some of the differences are vast. Unfortunately, Roberts doesn't disclose the names of the restaurants.
From: SlashFood
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