Hold the ice, please
Leave it to a seventh-grade science project to take all the fun out of going to a fast food restaurant. According to Jasmine Roberts, a seventh grader at Benito Middle School in New Tampa, FL — 70-percent of the time, the ice used in drinks at fast food restaurants contain more bacteria than the fast food restaurant’s toilet water.
Roberts also collected ice from soda fountains inside the five fast food restaurants. She also asked for cups of ice at the same restaurant’s drive thru windows.
She tested the samples at a lab at the Moffitt Cancer Center where she volunteers with a USF professor. Roberts says the results did not surprise her.
Now that’s disgusting.
Mrs. Larby
Interesting…when I was in Seventh grade I did a science project on worthogs - never thought to test toilet water from a fast food joint! I wonder what the nuns would have had to say about that…
February 15th, 2006 at 10:02 amCool Jesus
My science projects (sixth and eighth grades) sucked, yet somehow I managed to win first and third place, respectively. We were given at least two months to work on them, yet I waited until the day before to start. Not for nothing, but this girl took the ice to a laboratory. She didn’t conduct any tests herself. You call that a science project? I call that an internship for FedEx.
February 16th, 2006 at 5:28 pm