Many things can be served alongside or on hamburgers, but here's something you probably haven't come across yet when you come to eat one: a hamburger served to diners with a disclaimer.
You may be surprised to find out, but the hamburger in question has been making waves on the net recently, but it is a fairly standard one.
He found his way to the headlines, as mentioned, after being served to a diner at a restaurant at the Toronto airport belonging to the Hilton chain in Canada, with a disclaimer next to him which he was required to sign.
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The reason?
The diner asked to receive it on his plate in the "medium rare" degree of doneness - a degree, he discovered, that does not comply with the country's regulations, according to which ground meat must be seared at a temperature of 71 degrees Celsius for at least 15 seconds to minimize the danger of bacteria surviving.
The American diner, who chose to remain anonymous, expressed his shock at the culinary experience in a thread he started on Canadian Reddit.
Among other things, out of a desire to understand if this is an accepted act in Canada.
"I ordered the hamburger from the waitress medium rare and she didn't say a word," he shared with the surfers.
"She brought me the dish and it looked great," he added and said, "but after I took the first bite, the waitress came and gave me a waiver to sign.
They are required to roast to the level of Wall Dun, photo: Ityel Zion
According to her, he added and explained, in the restaurant they are always required to grill the hamburgers to the level of Wall Dun, therefore since he chose to eat his hamburger at the level of medium rare, he must sign the disclaimer.
"I was shocked," he shared.
"I read the things and now I think I will never be able to order a hamburger again," he concluded in despair, adding that the request and the document shocked him so much that he decided to get up and leave without finishing the dish he ordered.
"I'm a nice person, so I paid and left," he wrote and wondered: "I'm American, so I'm trying to understand if this is acceptable in Canada," he wrote and shared that in the waiver the diner signs, in fact, removing responsibility from the restaurant in regards to illnesses as a result of eating the dish as he ordered it, Including death. "Why didn't the waitress tell me anything before?
I still can't believe it."
The thread quickly gained hundreds of comments online.
Some surfers tried to provide explanations for the culinary experience.
"It's a law that exists in Ontario with the aim of preventing an outbreak of the E. coli bacteria, which is still very common in the US and it seems to be working," explained Golash. Others reinforced his words and wrote that when it comes to ground meat, the risk of illness is high, therefore there is a requirement to serve it in the roasting degree of Wall Dunn.
Another surfer pointed out the diner and claimed that he should have been aware of the dangers of eating undercooked meat.
"There is always a certain risk in eating meat in this way and you should have understood that," he wrote and added on the other hand: "It is strange that they asked you to sign a disclaimer, and even more strange, that they brought you the disclaimer to sign after they had already served you the dish."
"She brought me the dish and it looks great", photo: Gil Eliyahu-Gini
In an interview with the "Yahoo Australia" website, an Australian lawyer referred to the document and noted that diseases resulting from eating meat that has not been fully roasted are a real risk and that filing lawsuits against places that serve food is not unusual in the country.
"Whoever consumed food that was not fully cooked - which has the potential to cause damage to the consumer - and the damage was indeed caused, can certainly file a lawsuit against the place that served him the food. This is a real risk, so it is likely that it is at the forefront of the minds of business owners in the food and hospitality industry" , explained.
He added: "It's not very common for restaurants to ask diners to sign such a disclaimer before consuming the food, but it's also not something they haven't heard of."
The lawyer sought to clarify that even signing such a document does not completely remove the responsibility from the business owners or provide them with comprehensive protection.
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