September 13, 2004

A heads-up, folks: I'll be leaving on a trip to Europe tomorrow, so this might be the last blog post for a couple of weeks. I'll try and log on when I can, but I'm not making any promises...

In the meantime - the cockroach story from yesterday produced some interesting feedback. Jake linked to it, and a couple of people commented that they'll never go back to that restaurant. Good.

A less encouraging comment came from my friend Laura, who shared her story of once actually finding a roach INSIDE of her burrito. That was down in California though. But - does it get any grosser?

On the Bright Side: I called the Deschutes County health inspector guy today, and left him a message, detailing the incident. I hope something will come of it, even although I'll be out of the country ..

Follow-up: Just got off the phone with John Mason, at the County Eco Health Department.

He told me that all three restaurants in that building (corner of Wall & Minnesota) have had problems with cockroaches, partially because the building is very old. The restaurant owners claimed the "little pets" (as John called them) had imported themselves with some produce. "Usually", he said, "this area has little to no problems with roaches."

He promised though that he would go down there and alert all three restaurants that the problem had popped up again.

Overall, he seemed nice enough, but a bit too relaxed for my taste. He didn't seem alarmed at all.

And also, when I asked him if the Super Burrito place had had past health code violations, he said yes, but only very minor.

Too bad really that we can't check up on that ... really should be publicly accessible info, no?