I knew it!

I’ve been complaining for years that I don’t want lemons slices in my drinks at restaurants because I doubted they cleaned the skins to my liking. Turns out I was on to something.

A recent study by healthinspections.com reveals that those innocent lemon slices you get in restaurants are loaded with bacteria, fecal matter, and all sorts of other nasty germs.

“It was like they had dipped it in raw meat or something; it was gross!” exclaimed Anne LaGrange, a microbiologist who tested several lemons from various restaurants and was shocked at the results. “The very first sample that we took was loaded with fecal bacteria.”

Full disclosure, this isn’t really as bad as it sounds, but it is enough for me to continue asking for no lemons with my drinks.

How about you?

(ht: Wisebread)