Disgusting!

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Eh, my first instinct is, "That's why I have an immune system." No use in fretting too much. Yes, places with poor hygiene standards should be reprimanded, but I want my food to taste good. Otherwise, I'll go home and make it myself. I'm a good cook.

And FYI: To the best of my knowledge, people don't carrying salmonella around in their saliva. That comes from tainted water supplies, mass food production, and not washing dishes and surfaces after handling raw meat and egg. And even then, only 1 in 40,000 eggs has salmonella.

From Wiki (which, by my own admission, is, of course, the most trustworthy site ever, but all the same this might be of some use to the current discussion):

"Constitutes a group consisting of potentially all other serotypes (over a thousand) of the Salmonella bacterium, most of which have never been found in humans. These are encountered in various Salmonella species, most having never been linked to a specific host, and can also infect humans. It is therefore a zoonotic disease. The organism enters through the digestive tract and must be ingested in large numbers to cause disease in healthy adults. Gastric acidity is responsible for the destruction of the majority of ingested bacteria. The infection usually occurs as a result of massive ingestion of foods in which the bacteria are highly concentrated similarly to a culture medium.

"Sources of infection
-Unclean food, particularly in institutional kitchens and restaurants,
-Excretions from either sick or infected but apparently clinically healthy people and animals (especially endangered are caregivers and animals),
-Polluted surface water and standing water (such as in shower hoses or unused water dispensers),
-Unhygienically thawed fowl (the meltwater contains many bacteria),
-An association with reptiles (pet tortoises and snakes)(primarily aquatic turtles) is well described."

I agree with you. Its inhygenic. I taste my food when I prepare it, but I not in such a way that negatively affects the product.

Many people feel you've overrected- a bit of siliva could contract certain sti's, but not salmonella and mostly it seems harmless and picky. But personally, I feel their exagerration of what you implied far outweighs your seemingly obvious view.

Because its obviously "dirty"? Not the end of the world, but its enough to deter me from it a bit. Out of that or chocolate untampered with, I'd take the latter!