for your amusement, a short list

Specifically, things that make me not want to eat at a restaurant for fear of food poisoning.

1. Discount sushi
   
2. Hot pot buffet dessert bars
   
3. Cheap buffet restaurants
   
4. Buffets served for "brunch" at restaurants that don't normally have buffets
   
5. Chinese restaurants (and Thai ones are sometimes like this too) that serve fried rice with all meals as a normal option
   
6. Obviously, anything that rates below a "B" on the LA County sanitation rating system
   
7. Sandwiches with meat fillings sitting out on the counter at room temperature
   
8. Delis with large mounds of composed salads that look like they have a vague skin on them
   
9. Burrito bars where the rice seems to have gone crusty
   

Weirdly, or perhaps not weirdly, I am more afraid of food-borne illness when it looks like it's been sitting out or if it's been handled by too many people than I am of pest-borne food poisoning. Not that I'm a fan of either.