In the UK at present it is necessary, in a commercial kitchen, to use colour coded chopping blocks. 6 of them.
Red : raw meat.
Blue : raw fish.
Yellow : cooked meat.
Green : salad and fruit.
White : vegetables.
Black : bakery and dairy.
So, when making a ham, tomato and cucumber sandwich one must :
Cut and butter the bread on the black board. Cut the ham on the yellow board. Cut the cucumber on the, well, it’s a vegetable so it could be the white one, and we often think of it as a salad, so maybe the green one ? The tomato of course is a fruit so that will be on the green one.
Then we assemble our sandwich, add a little salt and pepper perhaps and place the second slice of bread on it.
Now, which board do we use to cut it in half ?
Oh, and by the way, under the The Food Safety (General Food Hygiene) Regulations 1995 there is a penalty for getting this wrong :
Any person guilty of an offence against these Regulations shall be liable—
(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum;
(b) on conviction on [sic] indictment, to a fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or both..
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