Question RE: Fresh juices on the beach

I saw Anthony Bourdain give a talk one night. He said that if you get freaked out by getting sick from roadside vendors, think about the fact of how many locals eat from this person everyday and don't get sick. If the vendor was making folks sick, no one would eat there. That's why I say, if a place ain't that busy, there is probably a reason. It seems to me that the juice guys sell lots of juice so most folks must be OK with it. That being said, there's something bad everywhere and some of us react differently to the bad stuff than others do. I got brutally ill my second trip to Jamaica after eating a patty at Sandals of all places. Once you are laying in the bed in the fetal position with cramps, etc, it will take you a long time to eat or drink whatever you ate or drank last before getting sick. I understand that!!! Took me about 10 more trips before I tried a patty again, but I'm definitely back on the horse now. Hope I never get sick on overproof rum!!!!

As for the juice, I'll keep drinking it until something bad happens.

M&M

I've bought juice the past couple of years, and have had no issues. I always return my bottles. I never drink directly from them either, and don't really know why anyone would instead of using a glass.

Ryan, yu are kidding, right?

Lol! My thoughts exactly.

Ali at the Little Sandwich Hut told me that he goes to the AIs to pick up empty liquor bottles before they get thrown in the recycling bin (or trash). I have also returned my empties in the past, so my guess is that they use a combination of both.

Shamrock's bottles are professionally relabeled liquor bottles, so I always feel comfortable that they are properly sanitized.

Yeah,I used to buy the juice from the guy on the beach but got ill also,so I decided not to buy last time. I mean the bottles are reused and I'm not sure if the alcohol will really disinfect.

I also think that locals don't get sick and we do may be due to the fact that their bodies are used to the germs from there and our bodies are not.

It did keep me off the J-Wray more last reach.

I don't think its the bottles so much as the juice within. I found that the juice you buy on the beach has a very short shelf life before it starts fermenting, even before you can even taste it. When I see these vendors selling their juice in the late morning or afternoon, I'm very skeptical of the quality of the juice, because their coolers aren't that cold when you do buy a bottle. That's my experience at least.

Exactly what Navvet said ^

one time I was buying a bottle of juice from a guy , cant think of his name but hes been selling juice for years in the morning on the beach that took a cap off so I could smell it, he dropped the cap at the edge of the water , picked it up and put it back on which I tht. was not very sanitary andI said something too him about, He just shrugged and said it was perfectly fine. I was not happy about that at all. Now I buy my juices at Shamrock . I have no idea about how good the bottles are cleaned and I never got sick from any and have bought quite a few over the tears on the beach but that 1 incident turned me off

Open bottle, pour some juice out, pour some rum in, shake not stir, sanitized!