Finger Colanders

At work, our ice machine has two settings, plain crushed ice and crushed ice and water mixed together. One of my new coworkers needed just plain ice, but didn't know how to flip the switch to change the setting, so she ended up with a cup of water and ice. Her solution was to put her fingers across the top, tip it over the sink and drain the water out. The patient got the finger-strained ice to munch on.

That reminded me of when I was a waitress back in college. I used a similar technique for washing the jello. The trays of jello did not have lids so everything stored above it, such as grated cheese and diced ham, would fall into the jello. I held the little cubes of jello under running water to wash the crud off. Once all of the squares had been washed, I tipped it upside down with my fingers over the top and drained off the excess water. Spritzing it with whipped cream hid the water damage.

Customers did sometimes complain that the jello always had water in the bottom of the bowl. I would just innocently reply, "It does?". I guess I should have also towel dried the jello.

I know that's gross, but people who order jello in a restaurant get what they deserve. Sorry, just kidding. Actually, I was doing them a favor by cleaning it first. And it could have been much worse, at least I didn't walk around with a banana in my pants like the cook did. And in case you were wondering, the pants bananas did not go to waste. They were peeled and served to customers.