Contamination

I was recently at a grocery store with prepared foods (which is pretty much all of them these days). Some woman was ordering a special deal meal--six bucks for barbecued tofu strips with two side dishes.

The guy behind the counter was putting the strips on her plate when one fell on top of the teriyaki salmon dish.  He picked it up and continued what he was doing, but the woman said she didn't want that any more so he took the strip and threw it away.

Fine, you're a vegetarian, but you won't even eat something that touched what was once an animal (and fish at that)?  Would you eat that tofu if a human, like your date (he ordered meat, by the way) touched it?

I admit I wouldn't want my salmon to touch any tofu, but if it happens, it happens.  But I doubt there was even a molecule of salmon on her tofu--maybe some teriyaki sauce, but that's about it.  You can go too far with these things.