Why Nobody Stops the Candy Bin Grazers
A grown man reaches into a bin of Haribo at Mahane Yehuda, eats a fistful, and walks on — and almost nobody stops him. This episode uses that small, gross moment as a lens on how social norms actually work: why vendors tolerate the loss, why the rare owner who enforces hygiene gets punished for it, and how descriptive norms quietly eat injunctive ones. Along the way: food-safety microbiology on open-display retail, a Kenya study on the cleanliness premium shoppers say they'll pay, and where the line between "sampling" and "eating" collapses. Episode 5468 — myweirdprompts.com/n/5468 (permanent…
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