This picture shows the conditions inside Britain's worst pub kitchen, the Rose and Crown in Thaxted, Essex (United Kingdom), where inspectors found nearly 200 items of rotting food. Environmental health officials immediately closed the establishment after discovering the piles of expired ingredients.
Work surfaces and utensils were smothered in thick grease, floors littered with rotting detritus and fridges covered in mould and dozens of dirty food containers.
The kitchen did not even have any running hot running water meaning staff could not wash up or clean their hands properly.
Inspectors found the owner was still preparing food in the rancid conditions.
The discovery was made after a surprise inspection by environmental health officers from Uttlesford District Council on December 9 last year.
In total, 190 items of "mouldy, slimy, putrescent or expired foodstuffs" were found at the scene.
The owner of the pub, Nicholas Marchetto, pleaded guilty to 23 food and hygiene offences at Harlow Magistrates' Court.
He was fined £1,000 and ordered to pay another £1,000 towards the council's costs.
Geoff Smith, the council's head of environmental health, described the conditions at the pub as "totally unacceptable".
He said: "The conditions demonstrated a complete breakdown of any hygiene management controls and a disregard for consumer safety when food continued to be prepared in the conditions found.
"The large quantity unfit for human consumption on the premises had placed public health at risk.
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