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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: BEG on January 27, 2010, 11:13:39 PM
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First he called me asking how to fry chicken tenders. I asked him what spices he had and then told him which ones to put in some flour. Told him to dip the chicken in either egg (actually dip it in flour then egg then flour again) or nothing at all then dip the chicken in the flour (he used egg). I told him to let the chicken rest a while after he floured it and heat up the oil in the mean time. Then he sent me a picture of the chicken before he fried it asking me if it looked right. LOL I txt him back and asked him for sure if it was BEFORE he fried it because I wasn't sure looking at the picture and if he hadn't fried it yet I was going to tell him it looked undercooked. He told me it was before then sent me a picture of it after he fried it. The cooked chicken was sitting right there on the SAME plate he had the uncooked chicken on...flour and egg on the plate too. I txt him back and told him that you can't put cooked chicken on the same plate you had the uncooked chicken on. He txt me back saying "lesson learned".
Now I'm worried he will get Salmonella. I told him to throw away the chicken he had left over and he really didn't want to but he did. I told him to call me if he started to get sick. What are the chances he could get sick from the chicken?
I think I used as many "I's" as Obama did in his SOTU speech tonight. :p
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I think it might depend on how fresh the chicken was or at least how long it had been thawed out.
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I think it might depend on how fresh the chicken was or at least how long it had been thawed out.
He thawed it today. It scares me to think he could get sick from it. One of my boyfriends from high school got salmonella from eating a bad turkey sandwich and had to be hospitalized. He was in the hospital a week and was extremely sick.
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I'm betting it would have to be really off for him to get sick. Young guys usually have a strong gut, and I bet the errant chicken will miss him. From working in a meat market, the chicken here seems to be really clean.
I told him to throw away the chicken he had left over and he really didn't want to but he did.
My wife would have said the same thing. I would have re-fried it. :-)
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It's better to be safe than sorry in cases like that. You did the right thing, and thank God he threw it away rather than take the risks. Next time he'll know to be more careful.
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I think the chances are pretty small really. Keep in touch though.
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It's better to be safe than sorry in cases like that. You did the right thing, and thank God he threw it away rather than take the risks. Next time he'll know to be more careful.
He ate the chicken that was sitting on the uncooked chicken plate but had about four pieces left over, the left over was what I told him to throw out.
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He probably drank a beer with it and will be ok.
He also, most likely, ate it all anyway. Mine would have told me he threw it out, thought I was over-reacting, and gone ahead and ate it....
College boys have nearly indestructible intestinal tracts.
I know you will worry until you talk to him tomorrow and know that he is ok....but try not to make yourself crazy. If you knew half the stuff he does, you would be certifiable by now.
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I'm betting it would have to be really off for him to get sick. Young guys usually have a strong gut, and I bet the errant chicken will miss him. From working in a meat market, the chicken here seems to be really clean.
My wife would have said the same thing. I would have re-fried it. :-)
LMAO that is what he suggested.
I throw everything out, I am so wasteful. My husband would eat anything. Even cheese that had mold growing on it, he would just cut it off. I would think of the fact that there was mold on it before it cut off and gag. I wouldn't be able to eat it.
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He probably drank a beer with it and will be ok.
He also, most likely, ate it all anyway. Mine would have told me he threw it out, thought I was over-reacting, and gone ahead and ate it....
College boys have nearly indestructible intestinal tracts.
I know you will worry until you talk to him tomorrow and know that he is ok....but try not to make yourself crazy. If you knew have the stuff he does, you would be certifiable by now.
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I'm sure he threw the rest of it out as I txt him info on salmonella which explained how it sucked. :p
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Did he rinse the chicken before dipping it in the flour? If so he will be fine!
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Hopefully he is fine. Like FGL said, the chances are small since not all chicken has the bacteria. And the chicken here is processed with a chlorine rinse (remember Russia just started refusing imported chicken from the U.S. because of this?)
I've talked each of my daughters through frying chicken over the phone. Seemed to be a surprise for them on how long it really takes.
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He thawed it today. It scares me to think he could get sick from it. One of my boyfriends from high school got salmonella from eating a bad turkey sandwich and had to be hospitalized. He was in the hospital a week and was extremely sick.
It may have been the mayo on the turkey sandwich... people get sick from poultry a lot less than the media makes of it. I wouldn't worry, especially since he cooked it. :)
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I throw everything out, I am so wasteful. My husband would eat anything. Even cheese that had mold growing on it, he would just cut it off. I would think of the fact that there was mold on it before it cut off and gag. I wouldn't be able to eat it.
Mold on cheese is normal. I suppose you would never eat cheese again were you to see a round of cheese. It's been common practice for a LONG while to just cut the mold off of it.Do you eat Bleu Cheese?? Those "Blue things" inside are nothing but mold. Besides that, some molds are good for a person. Cheese molds are one of them.
It may have been the mayo on the turkey sandwich... people get sick from poultry a lot less than the media makes of it. I wouldn't worry, especially since he cooked it. :)
Newer studies have disproven the mayo myth unless the mayo is home made. The studies show that mayo may have protected people from some food-borne illnesses due to the citric acid (from the lemon juice) in it. That's probably the reason I prefer REAL Mayo over Miracle Whip.
http://www.ext.nodak.edu/extnews/newsrelease/2005/062305/03prairi.htm
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Mold on cheese is normal. I suppose you would never eat cheese again were you to see a round of cheese. It's been common practice for a LONG while to just cut the mold off of it.Do you eat Bleu Cheese?? Those "Blue things" inside are nothing but mold. Besides that, some molds are good for a person. Cheese molds are one of them.
I can't know about it. I'm sure there are things I have eaten that if I had seen them before they were prepared or packaged I wouldn't be able to eat. I can rarely eat at my in-laws because I know that my MIL cuts mold off cheese and using things past their expiration date. Her fridge is like a science experiment and she uses stuff that I would have thrown out days and days ago. Everytime we are about to eat dinner there I have to think, "where did this come from, did the cat get on the counter while she was making it or could I die if it was bad?" :p
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He probably drank a beer with it and will be ok.
He also, most likely, ate it all anyway. Mine would have told me he threw it out, thought I was over-reacting, and gone ahead and ate it....
College boys have nearly indestructible intestinal tracts.
I know you will worry until you talk to him tomorrow and know that he is ok....but try not to make yourself crazy. If you knew half the stuff he does, you would be certifiable by now.
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In my younger years I had an "iron gut". One time, while flyfishing a remote stream, I drank from it as I normally do. Later, about 150 yards upstream, I found a dead, half rotted deer in the stream. Never got sick.
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In my younger years I had an "iron gut". One time, while flyfishing a remote stream, I drank fromit as I normally do. Later, about 150 yards upstream, I found a dead, half rotted deer in the stream. Never got sick.
See....proof that young men of a certain age have indestructible intestional tracts.... :bow:
at the same age, most girls would have been :puke:
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See....proof that young men of a certain age have indestructible intestional tracts.... :bow:
at the same age, most girls would have been :puke:
You haven't lived till you see the live mosquito larva in your water bottle as you're drinking from it. :-)
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You haven't lived till you see the live mosquito larva in your water bottle as you're drinking from it. :-)
OMG I would just go ahead and die right there.
Once I was drinking coke. I had left it sit on the coffee table to go outside for a minute, came back in to take a drink and took several sips. After about the 5th drink I felt something in my mouth. A FLY was in my mouth. I threw up. My husband would have just swallowed the fly. That is how he rolls.
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^EWWWWWWW! Yeah, mine is the same way. He would totally eat something off the floor.
My MIL will let things that she's cooked sit out ALL DAY. I chowed down on some bacon (hey! it's BACON!) and then she told me that it was from the day before. Luckily it didn't kill me but ewwww. She is notorious for leaving food out "in case anyone gets hungry". Not me. I'm way too "Monk" to live that way. :-)
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OMG I would just go ahead and die right there.
Once I was drinking coke. I had left it sit on the coffee table to go outside for a minute, came back in to take a drink and took several sips. After about the 5th drink I felt something in my mouth. A FLY was in my mouth. I threw up. My husband would have just swallowed the fly. That is how he rolls.
It's all meat.
Why didn't you tell your son to take the chicken off the contaminated plate and put it back to fry for a minute or two.....then on to a clean plate?
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(http://www.skyhighway.com/~multispecies/images/photos/salmonella.jpg)
Whats a little salmonella between friends? :evillaugh:
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OMG I would just go ahead and die right there.
Once I was drinking coke. I had left it sit on the coffee table to go outside for a minute, came back in to take a drink and took several sips. After about the 5th drink I felt something in my mouth. A FLY was in my mouth. I threw up. My husband would have just swallowed the fly. That is how he rolls.
That fly would have just been a little extra protein...........
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It's all meat.
Why didn't you tell your son to take the chicken off the contaminated plate and put it back to fry for a minute or two.....then on to a clean plate?
He had already eaten the chicken that was on the uncooked chicken plate. He left the left over chicken on the uncooked chicken plate, covered it and put it in the fridge. I told him to throw it out to be safe rather than sorry.
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^EWWWWWWW! Yeah, mine is the same way. He would totally eat something off the floor.
My MIL will let things that she's cooked sit out ALL DAY. I chowed down on some bacon (hey! it's BACON!) and then she told me that it was from the day before. Luckily it didn't kill me but ewwww. She is notorious for leaving food out "in case anyone gets hungry". Not me. I'm way too "Monk" to live that way. :-)
She sounds like my MIL.
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He had already eaten the chicken that was on the uncooked chicken plate. He left the left over chicken on the uncooked chicken plate, covered it and put it in the fridge. I told him to throw it out to be safe rather than sorry.
That makes sense! :)
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I am a big 5 second rule fan. Unless there is visible dog hair. Then, I wash it off. In one of the jobs I had, I had to read up on FDA standards, and well, after learning what I know is OK by govt standards, well, I don't give a care so much.
If y'all only knew what the tolerance level for feces and bugs was for vanilla ice cream....well you probably wouldn't eat it.
I haven't. But I will eat a day old piece of bacon that has been dropped on the floor.
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I am a big 5 second rule fan. Unless there is visible dog hair. Then, I wash it off. In one of the jobs I had, I had to read up on FDA standards, and well, after learning what I know is OK by govt standards, well, I don't give a care so much.
If y'all only knew what the tolerance level for feces and bugs was for vanilla ice cream....well you probably wouldn't eat it.
I haven't. But I will eat a day old piece of bacon that has been dropped on the floor.
Still not the same as Salmonella. I'll eat feces and bugs, in vanilla or any other flavor, before I'd take risk of getting salmonella poisoning. Besides which, if we're going to start going down that route - you'd better start wearing HEPA filtered breathing masks when you go to the public loo - ever read about how much stuff gets aerosolized whenever the john gets flushed?
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Still not the same as Salmonella. I'll eat feces and bugs, in vanilla or any other flavor, before I'd take risk of getting salmonella poisoning. Besides which, if we're going to start going down that route - you'd better start wearing HEPA filtered breathing masks when you go to the public loo - ever read about how much stuff gets aerosolized whenever the john gets flushed?
Oh now, I am with ya TOTALLY on the salmonella. That is some bad crap to be true. That Loo stuff? Yeah, that is some nasty crap. (no pun intended.)
Note: ALWAYS close the lid before you flush. ALWAYS.
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Still not the same as Salmonella. I'll eat feces and bugs, in vanilla or any other flavor, before I'd take risk of getting salmonella poisoning. Besides which, if we're going to start going down that route - you'd better start wearing HEPA filtered breathing masks when you go to the public loo - ever read about how much stuff gets aerosolized whenever the john gets flushed?
Mythbusters or some other show on Discovery did a thing about human fecal bacteria spreading around the bathroom.
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(http://www.lostinthe50sdiner.com/images/FriedChickenPSHOP.jpg)
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(http://www.lostinthe50sdiner.com/images/FriedChickenPSHOP.jpg)
Some grocery store chains used to use the close dated chicken for their delis. I imagine that has changed some, especially with the turn over in deli foods now. But, if you ever see chicken or other meats in the fresh meat case that has BBQ rub or some other spice on it, think twice. :-) It probably stopped looking fresh the day before and they're hiding it now.
Btw, BEG, how's the son doing today?
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Some grocery store chains used to use the close dated chicken for their delis. I imagine that has changed some, especially with the turn over in deli foods now. But, if you ever see chicken or other meats in the fresh meat case that has BBQ rub or some other spice on it, think twice. :-) It probably stopped looking fresh the day before and they're hiding it now.
Btw, BEG, how's the son doing today?
I had a boyfriend that worked in a chinese food takeout. Told me never to order the fried rice, cuz that was where they put all their leftover stuff in.
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Oh now, I am with ya TOTALLY on the salmonella. That is some bad crap to be true. That Loo stuff? Yeah, that is some nasty crap. (no pun intended.)
Note: ALWAYS close the lid before you flush. ALWAYS.
Yeah, but what are you gonna do about everyone else who doesn't? Slam the lid on their willies if they don't?
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Some grocery store chains used to use the close dated chicken for their delis. I imagine that has changed some, especially with the turn over in deli foods now. But, if you ever see chicken or other meats in the fresh meat case that has BBQ rub or some other spice on it, think twice. :-) It probably stopped looking fresh the day before and they're hiding it now.
Btw, BEG, how's the son doing today?
He sent me text this morning saying "so far so good".
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Yeah, but what are you gonna do about everyone else who doesn't? Slam the lid on their willies if they don't?
Now that would be fun, but I was referring to your personal bathrooms. Where your toothbrush resides.
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Now that would be fun, but I was referring to your personal bathrooms. Where your toothbrush resides.
Even there, I don't know about your potty (and, to be frank, I really don't want to know, either :-) ), but mine doesn't come with an air-tight seal when I put the lid down, and we are talking aerosols here.
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I had a boyfriend that worked in a chinese food takeout. Told me never to order the fried rice, cuz that was where they put all their leftover stuff in.
When I was little my dad worked for a meat packing company (Wilsons). He loved the steak that got a little brown as he said it made for the best steak in the world. BUT he never ever ate hotdogs because he saw what went into them.
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Even there, I don't know about your potty (and, to be frank, I really don't want to know, either :-) ), but mine doesn't come with an air-tight seal when I put the lid down, and we are talking aerosols here.
It is a superficial peace of mind man. Sometimes a little ignorance goes a long way. ::)
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When I was little my dad worked for a meat packing company (Wilsons). He loved the steak that got a little brown as he said it made for the best steak in the world. BUT he never ever at hotdogs because he saw what went into them.
That would be aged steak your dad was getting - and in restaurants one usually pays a premium for aged beef. Good for your dad!
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It is a superficial peace of mind man. Sometimes a little ignorance goes a long way. ::)
Sometimes, ignorance is truly bliss, I quite agree!
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He sent me text this morning saying "so far so good".
I'm glad he is ok, cross contamination in the kitchen is very dangerous and people can get really sick or die from it.
Chicken is the greatest risk and some restaurants don't even use raw or fresh (unfrozen) because of the liability and risk.
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I'm glad he is ok, cross contamination in the kitchen is very dangerous and people can get really sick or die from it.
Chicken is the greatest risk and some restaurants don't even use raw or fresh (unfrozen) because of the liability and risk.
This is why the Chicken Sushi Bar never caught on.
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I am a big 5 second rule fan. Unless there is visible dog hair. Then, I wash it off. In one of the jobs I had, I had to read up on FDA standards, and well, after learning what I know is OK by govt standards, well, I don't give a care so much.
If y'all only knew what the tolerance level for feces and bugs was for vanilla ice cream....well you probably wouldn't eat it.
I haven't. But I will eat a day old piece of bacon that has been dropped on the floor.
Truer words have never been spoken. We spend far too much time in trying to negate the very capable immune system that God has blessed us with.
The surge in "anti-bacterial" this and that. The idea that bacteria are vermin and must be eradicated at all costs is simply laughable.
We try to hard to do what our systems are meant to do that we wind up crippling ourselves in the long run.
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Grandpa's sayings, "You will eat a peck of dirt before you die"
At the supermarket check outs there are those little magazines about most everything. I picked up one about the benefits of Apple Cider and found a few pages telling about the benefits of a few spoonfulls if one thinks they may have eaten bad food. THEY claim that the acidity will kill most food derived illnesses.
First Holiday in Tenn. my MIL cooked up a storm, turkey, ham all the fixins. After the meal with the dishes and utensils removed she left all the food on the table and threw a sheet over it. No refrigeration for anything.
For the next 2 days everyone ate that food, except for me, Heck I like to starved to death amid all that bounty. Got to realise this was a farm, people tracking in chicken, cow and goat poo on the bottom of their feet. People coming and going, coughing and sneezing, The food was uncovered for 6 or more hours a day as people need to eat.
No one got ill from the food, only problem was me as I was about to fight the rabbits for their bunny food.
It must take allot of foul ups before food becomes contaminated enough to make people ill. Like a chain reaction, starting at the producers, then the method of transportation to the stores, say a freezer truck breaks down and the product begins to thaw out. Then at the store, pallets left on a loading dock in very hot weather, then into the stores coolers that may have a problem keeping the temperature at the correct level.
Home to a kitchen where the refrigerate may be an older model and without your knowledge the neighbors roaches have just found your house. The trip home in a hot car or even one airconditioned takes 30 minutes. You carry in your bags of food and the phone rings, someone is at the front door. After another 30 minutes finally you put away your food that you will serve to the family that has been frozen and partially defrosted 6-7 times. At this point perhaps the cats or roaches have climbed all over your counters, gotten into the utensil draws.
It takes a massive amount of screw ups to cause food poisoning, in the case of your son, I would not worry too much, true he did mix and match cooked chicken with the raw stuff, he knows better now.
I would be more worried about a street vender or a pot luck Church dinner, we survive them with no problem.
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Grandpa's sayings, "You will eat a peck of dirt before you die"
Living life helps make the living immune to what makes us ill. That's why no one in your story got sick. That's also why we are not doing our children any favor by chasing them around with a pump of hand sanitizer and sterile towels.
Common sense is always the best, but sometimes it is taken to the extreme and becomes common absurdity.
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Living life helps make the living immune to what makes us ill. That's why no one in your story got sick. That's also why we are not doing our children any favor by chasing them around with a pump of hand sanitizer and sterile towels.
Common sense is always the best, but sometimes it is taken to the extreme and becomes common absurdity.
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This is why the Chicken Sushi Bar never caught on.
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Yet, comming of age in the Village it's still a common to practice on the raw birds. You just have to wash really good after you are done.
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When I was in high school and college, going to my step-grandmother's in Iowa for Thanksgiving and Christmas....she would keep all the leftovers out on the back porch that was glassed in. The only thing that was put in the refrigerator was the apple salad. Everything else was in containers out on the porch. While it was cool, I don't know that it was "refrigerator" temperature.
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Fridge temp is only 40°F.... When I lived up north, I would take advantage of the deck for extra freezer space, beer storage etc. Of course, I had to be careful that the beer didn't actually freeze.
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I am a big 5 second rule fan. Unless there is visible dog hair. Then, I wash it off. In one of the jobs I had, I had to read up on FDA standards, and well, after learning what I know is OK by govt standards, well, I don't give a care so much.
If y'all only knew what the tolerance level for feces and bugs was for vanilla ice cream....well you probably wouldn't eat it.
I haven't. But I will eat a day old piece of bacon that has been dropped on the floor.
Meh, Iv'e eaten steaks dropped in the dirt covered with pine needles, bark, dirt.....and dog hair. Just wash it off in the lake with the mosquito larva and toss back on the fire. Good as new.
Oh, BEG, we call the larva "crunchies". If you use Wylers fruit punch mix, hell, it's even better.
Wanna take your family camp'n with me??? :-)
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When I was in high school and college, going to my step-grandmother's in Iowa for Thanksgiving and Christmas....she would keep all the leftovers out on the back porch that was glassed in. The only thing that was put in the refrigerator was the apple salad. Everything else was in containers out on the porch. While it was cool, I don't know that it was "refrigerator" temperature.
That was very common when I was young also.
Last night about 11 PM I forgot to refrigerate left over pizza. I ate two slices of it this morning.I reheated it first. will I die?
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That was very common when I was young also.
Last night about 11 PM I forgot to refrigerate left over pizza. I ate two slices of it this morning.I reheated it first. will I die?
No.
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That was very common when I was young also.
Last night about 11 PM I forgot to refrigerate left over pizza. I ate two slices of it this morning.I reheated it first. will I die?
Dunno, are you dead yet? :-)
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Last night about 11 PM I forgot to refrigerate left over pizza. I ate two slices of it this morning.I reheated it first. will I die?
No but the cockroaches won't be happy when they find out their Utopia vanished.
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That was very common when I was young also.
Last night about 11 PM I forgot to refrigerate left over pizza. I ate two slices of it this morning.I reheated it first. will I die?
Lately....since son has moved home....I find previously refrigerated casseroles on the stove in the morning. :thatsright: I'm not throwing them out! Doesn't seem to be hurting the rest of us.
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That was very common when I was young also.
Last night about 11 PM I forgot to refrigerate left over pizza. I ate two slices of it this morning.I reheated it first. will I die?
No, but you'll probably get constipated.
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No, but you'll probably get constipated.
Oh, great news. :lmao:
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That was very common when I was young also.
Last night about 11 PM I forgot to refrigerate left over pizza. I ate two slices of it this morning.I reheated it first. will I die?
A friend once ate pizza that had sat out for at least a week. It didn't seem to bother him. Of course, he didn't know it sat out that long. He thought it was the fresh pizza that only sat out overnight, which is what we thought he took at first.
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A friend once ate pizza that had sat out for at least a week. It didn't seem to bother him. Of course, he didn't know it sat out that long. He thought it was the fresh pizza that only sat out overnight, which is what we thought he took at first.
If someone did some light cleaning once a week it wouldn't have to happen. Like showers, once a week is a good thing. Daily is better of course, but unrealistic.
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Truer words have never been spoken. We spend far too much time in trying to negate the very capable immune system that God has blessed us with.
The surge in "anti-bacterial" this and that. The idea that bacteria are vermin and must be eradicated at all costs is simply laughable.
We try to hard to do what our systems are meant to do that we wind up crippling ourselves in the long run.
This is part of the reason we are winding up with "super bugs". Between all of the anti-bacterial soaps and sanitizers and then the medical community passing out anti-biotics left and right, the bacteria are developing a resistance to such things. Like Eupher said, we are crippling ourselves through our "good intentions".
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This is part of the reason we are winding up with "super bugs". Between all of the anti-bacterial soaps and sanitizers and then the medical community passing out anti-biotics left and right, the bacteria are developing a resistance to such things. Like Eupher said, we are crippling ourselves through our "good intentions".
It's been a year or so ago...but I remember reading an article that you should not use the same anti-bacterial soaps/cleaners all the time....particularly the stuff like Purell. That you should switch brands each time you buy new, because of the "super bug" thing.
Apparently the formulas are just enough different that they go after different bacteria. By switching out, you get the ones that aren't always zapped.
I keep a couple of different brands of the spray stuff for my kitchen counters under the sink. I spray down the frequent use areas(sinks and stove) at least once a day and just change off which one I grab.
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It's been a year or so ago...but I remember reading an article that you should not use the same anti-bacterial soaps/cleaners all the time....particularly the stuff like Purell. That you should switch brands each time you buy new, because of the "super bug" thing.
Apparently the formulas are just enough different that they go after different bacteria. By switching out, you get the ones that aren't always zapped.
I keep a couple of different brands of the spray stuff for my kitchen counters under the sink. I spray down the frequent use areas(sinks and stove) at least once a day and just change off which one I grab.
Anyone remember when moms or grandmas kept a Kleenex up their sleeve and spit on it to wash something off our face..
Debk is right about germs mutating, so do some bugs, one has to keep changing the brand of bug spray each year. Even those electric gizmo's one plugs in to send some kind of subhuman hearing to keep the bugs or mice out etc they have to be moved about the room every 2-3 months as the critters will build up a tolerance to the sound.
Water can get nasty in a refrigerate with an ice maker if the filter is not changed every few months.
Between bugs and chemicals I will take the bugs any day. Awhile ago Hubby and I got what we thought was the stomach flu, then my dogs began to barf. We called the water company and they came out and tested our water and found it to be OK.
Something was making us ill but we had no idea what. A friend gave me a 6 piece set of designer glasses tinted black and one day when I unloaded the dishwasher I saw inside them a weird film. We took the washer apart and found the hot water tube was semi- blocked. the detergent we used was not being completely removed from our glasses, dishes and silverware. Chemicals were making us ill.
Everything we buy today has chemicals, top brand sheet sets advise the sheets be washed before use. Hubby gets a head ache when he brings his suit home from the dry cleaners, I now remove the plastic covering and air it out for a few days.
At one time there was a product on the market for you to soak salad makings in to remove any bugs, I really did not like the taste of the salad so I now throw everything into a big pot add Luke warm water and a couple of spoonfulls of white vinegar and rinse until the water comes clear.
White vinegar is cheap, less then $2.00 a gallon and will clean counters, windows floors, toilets, sinks shower and tub. BTW I was told by a doctor to add a cup of white vinegar to bath water to protect against yeast and urinary infections.
A rinse of a cup of vinegar every few weeks will strip out the buildup of soap and conditioner in ones hair, the smell goes away when the hair drys. Also good to defoliate skin.
I remember as a little kid living in Panama Mom coming home from the Commissary with food that smelled like bleach. It was bleach, and to top it off Mom emptied the bags of food upside down on the table just in case there was a spider or something crawly hanging out in the bag.
Formaldehyde, Ah yes that wonderful stuff. Big hoohaa about that in VA. some years back. Butchers were keeping old meat bright and Rosy, looking its best by adding it to hamburger etc.
Only 5 years ago a Chicken place closed down when it was ratted out by a disgruntled worker for soaking outdated chickens in bleach. Darn I miss that place, never got sick from their chicken and the coldslaw was fantastic.
Makes me wonder how we all live so long with all the bugs and chemicals out there.
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I use white vinegar in my laundry.
If M's been working out in the yard....I will run his clothes through a rinse cycle with white vinegar in it. Gets rid of a lot of the surface dirt, and to me gets some of the sweat out, but also helps if he's done any spraying outside. Because we live in the woods and I have a thing (ok... fear) of spiders...he sprays the yard, gardens and all around the pool area with either Liquid Seven or Spectricide. I don't want that stuff in with the rest of my laundry!
I use it for cleaning windows and floors.
And it's good for soaking jewelry.
Have used it on my hair for years....really good to use a day or two before coloring hair. As Vesta said, it gets all the "product" out. Didn't know it exfoliated skin though.
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I use vinegar for everything. I have for years, and look at me - healthy as a horse.
:p
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I use vinegar for everything. I have for years, and look at me - healthy as a horse.
:p
heh!
I use vinegar by the gallon. Always have, always will.
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Vinegar is great!
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I use white vinegar in my laundry.
If M's been working out in the yard....I will run his clothes through a rinse cycle with white vinegar in it. Gets rid of a lot of the surface dirt, and to me gets some of the sweat out, but also helps if he's done any spraying outside. Because we live in the woods and I have a thing (ok... fear) of spiders...he sprays the yard, gardens and all around the pool area with either Liquid Seven or Spectricide. I don't want that stuff in with the rest of my laundry!
I use it for cleaning windows and floors.
And it's good for soaking jewelry.
Have used it on my hair for years....really good to use a day or two before coloring hair. As Vesta said, it gets all the "product" out. Didn't know it exfoliated skin though.
My daughter came home from a trip to sea world the other week and her jeans were soaking wet (they went on a water ride). The mother of the girl she went with had put her jeans in a plastic grocery bag and it had already been in the bag a day and half when she got home. I didn't know they were wet and when l I emptied it a few days later I dumped out all of her clothes and found it. They smelled like mold. I washed them several times and the smell remained, so bad there was no way she could wear them. I didn't have any vinegar the first few times I washed them so when I went to the grocery store I bought some. I added about a cup to the wash and when they came out the smell was gone.
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Vinegar, miracle of science
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My daughter came home from a trip to sea world the other week and her jeans were soaking wet (they went on a water ride). The mother of the girl she went with had put her jeans in a plastic grocery bag and it had already been in the bag a day and half when she got home. I didn't know they were wet and when l I emptied it a few days later I dumped out all of her clothes and found it. They smelled like mold. I washed them several times and the smell remained, so bad there was no way she could wear them. I didn't have any vinegar the first few times I washed them so when I went to the grocery store I bought some. I added about a cup to the wash and when they came out the smell was gone.
I always use it when washing bath towels and I have also learned it's mandatory for washing the pool towels.
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I always use it when washing bath towels and I have also learned it's mandatory for washing the pool towels.
Oooh, neat tip.
I got food poisoning (or his lesser cousin, food toxicity) from some poorly-cooked fast food chicken. It was really painful, but it passed after 24 hours.
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Oooh, neat tip.
Wash your towels separately and don't use fabric softener .....the fabric softener keeps them from drying as well...
I read "Heloise" for years.... :-)
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Wash your towels separately and don't use fabric softener .....the fabric softener keeps them from drying as well...
I read "Heloise" for years.... :-)
I only buy white towels and wash them separately. Sometimes I put the white socks in with the towels and ALWAYS use bleach. I don't use fabric softener for towels either.
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Silly me, I just buy new towels when the old ones get too funky.
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Silly me, I just buy new towels when the old ones get too funky.
and use them on the car?
I only buy white towels and wash them separately. Sometimes I put the white socks in with the towels and ALWAYS use bleach. I don't use fabric softener for towels either.
I buy solid colors and mix them with either white or cream....depending on which bath they are in.
I found bath sheets at Walmart last summer.....I think they were $5.99 each....best pool/beach towels I've ever had! I got the solid brick red and the solid camel....those suckers were out in the sun, laid on with wet chlorinated bodies (and we use a lot of chlorine because of all the trees), and were washed so much....there was no difference in color between the ones I bought early in the summer and the ones I picked up towards the end.
As I need new towels for the bathrooms, I'm getting those!
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and use them on the car?
yeah... :whistling:
My last set of towels are wrapped around a transmission right now.
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yeah... :whistling:
My last set of towels are wrapped around a transmission right now.
Boyfriend uses new shop towels as napkins. Once they get too ucky, they go to the garage. That and old socks, and shirts, cut up of course.
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Boyfriend uses new shop towels as napkins. Once they get too ucky, they go to the garage. That and old socks, and shirts, cut up of course.
Cut up old socks and shirts for napkins?
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Cut up old socks and shirts for napkins?
Nothing says class like dabbing the corners of your mouth with your boxer shorts.
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Nothing says class like dabbing the corners of your mouth with your boxer shorts.
Used handkerchiefs are mo betta - they're more classy.
You gotta go through and make sure all the boogers have been knocked off, though. Sometimes, despite the vinegar and the bleach and whatnot, sometimes them boogers are pretty stubborn critters.
:-)
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Cut up old socks and shirts for napkins?
Uh, no. They go to the garage. Sheesh!