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Re: A disturbing Twinkie that has, so far, defied science

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Post by tluyben2 »

d4mi3n wrote: post #18
asciimov wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had an older coworker who used to do this, and had no qualms eating moldy food. He had some advanced biology degrees and worked in a lab. When asked why he ate moldy food, he would reply "Most of the time the mold (some mold type) and is mostly harmless to people. The trouble is knowing what is and isn't ok to eat. Besides, I'm not letting safe food go to waste." On the other hand, I knew a foreign student who disa…

The kind of mold is important here. Mold on cheese is often not harmful to people. Mold on meat is typically indicative of stuff that will peel out your insides.

Lot of people I know pay more for moldy french cheese. It obviously does not work for all cheeses, but for most you can just cut it off.

Re: A disturbing Twinkie that has, so far, defied science

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Post by labster »

d4mi3n wrote: post #18
asciimov wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had an older coworker who used to do this, and had no qualms eating moldy food. He had some advanced biology degrees and worked in a lab. When asked why he ate moldy food, he would reply "Most of the time the mold (some mold type) and is mostly harmless to people. The trouble is knowing what is and isn't ok to eat. Besides, I'm not letting safe food go to waste." On the other hand, I knew a foreign student who disa…

The kind of mold is important here. Mold on cheese is often not harmful to people. Mold on meat is typically indicative of stuff that will peel out your insides.

That makes a lot of sense, considering that we’re made of meat. A mold that grows on meat could grow on us.

Re: A disturbing Twinkie that has, so far, defied science

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Post by asdff »

tempestn wrote: post #10
sharkweek wrote: post #5

Was at a friend’s house in like middle school or something. Went to get a big glass of milk from the fridge after playing outside. Pour into glass, don’t pay close attention, take a big swig and my mouth fills with curdling milk that my friends mom was going to use for baking or whatever you’d use curdled milk for. Still vividly remember the texture and the taste... so disgusting.

Reminds me of a strawberry about 10 years ago. Beautiful, big, red, unmarred strawberry. I take a bite out of it, and as I pull it away from my mouth I see that the entire inside is filled with the remaining half of a living worm, along with a great deal of what I assume were its excretions. I see this just as the taste hits me. My wife heard the noise I made from across the house and assumed I was being histrionic,…

Harvested some legal cannabis recently and on the advice of some forum users decided to try washing my buds. I'm damn glad I did. It was a three bucket rinse, the first with lime juice in hot water, then hot water, then cold water. I thought it was some hippy bullshit, but I had little to loose.

The first bucket was just pitch black by the end of the washing. I dumped out the water straight into the toilet and soot dripped out at the end. Then I gagged when I saw probably two dozen drowned caterpillars by the end of all the washing.

Who knows how much ash, pollution, and insect I've been smoking all these years.

Re: A disturbing Twinkie that has, so far, defied science

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Post by tluyben2 »

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #6

My Dad used to recommend removing mold from food. Said they used to do it when he was growing up. My sister the Nurse suggested "Dad, in the old days, people used to die for no reason." So I don't eat moldy stuff any more.

My old-aunt (not sure if that is something in English but she was an aunt of my father) and her husband ate only expired food until they died (both over 95, aunt over 100); I was, as a kid, always disgusted as everything you got there was rotten (fruit etc) and/or had mold (bread) ; they just cut it off or even just ate it. Because they had a house close to my uni, I lived with them for a while as a student and it was horrible; I eventually got a little fridge in my room as simply everything was expired, and then some. They survived 2 wars and, although they had plenty of money, they knew (and wanted to??) how to live of nothing. So they bought or got (for free) only expired food. They also were very religious and that helped with the money thing; they both washed with cold water their whole life and the heating in the house (in the netherlands!) was generally off; there was ice inside my room as a student. I knew more (as in; yes they were weird to me but not so much for the generation) people who survived the 2 wars who could not shake this kind of thing even though after those events they made a good to great living.

Re: A disturbing Twinkie that has, so far, defied science

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Post by kebman »

asciimov wrote: post #16
JoeAltmaier wrote: post #6

My Dad used to recommend removing mold from food. Said they used to do it when he was growing up. My sister the Nurse suggested "Dad, in the old days, people used to die for no reason." So I don't eat moldy stuff any more.

I had an older coworker who used to do this, and had no qualms eating moldy food. He had some advanced biology degrees and worked in a lab. When asked why he ate moldy food, he would reply "Most of the time the mold (some mold type) and is mostly harmless to people. The trouble is knowing what is and isn't ok to eat. Besides, I'm not letting safe food go to waste." On the other hand, I knew a foreign student who disa…

Chicken is notorious for developing bad bacteria when it gets old. I know two people who got badly sick from eating chicken, and so they'll never ever eat it again. I like it though, but I'll never eat it past the expiry date.

AFAIK if meat products start smelling, especially ammonium, then it's time to ditch it.

Re: A disturbing Twinkie that has, so far, defied science

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Post by joseph_b »

d4mi3n wrote: post #18
asciimov wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had an older coworker who used to do this, and had no qualms eating moldy food. He had some advanced biology degrees and worked in a lab. When asked why he ate moldy food, he would reply "Most of the time the mold (some mold type) and is mostly harmless to people. The trouble is knowing what is and isn't ok to eat. Besides, I'm not letting safe food go to waste." On the other hand, I knew a foreign student who disa…

The kind of mold is important here. Mold on cheese is often not harmful to people. Mold on meat is typically indicative of stuff that will peel out your insides.

Mold on meat == bad? Not entirely. I'm fine and I've on occasion and unintentionally eaten moldy beef jerky. Probably the water content determined mold strain prevalence.

Re: A disturbing Twinkie that has, so far, defied science

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Post by martyvis »

I opened a glass jar of Indian carrot chilli pickles the other day. "Best before" date was July 2011. It still had the satisfying pop of the vacuum seal. The top layer was a bit discoloured and dry as I guess it was above the pickling liquid. Scooped that bit out and the rest was fine - I survived to tell the tale at least!

Re: A disturbing Twinkie that has, so far, defied science

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Post by cgriswald »

tluyben2 wrote: post #25
JoeAltmaier wrote: post #6

My Dad used to recommend removing mold from food. Said they used to do it when he was growing up. My sister the Nurse suggested "Dad, in the old days, people used to die for no reason." So I don't eat moldy stuff any more.

My old-aunt (not sure if that is something in English but she was an aunt of my father) and her husband ate only expired food until they died (both over 95, aunt over 100); I was, as a kid, always disgusted as everything you got there was rotten (fruit etc) and/or had mold (bread) ; they just cut it off or even just ate it. Because they had a house close to my uni, I lived with them for a while as a student and it wa…

I can’t speak for all English speakers, but we would call that a great-aunt. Basically any time you go up a generation, you add “great-“ so my grandmother’s grandmother is my great-great-grandmother.
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