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

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Post by richardfey »

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…

Fascinating story! Thanks for sharing it.

Where would the ice form in your room?

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

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Post by mhh__ »

kebman wrote: post #26
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…

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.

Exactly. If you aren't careful around chicken it's almost Darwin at work.

I assume this is why chicken is usually overcooked in restaurants.

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

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Post by cgriswald »

kebman wrote: post #26
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…

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.

Our dog once ate some bad meat and got sick. Since then we’ve used her nose to tell us of questionable meat is bad or not. If she will eat it, it’s okay. So far she hasn’t lead us astray.

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

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Post by tempestn »

asdff wrote: post #23
tempestn wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 d…

I mean, the ash part is kind of inevitable.

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

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Post by cgriswald »

the_only_law wrote: post #12

A few years ago I would commonly grab a box of snack cakes or other dessert / pastry to snack on for the night. I one time pulled a box of the store brand equivalent of swiss cake rolls and started eating. I got through a few before realize they tastes rather off and the texture was odd, checked the date and they were a few years expired. If i recall correctly they were visibly bad but not as explicitly as those twin…

I opened a can of soda once and decided to drink out of a glass with ice, which I sometimes did, but not usually. I poured it into the glass and the normally brown soda came out a transparent golden yellow. Then a dark brown muck slowly poured out of the can. None of it was carbonated and it looked like it hadn’t been mixed at all, and maybe had also gone bad. Anyway, I was really glad I decided to use a glass that day. I threw out the rest of the 12-pack and didn’t drink soda for at least a month.

I also once bit into a chicken nugget from a national brand and nearly chipped a tooth on a bone. I’ve eaten a quarter of a sandwich only to discover the far corner of the slice of bread was moldy. I’ve bitten into a nearly raw chicken tender at a restaurant. I’ve had a mouth full of curdled milk. And I’ve eaten from a bowl of cereal and then realized those little red things on my milk weren’t crumbs, they were mites.

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

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Post by pengaru »

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,…

Reminds me of the time I bit into a big juicy overripe peach I'd just picked from the tree in our back yard. What seemed like hundreds of earwigs poured out, crawling all over my hand with some in my mouth.

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

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Post by copperx »

mhh__ wrote: post #32
kebman wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Exactly. If you aren't careful around chicken it's almost Darwin at work. I assume this is why chicken is usually overcooked in restaurants.

I recently learned that eating raw chicken is possible (Torisashi in Japan).

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

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Post by jacobwilliamroy »

joseph_b wrote: post #27
d4mi3n wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That's mold on a preserve. It's a completely different ecosystem. My personal theory is the stuff that kills us, usually will also kill an animal, so the really deadly fungi and bacteria usually don't form until after the animal has died and the immune system has stopped functioning. That's why raw meat from a fresh kill is generally safe but if the meat is left alone for too long it becomes poisonous.

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

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Post by Doxin »

martyvis wrote: post #29

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!

Properly preserved stuff in jars can stay good for decades without too much trouble. The tricky bit is knowing if it was preserved properly.
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