How does something "defy science"?
Maybe it's meant as an idiom to mention a deviation from what is available in 'science' as a domain?
A disturbing Twinkie that has, so far, defied science
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Re: A disturbing Twinkie that has, so far, defied science
#62How does something "defy science"?
Yeah reading about the fungi makes that title even more clickbait.
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#63This makes me think of Steve1989MREInfo on YouTube. Except he reviews military rations and has eaten ones a lot older than 2012.
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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.
There are fermented raw meats that people seem to be able to eat safely. Lookup "high meat", it's a trend among people doing the raw carnivore diet.
I mostly eat cooked foods, but it's interesting to think about what fermented, rotten foods people have been eating for thousands of years.
Re: A disturbing Twinkie that has, so far, defied science
#65This makes me think of Steve1989MREInfo on YouTube. Except he reviews military rations and has eaten ones a lot older than 2012.
It's great to see someone from that very niche community has become so popular today. That's a very entertaining military history lesson and Steve was always the funniest (in a very dry way).
Re: A disturbing Twinkie that has, so far, defied science
#66How does something "defy science"?
I would take that phrase to mean "has not yet been explained by science".
As for this article, I am not really sure how this applies at all. Seems decently explained by "spores got in before sealing".
Re: A disturbing Twinkie that has, so far, defied science
#67"I have an extensive collection of mold, spores, and fungus."
“Egon, your mucus”
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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…
Just did a hydrox dip after harvest about a week ago. Water didn't go black but it fizzed up pretty bad and had a lot of crap in it by the end. Couldn't even see the bottom of the wash bucket by the end.
Dunno what you did that yours turned black, are you sure you didn't get a bunch of soil in the water? There shouldn't be tar or ash on live weed plants.
It does make me question smoking any undipped pot though.
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#69Earlier 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.
Where I live there was recently the case of a woman that is now permanently disabled (botulism) after eating an expired commercial vegetables soup, it’s not mold but be careful with not meat = harmless.
My dad was always worried about botulism. I don't know what happened, but he would refuse to eat dented cans and things like that, just in case.
Botulism is why home canning is dangerous - more so than a factory.
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The rule of thumb I've picked up somewhere is that for hard cheese you can just cut mouldy bits off. For soft cheese you should throw it out. This is of course talking about the kind of mould that grows on it while its in your fridge. Not the outer layer some cheeses acquire during production.
The soft cheeses from france are often quite moldy. I'm not a big fan of them but my family eats them ; the moldier and smellier, the better.
IIRC, all cheese has mold. Some of the mold is safe and/or desirable to eat (blue cheese's blue is mold).
But those soft cheeses can grow other mold: If it does this, you have to throw it all out as it could be dangerous. In general, you don't want mold where you didn't expect it.