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Fucking idiots - food department.

Postby Heid the Ba » Wed Feb 05, 2014 1:38 pm

I was taken out for lunch today, a very rare perk in these troubled times. We had an excellent curry with rice and naan, washed down with chai, just the thing to set a chap up for the afternoon. The only problem was the idiot at the next table who regaled her friends with her dietary problems, specifically her inability to eat unpasteurised food. Now my recollection of these things is that all milk generally sold* in the UK for my entire life has been pasteurised, and in consequence most cheese, dairy etc. has been pasteurised at some point in the process and is safe. Not blue cheese, some other soft cheeses etc. but I really can't see a major problem.

How wrong I was, apparently all milk, all cheese, some breads and white rice are all unpasteurised and so inedible to this woman. The first two are pasteurised and I agree the second two aren't pasteurised but have no need to be but still, what do I know? I have no idea if brown rice is pasteurised or if she just never tries to eat it.

This is up there with the mindy outside the station one day handing out free samples of an energy drink:
Her: it is a natural alternative to coffee.
Me: eh?
Her: unlike coffee this is a natural stimulant.
Me: unlike coffee which is a bean that grows on bushes in the wild?
Her: but this is natural.
Me: so is coffee.
Repeat until I had to catch my train.



*it is possible to get "raw" milk but I suspect you have to look hard and pay a premium for it.
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Re: Fucking idiots - food department.

Postby Lianachan » Wed Feb 05, 2014 1:53 pm

Woman the first: I bet she can't safely consume several disparate foods, if there's anybody watching, because Look-At-Me!

Woman the second: Ha!
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Re: Fucking idiots - food department.

Postby Lance » Wed Feb 05, 2014 2:12 pm

These types of things give me real concern for the future of mankind. Devolving the average intelligence of the species can't be good.
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Re: Fucking idiots - food department.

Postby MM_Dandy » Wed Feb 05, 2014 6:07 pm

And - unpasteurized milk often is safe for consumption*. If it weren't, I'd have been dead years ago.** Same thing for eggs.***

*Though pasteurized is less risky. The process is warranted, in my opinion.
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***We didn't have chickens, but we got eggs from my mom's uncle and aunt who did, and from the hatchery in town until it closed.
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Re: Fucking idiots - food department.

Postby tubeswell » Wed Feb 05, 2014 7:03 pm

If it wasn't for Pasteur, we'd probably still be having large families to compensate for high mortality. Bad enough that we're now contemplating overpopulation and global warming. We need a Pasteurisation process for pathological climate change.
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Re: Fucking idiots - food department.

Postby MM_Dandy » Wed Feb 05, 2014 9:26 pm

I wonder what she thinks of yogurt, then?
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Re: Fucking idiots - food department.

Postby Enzo » Fri Feb 07, 2014 12:44 am

I live on an old farm, used to have chickens. Used to go out and grab a couple eggs from under a hen, despite her objections, take them inside, wipe the chicken shit off them and cook them for my meal. Didn't know you could pasteurize an egg, wouldn;t that cook it?
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Re: Fucking idiots - food department.

Postby tubeswell » Fri Feb 07, 2014 1:00 am

Cooking it that way would certainly do more than pasteurise it
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Re: Fucking idiots - food department.

Postby Lance » Fri Feb 07, 2014 4:13 am

Enzo wrote:Didn't know you could pasteurize an egg, wouldn;t that cook it?


Me either. Who'da thunk it?

How to pasteurize eggs at home
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Re: Fucking idiots - food department.

Postby MM_Dandy » Tue May 23, 2017 6:34 pm

Arise, ye thredd of olde!

Here's a recent article in the CDC EID journal that says that raw dairy is less safe than pasteurized. I think it's filed under No Shit, Sherlock.
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Re: Fucking idiots - food department.

Postby Heid the Ba » Tue May 23, 2017 9:40 pm

The 1950s is on line one, they say "Oh for fuck's sake . . ."
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Re: Fucking idiots - food department.

Postby MM_Dandy » Tue Nov 28, 2017 6:31 pm

This just in: people are still idiots.
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Re: Fucking idiots - food department.

Postby Enzo » Tue Nov 28, 2017 10:53 pm

But...but... it's NATURAL...
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Re: Fucking idiots - food department.

Postby MM_Dandy » Tue Nov 28, 2017 11:08 pm

So are arsenic and lightning.
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Re: Fucking idiots - food department.

Postby Enzo » Wed Nov 29, 2017 3:51 am

I have all their LPs.

Thinking I might go paleo: start eating carrion and worms and milk right out of the goat.


No, the goat and I are strictly in a professional relationship.
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Re: Fucking idiots - food department.

Postby MM_Dandy » Wed Nov 29, 2017 7:48 pm

RIP Enzo: he died of natural causes. Right, wring? ;)
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Re: Fucking idiots - food department.

Postby Enzo » Wed Nov 29, 2017 9:28 pm

Oh I died alright, I just haven't stopped walking around.

besides, wring hasn't finished writing my obit.
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Re: Fucking idiots - food department.

Postby wring » Wed Nov 29, 2017 9:34 pm

MM_Dandy wrote:RIP Enzo: he died of natural causes. Right, wring? ;)

naturally, I had to kick him off the cliff.

and Enzo? your obit is an on-going project which will live on after your funeral. 8)
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Re: Fucking idiots - food department.

Postby Enzo » Thu Nov 30, 2017 2:36 am

Dumb broad...
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Re: Fucking idiots - food department.

Postby wring » Thu Nov 30, 2017 2:45 am

you chose me.
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Re: Fucking idiots - food department.

Postby Lance » Thu Nov 30, 2017 3:53 am

Did he though?

Or were you just the last one who would put up with him?
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Re: Fucking idiots - food department.

Postby Enzo » Thu Nov 30, 2017 6:15 am

Hey, when I lose a bet, I accept the consequences.
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Re: Fucking idiots - food department.

Postby wring » Thu Nov 30, 2017 5:17 pm

Lance wrote:Did he though?

Or were you just the last one who would put up with him?

damn! :glp-1doh1:
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