On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 19:45:33 +0200, "Giusi"
wrote:

A friend of mine has just arrived here and said she cannot eat anything that
might contain yeast or fungi because they give you cancer.

Funny,........we can't cure cancer...but we all die anyway. What
kind of a deal is that?

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Mark Thorson wrote:

On the contrary, I don't miss tobacco or peanuts
at all. I did miss beef, until I discovered the
Australian beef and checked out the Mad Cow
situation in AUstralia. Then, for about 3 months
I was eating half a steak just about every day.
I've since slackened off a bit, having had my
fill and discovering the very nice wild turbot
and orange roughy also sold by Trader Joe's.

I'd lay off the orange roughy for the species's sake. It's in danger
from overfishing -- it's a slow-maturing, slow-reproducing fish.

http://tinyurl.com/2v95uz

(Goes to Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch page for Orange Roughy)



Miche

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Electricians do it in three phases

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Brawny wrote:

On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 19:45:33 +0200, "Giusi"
wrote:

A friend of mine has just arrived here and said she cannot eat anything that
might contain yeast or fungi because they give you cancer.

Funny,........we can't cure cancer...but we all die anyway.

A lot of cancers are curable if caught early enough.

Miche

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Electricians do it in three phases

Miche wrote:
In article ,
Brawny wrote:

On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 19:45:33 +0200, "Giusi"
wrote:

A friend of mine has just arrived here and said she cannot eat anything that
might contain yeast or fungi because they give you cancer.
Funny,........we can't cure cancer...but we all die anyway.

A lot of cancers are curable if caught early enough.

Miche

Yet would you give up bread and beer just because *some* mutant strains
of yeast *might* cause cancer? Isn't that a little far fetched?

On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:49:16 +1300, Miche
wrote:

A lot of cancers are curable if caught early enough.

That's so TRUE!! thank goodness....but we still die. Not one of us
is guaranteed anything different.

In article ,
Goomba38 wrote:

Miche wrote:
In article ,
Brawny wrote:

On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 19:45:33 +0200, "Giusi"
wrote:

A friend of mine has just arrived here and said she cannot eat anything
that
might contain yeast or fungi because they give you cancer.
Funny,........we can't cure cancer...but we all die anyway.

A lot of cancers are curable if caught early enough.

Yet would you give up bread and beer just because *some* mutant strains
of yeast *might* cause cancer? Isn't that a little far fetched?

Hardly. I eat red meat, which is implicated in colon cancer, after all.

(I gave up bread -- except for that I make myself -- for other reasons.)

Miche

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Electricians do it in three phases

Mark Thorson said...

My main concern is mercury. I've been eating lots
of fish recently, and I know it's not healthful
to eat fish every day because of the mercury.


You have a problem!

These days, most any foods, unless you greenhouse/aquarium/farm them yourself
under perfect, isolated conditions, will never cease to be a concern.

I've got the same gripe!

Andy

Miche wrote:

In article ,
Mark Thorson wrote:

On the contrary, I don't miss tobacco or peanuts
at all. I did miss beef, until I discovered the
Australian beef and checked out the Mad Cow
situation in AUstralia. Then, for about 3 months
I was eating half a steak just about every day.
I've since slackened off a bit, having had my
fill and discovering the very nice wild turbot
and orange roughy also sold by Trader Joe's.

I'd lay off the orange roughy for the species's sake. It's in danger
from overfishing -- it's a slow-maturing, slow-reproducing fish.

I'm aware of that. It's my goal in life to eat the
very last orange roughy pulled from the ocean! :-)

My main concern is mercury. I've been eating lots
of fish recently, and I know it's not healthful
to eat fish every day because of the mercury.
But I feel that the risk is outweighed by fish
being soooo delicious, when properly prepared.
I certainly don't feel that peanuts can meet that
standard -- peanuts are very risky. I wouldn't
take that risk unless it was for something really
good, like bacon. Butter is where I draw the line.
I stopped eating butter over 20 years ago, because
it's deliciousness did not sufficiently exceed
its danger.

I recently discovered that the combination of
fish and broccoli works very well. That's not
obvious -- brocolli hardly goes well with anything
except butter. But I discovered that combining
fish with broccoli makes for an excellent soup.

"Nancy2" schrieb :

The first time I read your description, I thought, "No way," but the
second time, I read "breakfast." It does sound good. One of my
favorites is a fried egg sandwich (using Boetje's stone-ground
[strong] mustard, fried egg (over hard) and crisp lettuce, with butter
as the spread on the bread. Yum.

I like the following :
Mix butter (room-temperature) with a little olive oil, dried origanum,
tomato paste, salt, pepper and a little lemon juice.
Heat oven and turn on the "grill" finction.
Smear the mix on toast bread and put sliced salami on top.
Put into oven. When the salami starts to get slightly crispy, remove
from oven, put a slice of sharp cheese on top. Put back into oven.
Remove when cheese is molten.

Cheers,

Michael Kuettner

"Michael Kuettner" schrieb :

"Nancy2" schrieb :

The first time I read your description, I thought, "No way," but the
second time, I read "breakfast." It does sound good. One of my
favorites is a fried egg sandwich (using Boetje's stone-ground
[strong] mustard, fried egg (over hard) and crisp lettuce, with butter
as the spread on the bread. Yum.

I like the following :
Mix butter (room-temperature) with a little olive oil, dried origanum,
tomato paste, salt, pepper and a little lemon juice.

And a little pressed garlic.

Heat oven and turn on the "grill" finction.
Smear the mix on toast bread and put sliced salami on top.
Put into oven. When the salami starts to get slightly crispy, remove
from oven, put a slice of sharp cheese on top. Put back into oven.
Remove when cheese is molten.

Cheers,

Michael Kuettner

blake murphy wrote:

On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:32:48 -0400, Goomba38
wrote:

Mark Thorson wrote:

Peanut butter has more aflatoxins than whole or in-shell
peanuts (so-called "table peanuts"), because it often
includes peanuts from batches that have been downgraded
for toxin-producing mold (segregation 3 peanuts) which
are then cleaned and regraded. This is completely legal.

yawn
We all hear so many stories about killer peanut butter that we like to
live dangerously....

it's even better if you snort it.

Stop that right now ROTFL! I really really didn't need that mental
image...

your pal,
blake

Goomba38 wrote:
Miche wrote:
In article ,
Brawny wrote:

On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 19:45:33 +0200, "Giusi"
wrote:

A friend of mine has just arrived here and said she cannot eat
anything that might contain yeast or fungi because they give you
cancer.
Funny,........we can't cure cancer...but we all die anyway.

A lot of cancers are curable if caught early enough.

Miche

Yet would you give up bread and beer just because *some* mutant strains
of yeast *might* cause cancer? Isn't that a little far fetched?


A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. The friend
probably read
something about aflatoxin and extrapolated to all yeasts/fungi.

gloria p

Michael Kuettner wrote:
"Michael Kuettner" schrieb :
"Nancy2" schrieb :

The first time I read your description, I thought, "No way," but the
second time, I read "breakfast." It does sound good. One of my
favorites is a fried egg sandwich (using Boetje's stone-ground
[strong] mustard, fried egg (over hard) and crisp lettuce, with butter
as the spread on the bread. Yum.
I like the following :
Mix butter (room-temperature) with a little olive oil, dried origanum,
tomato paste, salt, pepper and a little lemon juice.

And a little pressed garlic.

It's pizza!


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Buffy: Went okay. 'Cept I feel a little wierd about using a
crucifix to kill someone.
Leah: Yeh dinno much about religion, do yeh?

Miche wrote:
In article ,
Brawny wrote:

On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 19:45:33 +0200, "Giusi"
wrote:

A friend of mine has just arrived here and said she cannot eat anything that
might contain yeast or fungi because they give you cancer.
Funny,........we can't cure cancer...but we all die anyway.

A lot of cancers are curable if caught early enough.

Miche


How curable are the wild strains of peanut cancer?

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Leah: That were a wee bit repulsive.
Buffy: Went okay. 'Cept I feel a little wierd about using a
crucifix to kill someone.
Leah: Yeh dinno much about religion, do yeh?

Miche wrote:

(I gave up bread -- except for that I make myself -- for other reasons.)

Miche


Of which there are many....homemade is better for you anyway.

--
Leah: That were a wee bit repulsive.
Buffy: Went okay. 'Cept I feel a little wierd about using a
crucifix to kill someone.
Leah: Yeh dinno much about religion, do yeh?