cshenk wrote:
> "maxine in ri" wrote
>
>> Sounds like folk medicine or animism to me. I would bet it goes back
>> to when folks would get sick if the uncooked veggies were handled by
>> hand, but not cooked ones.
>
> I'm trying to relate it to personal hygene here but it doesnt fix it if
> it's the person's hands as cooking the veggies first would make no
> difference there.
>

Oh, I was reading that differently, as in:

use dirty hands on veggies and serve them raw and risk illness
use dirty hands on veggies, then cook them, and be relatively safe

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Jean B.