>"jmcquown" writes:
>
>Marge wrote:
>> I've gotten food poisoning from eating at NYC restaurants several
>> times. No, they weren't dives either.
>>
>> Unpasturized products are dangerous to babies and older people, who
>> are more susceptible. Remember the Odwalla juice problem a few years
>> ago? We do pasturize for a reason.
>>
>Sorry, I have no idea what 'Odwalla' juice is. I understand pasturization.
>I understand restaurants should be held accountable for food safety and
>handling. They are catering to and serving many.
>
>But home cooking is just... home cooking. Maybe you pick what you grow and
>cook what you grow and then eat. Sometimes the food, yes, even chicken or
>pork or fish, gets left on the table or the counter for a while. Maybe you
>are careless, thoughtless, or simply don't have the means to store it. Or
>maybe you realize you aren't gonna die if you reheat whatever that was and
>eat it later.
>
>My dad used to wring chickens' necks in the back yard and sit on the porch
>and pluck off the feathers before his mom put the bird in a pot with water
>for soup or in a roasting pan. He picked and washed dandylion greens to
>eat. Potatoes straight out of the ground, washed but probably still a bit
>grubby. Pole beans rinsed in a bucket and snapped on the porch. Hmmm.
>Growing up during the American Depression, and listening to those who did,
sure does teach one something

Yeah, hopefully the meaning of the word "exaggeration"... did he walk to school
five miles both ways barefooted... and uphill both directions. LOL


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