On Sep 24, 12:36*pm, "Nancy Young" > wrote:
> Dimitri wrote:
> > I heard most homes would FAIL the sanitation standards set for
> > restaurants.
>
> > The reason - household sponges.
>
> > I regularly zap mine in the nuker to bring any liquid to a boil and to
> > sanitize.
>
> > You?
>
> Ugh, I have to have my green and yellow sponges, but I try to
> change them often. *I know this is a failing in my kitchen
> sanitation. *Heh. *I'll start zapping mine as you do. *
>
> nancy

If you ate enough dirt as a kid you'd have a healthy immune system.

Chemo the Clown wrote:
> On Sep 24, 12:36 pm, "Nancy Young" > wrote:

>> Ugh, I have to have my green and yellow sponges, but I try to
>> change them often. I know this is a failing in my kitchen
>> sanitation. Heh. I'll start zapping mine as you do.

> If you ate enough dirt as a kid you'd have a healthy immune system.

One time we went on vacation and before leaving, I did the usual
thing, took out the garbage so I wouldn't come back to a stinky
house.

Return trip wasn't a good one, 7 hour delay in the airport and
wound up walking in the door at 2:30am. Arrived to a stench
that would make you think a raccoon died in the house somewhere.
The end to a perfect day. Argh.

Nope, not a raccoon. I learned my lesson, before you leave for
vacation, toss the sponge. It seemed fine when I left. There's
a reason they call sponges Bacteria condos.

nancy

On 9/24/2010 6:44 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
> Chemo the Clown wrote:
>> On Sep 24, 12:36 pm, "Nancy Young" > wrote:
>
>>> Ugh, I have to have my green and yellow sponges, but I try to
>>> change them often. I know this is a failing in my kitchen
>>> sanitation. Heh. I'll start zapping mine as you do.
>
>> If you ate enough dirt as a kid you'd have a healthy immune system.
>
> One time we went on vacation and before leaving, I did the usual
> thing, took out the garbage so I wouldn't come back to a stinky
> house.
> Return trip wasn't a good one, 7 hour delay in the airport and
> wound up walking in the door at 2:30am. Arrived to a stench that would
> make you think a raccoon died in the house somewhere.
> The end to a perfect day. Argh.
>
> Nope, not a raccoon. I learned my lesson, before you leave for vacation,
> toss the sponge. It seemed fine when I left. There's
> a reason they call sponges Bacteria condos.

How do you store your sponges? When I leave one out for a week it just
gets dry and hard.

On 24/09/2010 5:55 PM, Chemo the Clown wrote:

>
> If you ate enough dirt as a kid you'd have a healthy immune system.


I was always a very healthy kid. When I was about 3 or 4 years old my
mother caught me drinking water out of the ditch. She ran me over to the
doctor's office to get checked out. The doctor told her that if I was an
example of what happened to kids who drank ditch water he was gong to
start prescribing it.