JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message

>> Leftovers
>> * Discard any food left out at room temperature for more than
>> 2 hours (1 hour if the temperature was above 90 °F).
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>
> Based on that rule, I should've died a thousand deaths by now. :-)
>
No kidding. I've often heard told that down south previous generations
would put out a spread for Sunday dinner at noon and cover it with a
cloth. Then as the day progressed anyone could go back and forth for
food and that was often the supper meal too. I don't recall hearing of
resultant illness or deaths being attributed to this practice....<shrug>

I'm all for food safety, what I'm not is neurotic or paranoid. What
happened to using common sense? I mean seriously, we used to pack
sandwiches in lunch bags and they'd sit <gasp!> in our desks for hours
until lunch. Now everyone is worried about having blue ice packs and
insulated lunch bags to carry that bologna sandwich in.