Goomba38 wrote:
>
>> 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.


An analogy to that logic might be "I've driven on the highway thousands
of times without a seatbelt and have never been in an accident once, and
we never wore seatbelts when I was a kid. If seatbelts are that
important, why aren't I dead? They're stupid, and I don't need one."


Granted, people won't get sick and die every time they eat food that's
been left in the danger zone too long, but wouldn't one time be enough
to convince people that general rules of food safety are important?
Things like keeping hot food hot and cold food cold?


I remember taking my lunch to school and leaving it without
refrigeration until lunch time. Lunch was always items that didn't
require refrigeration-- peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, cookies, an
apple, carrot sticks. If someone wanted something that needed to be
kept hot like soup, they used a thermos. For cold items, they used bags
of ice. And this was back in the 60s.


--Lia