Julia Altshuler wrote:
> 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
>
I remember taking my lunch to school in the 1050's and this included egg
salad and other items with mayonnaise. No refrigeration no sickness.
Say four and a half hours from time made til eaten. However this was
always in cool weather. We don't get 35C+ days often during the school
year. Ice was never considered.

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John Kane, Kingston ON Canada