On Sat 13 Dec 2008 05:20:45p, SteveB told us...

> My wife and mother in law (I see where my wife got it) have the idea
> that if you put something in the refrigerator, there is no such thing as
> shelf life.
>
> "Well, it's been in the refrigerator," is the common answer to "Is this
> good?"
>
> I finally made a rule that if you can't tell me when it was cooked, I
> won't eat it................ Oh, I cooked that last week some time
> .............. Was it Thursday, or the Thursday before .........
>
> I'm telling you, we went through the Clorox wipes thing after she saw it
> on Oprah, and wiped down everything in the kitchen if so much as a fly
> landed on anything in the kitchen including the ceiling, but she will
> leave chicken to thaw from 7 AM to 4 PM in the sink at 70 F.
>
> I need to get ahold of Oprah and have her do a show on shelf life and
> kitchen safety foods.
>
> I mean, it can have brown mold on it, be unrecognizable, and she will
> still say, "I don't understand it. It's been in the refrigerator."
>
> Help me out. I've tried explaining it. Some good sites that I could
> send to her friends, and they could forward to her (she won't believe it
> if it comes from me, but her friends and Oprah are Goddesses).
>
> Steve

Perhaps if you can't convince your wife that virtually foods have a shelf
life, refrigerated or not, that you will have to assign *her* a shelf life.
:-)

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Wayne Boatwright
(correct the spelling of "geemail" to reply)
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