sf wrote:
>
> I got this in my email today. Sheesh, if breaking those rules are
> bad, I should be dead by this time.
>
http://www.eatingwell.com/health/hea...od_safety.html
>
Yep, I should be dead by this time too.

The egg rule cracked me up <eg>. I've been making real mayonnaise with
raw eggs (laid by my chickens) for a good couple of years... I've
*always* liked my eggs soft-boiled and my fried eggs with the yokes
runny.

I've also thawed my meat on the counter on many, many occasions and have
never owned a fridge thermometer. [I wondered why the fridge
thermometer rule was top of the list - but maybe this Eatingwell crowd
get a percentage of the sales]. Oh, and I like my beef steak rare - so
rare that a good vet should be able to save it...

DH and the kidlette have eaten cold pizza for breakfast plenty of times.
(I heat mine up, but not because I'm afraid of 'germs' - I just don't
like cold pizza.)

I've always used a separate cutting board for raw meat, didn't have to
read any rules to figure that one out.

IMHO, the food recall one should be a no-brainer too - but I can't speak
for anybody else. Same for the washing of hands. But there are a lot of
dumb people in this world... (Yes, even dumber than me).

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