On Aug 17, 3:31*pm, Omelet > wrote:
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> >,
> *John Kane > wrote:
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> > On Aug 17, 10:02*am, Omelet > wrote:
> > > Does anyone here worry about other peoples kitchen sanitation and
> > > potluck meals?
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> > > Two rooms I keep clean all the time are the kitchen and the bathroom.
> > > All the other rooms are arbitrary. <g> The kitchen has to be very clean
> > > before I'll even start cooking, but that's just me! *I also clean as I
> > > go to kill time during cooking timing.
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> > > I have yet to get food poisoning from a potluck and I've eaten at many.
> > > I tend to avoid potato salad (which is famous for Salmonella) but that's
> > > not the reason. I'm simply not fond of it. *
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> > > I eat deviled eggs all the time. Lynn' makes a wonderful one and it sits
> > > out on the table near the BBQ for hours during her parties, and I have
> > > yet to ever get sick from one. But I know she keeps a clean kitchen too
> > > and keeps the eggs floating over a bowl of ice to keep them cold, and
> > > the containers are covered to keep flies off. ;-)
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> > > Comments?
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> > I appreciate good kitchen sanitation but I suspect that in a lot of
> > cases people are far too paranoid about it.
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> > *I've heard *of people throwing out a litre of milk because it has sat
> > in the kitchen unrefrigerated for a couple of hours. *Unless you live
> > in Death Valley it is not that important.
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> > John Kane, Kingston ON Canada
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> I suspect the stress of paranoia is more deadly. <g>

Quite likely

John Kane, Kingston ON Canada