On Sunday, August 17, 2014 9:12:12 AM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
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> > On 8/16/2014 7:23 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
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> > > Just curious what mayo would have to do with picnics? From what I've
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> > > read, mayo keeps food safe.
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> > Really? You have to ask why mayonnaise might go rancid in hot weather
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> > at a picnic? Oh, sorry, I forgot. Sheesh.
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> I don't know about mayo keeping food safe (probably not), but I've
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> never had a problem with potato salad taken to picnics even in hot
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> weather. You keep it in a cooler until eating time, plus it takes
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> several hours to go bad. Even a couple of hours later, the mayo
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> products haven't turned rancid. This is just a scenario in peoples
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> minds.
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Freshly made mayonnaise with raw egg yolk (real food) might be problematic,
but that shelf stable wino beatoff out of the jar would take hours to go off.

Miss lamb-chops-are-cheaper-than-chicken is having trouble thinking lately.
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> G.

--Bryan