On 2015-08-28 2:29 PM, Michel Boucher wrote:

> None whatsoever. My wife is a food paranoid. I have gotten her
> to the point where she doesn't throw something out because it has
> been out of the fridge for ten minutes. And although she has
> seen a good documentary on the corporate fiction of the "due
> date" on food (as opposed to checking it out (smell, appearance,
> etc.), she still cringes at the thought of eating yogurt that is
> two days past the due date as though that meant it turned to
> poison from one instant to the next. Clearly she does not trust
> her own sense to tell her when something has truly expired as
> opposed to fictitiously expired.


What does she think happens to yogurt after the best before date? It
has already been affected by bacteria. Does she have any idea how old
the milk is that went onto that 3 year old aged cheddar?

>
> I have been preparing her food for nigh on 28 years now and she
> has never been poisoned by anything I've put in front of her.
> Twenty eight years and still she doesn't entirely trust me. Ya
> got to wonder.

I can appreciate that. My wife is absolutely phobic about bees and
hornets. She has never been stung.

> Of course this is hardly an issue when compared to the growing
> trend in "gluten intolerance".

It's almost like yawning... contagious. I suspect that my wife is gluten
intolerant. She tends to avoid bread, cereals and pastry, mainly because
of carbs, but she seems to suffer when she does eat them. She was
treated as celiac when she as young.