On 7/3/2017 4:28 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Sunday, July 2, 2017 at 12:10:00 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
>> On Sunday, July 2, 2017 at 4:59:18 AM UTC-10, Gary wrote:
>>> dsi1 wrote:
>>>> I had a meat pie a short while ago. It tasted funny.
>>> > I guess that's what happens when you leave a meat pie out for a few days.
>>> > Hopefully I won't die from food poisoning. Also, it needed a bit more
>>> salt. :Q
>>>
>>> You left a meat pie out unrefridgerated for a few days then ate it?
>>> LOL! Good one.
>>>
>>> If that wasn't a joke then your mind is.
>>
>> I've done that a lot - probably because I don't like wasting food. I wouldn't recommend that anybody do that but I'm still here and I've never gotten sick.
>>
>> My guess is that leaving food out for a few days was pretty common back in the old days. What was probably not done was throwing away food.
>
> Dying of "griping of the guts" was pretty common, too.
>
> Cindy Hamilton
>
aka Dysentery. There's a reason people started using ice boxes. It
extends the viability of food. There is no reason to throw out
perfectly good food these days. But what he described sounds like pure
laziness. How difficult is it to put the remaining meat pie in the
fridge vs. leaving it sitting out for a few days?

Jill