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Bob (this one)

wrote:
> : They don't pack foods in hard-wall plastics for decorative
> : value. They're not permeable. Meat wraps are permeable.
>
> You are absolutely wrong on this one - plastics are indeed permeable.
> A simple web search will confirm your ignorance of the subject.

Funny you included all those citations. So many. How many
exactly...? <LOL> I just hate it when people prove me wrong.
Oh, wait...

You know, Sparky, it's rather amazing that plastics are used
to vacuum seal foods, medicines and medical implements,
sterile test equipment, and quarantined materials going to
and returning from space, and those manufacturers just don't
seem to know that. Maybe Johnson&Johnson needs to go out on
the internet and do "a simple web search" like you do rather
than paying attention to their polymer chemists. Way back in
high school in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1957, our
physics class toured a J&J facility where they were doing
plastics research, sophisticated polymers. We saw dozens of
different plastics with very different physical
characteristics. Some were oxygen-permeable, some were rigid
and impermeable and others had yet other features. And that
was 50 years ago. I bet nothing much has been done since
right, Pinkie? Probably no one has rigorously tested the old
ones and created new ones. Right, Muffin?

*Some* plastics are permeable. Some plastics are not. If
they're permeable, they're permeable in both directions. Can
you smell the foods packed in the plastic containers in your
cupboards? No? Guess why, Zippy. Can you smell blood when
someone is getting a transfusion? Guess why, Scooter. Do the
vacuumed packages of coffee lose their vacuum any time soon,
Binky? Nah. I bet there's never a "whooosh" when you open
rigid plastic containers of food in your house. Probably
can't pick it out, what with all the whoooshing going on in
your education.

> : If they're kept in their original *protective* packaging, I'm
> : afraid I can't envision such a thing as you're talking about
> : within reasonable time. Twaddle is one way to describe your
> : comments.
>
> Just because you haven't experienced it doesn't mean it can't
> happen - but you've displayed that ignorance for quite a few years
> now so we've come to expect it. If you consider a "reasonable time"
> to be a few months, then of course you'll never see the problem.

Oh, give it a rest. I don't know which moron of the
multitudes that have driven through usenet you are, but
empty prattle like you offered certainly qualifies you to
win the "Salami of the Month" award. And there's no
"expiration date" on that one like you think there is on
bouillon cubes.

"Ignorance..." heh. I must have injured your fragile widdle
ego terribly in some prior life.

> : Find something else to write about.
>
> Likewise!

You need to get better material, Slushy. This vacuity
doesn't stand you in good stead amongst the grownups with
little patience for petulant children.

Expiration date...web search... LOL... Harry@Reems...
obvious what you use to do your thinking. Or a case of
wishful thinking.

Pastorio