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"JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote in
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> "Joe Cilinceon" > wrote in message
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>>>> Scott > wrote in
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>>>>> When a steak is cook rare or medium rare isn't the pink meat in
>>>>> the middle not good for you since it appears to be not fully cook?
>>>>> That's one of the reasons I always order my steaks well-done. And
>>>>> if they bring
>>>>> it to me with pink in the middle I send it back.
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>>>> Before man found fire, and got to love that chargrilled taste, we
>>>> used to
>>>> eat the meat raw.
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>>>> Unless you have a rare steak in England (think Mad Cow Disease)...
>>>> anywhere
>>>> else is fine.
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>>> Normal cooking heat does not dependably kill the prions which cause
>>> mad cow disease. From what I've read, you'd have to incinerate the
>>> meat. My mother cooked this way, but most people don't.
>>>

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>> It was my understanding from what I have read about mad cow disease
>> is you don't tend to get it from mussel meats but from eating the
>> organs such as kidneys, liver, brain, tongue etc. and I very well
>> could be wrong on this.
>>
>> Joe Cilinceon
>>

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> I just lost my appetite.
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I just lost my breakfast!!!


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