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"SteveB" <toquerville@zionvistas> wrote:

> My wife and mother in law (I see where my wife got it) have the idea that if
> you put something in the refrigerator, there is no such thing as shelf life.
>
> "Well, it's been in the refrigerator," is the common answer to "Is this
> good?"
>
> I finally made a rule that if you can't tell me when it was cooked, I won't
> eat it................ Oh, I cooked that last week some time ..............
> Was it Thursday, or the Thursday before .........
>
> I'm telling you, we went through the Clorox wipes thing after she saw it on
> Oprah, and wiped down everything in the kitchen if so much as a fly landed
> on anything in the kitchen including the ceiling, but she will leave chicken
> to thaw from 7 AM to 4 PM in the sink at 70 F.
>
> I need to get ahold of Oprah and have her do a show on shelf life and
> kitchen safety foods.
>
> I mean, it can have brown mold on it, be unrecognizable, and she will still
> say, "I don't understand it. It's been in the refrigerator."

> Steve

Tell her that refrigeration does not prevent spoilage; it only delays it.

--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
<http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/amytaylor> -- the world can
learn much about grace from Amy and Warren.

"Melba's Jammin'" > wrote

> Tell her that refrigeration does not prevent spoilage; it only delays it.
>

BTDT.

SteveB wrote:

> "Melba's Jammin'" > wrote
>
>
>>Tell her that refrigeration does not prevent spoilage; it only delays it.
>>
>
>
> BTDT.
>
>

Try replacing the term "spoilage" with "rot", "decay", or "decompose".

Those verbs tend to convey the concept a little more efficiently.