SteveB wrote:
> "Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
> 5.247...
>> On Sat 13 Dec 2008 05:20:45p, SteveB told us...
>>
>>> 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."
>>>
>>> Help me out. I've tried explaining it. Some good sites that I could
>>> send to her friends, and they could forward to her (she won't believe it
>>> if it comes from me, but her friends and Oprah are Goddesses).
>>>
>>> Steve
>> Perhaps if you can't convince your wife that virtually foods have a shelf
>> life, refrigerated or not, that you will have to assign *her* a shelf
>> life.
>> :-)
>>
>> --
>> Wayne Boatwright
>
> What I'm waiting for, and somewhat hoping, is that she will have an
> intestinal bout with something caused by this and learn her own lesson. But
> then, if the doctor asked her what she ate lately, she'd just say, "Nothing
> that hasn't been refrigerated."
>
> Steve
>
>
Chances are, if her food storage practices and lack of food safety
knowledge haven't made her sick yet -- I'm guessing this has been going
on for years -- they are aren't going to any time soon.