It goes back to 2700bc, which was a long time ago.
Food 'Urban Myths'
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It goes back to 2700bc, which was a long time ago.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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It might seem that way to young people like you.
2700 before crumble!! I couldn't last that long before pudding..
Mandragora
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Apple pips and cyanide - snopes article here is helpful:
http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/apples.asp
Just don't masticate, apparently.
Both offspring work in a cider factory, so I'd already been told about this last year, when I was looking into the dangers of eating runner beans raw - true, too, and also as a result of the cycanide/arsenic thing going on. Looking into that, one of the most oft-quoted statistics was that as few as 7 raw runner beans could bring on projectile vomiting. This was on the evening of the day we'd been nibbling on them all afternoon. Fortunately for us, we have all cost cast-iron constitutions, seemingly .
The one I AM cautious about is reheated rice. Never, never do it. BAD idea.
http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/can-reheating-rice-cause-food-poisoning.aspx?CategoryID=51
http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/apples.asp
Just don't masticate, apparently.
Both offspring work in a cider factory, so I'd already been told about this last year, when I was looking into the dangers of eating runner beans raw - true, too, and also as a result of the cycanide/arsenic thing going on. Looking into that, one of the most oft-quoted statistics was that as few as 7 raw runner beans could bring on projectile vomiting. This was on the evening of the day we'd been nibbling on them all afternoon. Fortunately for us, we have all cost cast-iron constitutions, seemingly .
The one I AM cautious about is reheated rice. Never, never do it. BAD idea.
http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/can-reheating-rice-cause-food-poisoning.aspx?CategoryID=51
Hitchington
Lovely stuff
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It's bad for you to have more than 2 bear eggs a week
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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How about "Raw Kidney Beans Are Poisionous"? Frankly, I don't care. Anybody who hankers after them in any shape or form deserves to be removed from the gene pool. Saladistas especially.
Tin Pot
Guru
Oh wow I want a bacon mayo sarnie now!
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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You'll be needing some of my mayonnaise. TBM is a huge fan.
Piemaster
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I've been to S. Africa too on a reefer for fruit a few times, the season started with Cape Town then follows the coast east with the season as the fruit became ready for picking so would be a different port each time.I spent 3 years as a Deck Cadet in my youth. One trip was on a reefer (refrigerated cargo ship to you land-lubbers), first stop South Africa for oranges and grapefruit to Europe. No shortage of fresh fruit on that trip. Then to New Zealand for frozen lamb to Avonmouth. A month of lamb on the menu; breakfast lunch and dinner. Roast, stewed, curried, stovies, chops, leg, shoulder...... Every possible combination. No idea where it might have come from.
Also carried some serious amounts of bananas back from S.America. They are all green when loaded (and should be carried and delivered green) so actually getting hold of an edible one wasn't that easy.
Tin Pot
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Did you miss the toilet?
Piemaster
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Mandragora
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I know what you mean, but (according to something I saw on the telly!) factories where they cook then freeze/cool rice are really strictly controlled environments, with many more measures in place than domestic environments, which is why when we buy it that way you don't get the same issues as you do at home. So,I will buy it from the suypermarket, but if I'm doing it at home, I cook fresh every time - rice is so quick to cook and easy to store dried, I'd rather do it that way. Of course, anyone who now comes on and tells me that they work in a cooked rice production plant, and the rice is left standing around in tne sun for days will mean that I get even more obsessive about it than I already am!
swee'pea99
Squire
I came across the 'be careful with rice' one recently, after a lifetime of using leftovers to make up egg-fried rice the next day, and it's quite often hanging around in a colander for several hours before it gets to the fridge. Can't say I've noticed any problems, but I am generally fairly robust and seldom have problems despite a pretty free & easy approach to sell by dates and the like. Still, I am now consciously trying to be a bit less slapdash around cooked rice.
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
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Well you learn things every day.... been cooking chilli for years and always make enough with boiled rice for 2 meals mixing the chilli and rice together for the next day + if there's any left I take it into work to eat at lunchtime warmed up in the microwave.
{edit: Nah, probably built up enough resistance over the years to most bugs!]
{edit: Nah, probably built up enough resistance over the years to most bugs!]
