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Im astounded at the speed that this can kill.
If I’m reading the article correctly, it was <24 hrs? God damn.
Honestly 5 days out on the counter was asking for trouble - that long is tempting fate even when stored properly in the fridge
Terrible headline. The bacteria that killed him is associated with ‘Fried Rice Syndrome’ but FRS is named for leftovers stored in the fridge, not uneaten food left on the counter.
5 days??? Yikes. I feel uncomfortable if I leave food out for an hour just to let it cool down. I'll admit I've done some stupid stuff with leaving food out in my younger years (pizza left in the box on the counter for 2-3 days; one time while deployed to Iraq I stupidly thought the floor of our trailer would remain cool enough to keep an open can of chip dip fresh -- Newsflash: It did not), but 5 days??
Honest question. What do you do with pizza if you still have leftovers on day 3+? I feel odd putting bread in the fridge.
I can't remember the last time leftover pizza was still around in my house after 24 hours, but any pizza not eaten in goes into the fridge as soon as everyone is done eating.
I've have food out frequently for like half a day / overnight but 5 days sounds absolutely insane to me. I don't even want to know how the noodles must've looked like, probably already smelled at that point too. Makes me queasy just thinking about eating that...
Right!? On the one hand I feel like this guy was a dumb-dumb, but on the other hand, maybe he was never taught proper food safety, or maybe this was his first time living alone and cooking for himself and he just didn't know any better. Sad way to die either way.
I'm a stupid person and honestly I believed that if you microwaved anything long enough, it'll kill the bad germs. it made sense: radio waves === kill zone.
Then a microbiologist explained to me that you're just killing the living organisms, not the toxic waste they leave behind which is still on the food. I was in my 30s when I learned that.
I can only imagine what other weird shit people believe because nobody ever said anything and they just put 2+2 together.