Notable personal food poisoning cases (the sweating, crying,
begging God to kill me kind):
Pork ribs at an OG BBQ place in Oklahoma
Crab salad from a work potluck
Double with cheese from Wendy’s
Which is to say food safety mindfulness is great but it’s the kind of thing that’s random.
I could not agree more. I’m most wary of stuff like potato salad left out at a picnic.
My own (brief) history includes tartar sauce from Arthur Treacher’s and a Caesar salad from a nice lunch place in Boston.
Twice in the last two days!
Good point.
Also, I need to correct what I said above. The inspection forms do have a “PIC” - Person In Charge checkbox. The form doesn’t state certification but does state that this person needs to be “knowledgeable”. I didn’t realize this until I ran into a few local restaurants who had failed inspection because of it. Apparently it’s an immediate fail (but not “close-you-down” fail) because in each of these cases there’s been a reinspection on the next day, where some of the other issues (fridge temp, e.g.) hasn’t been rectified yet but the failure to have a PIC is no longer listed.
I’m with you, you know your gut and that ‘gut’ feeling is pretty strong. Having mine destroyed, I am past being cautious; I would consider myself paranoid.
If you have an immersion circulator (sous vide cooker) it’s easy to pasteurize your own. 135 degrees F. for at least 75 minutes.
I’ve got one and I’ve looked up how to do it.
I feel like you’d be horrified to learn that the last time I renewed my food handler’s permit, the time allowed for cooling foods to 40F had increased from 4 to 6 hours 
Agree about the safety issue, but you can transfer to SS and recycle the glass. I am going to look for bar shampoo.
Cookie recall from Trader Joe’s?
I’ve bought HiBar several times. Online.
Just a representative photo. They have all different sorts of shampoos. And other stuff all plastic free, IIRC.
Thanks. I also like the shift from plastic jug laundry detergent to strips.
I tried some Japanese laundry detergent “leaves” a few years years ago, and unfortunately wasn’t happy with how they cleaned. Perhaps the new ones are better.
We have tried a couple and will keep trying.
A neighbor gave me some. I was skeptical as most “natural” cleaning products don’t clean well. They worked well.
The problem for me is that they are appreciably more expensive than liquid laundry soap.
And it sucks because I was such an adventurous eater since I was doing a blog for years. Like, Andrew Zimmern “Bizarre Foods” adventurous. I would love to be again, but fear gets the better of me.
And before I became paranoid, I ordered sushi delivery too and never had an issue. But I’m at the point where I can’t look back.
Oh, I get it. Once you have a bad experience, you can’t risk repeating it. Fingers crossed my lucky streak keeps going for a while!
Since the topic turned to soap. This does not surprise me. Nothing goes to waste in this world.
The concept used to freak me out before I ate sushi. And yet I have never gotten sick from inexpensive delivery sushi.
Now supermarket sushi… nope.
I never ate “street meat” aka halal cart chicken for a couple of years after I moved to nyc. Then someone who had lived here longer picked some up for lunch one day, and I couldn’t get enough.
Fast forward a couple of years, one doomed sandwich (from the same neighborhood vendor I always went to) and I was off it for over a decade. Even now, it’s rare that I’ll seek it out. Can’t remember the last time. Once burned…
