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Cake day: April 8th, 2024

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  • You can’t eat decades-old food with no consequences

    Except when you can. There have been cases where they have found canned foods from decades ago and when they lab-tested and taste-tested them they were still safe to eat (albeit a bit bland). The biggest danger with intact cans that are not inflated it that you might get lead poisoning if the can is older than ~1990

    That’s the whole point, you have to use your senses (common and biological). You can’t assume that something is unsafe to eat just because it’s beyond its best before date or has been stored at 5° instead of 4° for a few hours. At the same time you can’t blindly trust that every food is fine just because it has been stored correctly.

    Use your senses! I know doing that is not very famous these days, but you should try it sometimes.

    So instead of “If in doubt throw it out” I’d suggest “If in doubt, throw it out, but if its still tasty, throw it in the pasty”.



  • The sourdough bread, the butter, the cottage cheese or the meatloaf that my sandwiches consisted of weren’t “ultra-processed”. Neither was the boiled egg, the cut up fruits or vegetables or the homemade yoghurt. And of cause I didn’t have an ice pack in my lunch box. I know nobody who had one.
    I don’t know what you have in your fridge, but I bet you 90% of the contents of 90% of the American fridges are more processed than what an average German school kid has in its lunchbox. So just throw out the 10% that aren’t and feast on the remaining 90%.




  • People have survived millions of years without refrigerators. Most products don’t get bad in a few hours just because they’re kept at 8° instead of 6°. Granted, there’s some stuff you want to be careful with, like raw poultry and minced meat, but neither the pasteurized milk nor the cured sausage will go bad in just a few hours, even at room temperature. Even if they would, you’d usually see, smell and taste it.

    If it was as bad as you say, millions of pupils would die each summer from food poisoning because of the sandwich they carry unrefrigerated with them the whole morning until the lunch break. The temperature in an average teenagers backpack is much higher than that in a refrigerator that has been off for a few hours.




  • Huh, what city in France are you talking about? Every city I’ve ever visited had mixed zoning with shops and restaurants in the ground floor and flats above. Of cause there are also blocks of houses without shops, but that’s mainly because you need more space to house a certain amount of people than for them to shop.

    I there are also suburbs where every house has like a 1000m² of garden around it, and of course these houses don’t have a shop in their basement. But that’s because people choose to live like that and not because it’s the only option.








  • Bill Gates seems to be like that. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like him and he’s still doing lots of shitty billionaire stuff, but he seems to be satisfied with “just” being a billionaire and making sure his offspring will be billionaireswon’t starve as well and giving away a lot of the money he will never be able to spend on his own anyway. Same goes for George Soros and Warren Buffet.