The bread poisoning line gets me every time
Even if penicillin, it tastes awful, and if you don’t need penicillin does it actually help you at all?
I bit bread like this once and I can still vividly taste it.
if you don’t need penicillin does it actually help you at all?
No, it has virtually no chance to help you, and most probably can only hurt you.
First, it kills indiscriminately. If you’re not sick, what are you killing? Your own healthy gut flora. That’s what.
Second, what if you are slightly ill? Guess what? It still probably won’t help. Doctors don’t just throw penicillin at you in random amounts. They prescribe a specific dose that has been shown to be effective. Having one untested dose of unknown quantity isn’t going to help.
Third, when you’re given antibiotics, you are told to take it over a number of days, and to take the entire amount, even if you feel better. They do this for several reasons, but one of the reasons is that, if you only kill some of the bacteria, but not enough of them, the remaining bacteria have a small chance to evolve to become resistant to antibiotics. By taking antibiotics without the guidance of a doctor, you have a small chance of making yourself even more ill with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. I want to emphasize that this is a very small chance, but unlikely things will happen when given enough chances.
- Penicillin is useless, and has been for 25 years
- The resistance myth from not taking the full regimen of antibiotics was disproven years ago. Doctors still quote this because they would rather read Mercedes brochures than manuscripts.
If only you were as right as you are confident…
This bullshit is the reason we can’t have nice things, and the reason staph infections are becoming antibiotic resistant. Well this dumb shit and industrial meat farming and literally spraying antibiotics on plants but I digress.
Tasted kind of limey with a subtle hint of grandma dustiness to me when I ate a slice without looking at it, I now thoroughly check the entire surface.
Penicillin is pretty useless these days, all bacteria are resistant l
That’s a conversation I’ve had more than once with my parents:
– Doing X is fine! Everybody did it in my time and we grew up just fine!
– Didn’t that friend of yours die because of it?
– Yeah, but he’s only a single person, and everybody did X…
Anytime I hear this argument from someone, I tell them to go look up the term, “survivorship bias”.
I mean we figured this shit out during WWII, FFS. People need to keep up.
I mean we figured this shit out during WWI
I guess they forgot to teach that in classes since then
Food is so weird. Bread becomes toxic waste after 8 minutes of being opened, but there’s probably some cheese species that gets fermented up the asshole of a mountain llama for 6 months, being stuffed back in after every bowel movement, and is still edible (if you’re into that sort of thing) after 400 years of being left in a dank cave amongst the frothing remains of a rotting gerbil cemetery.
Cheese is weird because someone had to be like, well let’s go ahead and store some milk in the stomach of an animal, but also they forgot about it under a chair for 3 months and then, upon finding it, thought, “well let’s have a go anyway, despite it changing forms.” And then eventually someone realized if you stuck it in certain caves it became delicious. So much human history just in that one food product there.
But grampa was such a fungi
But cutting around the mold on cheese is fine, right? Right???
Just eat American cheese. That doesn’t mold cause it’s plastic.
The sodium citrate is a good preservative and is responsible for some of that sour flavor
And it comes in tube!
Spray!
The fact remains that nothing beats bologna and plastic cheese on wonder bread. (mustard/mayo/whatever)
Everything beats this. Even an old leathery shoe.
As a kid I used to put plastic cheese in between 2 slices of bologna and microwave for like 30 seconds. Then eat on a sandwich. I was thriving.
It’s the taste of childhood, really. I still get cravings for the worst fake cheese on the whitest of bleached bread.
I hate myself so much for agreeing with you, but here I am.
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Penicillin is one of many types of bread mould.
I too will probably die from bread mould poisoning given my stingy habits with food waste. It’s fine if it’s only the white/blue type, right?
I believe the French have cheese with maggots in it. Would this balance the bread mold?
Sardinia is nasty for that cheese. Its also illegal in the EU and is traded on the black market in Europe (The cheese not Sardinia).
I’m just sad because no one will get my santaroga barrier reference, it’s just something you have to feel.
Well shit, that guy at work was right.
some assholes say that we’re risk averse.
dumb fuck assholes who think the risk of dying from food poisoning is worth it just to look tough.
Actually… if you put moldy bread into soup, does it become safe?
My grandma used to throw all for moldy food into soup and she lived into her 80s completely healthy.
