The Revenge Of The Sausage maker
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”People who love sausage or the law should not watch either being made”
I have a friend who won’t buy any food that has been ground up. I understand why. I try to take reasonable precautions and trust my immune system and 4 billion years of evolution for the rest. See below regarding the dangers of excess cleanliness.
http://www.abc.net.au/am/stories/s167431.htmPosted by Oink
03/23/2005 at 10:30 AM
Some of my best friends are sausages.
Also see these delicious recipes!
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Posted by Oink
03/23/2005 at 12:08 PM
The bugs and rats are probably more healthy than the cow or pig you are grinding up anyways - if you cook the meat (which you should already be doing) all the nasty pathogens should die.
Nothing wrong with a little bug now and again. Over our lifetimes, we eat pounds of spiders in our sleep. I don’t recall that ever hurting anyone.
Stan, don’t be to quick about discounting that story about the guy getting killed in the meat grinder. As a part of a safety program I was involved with, I have a binder full of OSHA Fatal Faxes. It is unbelievable how some people meet their maker.
As for the food. Shit ain’t no problem. All that stuff is just good for ya if ya cook it long enough.
"Pounds of spiders in our sleep?”
This sounds like a SUB-urban legend. Might one inquire just how this is supposed to happen?
"Pounds of spiders in our sleep.”
Bunk.
Assuming that we do eat spiders in our sleep, a full pound of spiders would be many thousands of the creepy crawlers. Even the largest spiders (tarantulas and the like) only weigh in around an ounce or so, and I’d presume that ingesting an arachnid of that size would definitely render one sleepless. Most spiders, especially those most likely to wind up inside the self, weigh in at less than a gram.
For multiple pounds, the sheer number of spiders approaches tens of thousands.
For those numbers, you’d have to be eating about a dozen of the little predators every time your head hits the pillow.Actually, now that I think of it, it’d be more likely that you’d inhale the spiders, not eat them.
Hell, when I was in the Navy for that short seventeen-day slate at Great
MistakesLakes, Ill Annoy...one of the guys in my training company commented that the sausauge we got at chow ever morning looked like pig’s dicks!So this doesn’t surprise me one bit! LOL
Sounds like the mob is back in business. I thought that stuff had ended a long time ago. I have heard stories of the mob disposing of dead bodies in all sorts of different places. My great uncle will not eat any kind of poultry product. Even if it is a sasauge of some kind that has poultry listed in the ingredents. I will not check out the FDA link for the reason that I like to continue eating ground chuck hamberger and other sorts of meat.
As for the spider thing, I have heard that we do swallow small spiders in our sleep. But I dont think its enough to amount to pounds.
Posted by Antarctic Sparky
03/24/2005 at 02:12 AM
Well, think about it. When you are asleep, it is generally at night. When it is pretty cool. It is said you are never more than a few feet away from a spider. Spiders are cold-blooded. When they sense the heat of your body, they go towards it to get warmer, and thus more active (you are asleep, and mostly still, so you aren’t much of a threat). They go towards the warmer areas - the face, where you are breathing out hot air; the armpits and crotch, where there are a lot of blood vessels bunched together; the ear; the hair, ect. You breath in a tiny spider, and it hits the back of the throat. Swallow reflex, spider eaten. Do this several times a night, over the thousands of nights that you are asleep, from the time you are a tiny baby to the time you are very, very old.
And the “pounds” is just an average. Think of the billions in Asia where the housing is much less sanitary and spider-free. More spiders eaten.
Yum.
