Beefy's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

Likewise, but I have the constitution of a ox. The last time I was physically sick without it being directly attributable to alcohol was about 20 years ago.

 

I'm the exact opposite on the illness front, I seem to find new ways to get ill every few weeks. That said, I don't think it's ever been because of bad meat.

 

Well I nodded off earlier and just awoke to Beefy's turning into a cooking surgery as a result of chicken-gate.

Where's Ainsley Harriott...?

 

3 guesses who started it!

 

How horrible.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23583116

 

That's terrible.

 

Well, wrt to the chicken, it depends how old it was once it was frozen. If you froze it because you werent going to use it in time, then you would have to consume it today/tomorrow. If it was frozen as soon as it was purchased (or was bought frozen) then you have been ok to perhaps keep it a day longer. Before the days of reliable refrigeration and supermarket 'use by dates' people had to use their own judgement based on the appearance and smell of food. If the chicken didn't smell, it was probably ok.
The whole point about not re-freezing defrosted foods is that you shouldn't then assume that it would be safe in a few weeks time. It would have been fine to rapidly defrost (using the microwave) and eat over the next few days.

 

On a similar note, watching the news raised a question for me...


Would you eat lab-grown burgers?


I've clearly never tried one, but I really don't have an issue with it, from what I do know of it.

I saw a lot of people on the news seeming very against it and totally rejecting the idea of even trying it. It didn't make me feel that way at all.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ith-trolled-death-bullies-Ask-fm-website.html

Anyone else reckon the media are constantly misusing the term "troll"?

 

If it tastes good and won't kill me, then yeah of course, why not?

 

Apparently around 100,000 people around the world are killed by snakes each year. I doubt many of them are Canadian though. Pretty odd that the snake would have any desire to kill the kids.

 

Is that trolling? Seems more like someone just being abusive and unpleasant on the internet. Not sure it is trolling as such...

I never understand these kind of sites, tried one once and it was boring and really quite ****.

At risk of sounding cruel... people should just close these accounts, because you get knobs like that who don't even know who they're abusing, but do it for kicks.

 

Pretty much how I see it. People on the news interviewed in the street didn't even want to consider it though.

Thought that was odd. If it's good, sure.

 

I guess the snake saw them as food. I guess they were roughly the same size as animals that that type of snake would eat in the wild. But I'm only guessing.

 

It's the future. As far as I know the taste is identical as well, so there's no downside other than the cost, which will go down eventually. I'm guessing the people who are against it are the same sorts of people who are against other sorts of stem cell research. Opposing huge steps forward for humanity for no ****ing reason.

 

Re that snake and the toddlers - I can't get some tragic images out of head. Truly awful. But I'm going to try and think about something else...

CF just referred to the days before Best Before/Use By/Sell By dates. I actually think something was lost when people had the responsibility of looking after food taken away from them by that system. Many people who have grown up depending upon that system have no concept of what is good or bad food or what is perfectly edible and what will make one ill. I know people who throw out food the day after the Use By date has passed or even on the same day because they had no intention of using it that day. I mean, these dates are conservatively arrived at and items can often go several days, indeed weeks past the Use By dates. And the same goes for Best Before and Sell By. It depends on the item itself. People really shouldn't depend on the system and should learn how to judge food depending on some fundamental factors. I'm not going to sit here and write pages of how I can judge whether a food stuff is OK or not. It took me years to know when something is perfectly safe of not. The thing is knowing what to look for, and the Internet is a vast store of knowledge to help anyone who is keen to find out for themselves.

 

A lot of the arguments are the same as are used against GM crops, which we actually have. It makes me want to say "ok then, you tell me your plan for feeding two billion starving people".

 

Yeah, as I read from a guy called Padraig Reidy recently (talking about the Twitter rape/bomb threat thing), trolling is kind of a noble British tradition, abuse is just abuse. But I think we're fighting a losing battle there.

 

The GM crops protest at the Rothamsted Research center last year, which was covered quite a lot on the news, was just down the road from me. They didn't have a clue what they were opposing. Most of their "facts" had been totally made up.

 

The news showed them eating it. Apparently it was **** as it had no juices at all.