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.
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I guess it could help kill your gut bacteria.
Hurray, diarrhea!
Very handy for when you're carrying something that would kill one hemisphere and blind the other
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.
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.
But cutting around the mold on cheese is fine, right? Right???
Hard cheeses, yes, if you cut well around it. Soft cheeses, not so much. This, of course, only applies to mold that the cheese grew after you bought it, and not any from its curing. How do you tell the difference? Devilish rhinoceros.
How do you tell the difference?
From experience. I once ate a big bite of Roquefort with the wrong mold....
Just eat American cheese. That doesn’t mold cause it’s plastic.
American Cheese is a processed mix of cheeses like Colby and Cheddar, and is great.
Kraft American "Cheese Product" is the square sliced "plastic" one people think of.
I didn’t realize. I was definitely thinking of the cheese product. I would make my kids incredible grilled cheese sandwiches with shredded cheese where it falls off the edge and crisps up on the grill. My kids told me they just wanted kraft cheese slices.
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The fact remains that nothing beats bologna and plastic cheese on wonder bread. (mustard/mayo/whatever)
Everything beats this. Even an old leathery shoe.
It's the taste of childhood, really. I still get cravings for the worst fake cheese on the whitest of bleached bread.
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.
The real trick is the bologna grilled cheese. Brown the bologna in your skillet, then (wipe out skillet if need be, and) make a grilled cheese as usual, but put the bologna in the middle before you close it.
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I hate myself so much for agreeing with you, but here I am.
I also suspect that Doritos dipping cheese is closer to a fossil fuel than a dairy product. I still eat it though.
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And it comes in tube!
Spray!
Username checks out!
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Reminder that, per Wikipedia, aflatoxins - the poisons in molds - "are among the most carcinogenic substances known."
Furthermore, aflatoxin B~1~ can permeate through the skin and its LD~50~ can be as low as 300 µg/kg.
If you can see mold on part of bread that's wrapped up, that means there's probably microscopic growth that's already spread past the part you see to other sections. Cutting the big part won't help you. The whole thing needs to go, it's contaminated.
That's life living with a human garbage disposal. They will eat anything. They'll acknowledge the five second rule only in so much as it's their inside joke when they eat a chunk of cake that fell on the floor at least 20 minutes earlier and miraculously escaped the canine detection system. It's bizarre having to justify throwing away 30 cents worth of cookies that were molded because "I would have still eaten them just not the moldy parts." but that and similar conversations are being had regularly.
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 used to be the same way, following the same thought process. Just cutting off the visible mold and a small area around it. I stopped after I got food poisoning from a restaurant and had to eat hospital food for a week. Then I started up again immediately after getting back home to my moldy food. Still no repercussions, that I can tell
This past summer I hadn't been to the cottage for over a month but I had some food left in the fridge. I brought home a can of opened berry jam I had there and I didn't want it to go to waste. I ate from it three or four times before I noticed the large patch of mold that was growing on the lid and the underside of the top of the inside of the jar. I like saving food because I grew up poor but at the same time, I'm not going to send myself to the hospital to save a bit of jam ... I threw the jar away after that.
I started up a compost to help cover my conscience about food waste. Worst case scenario, my food is reborn as tomatoes, kale, and herbs. Or as a raccoon because I forgot to secure the lid.
Just mix it with the bologna mold and let them fight to the death.
Oh, I've been cutting the visible mold off for years. Same applies to things like jam (jelly). Spoon out the mouldy bit, then crack on.
Should I be ded?
You actually died 6 years ago, this is purgatory.
Shit that actually makes a lot of sense
Does it?
The world I'm in, I can practically see the flames licking at my feet......
For marmelade / jam / jelly it depends on the sugar contents. I don't know how much it has to be but if it has high enough sugar contents, you can indeed take off the mould generously and eat what is under it. That said - gross! Just don't let foods spoil. Buy what you need and plan ahead a bit.
But jam comes in jars of a minimum size and sometimes it goes mouldy before finishing.
- Keep it in the fridge
- Only use clean spoons (don't let breadcrumbs, butter, saliva touch the jam in the jar)
- Immediately close the jar after taking something out.
-> rarely ever any mold. I keep my jams fresh for months this way.
If there is visible mold on a part of a surface, then it's reasonable to assume that a much larger part of that surface already has mold, it's just not visible yet. Bread is basically a sponge, the surface of a sponge is the entire sponge, so that mold can have spread everywhere in the bread.
I found this overview which looks right to me: https://www.eatingwell.com/article/91553/4-moldy-foods-you-can-eat-plus-which-foods-to-toss/
Should you be dead from eating mold? I suspect that it's a lottery with many factors: which types of molds that you have eaten, the quantities, your immune system, ... But keep at it and eventually you might win a price.
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Grandpa was just hoping for some psychoactive mold
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...
Well shit, that guy at work was right.
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