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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my first job out of college I knew this German guy who was kind of hyperactive and opinionated.  At one point, he had a huge, weekend-long party at his group house where they served mayonnaise-based salads like potato salad, etc.  They just left them out on the table for the entire length of the party.  I found it completely gross, but he thought it was completely normal.  Nobody got sick.  He used to laugh about Americans' paranoia about mayonnaise-containing foods.

No bearing on your situation at all.  But I'd eat the squash.  It's a non-animal product and so would not be expected to harbor much bacteria to begin with, and then was baked at a temperature that would kill anything.  So you wouldn't expect many pathogenic bacteria to be growing. 
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On this note, my first au pair opened a new jar of mayo and put it back on the pantry shelf...I only found it after it was 1/2 gone, no harm done.  We had a good laugh over it, but she said they don't refrigerate mayo at all![/quote]

I've read that the celery and onions in potato salad are often the source of salmonella -- not the mayonnaise.[/quote]

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