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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My in-laws are from a third world country and grew up without any sense of food safety. We are at their house and every single thing I've personally observed them prepping so far has some sort of food safety problem.

At this point I think I am only comfortable eating the things I am cooking myself, and not even the pie I brought, since they took it out of the fridge after I put it in and left it in the warm garage for 24 hours. [/quote]

The interesting thing is that they probably won't get sick, if they've been eating foods with moderate bacterial loads all their lives. But YOU will, because your body is not used to it. This leads to a permanent difference of opinion about food safety. My husband escaped a third world country as a child, and his family is quite lax with food safety. His older brother ferments rice in the rice cooker and eats it (this is not recommended). DH has eaten rotten and moldy food with no side effects, except that one time when a rotten radish sent him into bradycardia. I, on the other hand, cannot eat like this, and I don't let him serve iffy dishes to the kids, who have westernized digestive systems.[/quote]

Steak tips PP here. This is interesting. My DH definitely grew up in a home with looser ideas about food safety than I was raised with. He now follows recommended rules about food safety (his brother, on the other hand...) but I have a WAY more sensitive stomach than he does. I've gotten food poisoning twice in the years we've been together and both times it was after eating something he also ate (once after eating identical entrees at a restaurant, the second time after splitting a salad with him from the grocery store). He had no symptoms at all while I had the standard 48-72 hour effects, it was so baffling.

I've previously thought that maybe our family's approaches to food safety were the result of different constitutions. Like maybe my family is stricter about it because we are more sensitive to food issues as a group and therefore learned to be more careful. But the suggestion that maybe his stomach is stronger because he was exposed to more bacteria on food as a kid is interesting.

Neither of us are eating the steak tips though!

[b]Update: we have convinced BIL they don't work with today's meal. They are in the fridge pending a decision tomorrow. They will not be consumed, we're hoping he just forgets about them and we can toss them after he leaves. If necessary I'll pull out FDA guidelines. Ugh[/b].[/quote]

Thanks for the update. Hopefully the steak tips will get “lost” in the way back of the fridge behind the leftovers. [/quote]

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