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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I only use the office fridge for food I’ll eat in 3 days. I bring all my lunches in 3 days early.  That way they’re cold and semi-fresh and I sneak under the radar of the work fridge police who tsk tsk the storage of foods to be eaten that same day.

On a more serious note, I have never read such an inane take. Some foods can go bad in a few hours and need to be kept cold. Not everyone wants to lug ice packs during their commute. Fridge is perfect cool place to store until lunch. Why would anyone care that people put lunches in the fridge?[/quote]

No food is going to actually go bad in a climate controlled office over 4-5 hours. I assume nobody is bringing raw chicken for lunch. if you are that is a whole different conversation.

OTOH some people may just prefer as a taste matter to have their stuff chilled. that’s understandable. [/quote]
Girl, no
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and-preparation/food-safety-basics/leftovers-and-food-safety[/quote]

I don’t know what to tell you. Your PB&J can survive out of the refrigerator. otherwise all school children would be dead. [/quote]
PB&J is not a perishable food. Your ham sandwich is.[/quote]

I guess I’m dead because I spent 5 years bringing a turkey or ham sandwich and yogurt to work without refrigerating them. baby carrots too! [/quote]
The fact you got lucky doesn’t mean it’s safe. I’ll trust the people whose job it is to study these things, not strangers on the internet.[/quote]

If you can’t tell the difference between extremely conservative public health recommendations for commercial kitchens and common sense … I do not know what to tell you. I’ve never gotten food poisoning from a turkey sandwich I made at 7 and ate at noon.[/quote]

Extremely conservative recommendations for bag lunches too:

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and-preparation/food-safety-basics/keeping-bag-lunches-safe

What's funny of course is that your are far more  likely to die from eating well-refrigerated lettuce with e.coli than die from a 5hr turkey sandwich in your lunch bag. [/quote]
Yeah, and you’re even more likely to die from the e.coli infected lettuce if you let it sit 2 hrs at room temp. You don’t know when your food is inadvertently contaminated. That’s partly why you refrigerate it. To reduce the risk. This is not difficult.[/quote]

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