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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mom proudly told me on Monday that she just finished cooking the turkey so she can re-heat it for us Thursday. :([/quote]
I feel your pain. I am looking at a frozen turkey sitting on the counter. It was fully defrosted LAST YEAR and then REFROZEN when a contingent family did not make it up from the twin cities. This is an 18 pounder. Early tomorrow morning, crimes against nature will be committed in order to finish the thawing. This is one of many attempts on our lives that have/will occur this Thanksgiving. I’m going to go eat a snickers bar and have a Bloody Mary. They don’t believe in food allergies or food safety here, but they believe in large supplies of junk food and nobody monitors your drinking. #winnng

RED PLASTIC BIN IN THE FREEZER LADY PLEASE COME BACK[/quote]

No, no, no, no, NO. Tell you don't have children who will be eating that killer turkey![/quote]
There are children here but none on my watch will eat the Turkey. All of the sane adults work together to protect ourselves and the innocents. The perpetrators don’t get sick. I don’t know if they’ve evolved to have cast iron stomachs or if it’s the alcohol (I’m indulging, not judging, but they drink SO MUCH).[/quote]

My mother is 97, lives in her home on her own and still drives. She's never had cancer, has normal cholesterol etc. She is a unicorn according to my internist, who doesn't believe she exists. She still gardens and does stuff on her own. She has never been a person concerned with eating healthy foods. She has always eaten a lot of vegetables and few sweets but she's Southern and loves her Southern food. She's never had a heart attack, heart issues, or strokes. She lives in the hot South. She leaves food out all the time. We just visited and she made sausage and biscuits several mornings and they sat out all day. We didn't realize and the first day, most of us had stomach issues. I'm pretty certain she has poisoned herself so many times with every possible food borne illness that it has killed anything that can kill her. [/quote]

My mom is only 78 but is like this (and also a Southerner).  [b]She doesn’t wash her hands, leaves food out, eats old leftovers; licks the spoon, doesn’t stay away from sick people, etc. and never gets sick.[/b]  There have been holidays when every single one of us catches a stomach bug, she is right in the mix without taking any precaution, and she is the only one who avoids it.  My BIL says she’s like a cockroach.[/quote]

This whole generation is like this. I virtually never saw my mother wash her hands. Even after using the bathroom. It’s pretty gross.[/quote]

I never knew so many people of that generation had some compulsion to leave food sitting out. My mom is like another posters in that she thinks putting the food in the fridge is something bad. My entire life she left food sitting out for hours. I thought it was our shameful secret.[/quote]

PP here. My mother put food outside, like PPs have mentioned, and she left food sitting out on the counter for hours, or even all day, as well. I didn't even know enough to know it was a shameful secret. I know better now, but I had to get way into adulthood to learn it. If I forget anything I have cooked for even one minute beyond 2hrs without refrigerating -- it goes in the trash. Probably overcompensation, but that is what I do. [/quote]

It’s crazy. It’s fine for pretty much any food to be out for a day, even overnight (but ok let’s not push it) except raw meat. 
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