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Stopped a lady from eating raw bread dough at the county fair last August
I was judging the yeast bread category at the Lancaster County Fair when an older woman walked up asking why her rolls didn't rise. She pulled a lump of dough out of her purse and started picking at it like it was a snack. I had to grab her wrist and explain that raw flour can carry bacteria and the yeast is still active, it needs heat to finish. She just shrugged and said she's been eating raw dough since 1952 and never got sick. Has anyone else run into folks who refuse to believe raw flour is risky?
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lucaslee1mo ago
JEEZ, that lady sounds like she's got guts of steel or just a really lucky immune system. I've definitely met people who think they're invincible when it comes to food safety, like my uncle who eats raw cookie dough by the spoonful and brags about it. I guess I'm not one to talk though, considering I once ate half a bag of flourless chocolate mix before realizing it had raw eggs in it. Spent the next day hugging the toilet and praying to the porcelain gods, so I learned my lesson hard. That woman from 1952 might be fine, but I'll stick with the heat-treated stuff from now on.
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wendy_jackson28d ago
hugging the toilet and praying to the porcelain gods" yeah that changed my mind too
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...and that's exactly what happened to my buddy Mark. He's a guy who's always eating raw cookie dough, says he's been doing it since he was a kid, no problem. Last Thanksgiving he made a batch of his grandma's sugar cookies and was practically licking the bowl clean. That night he got hit with the worst stomach cramps, spent the next 12 hours in the bathroom, didn't make it to the family dinner. He still swears it was something else, but I've never seen him touch a raw egg since then.
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