Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 05-06-19 18:16 <=-

According to the authorities, an hour is enough. I
admit, though, that these are people who tell you
to cook meat to 160F.

And to never ever consider eating it raw.... ;)

That's not cooking it to an internal temperature
of 160F! Heck with them. I'll eat raw meat that
has been kept reasonably cool and that doesn't
have visible parasites. For meat of a dubious
source, I'll trim off all the edges and feast
on the supposedly sterile middle part, though
there's always the possibility that one may be
sold the meat of a septicemic animal, despite all
the best efforts of public health inspectors.

Always a risk... and even cooking it to death doesn't really save one
from that sort of possibility....

I'll eat fish even with visible parasites but will
remove any apparent ones - actually I had to do this
a couple months ago. Look at the numerous YouTube
videos on the subject - it's not incredibly hard
to do ... and even I can see the things, my close
vision being still kind of okay.

As long as it's large enough to see... I don't think I've ever actually
seen parasites in fish... but then mostly I get my fish (for cooking)
from Wegmans or (for sushi) from Fu... ;)

Apparently the art of horoscope (or any predictive)
writing is just that. Be vague enough to apply to
anything but fake-specific enough so people will
believe it's about them.

Yup... :)

Like fortune cookies. Very few of them say anything
specific, though I did get one a few weeks ago that
said "you will have a happy and prosperous old age."
If I could get a guarantee for that, that would be
really great.

Yup... ;) Ones like that, I always look for the "waffle" factor that invalidates what it seems to be promising... (G)

... Enter any 12-digit prime number to continue.

Just remember this: 101111111111

Ok, I'll try to... (G)

P.S. Got this a day or two ago:
We're sorry.
Firefox had a problem and crashed. We'll try to
restore your tabs and windows when it restarts.
To help us diagnose and fix the problem, you can
send us a crash report.

Not that I doubted you.... ;) Interesting to actually see, though... :)

ttyl neb

... A wise man once said nothing.

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