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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I had generally always been the young person at my job. But we have a position open and people fresh out of school have been applying and interviewing. I’m no longer the “baby” at work. I’m fucking old. :'(

    It was really a shock to me because I never thought people in their early 20s looked all that different to me until some of them came in.







  • Wait what? Do you not know why this is a food safety issue?

    Bacteria like to grow. Do you know what cooking does? Yep! It kills the bacteria. Here’s the thing though…as the bacteria are growing before we kill them, they are all making waste products.

    Do you know what cooking does NOT destroy? Yup, bacterial waste products.

    Think of it like this. When certain bacteria grow, they make a poison as a byproduct. For our purposes, pretend the byproduct is bleach.

    What happens when you put a living being in a 200 degree oven? It dies. What happens when you put bleach in a 200 degree oven? Maybe it will turn into vapor…idk…but once it cools and recondenses, it’s still going to be bleach.

    Some cases of food poisoning are due to colonization by live bacteria, but other cases of food poisoning are due to bacterial waste chemicals/byproducts, even if all of the pathogens are killed.