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The new picky eater

SIRI AGRELL

From Wednesday's Globe and Mail

Latest comment posted at 3:45 AM EST 28/12/07

Food safety connoisseurs are using a range of gadgets to monitor what they consume, how it's prepared and how it's stored, ...Read the full article

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  1. Art Lover from Canada writes: Makes me wonder how our grandparents lived past their teen years...
  2. Jimmy VanDino from Eastern, writes: Yes Art, I was thinking the same thing...how did my grandmother ever survive without these germ-detectors...it just boggles the mind! Brenda Watson brought a digital meat thermometer....did she arrive in a plastic bubble too? Don't get me wrong, care and cleanliness is important in preparing food but taking a thermometer to a social gathering?!? C'mon!!! I can just imagine being the life of the party declaring 'this meat is only 125C...run everybody!!!'. If you're THAT hung up and worried about germs why bother eating anything you didn't prepare yourself? Food safety connoisseurs...more like anal retentive hypochondriacs.
  3. D. Sanchez - from Canada writes: This is ridiculous. This woman has obviously been misled about food safety. Unfortunately she'll probably make a killing as tons of people buy her pathetic products. Measuring the temperature of meat is one thing (and actually not a bad idea), but worrying about bacteria and germs on your food is stupid. I worry about stuff that will kill me or make me very sick, like E coli and Samonella. But so what if your apple has bacteria on it? Eat it, it's good for you. The human body is quite amazing. You don't need to and in fact you ought not to sanitize everything you consume. Let your immune system handle it. That's what it's there for.
  4. Kevin Desmoulin from Toronto, Canada writes: Well I think it comes from having to do with her job, must be on her head all the time.
    Fact is we do not have any food security policy here in Canada or Ontario.
    I hate getting sick from food, and I am very leery about anything I have not cooked my self until I get to know the person who cook the food.
    At event like this with lots of people. one bad dish can cause a lot of discomfort and grief.
  5. Andrew Denton from Canada writes: freaks
  6. ALASTAIR JAMES BERRY from nanaimo bc canada, Canada writes: Personally I think a meter that would reveal TRANS FATS in foods and humans would be MUCH MORE USEFUL than a MEAT THERMOMETER.

    Trans fats are still out there.......Certainly most of the kid's candy at HALLOWEEN contained hydrogenated or 'modified' oils.

    And since trans fats stick around once absorbed and are not rapidly metabolized it would be very interesting to know what the concentrations of transfat are in FATTY tissue and BRAIN tissue.

    Like CO2 and global warming, there seems to be a correlation between total comsumption of trans fats and Alzheimer's disease.

    It might be of some interest to find if the relationship is 'causal'.
  7. frederic monet from sackville, Canada writes: Once we do the research, we will probably find that the reason that kids have so many allergies and illnesses is because they are not exposed to adequate levels of bacteria during their younger years. I recall a study that showed that irritable bowel syndrome was something like twice as likely if you had more than one bathroom in the house when you were young.
  8. Red Fox from Canada writes: Demented old hag....LOL.
    I feel bad for her, and everybody who has to put up with her (Watson) dementia.
  9. Self Defense from Canada writes: I think the portable digital meat thermometer is an excellent idea.

    Unfortunately, it is our attitude toward food safety which is the problem, and no thermometer can save us there.

    An upmarket and trendy cafe in my neighborhood had a person working in the food prep/serving area who had blisters or cold sores or...on her lip. Behind the same cafe one day, I saw a young man urinating against the dumpster. He walked up the sidewalk and into the cafe through the front door. He was wearing the cafe's trademark apron.

    No digital thermometer is going to protect us from this kind of ignorance.
  10. robert F from Toronto, Canada writes: Well, frankly I find it's the hot house orchids that seem to get hit with illness from food. Heaven knows how their genealogy survived when they drop from the flutter of a butterfly's wings.

    It's usually when you least expect it, and will likely be at home actually rather than out and about. People at home, wrongfully think things are safer.

    Finally, they are likely taking up so much time being anal retentive in their entire life, as to nullify any time they gain from illness, in watching out for it. ;)

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