Mal ,'War Stories'
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My brain can't kill. It's only capable of life emprisonment. And I'm the one in prison. Eep!
I tried to get a burger cooked medium-well here in beef country this week, and the server looked at me sadly and said, "we only serve burgers well done since the, y'know". I said I wasn't that attached to my brain in its current state, but they still had to burn the meat beyond recognition.
JohnSweden, I don't think it's mad cow making them overcook the beef, these days. It's e coli, and other nasties. I don't think cooking can kill mad cow, and that's part of the problem.
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I don't think cooking can kill mad cow, and that's part of the problem.
Yeah, this is the creepy part. It's not caused by anything that is alive. It's caused by a new kind of protein that corrupts the other proteins. Like that new kind of water in the Vonnegut story that freezes at room temperature, and also transfoms ordinary water into its own form on contact, so if you touch your tongue to it you freeze solid.
The charred-hamburger rules date to the salmonella fatalities at Jack-in-the-Box.
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It's e coli, and other nasties. I don't think cooking can kill mad cow
Yeah, I was joshing with her to see if there was any way I could get their kitchen to move on the burnt meat stance. I can still get burgers less than destroyed in the east, although I don't yet have to sign a waiver. Not that I eat many burgers, and I'll eat a lot fewer (read:zero) if I can only be sold hockey pucks. Asking for chicken in beef country is kinda like saying "Yes, I am from the decadent East, wanna fight?" :)
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The charred-hamburger rules date to the salmonella fatalities at Jack-in-the-Box.
Wrong country, Betsy.
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I don't think cooking can kill mad cow, and that's part of the problem.
Yeah, this is the creepy part. It's not caused by anything that is alive. It's caused by a new kind of protein that corrupts the other proteins.
It's bovine spongiform encephalopathy, which resembles (in humans) variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), which it is believed to cause. Cannibalism causes both, as was proven by the creepy practice of feeding bovine protein to cows. Anyone remember the X-Files episode about the Creutzfeldt-Jakob cannibals? Oh, yeah.
Damnation, missed my age again. I even waited around for it.
Anyone remember the X-Files episode about the Creutzfeldt-Jakob cannibals? Oh, yeah.
Yes. I have friends from the town where that story was set.
The actual cause for the full cooking may be something from way back, but I think mad cow disease has heightened cooks' awareness of the regulations. I can now order a well done steak and get well done, as opposed to the medium rare because the chef thinks it tastes better that way steaks of a few years ago.