I vote "safe to eat". Megan Walker has a whole rant on how silly Americans are about refrigeration (compared to the French) and I have a couple of chef friends who, while following all the rules professionally, snort derisively at the notion that food will regularly go bad without that being noticable.
The thing is, people get used to certain bacteria through exposure. My great aunt would leave a (covered) cooked turkey (or whatever) on her pantry counter for a few days, and eat it, and not get sick. But her gut was used to those bacteria.
I think of all foods, ham is the one I'd take the biggest chance with, because it's so processed to begin with, but a ham steak is relatively affordable, and easy to cook (actually, you just heat it up) again, so it doesn't seem worth the risk (to me, YMMV).
I can't believe it is still so foggy outside. The thing is, there was no fog out where I live. It's bright and sunshiney not 5 miles away. Sigh.
On silly refrigeration rules. The brand of raisins I buy starting putting a notice "refrigerate after opening". Dude: I'm not going to refrigerate raisins. They were invented as a means of preserving grapes, and if you refrigerate them they go all hard and dry . This also applies to other dried fruit with the same warning.
The worst Christmas specials and TV movies ever
Of course, 'Santa Claus Conquers the Martians' and 'The Star Wars Holiday Special' are in there....
Shales called 1995's Kathie Lee: Home for Christmas, "a sickeningly saccharine vanity production that should really have been titled O Come, Let Us Adore Me." Her 1998 outing, Kathie Lee Gifford: Christmas Every Day, led him to ask: "What's the difference between the 24-hour flu and a Kathie Lee Gifford Christmas special? Twenty-three hours."
Oh, and B-day happies for Typo Boy!
I'm happy to announce that I have both Babes in Toyland and Christmas in Pac-Land on original VHS. And they're both awesome!
C-I-N-C-I-N-N-A-T-I Cincinnati!
The worst Christmas specials and TV movies ever
The Year Without a Santa Claus remake that was on NBC Monday night deserves to be on that list.
One reason why she could leave a turkey out and not get sick is that she knew how to cook a turkey. The problem is, if you don't cook the turkey long enough, the salmonella near the bone isn't killed, and you've made an extra-special dinner for the salmonella with all that warm meat. Also, in the old days before factory farms, we hadn't managed to infect almost all poultry with salmonella.
I'd nuke the meal and eat it, myself.
C-I-N-C-I-N-N-A-T-I Cincinnati!
The best town in O-H-I-O Ohio, they say!
At first they called it "Cincy" but the Cincy was so natty,
They called it Cincinnati, so they say!
That song is the the only was I ever remember how to spell Cincinnati.
