I was just talking to one of my nurse friends about this and she said that food poisoning symptoms can occur up to weeks after eating the contaminated food so it's really difficult to pin down what specific food may have caused a bout.

That is so crazy to me!

I met with someone yesterday who pronounced meta like "meet-a," and he said meta a lot. It was very strange.

One of the things that I retained from some history class or other was that whatever period we were looking at (18th or 19th century Europe, probably) was marked by a transition from people belonging to a community determined mostly by geography and class towards people belonging to societies determined by shared interests and/or goals that might cut across class and span greater geographical areas, and that seems to be even more true today.

So interesting. And dovetails with the differences between society (as you've listed, but also with the idea that society has sort of contractual roles -- you can to a limited extent decide what roles you want to fulfill) and community which is more about what roles you were born into and all of the baggage and bonuses attached to that. Conflict seems to occur when people want community in a place where society is more important and vice versa.

Beer. It's meat, spices, and beer.

That is...not a type of chili I've ever had. Interesting.

In a sad coincidence, my husband is home sick with what he thinks is food poisoning.

Oh, good point about conflict, Kat. I hadn't thought about it quite like that. I tend to get irritated with people calling for community-building when what I think is needed is more societal attitudes, the other way around is something I should definitely think about.

Oh, hey, I could thaw out some meat today and make chili tonight! Nice. It'll have to be beanless, though, unless I go shopping. The chili I grew up with was made with pink beans or maybe pinto beans, dried not canned. I wouldn't care if someone served me chili made with canned beans, but it would feel weird to make that myself.

Garnishes, specifically sour cream although I am curious about cheese, onions, etc. also: stirred in for a homogeneous bowl or spooned up together but distinct?

Now that I have slept badly after drinking too much coffee yesterday, I will of course need more coffee to get through today. The caffeine monkey is mean and bitter.

I'm sorry, Dana. Ugh.

And I am astounded by the prospect of food poisoning taking weeks to show up. Hours make sense to me, and would confuse the issue of what is to blame enough, weeks is hard to comprehend.

I guess it depends on the incubation time for the organism causing the food poisoning. Perhaps some grow faster than others? Anyway, sorry about your DH's bout, Dana.

Today's another work from home day, and my chili (or "chili" if you don't believe in the beany version) is simmering away on the stove.

I guess it depends on the incubation time for the organism causing the food poisoning. Perhaps some grow faster than others?

I think that's it, basically. My friend and I were talking about this because some lady was claiming on an online neighborhood forum to have gotten food poisoning from a specific dish at a local restaurant. There is no way she could have actually known this was true and blaming the restaurant was irresponsible and unfair. Also, annoying.

Garnishes, specifically sour cream although I am curious about cheese, onions, etc. also: stirred in for a homogeneous bowl or spooned up together but distinct?

I stir the cheese in, because I like the melty cheese to be evenly distributed throughout the bowl.