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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

tastycaramel said:
How are germs tasty?
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Yogurt-- Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus

Cheese-- Brevibacterium is typical in cheeses with washed rinds, and Lactococcus bacteria strains make cheese paste. There are countless strains involved in cheese.

Sauerkraut-- Lactic acid Bacteria of various strains also make Kimchi and Pickles, and Vinegar.

Sourdough Bread-- Lactobacilli work with yeast to make sourdough bread taste so awesome.

If you want to count yeast as a germ (it is typically single-celled, does not generate mycelia, but is classified as a fungus), then the list explodes: bread, wine, beer, pretty much anything fermented that is not done through the actions of the bacteria listed above.
 
Dngrsone said:
Yogurt-- Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus

Cheese-- Brevibacterium is typical in cheeses with washed rinds, and Lactococcus bacteria strains make cheese paste. There are countless strains involved in cheese.

Sauerkraut-- Lactic acid Bacteria of various strains also make Kimchi and Pickles, and Vinegar.

Sourdough Bread-- Lactobacilli work with yeast to make sourdough bread taste so awesome.

If you want to count yeast as a germ (it is typically single-celled, does not generate mycelia, but is classified as a fungus), then the list explodes: bread, wine, beer, pretty much anything fermented that is not done through the actions of the bacteria listed above.
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Hmmm... you forgot about Yakult.
 
tastycaramel said:
Hmmm... you forgot about Yakult.
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Can't forget about it if I don't know about it. I am sure there are a handful of food products out there that I ignored, with tofu at the top of that list, but I listed stuff I was thoroughly familiar with that I thought most people would know about.
 
Dngrsone said:
Can't forget about it if I don't know about it. I am sure there are a handful of food products out there that I ignored, with tofu at the top of that list, but I listed stuff I was thoroughly familiar with that I thought most people would know about.
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Lol ok. And btw, these are good bacteria that are healthy for us, right?
 
tastycaramel said:
When I was really young, I always thought we were eating HIV everytime I munch on my butter-spread bread. I couldn't believe how naive I was in the past lol.
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Hehehe... if you really want some food for thought, consider this: Tomatoes and potatoes are both closely related to the (very) poisonous deadly nightshade plant. In fact, there are varieties of potato in Peru (where potatoes were originally propagated) that are still poisonous, but the natives eat them anyway, in a gravy made from clay (to bind the poisons and allow them to pass through the digestive system).

Then again, many foods we consume require some form of preparation to remove toxins before we can safely eat them...
 
Dngrsone said:
Hehehe... if you really want some food for thought, consider this: Tomatoes and potatoes are both closely related to the (very) poisonous deadly nightshade plant. In fact, there are varieties of potato in Peru (where potatoes were originally propagated) that are still poisonous, but the natives eat them anyway, in a gravy made from clay (to bind the poisons and allow them to pass through the digestive system).

Then again, many foods we consume require some form of preparation to remove toxins before we can safely eat them...
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Yeah. Raw meat contains a lot of bacteria so that is why we need to cook them before consuming.
 
To be fair... most carnivores eat uncooked flesh. We learned to cook it to make it far more tender and easier to eat probably happened hand-in-hand and accelerated us having more space in our skull (tiny jaw muscles) for this big brain. Before that, our body could easily fight off those bacteria but we became evolutionarily (is that even a word lol?) lazy and we could afford to lose that resistance because our flesh gets cooked.
Id say its obvious we only lost that resistance because of the fact that me cook it so that our small teeth and jaw muscles can process it and as a side effect, kills bacteria :thumbup:

I eat filth though, 3day old kebabs etc and my tollerance to illness is much higher than people who are really clean and paranoid about what they eat
 
Oh yeah and theres a lot of cow fields arond here perfect for a certain mushroom at the end of summer. We used to boil them in water to remove the "toxin" but it didnt work.... maybe because we made tea with the water? :vroam: :p
 
The fact that our raw meat sits around for a few days before being consumed plays a large role too I'm sure.

Most of the bugs you worry about with raw meat aren't naturally in whatever animal it came from (there are exceptions), they grow on the meat after the fact.
 
I hate taking a class in a small room and having to constantly ask the new twit in the front row to stop moving backwards.
 
Must admit, certain types of people grind mine :)
Ive learned to keep myself in a position where i can avoid or at least ignore them :beer:
 
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