Jack, I recall having a biology teacher in high school who had chosen a favorite brand of catsup (ketchup) based on it having the fewest parts of tomato worm in it. There's rat hair in chocolate. Bound to happen. And who knows how many bugs of all kinds. And it's all legal, up to a certain amount. Big kitchens with lots of cooking going on and stored food are nearly impossible to keep truly clean. Bugs and rodents find them by scent. Jan G. ----Original Message Follows---- From: "JACK CHILDERS" <jaxone1234@msn.com> Reply-To: BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com To: BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [BSChat] CATS Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 12:19:02 -0500 Ah, Jan Curtis. I first ran away from home at age 12. There were a few times when I was so hungry that I ate food out of a dumpster outside of a restaurant. Prisons were about as bad. I worked in the kitchen a lot while in prison. I have seen them fry chickens that were riddled with cancer spots. When they crack eggs there was often time feces on the eggshells and some of that fell into the frying pan and no one bothered to pick it out. When you go through the chow line you never know when one of the cooks has had a bad day and spit, or worse, in the food. Sometimes you get a real nut in the kitchen who puts a dab of ammonia in the food. Doesn't kill you but sure gives you diarrhea. I have lived in prison cells that had open trap toilets and at night huge rats come up from the sewers and jump out of your toilet and prowl all over your belongings. I learned a long time ago that in order to keep from starving to death you just closed your eyes and ate what you could and hoped it didn't kill you or make you too sick. After all, the local McDonald's was kind of off limits to me. Do you think a few cat hairs will worry me at this late date ? I mean, I do clean house, I do clean my kitchen. But I do have cats, and I feel sure a cat hair has crept into my food chain now and then. I try not to let that happen, but with all the other contaminants floating around everyone's food supply, a cat hair now and then won't kill me. I would be more worried about the chemicals they use in growing the food long before I ever lay hands on it. And when one eats in a restaurant, do you know the health departments actually allows X number of insect parts to be in the food ? I hold a certified food handler's license here in Oklahoma, know what I am talking about. Check out the FDA rules on foreign bodies in food products, then you may not be so concerned over a cat hair. Jack Childers in OKC International Society of BlackSheep Genealogists http://www.gbnf.com/genealogy/childers/html/surnames.htm "I've traveled a long way and some of the roads were not paved" Jaxone1234@msn.com ==== BLACKSHEEP-CHAT Mailing List ==== Unsubscribe from the list: Mailto:Blacksheep-Chat-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe&body=unsubscribe ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
Years ago, I read a consumers' reports kind of study on peanut butter. Gif had the fewest rat ****s in it. I wouldn't eat any other brand. Sharon IBSSG