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The bacteria is best known for causing a type of food poisoning called “Fried Rice Syndrome,” since rice is sometimes cooked and left to cool at room temperature for a few hours. During that time, the bacteria can contaminate it and grow. B. cereus is especially dangerous because it produces a toxin in rice and other starchy foods that is heat resistant and may not die when the food it infects is cooked.

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Unfortunately, that was the case for a 20-year-old student, who passed away after eating five-day-old pasta.

His story was described in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology a few years back, but has since resurfaced due to some YouTube videos and Reddit posts. According to article, every Sunday the student would make his meals for the entire week so he wouldn’t need to deal with making it on the weekdays. One Sunday, he cooked up some spaghetti, then put it in Tupperware containers so that days later, he could just add some sauce to it, reheat it and enjoy it.

However, he didn’t store the pasta in the fridge, rather he left it out on the counter. After five days of the food sitting out at room temperature, he heated some up and ate it. While he noticed an odd taste to the food, he figured it was just due to the new tomato sauce he added to it.

  • 50MYT@aussie.zoneEnglish
    71·
    3 months ago

    I lived with a flatmate that used to pull this sort of shit.

    Typical process:

    She would remove the frozen chicken from the fridge, put it on the outdoor table, then go to class. Would come home to a defrosted chicken, which she would take and chop in half on the kitchen floor. Then she would put one half back in the freezer, usually on top. Lovely going to get ice to find it’s covered in frozen defrosted chicken blood. She would then use the other half to cook up a soup in our one big pot we had. This pot would live on the back corner of the stove for a week. Or two. Each day she would take a ladle full and warm it up to eat. The big pot wasn’t kept warm or in the fridge.

    I got to the point where as soon as we saw the mould growing out of the pot, we would biff the entire contents and water blast the pot outside. Much to her annoyance.

    She would then just repeat again the next week.

    • AlecSadler@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      30·
      3 months ago

      My MIL does this, to this day, regularly, and it baffles me how she doesn’t get food poisoning.

      She most recently let a chicken carcass hang out at room temp for 36 hours before boiling it to make a soup, which, okay, boil it long and high enough you’re probably fine. But then after it was done the stove was turned off and it sat out for another 18 hours before being put in the fridge.

      Also she doesn’t believe that hard boiled eggs need to be refrigerated, I’ve seen a batch sit for 7+ days.

      She also thinks I’m wasteful if I toss something that’s moldy, she scrapes the mold off and eats it. But based on what I’ve read, there are unseen spores you’re just ingesting so screw that.

    • NecroParagon@lemm.eeEnglish
      12·
      3 months ago

      Man she just really wanted to see if her body could take it. Imagine the confusion at the horrible shits she must’ve had regularly. Couldn’t have anything to do with those food practices.

        • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zoneEnglish
          11·
          3 months ago

          I wonder if that’s common practice, where I grew up in Australia it wasn’t uncommon to see meat hung up outside under a tree and people just cutting off the rotten bits

          • 50MYT@aussie.zoneEnglish
            8·
            3 months ago

            Maybe.

            This was Dunedin, NZ, so it was cold enough during the day to not be the end of the world, but still…

            • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zoneEnglish
              9·
              3 months ago

              Yeah In today’s day and age with what we know about bacteria and refrigeration i see no need for what any of these people were doing

          • nialv7@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            For meat, that’s actually OK. Many meat curing processes involve mold.

            On the other hand, don’t eat moldy bread.