Eating homemade stuff from others ?

JimBob1952 said:
I have to admit that Mexico defeated my otherwise ironclad digestive system.
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Oh, the stuff I've tried and the places I've tried it.......recall a street vendor in Karachi, Pakistan.....looked like a cream donut....tasted like hot sawdust dipped in kerosene.......(and the 2nd one was no better. ;) )
 

I would have eaten all of those items. The only thing I might not eat would be some meat item that was not handled safely, like a street vendor without proper safe food handling equipment.
 
Murrmurr said:
On this side of the pond, you can't sell home made goods unless your kitchen has been inspected for compliance with health and sanitation standards. They give you a document and a grade of A through D.

A=enjoy, D=don't put that in your mouth!
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Which pond is that? When I wanted to sell homemade goods, I called the health department and asked them to inspect my kitchen. The guy came, but he said home cooking was a "gray area" and he didn't even know what to inspect. We had a nice chat and then he left.
 

While vacationing in California, we bought some cold apple cider from a vendor. Back at the hotel it was a race to the bathroom. Two people and one toilet. The cider may have not been pasteurized.

I would consider the possibility of spoilage on what was offered. I think the worst that could happen to cookies is to be stale.
 
NorthernLight said:
Which pond is that? When I wanted to sell homemade goods, I called the health department and asked them to inspect my kitchen. The guy came, but he said home cooking was a "gray area" and he didn't even know what to inspect. We had a nice chat and then he left.
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Oh. I thought IKE was in the UK.

You were inspected by a novice. We sold home made goods from our store - when I had one - and the maker said her knees shook while she watched the inspector go through her pots and pans and utensils. He even checked her hot water heater to make sure the dishwasher reached a certain temperature.
 
Ha Ha, this thread's bringing back memories.......we were in the Casamance area of Senegal and the young waiter at the small inn we stayed at mentioned a desire to go to his (Animist) village.

"We have a car, when's your day off?"

They had some kind of beer brewing in an old 45 gallon drum sitting in the sun.....the 'glass' was a cut off plastic bleach container.....it was a 'requirement' that I slugged back a couple.

Then on the way back he bought us some oysters at the river which borders Guinea-Bissau (pic).........shucked them on the beach...shared some with an African lady and her son/daughter* (*can't remember).

Subsequent stomach convulsions........oh boy!

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chic said:
Yes I do. You people don't know hunger! :giggle:
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wrong..I was systematically starved as a child and as a teen..even when I was still living at home and my then boyfriend was at sea... while I was pregnant my father put padlocks on the fridge and larders so we couldn't eat despite taking all my wages from me ... I was 6 months pregnant and scrumping for apples from a neighbours tree to try and feed my baby.. and myself... Chic, please don't assume people don't know what they're talking about..
 
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Murrmurr said:
Oh. I thought IKE was in the UK.

You were inspected by a novice. We sold home made goods from our store - when I had one - and the maker said her knees shook while she watched the inspector go through her pots and pans and utensils. He even checked her hot water heater to make sure the dishwasher reached a certain temperature.
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I'm in Canada. I don't think the guy was a novice; he was middle aged. I think there were just no regulations regarding home cooking.

Even when I worked in institutional kitchens, the health inspectors weren't scary at all.
 
Nemo2 said:
Oh, the stuff I've tried and the places I've tried it.......recall a street vendor in Karachi, Pakistan.....looked like a cream donut....tasted like hot sawdust dipped in kerosene.......(and the 2nd one was no better. ;) )
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I have only once had food posioning abroad.. and usually that's because I'm pretty careful of where I eat in particular when I'm abroad.. but against my better judgement, as we drove through a small dusty village in Northern Italy.. very hot day, no restaurants or eateries.. .. we stopped at a street vendor selling burgers...

It was bad enough when we discovered it was Horse meat.. but it gave us the food poisoning very badly..

However , I've had food poisoning twice in the UK.. both from Fish... once from a Pub where I had prawns.. and the second from a Fish and chip shop... I've never eaten either of those things outside of my own home since..

I was so ill with the food poisoning from the prawns I lost consciousness, and the emergency doctor had to inject me with a big dose of antihistamine ..and she reported the pub to the Food standrards Agency herself.. because the food posioning was so chronic
 
hollydolly said:
It was bad enough when we discovered it was Horse meat..
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Horse meat? As Monty Python's Four Yorkshiremen" would say, "Luxury".

Ate Wildebeest for a week in southern Tanzania, (dirt landing strip was washed out in the rain), and then at Carnivore just outside Nairobi, Kenya...had (IIRC) crocodile, giraffe, and ¿Quién Sabe? :

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My town had four little "Mom and Pop" cafes. A few years back,
the health inspector went through the town.
All of the cafes were shut down!
One reopened after a year.
 
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