Dangerous Dave's Risky Lunch

[davidn]

As I've touched on before, I'm very bad at telling whether food is all right to eat or not. Years of growing up in a country where we eat pie made out of kidneys and feed cows their own brains probably gave me a fair amount of resistance anyway, but it's compounded by the way that I have very little sense of smell after having been in chemistry for two years, and am colourblind so often can't tell whether I have green eggs or ham until they start growing cotton wool.

With that in mind, this is an accidentally rather artsy picture of my lunch today.


This collection of raw fish (and a squid), left over from an extremely overambitious visit to Fugakyu with Whitney's parents on Friday, has been transferred between the fridge and the freezer since we brought it home with us. The rice accompanying two of them had gone hard from the freezing, so I threw that out - otherwise it looks and smells all right. It certainly tastes fine, but after four days, behind that deliciousness might be death. We'll see.

Comments

[diarytypething.livejournal.com]

Throwing away the rice was probably a good call because it's a surprisingly common cause of food poisoning. It has something to do with the space between the grains of rice, and the fact that it's basically water and pure carbohydrate. Eating the raw fish may or may not be a good idea (relative to the normal risks of eating fish - they come out of the *sea*, which is full of all kinds of crap), but it probably depends on whether or not it was hygienic when you put it in the freezer because the bacteria can go dormant rather that die at freezer-temperature.

[starfishchris.livejournal.com]

As long as fridge -> freezer -> defrost and eat were the only steps I wouldn't worry. +1 to diarytypething's rice advice, and as far as the risks of eating raw fish go, you've already had some so I doubt you'll find much new!

I hope it tasted better than it looks..!

[e-to-the-ipi.livejournal.com]

This is so much less amusing with your latest entry in mind... Get well soon!

[davidn]

Yes, I think it's safe to say that it was the worst lunch - and stupidest decision - ever. There are some signs that point to my current agony being unrelated to the food poisoning (which seems to have gone) but who knows... Thanks for your thoughts, either way!