The nose knows, I'm pretty sure this is what it's for
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So I can't actually find anything from a quick search that tells me what "bread poisoning" is. Searches show results for both moldy bread as well as ergotism. Just about every source on the Internet tells me that eating a bunch of moldy bread should just give you a bad case of shits or vomits. But if someone is immunocompromised or has gut issues it could be worse.
But if this was ergot poisoning that's different and doesn't have much to do with ordinary bread mold.
Whilst I don't eat mouldy bread intentionally (as in, it will have happened without me noticing on occasion) what's the actual potentially bad thing that happens if one does? Specifically?
But grampa was such a fungi
Only if you saw him spore-adically
I'll never forget him and his pet mole "dee"
he was somewhat un-bear-able
Food is so weird. Bread becomes toxic waste after 8 minutes of being opened, but there's probably some cheese species that gets fermented up the asshole of a mountain llama for 6 months, being stuffed back in after every bowel movement, and is still edible (if you're into that sort of thing) after 400 years of being left in a dank cave amongst the frothing remains of a rotting gerbil cemetery.
There's a reindeer cheese that is considered a delicacy that has actual maggots in it. Another orange cheese that has fucking mites! I don't mind my stinky cheese, but I'm not eating anything moving.
You beautiful bastard that was wonderful!
That's a conversation I've had more than once with my parents:
-- Doing X is fine! Everybody did it in my time and we grew up just fine!
-- Didn't that friend of yours die because of it?
-- Yeah, but he's only a single person, and everybody did X...
Anytime I hear this argument from someone, I tell them to go look up the term, "survivorship bias".
I mean we figured this shit out during WWI, FFS. People need to keep up.
Cut away a generous part around a mould spot, inspect crossection. Looks good? Smells good? Then it's edible. Mould is everywhere all the time. If you can see it or smell it, don't eat.
If you are worried about the mould and microorganisms you can't see, then you will have to eat everything right out of the oven, made with freshly ground flour.
You can do this with harder foods that aren't filled with moisture and air like bread is. Please don't eat around moldy bread ever.
I won’t.
Fun story about that. I was harvesting one of my first cannabis grows and one plant was too dense and definitely got moldy. I spent hours and hours going through the fresh flower with a scope and at one point thought I was going to have to throw everything out: there was mold everywhere!! Which was of course true, there is mold everywhere. I went a little crazy that day, but eventually chose an acceptable amount of fungus and moved on with my life. There was no issues drying and curing except in the one jar I put the black stuff just to see what would happen. It got gross.
Reminder that, per Wikipedia, aflatoxins - the poisons in molds - "are among the most carcinogenic substances known."
Furthermore, aflatoxin B~1~ can permeate through the skin and its LD~50~ can be as low as 300 µg/kg.
300 migs per kig? Shit, I'll roll the dice on that old manchego slice, I'm a fat cunt.
Are you using "mig" as milligram or microgram? For that to be a term you'd use, I assume you recognize you're responding to a quantity in micrograms.
not all moulds though, it should be noted
What is this, some mycologistic hate speech?
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