a tip to stay healthy this week end

[luckyleftyme2]

I'm sure many of us are going to fire up the grill this week-end to feed family and friends.
Many of us will have potato salad,chopped onions,mustard,ketchup etc.
A friend sent this to me in an e-mail and I took an excerpt from it. yes I always left over onions in a zip locked bag in the fridge. but I won't any more!\
Questions about food poisoning came up, and I wanted to share what I learned
from a chemist.

The guy who gave us our tour is named Ed. He's one of the brothers Ed is a
chemistry expert and is involved in developing most of the sauce formula.
He's even developed sauce formula for McDonald's.

Keep in mind that Ed is a food chemistry whiz. During the tour, someone
asked if we really needed to worry about mayonnaise. People are always
worried that mayonnaise will spoil. Ed's answer will surprise you. Ed said
that all commercially- made Mayo is completely safe.

"It doesn't even have to be refrigerated. No harm in refrigerating it, but
it's not really necessary." He explained that the pH in mayonnaise is set at
a point that bacteria could not survive in that environment. He then talked
about the quaint essential picnic, with the bowl of potato salad sitting on
the table and how everyone blames the mayonnaise when someone gets sick.

Ed says that! when food poisoning is reported, the first thing the officials
look for is when the 'victim' last ate ONIONS and where those onions came
from (in the potato salad?). Ed says it's not the mayonnaise (as long as
it's not homemade Mayo) that spoils in the outdoors. It's probably the
onions, and if not the onions, it's the POTATOES.

He explained, onions are a huge magnet for bacteria, especially uncooked
onions. You should never plan to keep a portion of a sliced onion.. He says
it's not even safe if you put it in a zip-lock bag and put it in your
refrigerator.

hope this helps you keep your holiday safe

[Angsty]

1. Don't worry about your onions

and don't believe much of what you read in chain emails!

http://www.snopes.com/food/tainted/cutonions.asp

[luckyleftyme2]

2. very interesting

yes I appreciate this article an notice that even his findings were not without caution!
gotta go lunar pull is best fishing for me!