Is it frozen or thawed? Officially, fresh chicken is good in the refrigerator for 2 - 3 days while frozen chicken pieces are good for up to six months (frozen whole chickens are okay up to a year).

If it smells fine, it is fine.

People freaking out over sell by dates on milk and eggs drive me crazy! Another thing that drives me crazy is people assumption that if something is left unrefrigerated for any amount of time, it must be thrown away.

Yes! I was in Peace Corps and lived in Benin for 2 years plus I traveled in West Africa a lot in that time. That was my life for 2 years, hard to not reference at least occasionally.

Yeah, I feel bad to go out to eat something that I can easily make, so I avoid a lot of Italian restaurants. If I go out for Italian, it’s going to be Osteria Mozza caliber preparations. I’m very comfortable in the kitchen, but some things take too long to prepare right, like pho and many soupy stewy things that…

I hear you. My landlady volunteers with our local pet rescue (dogs and cats), and when I’m in a position to get a pet, I’m going there, because I know the people who are working with the animals, and I feel like I will be able to get a clearer picture of the animal’s personality and needs.

A very day-dreamy and immature part of me always wants to wear practical shoes just in case.

Unfortunately, if you take the TARDIS to ancient Rome and then speak Latin, they’ll all think you’re speaking Celtic.

I will gladly beat them all away with a bat if you take me with you and the doctor to Ancient Rome, I hear it’s nice this time of year.

I bet you all I have that he's opposed to any sort of gun control. Fetuses need protection. Twenty first graders in their classrooms can fuck off.

I rather like the idea of aborted fetus tissue being used to advance medical science. The stem cells alone are being used to save perhaps millions of lives in the now and in the future. Perhaps with this research will find new ways to improve contraceptive coverage, improve mother and fetal health, reduce overall…

Exactly. Both of my parents are in medicine (OR nurse and respiratory therapist) so I heard stories about guts and mucus every day during dinner. Only when I started school did I realize that most children did not, in fact, enjoy or appreciate blow-by-blow discussions of gastric bypass surgery. Who knew?

My friend is an animal rescuer, and for any dogs sake, I hope they go through her before being adopted. There are some rare actual rehabbers out there, and there is such a thing as a bad match. This kind of dog is sometimes unsavable. It is also sometimes a damaged dog and the wrong guardians. Insecure pets need…

I figure I just need to cut and paste this on a number of people’s comments and Facebook outrage.

Well if you can’t get them legally, it’s time to investigate them for such horrors as their “inappropriate tone” and lack of proper tears when discussing a topic they deal with so many thousands of times a year I’d be surprised if they don’t have a script.

I honestly didn’t think her tone was that inappropriate, particularly since it seems she believed she was talking to people who were involved in sourcing fetal tissue for medical research who would presumably be somewhat familiar with what’s involved. I understand that the physical process of removing a fetus is…

So. What you’re saying is that you have access to a Tardis?

Idk, it’s cruel to drop off the dog that loves you (even if he’s dangerous), leave him at a shelter for lord knows how long, and turn over the responsibility for putting him down to other people who don’t know and love him. I’m sure cheddar suffered for how many days he got to stay alive in the shelter. Shelters suck…

Offering meaningful and empathetic advice is not cruel.

Really? Comments are much more for the people reading the article than the write of the article. I think that pointing out that it would probably have been better for them to have this dog euthanized by their vet (ideally while the people he loved were present) rather than dumped on a shelter is a valid point and…