That's sweet! My mother used to draw on my brown bags (until I GOT TOO OLD FOR THAT, MOM) and then she would then slip them inside the bag.

Shutthefrontdoor — cheese dip recipes?!

This was supposed to be embedded to go along with my comment.

her entire critique was based on reading the post through the most "offense-sensitive" goggles, getting (predictably) offended, and then attacking the referenced author (sorry - on a slow computer - it's a pain to scroll up to read names).

I have a degree in animal and dairy science and grandparents with a dairy farm. Of course, I don't think hygiene has been thrown out the window. In fact, I think it was pretty clear in my original comment that I don't think that.

I'm sort of wrapping up a food micro class right now, so keep in mind that this is from someone at the height of food-contamination-paranoia, but:

The risk is that you'll die. That seems pretty significant to me.

Not true. The aging process has no anti-microbial properties, and the bacteria can survive for decades as spores. Food people need to stop assuming that the internet can make them a better microbiologist than the regulatory scientists that make these rules.

You know what else has "good bacteria" that won't potentially kill you? Yogurt and kefir. It doesn't matter how clean and up to code organic you keep your farm. One cow with a little bit of left over mud on her udder or one milker who forgets the pre-dip before milking and you've got a listeria, campylobacter, e.coli…

SERIOUSLY! I was up for 24 hours, even though I live in Canada. I was just so nervous because he was in a residential neighbourhood, surrounded by cops and his brother was dead. He could have held people hostage, booby trapped himself with a suicide bomb, etc. The fact that these agencies worked together (OMG WORKING…

No idea but I was just thinking today how glad I was that we didn't have to embarrass ourselves as a country by cheering someone's death yet again.