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post #1 of 44
9/19/09 at 2:06am
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I grew up lower middle class. I never had everything I wanted by any means, but was rarely in want of anything i needed.

anyhow, as i've grown i have realize things i thought were 'normal' are not.

for example, in my home if bread had a small bit of mold we cut the mold off and ate it... same with cheese and other foods that occasionally grow small bits of mold.

my wife saw me do this and about shat her self.

i realize people are raised differently and everyone does things differently... just curious as to what you do in the situation.
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post #2 of 44
9/19/09 at 2:07am
I've done both, and I think what we'd do would depend on what the food was. Uncut bread = loaf goes, but if its just a slice or two in a loaf, we'd just chuck that.
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post #3 of 44
9/19/09 at 2:47am
My mother always told me mold = penicillin. Honest. She'd pick off the mold and serve it up.
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post #4 of 44
9/19/09 at 6:22am
eat that moldy bread when she's not watching
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post #5 of 44
9/19/09 at 8:26am
If its got a small spot of mold on the crust I'll pick it off and eat it.

Meat goes in the trash the moment it get a funky smell or discolored

K
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post #6 of 44
9/19/09 at 9:19am
Cutting mold off cheese is perfectly normal. Bread I'll still do it, but it's a bit sketchier cause it's so permeable.
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post #7 of 44
9/19/09 at 9:19am
I thought this was going to be about the peejayz.

On topic, I just remove the moldy spot. Some people fear nearly everything in nature no matter how harmless often out of habitual ignorance.
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post #8 of 44
9/19/09 at 10:26am
Tell her it's not mold, it's 'bloom' and that you're 'aging' it!

seriously, unless it's consumed by mold I say cut it off and eat up.
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post #9 of 44
9/20/09 at 6:18pm
I'm pretty tolerant of most of that sort of thing too. My family even used to push milk a few extra days by putting it in coffee.
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post #10 of 44
9/20/09 at 6:53pm
i grew up on that level too so i can relate. not with food but with other shit. sounds like at least you married up which was wise.

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I grew up lower middle class. I never had everything I wanted by any means, but was rarely in want of anything i needed.

anyhow, as i've grown i have realize things i thought were 'normal' are not.

for example, in my home if bread had a small bit of mold we cut the mold off and ate it... same with cheese and other foods that occasionally grow small bits of mold.

my wife saw me do this and about shat her self.

i realize people are raised differently and everyone does things differently... just curious as to what you do in the situation.
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post #11 of 44
9/20/09 at 7:01pm
I always find the aversion to eating the first and last slice in the loaf more off-putting. Bread is bread, hunger kills. I grew up on food stamps and wic, I kinda resent having to deal with bad spots now. The list of things I can afford are far out numbered by list of things I can. Gratefully a new loaf of bread is not one of them.
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post #12 of 44
9/20/09 at 9:38pm
On fruit and vegetables, I'll remove the bad spot. Anything else gets chucked.
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post #13 of 44
9/20/09 at 10:22pm
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Originally Posted by robbie View Post
I grew up lower middle class. I never had everything I wanted by any means, but was rarely in want of anything i needed. anyhow, as i've grown i have realize things i thought were 'normal' are not. for example, in my home if bread had a small bit of mold we cut the mold off and ate it... same with cheese and other foods that occasionally grow small bits of mold. my wife saw me do this and about shat her self. i realize people are raised differently and everyone does things differently... just curious as to what you do in the situation.
Actually, this is normal in the rest of the world.. we are a little excessive, wasteful, and squeamish in America.
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post #14 of 44
9/20/09 at 11:59pm
I grew up the same way, and always cut the mold out or threw out the slices with mold on it.

Until I took a science class and learned that visible mold is only half of what's really there.
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post #15 of 44
9/21/09 at 12:22am
Are you guys fucking kidding me?
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