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Re: question about the metric system
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Mon, 6 May 2002 02:17:37 GMT
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mattdm@/spamless/mattdm.org
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Pedro Silva <el_gordo@netc.pt> wrote:
> Allegedly. But I never got food-poisoned, so it sounds void to me...
> It's a bit dumb as a rule. Some years ago they also forbid stomping grapes
I remember reading something in one of my dad's (surely totally unbiased)
woodworking magazines a while ago about how wooden cutting boards are
actually better than plastic ones -- the plastic boards get little cuts all
over where the bacteria dig in and live happily, whereas bacteria that get
into the wood are largely killed by natural antibacterials in the wood
itself.
--
Matthew Miller mattdm@mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
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| (...) I reckon that if this is true, it would greatly depend on the type of wood that the cutting board is made of, the age of the board (e.g. a new board would have a greater amount of tannins and other allelopathic(1) compounds), what type of (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Allegedly. But I never got food-poisoned, so it sounds void to me... It's a bit dumb as a rule. Some years ago they also forbid stomping grapes to make wine (as done since time immemorial), for the same reason. If they keep this path, noone (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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