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But boiled spats? Disgusting. There's not enough ketchup in all the world to make boiled spats appetizing.
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You people don't know Bratwurst. All your exposure to German sausages is confined to whatever watered-down, derivative pap the Altria Corp (owner of Kraft) ships to your local grocery store.
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quote:Originally posted by Launchywiggin: Well if you cook the brat, it should kill the botulism, making it safe to eat...
No! No! No!
Cooking might kill the bacteria responsible for botulism, but normal cooking temperatures do not inactivate the botulin toxin produced by those bacteria.
That is to say, cooking home-canned green beans would not make them safe if they'd been improperly canned. Similarly for sausage.
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Peter: Lois, you've got a sick mind! Lois: Peter, I'm talking about making love. Peter: Oh, I thought you wanted us to murder the children and harvest their organs for beer money.
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Botulism was first explored as an infectious disease right around the the beginning of the 19th century, just subsequent to several poisionings (in Great Britain, I think) by locally-made sausages. If I recall correctly, it was originally called the "sausage disease."
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quote:Botulism was formerly known as "Kerner's Disease." It was named after the man who signed the death certificate of people who ate contaminated sausage and died in an outbreak in Germany.
You know, there's a link you could follow in the first post.
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Dang it, why did I keep clicking? Why? I knew it would get nastier with each click, yet click I did.
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