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Thu 6 Apr, 2006 05:00 pm
This may seem an odd question.
However, yesterday, my colleagues found a variety of wildlife in their lunches.....a caterpillar, a small wasp.....and, in a quiche, a pubic hair.
(Now, I remain in some doubt as to the provenance of said hair, since its finder squealed and threw it away....I do wonder if it was just the head hair of a person with short, coarse, curly hair...but I digress.)
It led me to wonder...while we doubtless feel more sullied by finding a pubic hair in our lunch than an ordinary head hair...why is it so, and is it justified?
I mean, I have no problem touching other folks' pubic hairs under circumstances of intimacy....the pubic hair, in general, leads a modest, sheltered life, not exposed to the ordinary germs of life "out there"...beyond the underwear....
Heaven knows, it gets washed VERY regularly.
So.......pubic hair...demon or demonised?
Maybe it was an ass hair.
Dunno...if you don't have a bladder infection I guess it is.......?
I think the problem with pubic hair in food is that it begs the question of HOW it got there, exactly.
As you say, it's usually rather thoroughly coralled; so for it to escape, what were the circumstances?
That's a bit "ew!"-inducing.
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This is what happens when people eat quiche! JUST SAY NO!
Wikipedia says:
"In cases of kidney or urinary tract infection (UTI), the urine will contain bacteria, but otherwise urine is virtually sterile and nearly odorless when it leaves the body. However, after that, bacteria that contaminate the urine will convert chemicals in the urine into smelling chemicals that are responsible for the distinctive odor of stale urine; in particular, ammonia is produced from urea."
So pubic hair is probably okay as long as one wipes front to back and if it lodges in your quiche fairly quickly after urination.
Deb - are you doing your best to discourage West Papuans from coming to our shores?
New tourism catchphrase:
"HOW THE BLOODY HELL DID THAT GET IN THERE?"
Scratches head with hands, and
where have those hands been? to the market, to Costco, to bring out my trash, to play with my dog, never mind the potentials for where they'd like to be. So, it all depends really.
I can't remember if spirochetes live in air, or hair...
it's parakeets that live in the air
hingehead wrote:Deb - are you doing your best to discourage West Papuans from coming to our shores?
No...the more the merrier. They are actually causing our government to show some gonads!
(I hope.)
squinney wrote:Wikipedia says:
"In cases of kidney or urinary tract infection (UTI), the urine will contain bacteria, but otherwise urine is virtually sterile and nearly odorless when it leaves the body. However, after that, bacteria that contaminate the urine will convert chemicals in the urine into smelling chemicals that are responsible for the distinctive odor of stale urine; in particular, ammonia is produced from urea."
So pubic hair is probably okay as long as one wipes front to back and if it lodges in your quiche fairly quickly after urination.
Hmmmmm........indeed.
sozobe wrote:I think the problem with pubic hair in food is that it begs the question of HOW it got there, exactly.
As you say, it's usually rather thoroughly coralled; so for it to escape, what were the circumstances?
That's a bit "ew!"-inducing.
That point did raise some concerns....
dlowan wrote:
No...the more the merrier. They are actually causing our government to show some gonads!
Their showing their gonads? No wonder you keep finding pubic hairs in your food....
I always vote on the other side of Germ Fear, except on rare occasions when I don't. This isn't one of them.
Okay, maybe in my dismissive nonchalant way, I haven't faced this head on.
What can be caught from pubic hair? List the known causatives. Discuss.
List potential pathogenic dollops on hair. Discuss.
I guess those are the same. Discuss.
And here I thought we were running out of interesting dinner table subjects to talk about.
List the possibilities of how the pubic hair managed to escape confining undies and land on the quiche. Discuss.
(Hubby was a waiter, there are scary scary scary stories about what people actually do...)
I presume you both read Kitchen Confidential?
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