The Grim Yoghurt Reaper (GYR) has come for an expired Yoghurt. He’s too late; the man of the house is eating it. Instead of a scythe, GYR has a spoon. (How do you know when Limburger goes bad?)
He’s only there for the yogurt, but he’ll be going back with the guy who died from eating the out-of-date yogurt.
Yogurt is alive, so it gets its own reaper for when it dies? But it doesn’t necessarily die just by being eaten (you hope to repopulate your colon bacteria colony after antibiotic treatment by eating yogurt — most of it does die in the stomach acids, but some does make it through…)
Also, yogurt is a way of preserving milk — you preemptively feed the milk sugars to good bacteria you can tolerate rather than let a bad opportunistic species colonize your milk — so that expiration date on your yogurt is largely a fiction invented by overly germophobic health departments…
larK – I’ve had yogurt grow mould before, despite (or due to) my faith in the fact that the culture should keep it safe.
Touché. Of course, mold is fungus, a whole different kingdom from the bacteria of yogurt, and the milk doesn’t really go bad in that scenario, it just … grows fungus. You can just scrape it off the top, a la some cheeses.
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The Grim Yoghurt Reaper (GYR) has come for an expired Yoghurt. He’s too late; the man of the house is eating it. Instead of a scythe, GYR has a spoon. (How do you know when Limburger goes bad?)
He’s only there for the yogurt, but he’ll be going back with the guy who died from eating the out-of-date yogurt.
Yogurt is alive, so it gets its own reaper for when it dies? But it doesn’t necessarily die just by being eaten (you hope to repopulate your colon bacteria colony after antibiotic treatment by eating yogurt — most of it does die in the stomach acids, but some does make it through…)
Also, yogurt is a way of preserving milk — you preemptively feed the milk sugars to good bacteria you can tolerate rather than let a bad opportunistic species colonize your milk — so that expiration date on your yogurt is largely a fiction invented by overly germophobic health departments…
larK – I’ve had yogurt grow mould before, despite (or due to) my faith in the fact that the culture should keep it safe.
Touché. Of course, mold is fungus, a whole different kingdom from the bacteria of yogurt, and the milk doesn’t really go bad in that scenario, it just … grows fungus. You can just scrape it off the top, a la some cheeses.