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13 Sep 10 - 02:23 PM (#2985925) Subject: BS: Sauerkraut explosion prompts quarantine From: ragdall ...in the town where I live: Twenty-four students and four staff members at a central B.C. high school were briefly quarantined after a can of sauerkraut exploded Friday in a food science class. The fire department, a hazardous materials unit and RCMP were called to Kelly Road Secondary School in Prince George at about 2 p.m. PT. Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/09/11/bc-prince-george-sauerkraut-evacuation.html Some of the comments under the story had me laughing out loud (ROFLMAO). rags |
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13 Sep 10 - 02:31 PM (#2985933) Subject: RE: BS: Sauerkraut explosion From: John MacKenzie Cabbage gives you gas! |
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13 Sep 10 - 02:32 PM (#2985935) Subject: RE: BS: Sauerkraut explosion From: Alice Oh, rags, even funnier for me was the ad next to the comments on that Canadian news site that said: "Stinky Hockey Gear?" and a web site to buy freshening products. A. |
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13 Sep 10 - 03:33 PM (#2985978) Subject: RE: BS: Sauerkraut explosion From: olddude NAW Rags, it was just SPAW visiting !! |
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13 Sep 10 - 03:47 PM (#2985996) Subject: RE: BS: Sauerkraut explosion From: open mike see Faith Petric's song "When Did We Have Saurkraut?" |
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13 Sep 10 - 04:04 PM (#2986016) Subject: RE: BS: Sauerkraut explosion From: catspaw49 Ol' Spaw know better than to fart after kraut. Matter of fact, a good dose of kraut with taters and pork will produce not only the shits, but "Projectile Diarrhea." Spaw |
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13 Sep 10 - 04:57 PM (#2986050) Subject: RE: BS: Sauerkraut explosion From: gnu Screen door variety? |
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13 Sep 10 - 07:26 PM (#2986150) Subject: RE: BS: Sauerkraut explosion From: Bat Goddess They ended up being sent home early? Because some bad fermented cabbage may have TOUCHED them?!? Oh, give me a break! (Sorry. Those of us of German descent who have grown up in homes that have made sauerkraut from scratch aren't traumatized by a bit explosive cabbage. Ach!) Linn |
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13 Sep 10 - 07:55 PM (#2986161) Subject: RE: BS: Sauerkraut explosion From: frogprince "The fire department, a hazardous materials unit and RCMP" Man, whut wud they uh done if it hadda been Kim Che? |
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13 Sep 10 - 08:51 PM (#2986195) Subject: RE: BS: Sauerkraut explosion From: Joe_F open mike: Not the same as Berryman & Berryman's song of that name? |
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13 Sep 10 - 08:55 PM (#2986202) Subject: RE: BS: Sauerkraut explosion From: olddude Me I would have just cooked up some hot dogs and covered those buggers over with the kraut ... a good hot dog with kraut is wonderful ... |
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13 Sep 10 - 10:19 PM (#2986240) Subject: RE: BS: Sauerkraut explosion From: Joe Offer Gee, from the thread title, I thought that a whole sauerkraut factory had exploded. There was a Frank's kraut factory on Highway 38 near my home north of Racine, Wisconsin. When they were making sauerkraut, the place smelled worse that a sugar beet plant and a packing house put together. I always wondered if that stinky gas was explosive..... -Joe- |
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13 Sep 10 - 11:41 PM (#2986273) Subject: RE: BS: Sauerkraut explosion From: open mike i am sure that Faith Petric and the Berrymans might share some songs! |
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15 Sep 10 - 07:03 AM (#2987086) Subject: RE: BS: Sauerkraut explosion From: ragdall I looked for an update on the sauerkraut situation but sadly, couldn't find one. I'd like to know how big the container was and what they were doing to it when it exploded. Now, Bat Goddess, you know that those poor widdle kiddies were traumatized, if not by the kraut, by wondering why the RCMP were there and if their stashes were well enough hidden. I'm wondering how they went home early when some or all of them would normally be travelling via school bus. "Hello, Mrs. __? This is the principal of your son's school. Could you please come pick up your son? He was involved in a freak accident in the cooking class and may have a little sauerkraut spattered on his skin and clothing so he can't return to class." rags |
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16 Sep 10 - 12:19 AM (#2987746) Subject: RE: BS: Sauerkraut explosion From: GUEST,leeneia Um, have you guys ever heard of botulism? Very dangerous disease resulting from food in a can or jar having the botulin microbe in it? If a can was so swollen with gases that it exploded, I would be VERY WORRIED. The article said they determined that 'there was no cause for alarm,' but there could have been other micro-organisms in that can. There had to be. Those kids needed to be observed for a while. |
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16 Sep 10 - 06:26 AM (#2987840) Subject: RE: BS: Sauerkraut explosion From: ragdall leneia, I agree it was appropriate for the school staff to be cautious. If there had been a toxic substance in the sauerkraut, children could have been harmed and we would not likely be joking about the incident now. This article has a little more information than the previous one. ... Staff were concerned that the spoiled food could potentially cause a botulism outbreak and therefore the school was evacuated and the hazardous material unit was called to investigate.... The contents were examined and it was determined that the can contained sauerkraut which had been fermenting for a number of years.rags |
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16 Sep 10 - 11:34 AM (#2988000) Subject: RE: BS: Sauerkraut explosion From: GUEST,leeneia And what was causing the fermentation? Microbes of unknown type. That can might not have been sterilized properly when it was packed, or it might have developed a tiny leak and become contaminated. There is no guarantee that the microbes that caused the explosion are the same harmless microbes that turn cabbage into sauerkraut. Never mess with a can that is swollen or under pressure. ====== I was in a store one day and overhead a man complaining to the manager about a can that was dented. The man said, "I've worked in the food industry. This dent can cause the tiny leak where the side joins the lid, and germs can get in there and spoil the food." Since then, I've refused to buy a can that's dented. |
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16 Sep 10 - 01:01 PM (#2988060) Subject: RE: BS: Sauerkraut explosion From: Uncle_DaveO When I worked at a Libby, McNeill & Libby canning factory in the summers between academic years when I was at the University of Minnesota, the company's warehouse attached to the factory had a program for those employees who might be interested. During manufacture and subsequent handling in the warehouse, cans were sometimes unavoidably damaged by accident, to various extents. Those judged to have minimal damage were separated from the stream of commercially saleable product, and once a year you could buy "dents" by the case at a special deeply discounted price. They were sold as "dent brights"; "dent" is clear enough in this context, and "bright" means without labels. I think they were previous-season products, to give time for any potential bulging from internal pressure to develop and any such cans to be disposed of. These bright sale dents were not "swells", at least to external inspection perhaps ten months to a year after canning. I remember that I did buy a case of dent peas or corn (I forget which). No harm came of it, to me or my family, nor to any other employees, to my knowledge. This was about sixty years ago now. I have no idea whether they still have that program. I rather expect that they do. Dave Oesterreich |
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16 Sep 10 - 02:38 PM (#2988139) Subject: RE: BS: Sauerkraut explosion From: Jim Dixon A friend of mine once gave me a guided tour of the Green Giant plant where he worked. They were processing corn at that time. He explained that it's standard practice, after the corn is put in cans, but before labels are put on, to put the cans in the warehouse and wait several days. If a batch wasn't properly sterilized, the corn would ferment and the cans would explode. If nothing happened, they figured the batch was OK so they would label it and ship it out. There were no exploding cans while I was there, but he had seen it happen, and he said it was a stinky mess. |
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16 Sep 10 - 10:31 PM (#2988410) Subject: RE: BS: Sauerkraut explosion From: dick greenhaus Open Mike--well, yes, but Faith shared it, the Berrymans wrote it. |
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17 Sep 10 - 12:59 AM (#2988455) Subject: RE: BS: Sauerkraut explosion From: open mike yes i checked the album notes today...the song was indeed by the Berrymans...and it is a funny song about defrosting a fridge... on the album there is an intro by Utah Phillips who mentions that Faith did not make the song, but she gathers some wonderful ones. He might have even said she mines the songs. she has a column in Sing Out! Magazine discussing "folk process" which i think is like putting a song in a room and if it still smells good after a few days we go with it! |
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17 Sep 10 - 10:21 PM (#2989046) Subject: RE: BS: Sauerkraut explosion From: Bat Goddess "When Did We Last Have Sauerkraut"... When cleaning out the fridge, if the sauerkraut is green or the broccoli is pink -- get rid of it! Linn |