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[hlamb]

I've learned that I CAN kill cockroaches if I have to, something I didn't think was possible the first time I saw one, when I shrieked and jumped on my bed. Since I lived alone at the time, that was not a helpful reaction!

I've learned that I too am beautiful. After all, people yell that at me all the time on the streets here.

I've learned not to walk around barefoot, especially in the dark (see the top of this post).

Shopping every day is much better than once a week.

[MO39]

Although it can be frustrating at times (cultural differences and all that), it's possible to begin dating again in my early sixties, even though I'm not the slim lovely creature I was some years ago.

[CharlieBaloney]

I've learned that one of the most touching sights I've seen in recent weeks are older couples dancing to older music in the Zocalo in Cuernavaca.

[mapache]

Yesterday I learned how to plant corn under a full moon

[MELEE]

[dixie]

[danielita]

I've learned that eggs don't need to always be refrigerated. Although the shelf-life is much shorter and you can come across a rotten egg in the lot.

Americans & Canadians are really anal about refrigeration and it's amazing how long things can really last without refrigeration before they go bad (or kill you)

[sarliz]

On that note, what's the official skinny on the refrigeration of mayonaise? I've caved on keeping the eggs out, but I'm still emotionally plagued by stories of bad potato salad killing unsuspecting picnicers, and refuse to compromise on warm mayo.

[MO39]

Sarliz, who is the household ogre who insists that you not keep eggs and mayo in the refrigerator? I strongly suggest that both should be refrigerated if you don't want to end up with food poisoning!

[notamiss]

I was rather squicked to find that mayonnaise and jam were not considered refrigerator-storage foods here, but after observing them kept at room temperature for months after opening with no harm, I had to assume that here they have some preservatives that our versions of those foods don't.

Anyway, in the case of mayonnaise, the highest danger is with the home-made version, as it principally just contains raw egg and oil, and no preservatives whatsoever.

[spiral78]

Interesting. I remember all those Desperately Ill and Dying Picknicker stories from my childhood. I wonder if today's bottled mayonnaises aren't substantially safer.

What year exactly did the last Piknik Mayonnaise Victim succumb, I wonder? I suspect it was somewhere in the 1950s....

and exactly how is Piknik properly spelled, anyway?

[EverReady]

Isn't it picnic?

Anyways, I remember reading an Ann Landers column in the newspaper about someone's grandma who didn't refrigerate her mayo. Ann apparently ended up calling up Kraft foods and they said that although they recommend refrigerating mayo after opening the jar, the super-duper pasturazation process will keep the mayo fresh for a long time without refrigeration as long as the mayo is kept at room temperature. I don't know how that applies to people who live in super hot climates though. Meh, mayo on a sandwich tastes better cold so in the fridge it goes!

[sarliz]

[mapache]

I never eat "mariscos" in Chiapas anywhere that is more than 50km from the beach. Fish and shrimp are not refrigerated here and only one bout of salmonella cures one of eating botanas at a marisco bar.

[TheLongWayHome]