I bought something like this and forgot to refrigerate it after opening about 27ish hours ago. It looks and smells fine still but it says on the internet that after 2 hours like that it's in "muh hecken dangerino zone" what are the odds realistically speaking that i can eat this and be just fine because the gov recommendations are made with immunocompromised cretins and the lowest common denominator of people that would get a bacterial infection and die if somebody took a nasty enough fart in their vicinity?Somebody explain to me why you can buy moldy rotten cheese at the grocery store and be just fine but cheese dip that looks and smells great still which was only aged for like one day is forbidden cheese.
>>16787715there is bacteria in everything it just depends on whether a pathogenic amount of a certain bacteria happened to become abundant in the food. of course all the bacteria will proliferate faster in open air and room temperature but you'd probably be unlucky to get sick from it. although if you consistently eat food like that you're probably bound to get "unlucky" eventually.
There's probably more preservatives than "food" in there
>>16787715If it smells and tastes fine it's probably fine. Humans are (with a few notable exceptions, mostly mushrooms) extremely good at detecting spoiled or poisonous food by smell or taste.
>>16787715It's just a scam to get you to throw it out and buy another one. What do you think they did before refrigeration? It's probably too salty to support bacterial growth anyway.
>>16787715Milk might go bad but shit like that and ketchup never goes bad
>>16787718>>16787720>>16787724>>16787726>>16787727I biffed it in the trash just in case even though it probably wouldn't have killed me. I was just mad my cheese got ruined.
>>16787715There is literally nothing that could happen to cheese that has not already happened to it.Problem is, that ain't cheese.
>>16787715While i dont love food preservatives i recognize their power. We are all pawns of big preservative.
i know people who never worry about this sort of thing. They just try to eat things and if its bad they just go 'eww', spit it out, and carry on with their lives, and they are just fine.
>>16787715it should smell like nothing or nacho cheese
