Real life MMD: Cat has licked our food, should we eat it?

robpw2

JonnyFrond wrote: »

Cats carry different bacteria to us and are likely to be immune to different things, if children are going to eat, I would be very wary of feeding food that a pet had explored, and I would learn from the experience to make sure the cat cannot get to cooked food in future.

Personally, I would throw it away, as to be safe you would have to re cook.

How much is the financial cost to illness in the family?

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:i would:rotfl: pay £20 to make some of my family ill :rotfl::rotfl:

alliboy03

Take the piece out that the cat licked or give it to your other half if your not on good terms. All this fuss about germs, before I spilt up with my x I scrubbed the toliet out with his toothbrush several times he never got anything wrong with him!!

Also I know people that have worked for marks + spencer foods, mcain's, bird's eye etc. They've told me horrible story's and would never let there family's eat Pre-packed food. I opened a tin of sealed cabury's chocolates the other week you could clearly see that one choc had been bitten into then put back in at the factory.

When it comes to food I'm afraid what you cant see hopefully wont hurt you.
p.s Did you know there is an insect quota of parts allowed in e.g Frozen veg!!:eek:

elmhurst_300

The recommended procedure is as follows:-

1. Shoot the cat - they're a pain in the backside for all your neighbours and local wildlife.

2. Hopefully the meat is dangerously poisoned, so much so that to eat it will mean certain death.
I therefore recommend that you eat it with gusto, which will inevitably mean no further half-arsed blogs like yours ever again.

God save us from people like you!!!

toastrack_2

This is a money saving site right?
1. Eat the meat ...no money wasted.
2. Skin the cat.. New scarf or hand warmer made
3. No more money spent on cat food

Oh and by the way if you have them sell the kids or send them down the mines

toastrack_2

£20 on lamb.. how big was it?? but get down to Morrisons this week shoulder of lamb is £3.66 a kilo and its a lovely cut

Cloudane

Not sure I see this as a moral dilemma, I guess that would be "should I tell the other half" (yes, you probably should). More of a personal squeamishness vs. money saving dilemma.

I doubt it's as harmful as somewhere like Burger King (given some of the undercover hygiene programmes I've seen) yet people don't think twice about eating there or other fast food joints or restaurants. I think even if it'd licked its bum 2 seconds beforehand it'd be cleaner and safer than some of those places.

I wouldn't worry about it. As it's been spotted, you might as well trim the affected area and give it a bit of extra time at >60C (the lamb not the cat, behave!) or even a zap in the microwave then enjoy. But I wouldn't be that fussed anyway. No point throwing good food away.

mart07

You should cut a few slices of the joint where the cat licked it and put it in his bowl then eat and enjoy the rest of the lamb. We did it many times with our cats and are still here!!!

John_Pierpoint

Homo sapiens is an ape that has survived for millions of years, with varying degrees of success. Historically it has lived in bands and a typical member would recognise (say) 250 - 500 other members of his successful tribe.
This ape has a fairly robust constitution and tended to be able to live three score years and ten, provided it survived childhood and managed to avoid the accidents of life and the occasional plague.
From 5 to 70 the immune system of a well fed healthy specimen saw them through most everyday infections.
Eventually a failing cell reproduction system would compromise the immune system of an elderly person.

This ape proved clever and adaptable BUT whenever it created "civilisation" (ie living in cities) the empire tended to fall apart, often debilitated by endemic illness or plague.

Flu - the old man's friend.
Indian cholera - the death of the dog
Black death - worsened by killing dogs.
White death - TB in crowded conditions and the milk supply in Victorian Britain.
Malaria - endemic in the Thames estuary after the Roman empire fell apart.
Syphillis - nice one Columbus.
HIV - now where did that one come from?

Cities used to act as open air extermination sites. Young lads, with their cats, from an over populated cottage in the healthy countryside, would migrate to London but most of them would not make it to Lord Mayor. The majority would catch something nasty from the great unwashed, as they had no understanding of elementary hygiene (as we now call it). For example heating your wig in the oven over night to stop feeling lousy and reduce typhus infection.

So the message is simple - if its your household and your pampered moggy, I doubt there is much to worry about.
If your house backs onto one of London's mega land fill sites, where your feral cat traps rats, and your elderly American relative is visiting to show off the newborn grandchild, then perhaps there could be a problem.

Why not pop it back in the oven and crisp up the outside a bit before serving - a bit of boiling oil should see off almost all know "germs".
(though thanks to Mad Cow disease, hospitals no longer rely on autoclaving surgical instruments?)

It is almost 100 years since a particularly nasty version of flu was bred up amongst a large cohort of our clean cut young American cousins, from low density country living. It went on to reduce population levels in high density countries round the world.

Those who fail to learn from history tend to repeat it.

Effilctus

Don't be a !!!!!cat. Eat it. If you are worried about germs, give it a wipe over with a clean cloth and return it to the oven for five minutes. The meat, not the cat.

Marco12452

Cut the suspect bit away.