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20 hour room temperature Lasagne - Eat or bin?

Before the widespread adoption of refrigerators, I’m sure most people
managed to survive dinner on a daily basis. Some even lived into adulthood despite there being no antibiotics. :eek:
Indeed, once childbirth, waterborne diseases and pestilence was discounted, apparently people mostly died due to issues with their teeth...
 
on the same theme, what was the snail like? I would never, ever eat anything like that...

Well I wish I hadn't either, but was invited to someone's home in Nigeria and refusal wasn't really an option. Best thing about it was that it came swimming in 2 flaming-hot inches of melted palm oil infused with a nuclear amount of chilli. But even that couldn't disguise that it had the texture of hard rubber, the taste of fetid river-bottom mud, and was ingrained on a cellular level with so much gritty sand so it squeaked and crunched as you chewed. Was at least mercifully hewn into chunks so I didn't have to swirl it from its giant shell with a giant fork or anything, but the bits were juuuust too big for the old 'swallow, nod, smile, take a big swig of drink' tactic. So you HAD to chew them and linger on each mouthful or choke to death. Also the only safe drink available was violently orange, violently fizzy Fanta (and I never usually drink carbonated anything 'cos it makes me belch.) Absolutely foul. Even the boiled cow skin or jellied cow heel were better. Stay away from the land snail unless you have no possible escape.

(*NB there is also plenty of Nigerian food that's delicious - I could eat egusi soup, pounded yam or akara bean fritters any day).
 
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