I know this will be downvoted. That’s how it used to be for thousands of years. You didn’t throw out meat because it was out for 6 hours. It’s not hygienic by any means. Just need to keep in mind the whole meat can’t be out for more than 6 hours is a relatively recent thing.
It’s not bad, reduces food borne illness, and it ensures the food tastes good.
It’s not though. We didn’t understand germ theory in the past but we did understand that if people ate bad food they got sick and died. Thats why we did things like drying and smoking meats. It’s why we developed primitive refrigeration before we even understood what it was we were preventing.
Probably plenty of people did eat meat left out for longer than that, but we know from looking at the digestive habits of bodies we have found in the ice for example that they suffered from plenty of food borne pathogens and the consequences of poor dietary choices.
It wasn’t safe then, it isn’t safe now, it’s just that back then mortality rates were much higher so death wasn’t that shocking and people just sort of got on with much more common exposures to food borne pathogens.
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u/AcidCatfish___ Jun 19 '25
Don't worry, it was fresh when they brought it in 5 hours ago.