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I'm really anti-pasteurization.  Survival of the fittest cheese-eaters.  Hey, didn't the French invent that?!

Oh crap.

Pasteurisation is the process of heating liquids for the purpose of destroying bacteria, protozoa, molds, and yeasts. The process was named after its creator, French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur. The first pasteurisation test was completed by Pasteur and Claude Bernard on April 20, 1862.

Unlike sterilization, pasteurisation is not intended to kill all micro-organisms (pathogenic) in the food or liquid. Instead, pasteurisation aims to achieve a "logarithmic reduction" in the number of viable organisms, reducing their number so they are unlikely to cause disease (assuming the pasteurisation product is refrigerated and consumed before its expiration date).

Great.  I'm going to die.


"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Thu Jul 31st, 2008 at 03:00:22 PM EST
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in the case of Yoghurt i Follow Freddie Nietzche

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.


Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Jul 31st, 2008 at 05:12:56 PM EST
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Adventures in The Philosophy of Yoghurt:

Platonic yoghurt - you know it's the best yoghurt ever, but all you can see in the fridge is its shadow

Darwinian yoghurt - if it crawls out of the fridge on its own, don't pick a fight with it

Hegelian yoghurt - can't decide between two flavours? Mix them together. Sorted.

Socratic yoghurt - are you sure you want it? Really sure?

Cartesian yoghurt - always knows exactly where it is. Or at least, it thinks it does.

Taoist yoghurt - has no labels

Utilitarian yoghurt - plenty for everyone!

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Jul 31st, 2008 at 08:34:21 PM EST
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