chicken

Had my breakfast with Blackie and Doug this morning. Again, Blackie flexed his stupidity by debating about the recent chicken flu panic. First, he claimed that the chicken flu virus/bacteria (or whatever micro-organism that causes the epidemic) would not survive temperature over 70 deg C.

Well, I told him that there are very few people in this world who are willing to eat their chicken raw … with exceptional a few cases of misjudgment during a barbeque party - where one might accidentally eat a not thoroughly barbequed chicken. So, theoretically, the risk should be quite minimal.

Then, I further quoted - if we cook our food properly everytime, any micro-organism that dwells in our food .. will surely die and we’ll have lesser chances of contracting diseases. This was where the interesting part came — Blackie vehemently protested my claim. He said that he ‘knew’ of a kind of bacteria that only can be killed at 110 deg C … which means … if we cook our food … it will not die - because our food cooks at 100 deg C.

I had to lambaste that undeveloped brain of his. I challenged him …

“what makes you think our food cooks at only 100 deg C ?”
“because water boils at 100.”
“water boils at 100 and our food also cook at that temp ?”
“yes. And that bacteria i’m talking about won’t die.”
“and you only cook your food with water ? nothing else ? salt ? soy sauce ? sugar ?”
“…..”
“did u know that the boiling temperature increases when there are impurities in your water ?”
“huh ?”
“damn it .. did u study science ?”
*furious* “ok … maybe more than 100 deg C .. but definitely not over 110 deg C..”

Fuck him. I gave up the debate - coz if he claimed he ‘knew’ the bacteria - that bacteria is probably his good friend. He won’t give up and admit his mistakes. What a loser.

I wondered what’s the panic all about. 8 deaths and they are making it an international headline. Fuck. There are thousands of cancer deaths related to smoking each year … and it’s ironic why they did not create a commotion of such magnitude.