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20-Year-Old Dies From 'Fried Rice Syndrome' After Eating Leftover Pasta (www.iheart.com)

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The bacteria is best known for causing a type of food poisoning called "Fried Rice Syndrome," since rice is sometimes cooked and left to cool at room temperature for a few hours. During that time, the bacteria can contaminate it and grow. B. cereus is especially dangerous because it produces a toxin in rice and other starchy foods that is heat resistant and may not die when the food it infects is cooked.

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Unfortunately, that was the case for a 20-year-old student, who passed away after eating five-day-old pasta.

His story was described in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology a few years back, but has since resurfaced due to some YouTube videos and Reddit posts. According to article, every Sunday the student would make his meals for the entire week so he wouldn't need to deal with making it on the weekdays. One Sunday, he cooked up some spaghetti, then put it in Tupperware containers so that days later, he could just add some sauce to it, reheat it and enjoy it.

However, he didn't store the pasta in the fridge, rather he left it out on the counter. After five days of the food sitting out at room temperature, he heated some up and ate it. While he noticed an odd taste to the food, he figured it was just due to the new tomato sauce he added to it.

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[–] capt_wolf 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Never fails to amaze me how so many people don't understand basic food storage.

My clients, constantly: "What do you mean I can't just throw this open bag in the fridge?", "What do you mean, 'foil isn't airtight'?", "I don't know how long it's been in there! What do you mean it expired a month ago?" and my absolute favorite, "You can't throw my moldy food away! You owe me money for that!"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are you a fridge-contents-consultant or something?

[–] nomous 4 points 2 months ago

Likely some kind of aide or in-home help. I have family that works in that field and a lot of it is just helping people with "normal" routine things we all do, but that they're unable to for whatever reason.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Foil isn't air tight?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How are you making foil air tight?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Crimping and folding it around the edge of the pan or the foil itself. Foil can hold in the steam of a pan in the oven or a foil pack on a campfire, for practical purposes that's air tight. If you're trying to contain superheated helium then it's a different story.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Not air tight enough for extended storage purposes, too air tight for cooling in the fridge. It's all relative as your examples demonstrate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Hm. I now wonder if it depends. But I don't wonder enough to do an experiment, lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What are your clients?

Er, better question to ask is probably, what do you do for work? Lol

[–] capt_wolf 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm a residential counselor. Basically what someone else described, I work with people out of the hospital to reintroduce them into the community. I teach life skills, coping skills, appropriate behavior, that sort of thing.

My clients are middle functioning adults, primarily male, right now 30s and up. Think a grown man, but with the comprehension skills of a middle schooler or lower.

Lot of patience, lot of repetition, lot of getting yelled at, hit occasionally. Fun times.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Thank you for doing what you do.

I think I see a lot of your clients hanging out in the comments sections of Facebook and Instagram!