Posted on 11/16/2005 10:20:26 AM PST by kingattax
SYDNEY, Australia -- An Australian food agency is trying to quell fears about glow-in-the-dark meats.
In a statement released Wednesday, the New South Wales state Food Authority said the glowing phenomenon is caused by a harmless light-emitting bacteria that is naturally present in most meats and fish.
"While most of us would understandably be shocked to see our food glowing, it is important to remember that the microorganism responsible for the glow is not known to cause food poisoning," the authority's director general, George Davey, said in the statement.
The Food Authority receives around two phone calls each month from nervous consumers who have discovered glowing meats in their iceboxes. It issued the statement to allay fears about possible radioactivity in Australia's meat supply.
"There has been some speculation in the media that glowing food might have been irradiated, and I can assure consumers that this is definitely not the case," Davey said
I must really need laughs or I am very, very tired and everything is funny, but I cracked up when I saw the included caption for this pic.
LOL...what's with the little face and arms!
Could you imagine that coming at you in the dark? Too funny!
He must need a hug! LOL! I like how they're "mini condoms" and there's still plenty of room at top. Poor widdle fella!
Yikes! Mini? LOL!
Are they "Iglesias" size?
LOL! Call em the "little chili peppers"!
that's too bad. Because at least the dead gangster flesh would be filled with nutrients from Mama's meat balls, as opposed to cheap heroin. ;o)
Poor Enrique...
It doesn't seem to help our desert landscape around Las Vegas...
Cactus and meatballs are a bad combination!
LOL...I was referring to the "ganster nutrients" you mentioned.
ganster=gangster...oops.
I know. I was too. Dead gangsters make good fish food but don't help cactuses. They are too greasy.
Man, do I know how to wreck a thread or what?!!!??
Naw...I think you improved it!
Good thing I don't have cactus then...
agree
They are jewish gangstas in Vegas, right? So maybe falafel works better than meatballs.
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