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To: nickcarraway

So in a climate controlled environment (an office) in a low humidity environment (Anchorage, Alaska) some fried and salted food didn’t develop the bacteria it needed to decompose before it dehydrated?

Okay.


8 posted on 02/09/2016 10:28:08 AM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius (www.wilsonharpbooks.com - Sign up for my new release e-mail and get my first novel for free)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
Yep.

But do not introduce logic and reason into a thread that is meant to invoke hysteria.

12 posted on 02/09/2016 10:31:19 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

Yes - apparently many folks forget how “jerky” was originally made.

Raw meat coated with salts/sugars/spices and then hung in a low-humidity environment until it’s completely dry and dehydrated...

Oddly enough it doesn’t rot.


26 posted on 02/09/2016 10:39:23 AM PST by DBG8489
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

Why is it whenever people are confronted with real science, they run screaming in the other direction? Anyone who has taken a decent chemistry course could have predicted this outcome.


33 posted on 02/09/2016 10:46:21 AM PST by yuleeyahoo ( Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. - Groucho Marx)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

Yup. To extend the explanation, the food at one of the early South Pole expedition coastal bases is still (mostly) edible over a century later, due to the low humidity and temperature. Antarctica is after all the world’s largest desert.


35 posted on 02/09/2016 10:48:56 AM PST by Little Pig
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