If you chew your food, and have normal stomach acid, you don’t get salmonella poisoning.
If you take antacids or are very old or very young, or if you have bad teeth or just gulp your food down like a dog, you can get salmonella poisoning.
Basically, if you get salmonella poisoning it is your fault, not the fault of the people feeding you.
To be honest, I’ve never understood the attraction of partially cooked meat (slightly pink in the middle is ok), fish, or eggs, or uncooked seafood. Most of it makes me gag. I can’t say why, but that and chewing my food well likely helps keep me from getting salmonella poisoning.
However, this recalls a humorous story:
There was this really cute girl at a bar I did service work for, about 40 years ago. I noticed she was flirting with me a bit (she probably did that with most any guy). Still, I was single, “unattached”, and looking: I returned the favor. But, one day as we chatted, she mentioned liking raw hamburger. That’s when I noticed that she had these rather small, but very sharp looking teeth. That got me to thinking a bit. I won’t detail further here, but...
Discretion did overtake “valour”.
Where did you come up with that idea?
“If you chew your food, and have normal stomach acid, you don’t get salmonella poisoning.”
so, you’re saying a million people got salmonella food poisoning from not chewing their food, 20,000 were hospitalized from not chewing their food, and 400 died from not chewing their food?
http://www.foodborneillness.com/salmonella_food_poisoning/
I agree. Plus, having a strong immune system works good too.
My whole life, and I’m 63 years old, I never had “food poisoning”.
My secret? Eat what you want, and don’t brush off everything down to the nub. Veggies out of the garden? Eat them dirt and all. Meats smell a little funky? Cool them up and the juices will flow and they will be de-lish-us!
Cripes, if I had a quarter of all the paranoia others around me have, I’d wish I was dead already!