Monday, May 11, 2009

A China paradox

(One of the many!)


Bread (at least, the crappy pre-packaged stuff you buy in the supermarket) will always grow spots of mould within a day or two (sometimes, at this time of year, within 24 hours).

Yet milk never goes off. (Must be the melamine, huh?)

3 comments:

FionaJane said...

If you buy crappy pre-packaged bread from Tescos, and keep it in the fridge, it actually seems to take well over a month before it goes mouldy (this is an experiment that Mr FJ undertakes on a reasonably frequent basis). That's a bit freaky, too.

Froog said...

And the fries from McDonald's apparently never go off, either. But you really shouldn't try this at home - unless you're making a documentary.

Of course, I may be exaggerating slightly on the milk. I haven't really pushed the envelope on this. When I notice that I've had milk in the fridge for 3 or 4 weeks, I tend to imagine that it's starting to taste not quite right - or ought to be - and throw it out as a precaution. But I don't think I've ever had milk curdle, or start growing things in it here. And surely you'd usually expect that to happen in less than a month?

Froog said...

Another disturbing thing is that the mould on the crappy supermarket bread here is almost always recognisably a thumb- or fingerprint. And not mine.