When I managed an apartment complex, we had an immigrant family setup a small hamachi-style grill on their kitchen counter. Fortunately, the fire alarms went off before it could cause any smoke damage or carbon monoxide poisoning, but maybe I’ve always thought it was wrong. In your analysis, they just wanted some help learning how to use their stove and figured that setting off some fire alarms would get a faster response from me than calling me on the phone? Because nobody could be “stupid enough” to use a charcoal grill indoors, right?
You also didn’t read very much of my actual example did you? You just kid of latched onto immigrant and made your assumptions from there.
And if those people are dumb enough to eat completely raw meat, without doing a damned thing to it, they deserve exactly what they get. It’s just a little chlorine in the gene pool.
Sausage has already been mentioned. Some people might assume that it’s safe to eat or just heat up (without thorough cooking) in a microwave.
Suppose I’m not the one in the house who does the shopping, or maybe someone else stopped at Sobeys to pick up something we forgot to get at our regular market. So I’m not really familiar with Sobeys and I get some sausage out of the refrigerator and it says “Ready to Serve”. I can see this happening.
Also, and this is a nitpick, the OP says this started in the mid 2000s. Wouldn’t that be around 2050?
Would anyone that didn’t realize that’s a store logo, combined with not truly bothering to understand any food prep, really read that tiny a print anywhere but the directions?
I didn’t even notice that, but that’s an interesting observation. I would say that, contextually, since it’s 2015, it’s pretty clear that mid-2000s refers to the decade here, but, yes, usually mid xx00s does typically refer to the middle of the century. It’s one of those ambiguous things you have to work out through context. I’m so used to seeing mid-2000s to refer to the middle of that decade that I didn’t even notice.
