# Why you shouldn't buy pistachios by the scoop from the bin (WARNING: TMI) (heh) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 24, 2001, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-shouldnt-buy-pistachios-by-the-scoop-from-the-bin-warning-tmi-heh/83501 "2001-09-24T16:29:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-shouldnt-buy-pistachios-by-the-scoop-from-the-bin-warning-tmi-heh/83501/21 "2001-09-25T06:15:43Z")
Lots of potatoes [here](http://www.spud.co.uk/external/Producer/field/compare.htm) ---
**Author:** ![edwino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@edwino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwino)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-shouldnt-buy-pistachios-by-the-scoop-from-the-bin-warning-tmi-heh/83501/22 "2001-09-25T06:35:15Z")
I am kind of trying to do this whole health care thingy now. Most of us have a wonderful, capable immune system. Unless you are seriously impaired, chances are you won’t die from a little bit of fecal coliform bacteria or staphylococcus. Sure, you may get the squirts or sum’in ugly, but few people in the developed world (besides those that need an excuse anyway) are pushing over cause a eight year old loogied in the hummus bin. Or from the boogers in the egg salad. Or from the poo-bits diluted 1:1,000,000 in a properly chlorinated swimming pool. It is gross, but get over it. Sure, we should try to be hygenic where possible, but most cases of food poisoning are from the mashed potatoes which have been sitting in the sun at the church picnic or the rice pudding in the broken refrigerator or the uncleaned chicken. And most of the time, we beat these bacteria without even noticing them. We evolved with these bacteria and most of the times are bodies easily take care of them with little discomfort. My advice to you – the soap will give you diarrhea more than the bacteria. If you see blood in your poo, go to the doctor. Oh, and drugs kill, don’t smoke, fasten your seat belt, and rub your balls/boobies every month. And wash your hands with soap after you make a deposit at the porcelain bank. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-shouldnt-buy-pistachios-by-the-scoop-from-the-bin-warning-tmi-heh/83501/23 "2001-09-25T10:20:08Z")
> [@](#): > > Upon viewing a tasty morsel, they could easily unhinge their jaws and ingest a food item the size of a 1968 SuperBeetle. This may be the pickiest thing you will see or hear all day. I think the SuperBeetle didn’t arrive until 1971. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-shouldnt-buy-pistachios-by-the-scoop-from-the-bin-warning-tmi-heh/83501/24 "2001-09-25T10:26:48Z")
Suddenly Howard hughes doesn’t seem so crazy. Except for the urine. [sup][sub]Based on legends and not necessarily on real life[/sub][/sup] ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-shouldnt-buy-pistachios-by-the-scoop-from-the-bin-warning-tmi-heh/83501/25 "2001-09-25T11:42:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by edwino \* > **…Most of us have a wonderful, capable immune system. Unless you are seriously impaired, chances are you won’t die from a little bit of fecal coliform bacteria or staphylococcus. > \ > And most of the time, we beat these bacteria without even noticing them. We evolved with these bacteria and most of the times are bodies easily take care of them with little discomfort.** There was just a piece on the news yesterday about how parents are keeping their kids home all the time (no daycare) and using that anti-bacterial soap on everything, and running to the doctor for antibiotics for every sniffle and sneeze, and everything has to be soooooo ultra-clean now, that kids aren’t developing the immune systems necessary to chase off the basic bugs out there. You need a little dirtyness to stay healthy! Obviously, yes, wash your hands after going potty, but don’t get all worked up over every little germ. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-shouldnt-buy-pistachios-by-the-scoop-from-the-bin-warning-tmi-heh/83501/26 "2001-09-25T17:32:33Z")
[sub]deeply regretting having come back to read own thread vowing never to buy another item of food at the grocery store, ever or to visit a public swimming pool, ever or buffet, ditto expressing surprise that Rue’s post was intended as fiction remembering golden days of own childhood, with many happy hours playing with shoplifted bowling ball working on translation of Cartooni’s post, should have it from Enigma team any time now “punch buggy” obvious reference to USS Carl Vinson still not understanding the difference about potatoes russet means red, and idaho means white, except for boiling potatoes which are also red but are not russet no yes have boiling potatoes knocked, “red thin skin”, it’s the other kinds some are good in the microwave, some are sucky challenge is remembering which kind are sucky and then buying the other kind[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-shouldnt-buy-pistachios-by-the-scoop-from-the-bin-warning-tmi-heh/83501/27 "2001-09-25T17:52:34Z")
> [@](#): > > taking great pleasure in rummaging through the various shapes and sizes of gummi characters with their grubby little hands, picking out the ones that appealed to them, licking the backs of them and sticking them on the wall. ::puts “assorted gummies” on her grocery list and starts picking out a good wall:: Zette [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-shouldnt-buy-pistachios-by-the-scoop-from-the-bin-warning-tmi-heh/83501.md?page=1)