On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Dirk Wright wrote:
> in Mexico, India and other places, hot spices are used to
> kill germs in the food, since the sanitation there is basically non-existant.
> Here in America, hot spices are not needed for that purpose. I don't
> understand why people think that eating food should be a painful experience.
> It is not logical.
Saw something about that in UK TV documentary a couple of years ago. It
turned out that the best antibacterial ingredient was in fact the humble
onion, though the hot spices also helped.
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