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Is it safe to eat things like chips after a building fire? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 9 months ago by MapleCoffee@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I live in an apartment building. Another unit recently caught on fire, and the building was evacuated. Smoke was everywhere. No heat reached my part of the building. I have not seen any soot, either.

I tried googling it, but I haven't been able to find a good answer that relates to things like chip packaging. They still have air in them, and the packaging doesn't fully match the descriptions of what foods to throw away.

Are things like this ok to eat after smoke exposure, or should I throw *** every *** type of food out? Thanks in advance.

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[–] chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

People have put worse things in their bodies. Some mildly contaminated chips won't kill you and probably won't even give you cancer.

Let's be honest, though... a standard bag of chips is already kind of bad for you -- maybe you should toss them out because you're better off without them either way? It's just a bag of chips at the end of the day.

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Who said it was only 1 bag of chips? Who only buys 1 bag of chips every time anyway?

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How many bags of chips do you buy at once?

[–] MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Usually 4, since I intend on not having to go back to the store for more again in a couple days

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think you might be picturing snack sized bags.

[–] MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Normal ass bags of chips.

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

Then to answer your initial question, I tend to buy one bag of chips with about 15 servings that I probably get about 5 servings out of every few shopping trips (maybe 1-2 times/month). I don’t eat chips every day, and don’t rely exclusively on chips for snacks, so I don’t keep multiple bags stocked.