Johnny Cash

  • Cocaine cut with animal de-wormer sickens dozens

    Posted: June 21st, 2011 - 4:43am by Doug Powell

    Lay off that whiskey, and let that cocaine be.

    That’s how the 1927 song made famous by Johnny Cash goes, but maybe add the line, if you’re going to do cocaine, try not to do it with animal drugs.

    KTLA in Los Angeles reports doctors are warning cocaine users about product cut with levamisole, used for deworming livestock.

    The warning follows reports of several patients developing serious skin reactions after smoking or snorting cocaine believed to be contaminated with the veterinary drug.

    The report, published online in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, said six patients developed purple-colored patches of necrotic skin on their ears, nose, cheeks and other parts of their body and, in some instances, suffered permanent scarring after they had used cocaine.

    According to the U.S. Department of Justice, up to 70% of cocaine in the U.S. is contaminated with levamisole, which is cheap and widely available.

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  • Simply Recipes explains how to use fingers to test if meat is cooked (total BS)

    Posted: September 4th, 2009 - 6:03am by Doug Powell

    In the expanding category of really bad food safety advice is this entry from Simply Recipes:

    There are two basic methods to test for how done your meat is while you are cooking it - use a meat thermometer, or press on the meat with your finger tips. The problem with the meat thermometer approach is that when you poke a hole into the meat with a thermometer, it can let juices escape, juices that you would rather have stay in the meat. For this reason, most experienced cooks rely on a "finger test" method, especially on steaks (whole roasts are better tested with a thermometer).

    For example, the story explains that to test for raw: Open the palm of your hand. Relax the hand. Take the index finger of your other hand and push on the fleshy area between the thumb and the base of the palm. Make sure your hand is relaxed. This is what raw meat feels like.

    There’s more. This is what Johnny Cash and I think (below). Stick it in. Use a thermometer.

    Thanks to another barfblog.com reader for the tip.


     

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