This episode starts with a chat about the need for butter refrigeration, bats and scorpions in leafy greens (oh my). The guys briefly celebrate Ben’s birthday before talking about risk attribution, and yet another hot take on the 5 second rule, eating insects on purpose, and “food safety” tips from the internet. 
They make two book recommendations before talking about rat lungworm and other disgusting things. The show wraps with an example of doing food safety right, and breaking news about doing food safety wrong before a brief dip into pop culture.
Episode 124 can be found here and on iTunes.
- Do you really need to refrigerate butter? – TODAY.com
- Show me the data: butter at room temperature edition
- Bats in salad is yuck factor stuff; actual illnesses end up lost
- Dead Bat Found Inside Package of Salad in Florida, Officials Say
- Isolation of Salmonella Virchow from a fruit bat (Pteropus giganteus)
- Maryland Woman Finds Live Scorpion in Bag of Spinach
- Nena- 99 Luftballons – YouTube
- Ranking the disease burden of 14 pathogens in food sources in the United States…
- Alton Brown on the 5-Second Rule
- Flour recall: How E. coli in flour can make you sick
- Get your fried grasshoppers here: the big hit at Mariners home games
- 8 Foods You Shouldn’t Reheat (Because They Could Poison You)
- Feel free to order soup anywhere | Six Tips to Avoid Foodborne Illness When Dining Out
- Kitchen Confidential Updated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
- Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
- Pod Save America on Twitter
- Rat Lungworm on Hawaii puts produce at risk
- Undercooled meat. Dangerous fish. Health inspectors ding Trump’s Mar-a-Lago kitchen
- AmazonFresh
- Mango Ice Cream Bars Recalled in Georgia due to Salmonella
- Brockmire