Sometime back ther was a discussion about appropriate food to be eaten whilst flying.
I am a big advocate of the ham, salad and mayo sandwich (or beef, salad and mayo if you can't eat pork, or textured vegetable protein, salad and aioli if you're vegetarian ;-)). But I think Peter Stephenson said that the mayo may be a food poisoning risk because it is sitting in a warm cockpit. It is known that commercial flight crews are most likely to be made medically unfit from gastro-enteritis after eating dodgy food (i.e. half heated chicken sitting in a bon-marie all day). Are there any stories or references to support or deny that mayo poses an unacceptable risk to glider pilots in particular? Any microbiologists out there? I cannot see any harm if a sandwich is kept cool in a fridge/esky and then transferred into one of those silver lined temperature stable bags. I thinks pilots are more likley to eat food if it is tasty, should we deny ourselves the joy of real egg mayonnaise. Eat, drink, go flying, Michael T. _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
