Australians bin 2.5 million tonnes of food a year — roughly nineteen seconds of additional warming per soft cheese consumed — and the one act of mercy boomers can point to is sparing a parmesan rind with a "generous margin."
Generous. To cheese.
Meanwhile dark bananas leak ethylene gas onto the fresh ones like a tiny personal methane plant on every countertop. My nan keeps hers in a fruit bowl with apples, Linda, you are running a refinery.
Emma Beckett at Australian Catholic University lists the signs: mould, slime, leaking liquid, sour smell. That's also the kitchen Linda left me when she went on her cruise.
The margin around the mould is wider than the margin she gave my generation. It is for cheese.
Based on the original article "The 4 Key Signs You Should Chuck Old Food, According to Science".
