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Someday I hope to find a way to mess up a recipe so badly that it draws the attention of the International Air Transport Association, the International Mathematical Olympiad, or the NSA.
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Source: xkcd.com/3131/
It’s not often that a news story makes it into an xkcd.
What are you doing? If we can see the cat, we will know if it died.
Doesn’t look like it’s moving. Death state is inconclusive.
Ok, wow. This is real. I'll just steer clear of shrimp in general for a while.
New and magical food screwups!
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 4 days ago
Holy shit it was cesium-137?
It can be found in natural U-238, but otherwise it’s produced in nuclear fission. Stupid radioactive, and has a halflife in your body of like 70 days.
People who consumed this will be at a higher risk of cancer.
How the fuck did shrimp get contaminated with Cesium-137? Did they have like an X-ray machine radiation source blow up over a batch?