other people's engagements

10:15 Saturday night:

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bar beach bowling club
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last weekend i left a large plate of potato bake in the boot of my car for a whole night and day, and it got me to wondering.. are the food safety & hygiene standards that our society accepts the byproduct of real risk aversion or rather a kind of snobbish post peasantry wastefulness?