I live in an apartment building. Another unit recently caught on fire, and the building was evacuated. Smoke was everywhere. No heat reached my part of the building. I have not seen any soot, either.

I tried googling it, but I haven’t been able to find a good answer that relates to things like chip packaging. They still have air in them, and the packaging doesn’t fully match the descriptions of what foods to throw away.

Are things like this ok to eat after smoke exposure, or should I throw *** every *** type of food out? Thanks in advance.

  • @[email protected]
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    -177 months ago

    People have put worse things in their bodies. Some mildly contaminated chips won’t kill you and probably won’t even give you cancer.

    Let’s be honest, though… a standard bag of chips is already kind of bad for you – maybe you should toss them out because you’re better off without them either way? It’s just a bag of chips at the end of the day.

    • @[email protected]
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      287 months ago

      The soot from a building fire will absolutely give you cancer. Most deaths from a building fire are caused by the contaminants in the air and not the fire itself. It’s very nasty, and I wouldn’t shrug it off. At the very least, it will taste nasty. At most, it will give you health complications.

      • @[email protected]
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        37 months ago

        I think it’s a little unfair to escalate my talking about a presumably invisible and flavorless level of contamination into somehow advocating for choking down soot-blasted cancer nachos.

        For the record: that’s not what I meant and I think any reasonable person would not have interpeted it as such having read the context of the post. It’s a sealed bag of chips – they have functioning taste buds and eyeballs for Pete’s sake!

    • @lowleveldata
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      -137 months ago

      Who said it was only 1 bag of chips? Who only buys 1 bag of chips every time anyway?

        • @[email protected]
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          37 months ago

          I buy two at a time. And I can demolish a bag of chips in one sitting.

          I try not to do that. I try REALLY hard not to. But sometimes it just happens, and I have no clue how. The chips just disappear somewhere 🤔

        • @[email protected]
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          -37 months ago

          Usually 4, since I intend on not having to go back to the store for more again in a couple days

              • @[email protected]
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                37 months ago

                Then to answer your initial question, I tend to buy one bag of chips with about 15 servings that I probably get about 5 servings out of every few shopping trips (maybe 1-2 times/month). I don’t eat chips every day, and don’t rely exclusively on chips for snacks, so I don’t keep multiple bags stocked.

        • @lowleveldata
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          -57 months ago

          At least 3. 2 of the best flavor and 1 of a new flavor.

      • Kalash
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        17 months ago

        Who only buys 1 bag of chips every time anyway?

        I do.