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For what it's worth, a week of eating nothing but Bangkok street food left me feeling better than a week of eating in European or American restaurants. (X = ~32
by ethbro 10y ago
For what it's worth, a week of eating nothing but Bangkok street food left me feeling better than a week of eating in European or American restaurants. (X = ~32)
- Dylan16807 10y agoI'm not sure if "feeling better" actually says anything about the food safety.
- ethbro 10y agoDon't let the good get in the way of the perfect. People griped about small sample size. I was adding mine. In lieu of a bacteria count and kitchen audit, I feel like eating a lot of something and feeling good is a decent proxy for "Thing is safe to eat."
- Dylan16807 10y agoIf you were eating the same kind of food in both places, it's a semi-decent proxy. But most american/european restaurants are serving a completely different kind of food than bangkok street vendors. That's an enormous confounding factor, and how good you feel is quite likely from meal composition and unrelated to safety.
- vacri 10y agoYou need to be careful of the "holiday effect" with these kinds of comparisons. It's ruined many a biology paper...