Bangkok plans to ban all street food by year′s end

Re:Bangkok plans to ban all street food by year′s end by ethbro on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @10:50PM (#14145088)

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)

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Re:Bangkok plans to ban all street food by year′s end by Dylan16807 on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @11:14PM (#14145184)

I'm not sure if "feeling better" actually says anything about the food safety.

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Re:Bangkok plans to ban all street food by year′s end by ethbro on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @04:10PM (#14151322)

Don'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."

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Re:Bangkok plans to ban all street food by year′s end by Dylan16807 on Thursday April 20, 2017 @01:24AM (#14154185)

If 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.

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Re:Bangkok plans to ban all street food by year′s end by vacri on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @02:03AM (#14145795)

You need to be careful of the "holiday effect" with these kinds of comparisons. It's ruined many a biology paper...

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