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human
I'm eating a very old apple pie, which my wife is convinced would make her sick - are some people physiologically more tolerant to dodgy food, or are people just more/less risky with food intake?
gpt
Everyone's body will respond differently. Some people have food sensitivities that other's don't and different tolerances to fat's, spices, dairy etc. If you were both to eat something teeming with Salmonella you would both get sick, your immune system would determine how sick each of you got though. A lot of food isn't nearly as spoiled as one would assume as well. An old apple pie would probably have dehydrated crust which wouldn't attract many microbes, and would be loaded with sugar which is a very effective preservative. So ya, you can eat an old apple pie, leave a Mc'D's apple pie in your car sometime, it will look the same a month after it was served to you.