One of the staff noticed that it was taking a while for me cook breakfast. I explained that the potatoes were taking a while to cook. She responded with “well, if they’re hot, it doesn’t matter if they are cooked all the way through.”
I then had to explain to her that not cooking potatoes all the way through can be very bad, as the (admittedly small) traces of poisons are onlky destroyed when they are cooked thoroughly. It took far too long to explain this to her.
She then expressed concern that potato salad would then be dangerous. I replied that one cooks the potatoes before adding them to potato salad.
She said:
But potato salad isn’t hot when you eat it.
There are just times where you want to say to somebody, “I know your mouth just said it, but I don’t think your brain did.”