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weinzierl on Sept 17, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: We Don’t Like Our Underground House

Wikipedia also says that creosote is literally meat preservative and that it used to be used to save meat from spoiling.

pessimizer on Sept 17, 2020 | [–]

So is saltpetre. It doesn't mean that it's safe in every form for every application. Doesn't even mean that it's safe in meat.

xkcd-sucks on Sept 18, 2020 | [–]

Wikipedia also says smoked meat consumption is correlated with intestinal cancer...

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