Warning - Multiple people sick at Iberostar

[Diver Kat]

Leave my stick butter out on the counter most of the time - never had it spoil, or the bugs get into it. Eventually -like right now - when the temps get to be 100+ everyday, I'll put it back in the fridge. Otherwise it starts to puddle in the butter dish! :11:

 

[peterbj7]

Butter is a problem here. If you leave it out it becomes liquid and goes rancid within a few hours, day or night. If you put it in the fridge it goes rock hard. Although I love butter I'm afraid I've conceded defeat and now use marg.

In a normal climate such as Britain I never put salted butter in the fridge, but unsalted butter goes off quickly and needs to be refrigerated (which is of course why butter is salted, not for the taste).

 

[Gdog]

You gotta leave the butter out...how else will you spread it on the bread smoothly??? GEEEZZ
Im not brave enuff to try the mayo trick....sorry guys. As for AI, if im not mistaken, isnt there the option to NOT do the AI thing at some AI resorts? I know at Fiesta Americana, we opted out. Now, we just stay at Casa Mexicana, eat breakfast there because it is so good, then hit town to our favorite local spots for excellent local flavor. Would never go back to AI food. And,...Monti has left me alone so far, but wife got it pretty good right as we were leaving Coz from an AI place. Hard to say where she got it tho, after 7 days there.
Great tip on the Hep A shots..didnt know they last lifetime, we are definately down with that now.

 

[peterbj7]

I've never been to an AI resort - they've never attracted me. Is the food really consistently that bad, across all companies? Is that true across the world, or just in Mexico?

 

[Martha]

I've stayed at an AI resort twice in Cozumel, the first time was ~ 14 yrs. ago and the second time was ~4 yrs. ago when we stayed at the Occidental Grand. I didn't have a problem with the food at either place.

 

[DandyDon]

Leave my stick butter out on the counter most of the time - never had it spoil, or the bugs get into it. Eventually -like right now - when the temps get to be 100+ everyday, I'll put it back in the fridge. Otherwise it starts to puddle in the butter dish! :11:

I turn my AC off when I leave the house, but it never gets that hot. Less than 90, and even then doesn't get that hot inside the cabinet in a few hours.

Butter is a problem here. If you leave it out it becomes liquid and goes rancid within a few hours, day or night. If you put it in the fridge it goes rock hard. Although I love butter I'm afraid I've conceded defeat and now use marg.

In a normal climate such as Britain I never put salted butter in the fridge, but unsalted butter goes off quickly and needs to be refrigerated (which is of course why butter is salted, not for the taste).

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In normal climate....!

You need two fridges: one for cold food, one for red wines and butter.

Ah, my butter is salted - that's why it doesn't spoil, eh?

You gotta leave the butter out...how else will you spread it on the bread smoothly??? GEEEZZ
Im not brave enuff to try the mayo trick....sorry guys. As for AI, if im not mistaken, isnt there the option to NOT do the AI thing at some AI resorts? I know at Fiesta Americana, we opted out. Now, we just stay at Casa Mexicana, eat breakfast there because it is so good, then hit town to our favorite local spots for excellent local flavor. Would never go back to AI food. And,...Monti has left me alone so far, but wife got it pretty good right as we were leaving Coz from an AI place. Hard to say where she got it tho, after 7 days there.
Great tip on the Hep A shots..didnt know they last lifetime, we are definately down with that now.

Yep, butter needs to be spreadable. At the Furr's Cafeteria I patronize couple times a week, I place the butter pats upside down on top of warm food until I get to the table. Softens them fast enough. Stick butter not so easy - out!

The AI and semi-AI deals vary. At some you can do Full Breakfast plans; but compare the cost and you think "for a few bucks a day more, do all of it so we can get lunch and beer;" then you think "supper is free, why go to town;" then you get bored after 2 or 3 nights.

I've never been to an AI resort - they've never attracted me. Is the food really consistently that bad, across all companies? Is that true across the world, or just in Mexico?

Nah - aside from my one bad experience with the outside buffet mentioned earlier, but somehow it gets boring...?

Dorm food is not bad usually, but gets boring. Messhall food - same.

 

[redrover]

Gee this leaving things out of the fridge response is like, Wow! Maybe it’s the climate here so different, I dunno.

Butter here becomes a runny mixture of oil and curd if left out overnight, much sooner when the trades aren’t blowing, but softens up very quickly once out of the fridge.

I just had a refrigerator die and lost pretty much everything opened it had in it, much of what wasn't opened. Thought I was ok having so many ice chests but they did not cut it for two weeks until the fridge was replaced. Things I expected to stay ok considering the ice man and I were quickly on a first name basis, I tasted but all were off taste, as in spoiled and rancid, and I'm really not very picky. The mayo was chucked pretty quickly and was the only thing I tasted that day. Good thing I was at home just a few steps to the facilities that weekend.

Are you all saying Mayonnaise, the purchased kind, should always be left out in the pantry at 90 degrees for months once opened?

Good lord the sweet ants find everything...bisquick spoils left out of the fridge in a vacume sealed bag, bugs get into closed jars, flour and rice let alone the plastic sealed original packageing.

 

[peterbj7]

Sound just like Belize! I forgot to mention the ants, which take over anything edible that's left out.

I even have to keep opened packets of breakfast cereal in the freezer, as otherwise they're taken over by weevils.

 

[DandyDon]

It does make a difference living where ice never forms huh? In years with milder winters here, farmers have to fight damaging insects more - altho the average person may not notice. Make that no freezing weather and your insects reproducing year round - bingo!

 

[MMM]

I just had lunch at a hole in the wall cantina on 15th....for the 2nd day in a row. I didn´t see a name on it (just some dos equis signs). Everything was homemade. GREAT panuchos, shrimp tacos and salbutes. Lunch each day (with a beer each) was less than $10 total and some of the best stuff I´ve eaten on the island.