If you grow up surrounded by dogs or pets your system gets trigger practice, as a kid. As an adult chances of getting asthma are nil. But those kids who have grown up in super clean environments no pets, no dirt they're sitting ducks. Someone I know was advised to get a pet, due to asthma diagnosed after she left university. She'd always wanted one as a child but her mother refused outright, overruling her dad who was ok with it.

Sometimes you take a chance - sometimes not. If the food tastes ok, smells ok, past its use by date, I'll risk it. But finding a bag of nuts in the cupboard a year out of date, still unopened, looked online for advice. Do they have a white powder effect? If yes, don't eat them. Apart from the white powder effect they seemed ok. But I wasn't brave enough to risk it.

My mother disregarded the advice - she said as a child she'd eaten lots of nuts, never gotten sick. I've seen the effects of food poisoning, luckily I've never had it. Probably paranoid like the time I opened a can of chicken soup, smelled foul, but it still had months to go. It was the first and only time that chicken soup didn't smell right. Not worth the risk.

Removed the dish from the fridge, oops, the cooked broccoli seemed to be threaded with white strands, yep gone off, but the rest of the contents smelled and looked ok. So very carefully removed all the broccoli and anything it could have contacted, warned it up. 👍 Luckily judged correctly. Both the chicken and the rice were dry, now had their been liquid in it, 🤔.