When a woman from Shanghai, China, identified as Miss Chen wanted to feed her family, she picked up a big slab of pork from her local butcher, then took it home for the night. Intending to cook it the next day, she just left the meat out on her table and went to bed. When she gets up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, she notices a light coming from her kitchen. She heads into the kitchen, looks at her table, and notices the pork she bought that morning was glowing bright blue.
As it turns out, she didn’t buy unicorn meat instead of pork, nor is this glowing blue pork the byproduct of food science gone mad. The culprit is believed to be the bacteria Pseudomonas cyanagenus, which is a photoluminescent bacteria that often infects old meat. I guess the combination of older pork and a lack of refrigeration caused Miss Chen’s pork to change from delicious meat to disco light. Hopefully, she didn’t go ahead and eat her glowing blue meat anyway, because that would create some very distracting, and probably unhealthy, pork chops.
Then again, she also left her pork out OVERNIGHT without refrigeration, I imagine she’s eaten a lot worse than glowing pork covered in weird bacteria.
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