“The virus is killed if the chicken is boiled for 15 minutes at 75 degrees celcius. The chicken is safe to eat if it’s cooked.”

I got that from the news tonight. The Japanese are so fearful of chicken because of bird flu that the ministers had to eat a bowl of chicken soup on national tv to tell them that it’s okay.

And how is this related to last week’s lesson? Memory.

See, all these Japanese are filled up with bad memories of bird flu that they have a negative reaction when it comes to consuming chicken meat. But then again, this is a bad example because the avian flu epidemic is actually quite scary, even to me even though I don’t live in a kampung where all the chickens run around freely, and I am sure hardly anyone has a happy memory of it.