Bottom shelf of the fridge

absent I'm trying to think of a single type of bacterium with feet – and failing.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=funny+picture+of+bacteria&biw=1024&bih=634&tbm=isch&imgil=EtsPvKDPmkEm6M%253A%253BjF8a6iW1ai3YLM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fthemetapicture.com%25252Fbacterias-ethics%25252F&source=iu&pf=m&fir=EtsPvKDPmkEm6M%253A%252CjF8a6iW1ai3YLM%252C_&usg=__GIVf4yGJorxcoqCnWtVoYl230Qg%3D&ved=0CDoQyjc&ei=HbCJVLblKcm4UciZgdgB#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=PoX3eI4ypQjjxM%253A%3BbEt_N9J3SwGLCM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fst.depositphotos.com%252F1009487%252F2105%252Fi%252F950%252Fdepositphotos_21052843-Funny-bacteria-toon.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Ffunny-pictures.picphotos.net%252Ffunny-bacteria-toon%252Fthumbs.dreamstime.com*z*funny-bacteria-toon-28990306.jpg%252F%3B1024%3B1024

You probably had adequate parenting.

Above post to petra.

haha rosequartz.

Some bacteria [bacterium sp?] seem to have tails

https://www.google.co.uk/search?tbm=isch&hl=en-GB&source=hp&q=bacterial+flagella&gbv=2&oq=bacteria+flagell&gs_l=img.1.1.0i10l10.1891.5078.0.7922.16.15.0.1.1.0.156.1610.7j8.15.0.msedr...0...1ac.1.34.img..0.16.1625.JmjM5CoukIc

I don't think individual bacteria move, but they do multiply and spread with great speed.

spread where?

soon everywhere !

Bacteria multiply soontobe that's what we mean by spreading and, unchecked, yes everywhere.

But they dont do they. They dont move across a fridge shelf. Or up the door. Or onto other shelves. They just multiply on the actual piece of meat.

Googling, all I can find is that there is a problem if the items touch each other.

No touching, no problem.

I think that we have been conditioned to be over cautious on this issue.

If bacteria had legs they might run all the way from your bum to your mouth.....

Or else assumed something, when we havent be advised to actually do so.

I must admit, until I looked into this, I did think that some breeds of bacteria did have legs!

This is what Bill Bryson says about bacteria in his book "A Short History of Nearly Everything":

"... it is easy to convince ourselves that we have banished bacteria to the fringes of existence. Don't you believe it. Bacteria may not build cities or have interesting social lives, but they will be here when the Sun explodes. This is their planet, and we are on it only because they allow us to be.”

How on earth have we managed, given our (admittedly varied) advanced ages, the families we have successfully reared, the cooking and storing we have done, to do without all this...anthropomorphic bacteria too!

Well now you can change if you want to.

Please soontobe don't include me in your comment "we have assumed something when we haven't actually been advised to do so"!
I think simple common sense, a basic knowledge of food hygiene and how bacteria spread allied with a lifetime of preparing and cooking food make this a non- issue. I don't need some civil servant to state the bl***ing obvious and I ain't poisoned anybody yet.
What is the problem?

I had a problem. I asked for advice. I got it. I will change. Up to others if they do.
And I dont want anyone to contribute to any thread I write or post, if they dont want to. Or indeed read it.
No one is obliged to read anything I write.
If a thread is started by me, you can skip it. Now and forever.

In short, ignore me Soutra

and anyone else. I will not be in the least bit offended. Ever.

Eh?

The bacteria in my fridge are all legless. I keep opened bottles of wine in there too...

oh good!