why did lox eat through plastic plate?

magreen

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Does anyone know what ingredient there is in smoked salmon that could eat through clear plastic disposable plates?

We just put together a bagels and lox and cream cheese breakfast. We made up plates of food for the breakfast the night before. Some plates had lettuce and tomato, some plates had onions and tomatos, and some had rolled up slices of smoked salmon with grape tomatos in the center. All plates were on clear plastic disposable plates.

By morning, all 9 plates of smoked salmon were cracked right through in the center, and none of the plates of vegetables had broken. When I arrived in the morning at 7am to take the plates out of the fridge and put them on the tables, I saw they were cracked and put new plastic plates underneath the broken plate to reinforce them, and I put them out on the tables. We ate the bagels at about 9am.

After it was over, at about 12pm, I saw that the new plates underneath the salmon plates were also broken through.

What is there in lox that seems to eat through plastic plates?
 

sandorski

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Salmon from China?

I'm gonna go with Weight being the culprit. "Cracked" is a structural integrity issue.
 

Gibsons

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Originally posted by: sandorski
Salmon from China?

I'm gonna go with Weight being the culprit. "Cracked" is a structural integrity issue.

Yeah, I'm wondering if it's cracked or melted/dissolved. Some organic compounds will dissolve some plastics, like if you use lemon in a styrofoam cup it'll leave small pits in the bottom.
 

kranky

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If it's actually dissolved, I sure wouldn't be eating the food which is now marinated in liquid plastic.
 

Perknose

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Lax toxic lox, otherwise known as loxic, the smoked salmon you can find in the dark.

Because in former Soviet Socialist Republics, salmon smokes you.