Reply #10: When I was in college in CO int the 70s and 80s we had a cabin way up

[kestrel91316]

in the Rockies. We had NO NEUROSES about eating snow or that fabulous treat, snow ice cream. If you lived in a smoggy, dirty metropolis, obviously you don't want to ingest the CHEMICAL pollutants in snow. And you ONLY eat fresh snow, preferably within 12 hours of falling.

BFD if it has "germs" from dust and dirt. We can't escape those, and there's no need to. And we DON'T have nuclear fallout these days to worry about (though Bush is working on that).

I have a BS in Microbiology from a prestigious university (not some penny-ante community college) and frankly, germ-phobes annoy hell out of me.