Eat Your Cold Cuts Hot, Or Else 13.86K Jeff Neumann 05/06/11 05:09AM Filed to: Briefly Briefly Food Health Meat Gross Do you throw your salami in the microwave before eating it? If not, you're screwed and might die (or at least get diarrhea) from nasty Listeria monocytogenes hanging around in your food. Mmm, steaming hot lunch meat.