Does cooked meat require refrigeration?

Question

As we all know, the general rule is, that cooked meat must be refrigerated within 2 hours or so after its cooked.
However, why are foods like cheese & bacon rolls, and those little hot dog rolls you find at Asian bakeries deemed safe to eat in room temperature?

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Answer 1

Officially yes but damn if my mom didn’t make roast dinners and the left over joint of meat would often just be put somewhere cool for a day or so until we finished it off. Having said that she’d roast any piece of meat for hours so there would be no risk of moisture left for bacteria to grow in 😀