What's the most expired food you've found in your fridge?

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The discussion centers around humorous and often grotesque experiences with expired food and the challenges of managing leftovers in refrigerators. Participants share stories of discovering long-forgotten items, such as a bottle of Worcestershire sauce and jars of mustard that had expired years prior, highlighting a common tendency to avoid throwing away food even when it's clearly spoiled. There are vivid accounts of mold growth on various foods, including a frightening red mold on hummus and explosive pinto beans that prompted a hasty retreat to the shower. The conversation also touches on the horrors of cleaning out communal dorm fridges, where expired milk and unrecognizable leftovers raised concerns about biohazard disposal. Some participants express confusion over expiration dates, noting that many items, especially condiments, can last well beyond their labeled dates if they appear and smell fine. The thread concludes with light-hearted anecdotes about the unexpected and often disgusting discoveries in fridges, emphasizing the shared struggle of managing food waste and the humorous side of culinary mishaps.
  • #61
Danger said:
Not me... but I guess that once again stems from working in a cowboy bar. It had a kitchen...

Note to self: Don't eat the bar food in a cowboy bar.

(I think it was more in the way he told the story...imagining the feel of something grainy slipping past his cheek is really doing me in here...it sounded much worse than just waking up with blue hands or staring at a jar of pickled squirrel heads.)
 
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  • #62
Moonbear said:
imagining the feel of something grainy slipping past his cheek
Oh relax... I'm not going to mention it. o:)
 
  • #63
When I lived in Chicago, I was out on a romantic first date. We were sitting outside at a bar, there was a tree next to our table, it was a beautiful evening. I was gazing lovingly into my date's eyes and took a sip of my beer. I felt something large, warm & slimy in my mouth. I instantly spit it back into my beer. It was a large pigeon poop.
 
  • #64
Horror stories? It was a dark and stormy night...we hit black ice and flipped our vehicle about three times into a snow-covered field. After being released from the hospital, we headed for the nearest hotel to wash the mud and the blood and the beer, er the glass and twigs off. With Christmas now passed in such a manner, a friend borrows his brother's old van and drives to meet us. As we are heading home, freezing from lack of heat, we stop at the only place we see to get a bite to eat--good ole Denny's. About 30-45 minutes later two of us are sick with food poisoning, so once again we head to the nearest hotel. There we spend New Year's Eve going from chills to fever and other anguish (I'll spare you the details). Oh, I think to myself, I'm sure this is no indication of what the rest of the year will be like...until a few weeks later when I walk into a bar (not quite cowboy, but close enough), and after eating the chicken wings, an all too familiar feeling surged through me once again...
 
  • #65
I opened a fridge with no food in it once.
 
  • #66
Evo said:
When I lived in Chicago, I was out on a romantic first date. We were sitting outside at a bar, there was a tree next to our table, it was a beautiful evening. I was gazing lovingly into my date's eyes and took a sip of my beer. I felt something large, warm & slimy in my mouth. I instantly spit it back into my beer. It was a large pigeon poop.
To quote - Eeeeewww, eeeeeewww, eeewwwwww [courtesy Moonbear]. My only question is were you drinking draft beer? If not, I don't even want to go there. Talk about finding a slug in a squirrels mouth... pass the salt.
 
  • #67
Chronos said:
:Talk about finding a slug in a squirrels mouth... pass the salt.
I have absolutely no idea what the hell that means, but it sounds neat. I must agree that Evo's experience is pretty disgusting. (I don't mean the dog suit thing...)
 
  • #68
I liked the beer story too. Reminds of why I quit drinking milk out of the carton. Is it just me, or did the TV show 'Leave it to Beaver' have cosmic symbolism in naming Theodores best friend, Lumpy?
 
  • #69
Chronos said:
'Leave it to Beaver'
Hey! Get that over to the 'Old TV Shows' thread. It's one we missed.
 
  • #70
Chronos said:
I liked the beer story too. Reminds of why I quit drinking milk out of the carton. Is it just me, or did the TV show 'Leave it to Beaver' have cosmic symbolism in naming Theodores best friend, Lumpy?

I'm pretty paranoid about drinking things from bottles and cans outside. I admit I never considered pigeon poop, but more that a fly or bee would get inside. We must think alike though, because when Evo said something slimy was in her beer, the first thing that came to my mind was a slug. Good reason to keep the cap placed on top of the bottle when you're not drinking.
 
  • #71
Moonbear said:
I'm pretty paranoid about drinking things from bottles and cans outside.
Even inside. I once opened a new 2-4 of Canuk and found that 3 or 4 of the bottles had cocoons in the necks. :eek:
 
  • #72
I once saw a guy pick up his spit-can - a Coke can - instead of his Coke, and drink it!

Mmmmmm, Copenhagen goo.
 
  • #73
Chronos said:
To quote - Eeeeewww, eeeeeewww, eeewwwwww [courtesy Moonbear]. My only question is were you drinking draft beer? If not, I don't even want to go there.
It was a glass (draft).

Talk about finding a slug in a squirrels mouth... pass the salt.
eeeeeewwwww Between Ivan's Bozo picture and Chronos' squirrel heads, I'm afraid to sleep at night. (Bozo eating pickled squirrel heads :bugeye: )
 
  • #74
Ivan Seeking said:
I once saw a guy pick up his spit-can - a Coke can - instead of his Coke, and drink it!

Mmmmmm, Copenhagen goo.
Anti-Chewing-Tobacco Activists Speak Out Against Second-hand Spit

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"The way people view secondhand spit needs to change," said Lindsey Hurness, a bartender in Tampa, FL. "People spit their gobs of old chew everywhere—in drink glasses, in plants, in the sink. And the floors are slick with pools of spit. Sometimes, on busy weekend nights, the goopy brown stuff comes up to my shoelaces."
 
  • #75
You know, that's a coincidence, because I was just this morning thinking about watering plants only with water that has been in your mouth. Not with chewing tobacco of course.
 
  • #76
Well add the "chew" if you have bugs in your soil..it will kill them.{really}
 
  • #77
Chronos said:
Talk about finding a slug in a squirrels mouth... pass the salt.
Never mind... I've got it now.
At least the cowboys up here don't spit on the floor. Cup, wastebasket or toilet. The ones who use the pouched stuff sometimes put it in an ashtray, but it isn't messy.
 
  • #78
Danger said:
Never mind... I've got it now.
At least the cowboys up here don't spit on the floor. Cup, wastebasket or toilet. The ones who use the pouched stuff sometimes put it in an ashtray, but it isn't messy.

A guy I know who is an extremely tidy person moved to teach at a university in Mississippi. He was horrified to discover people there thought nothing of spitting their "chaw" in his wastebasket as they came into his office to talk to him. He decided it was best to just hide the wastebasket so they'd have to find someplace else to spit.
 
  • #79
Moonbear said:
He decided it was best to just hide the wastebasket so they'd have to find someplace else to spit.
I assume he didn't leave his briefcase open.
 
  • #80
Danger said:
I assume he didn't leave his briefcase open.

Are you kidding?! I think he asked everyone he knew if hiding the wastebasket would result in them spitting anywhere else...he was so afraid of where else he might find it. I think he's recovered from the shock now though, he finally talks and jokes about it.
 
  • #81
Real men swallow.
 
  • #82
Ivan Seeking said:
Real men swallow.
Given our propensity for taking things completely out of context, are you sure you want to leave that posted? :rolleyes:
 
  • #83
Danger said:
Given our propensity for taking things completely out of context, are you sure you want to leave that posted? :rolleyes:

:confused: oh, ...their chew.
 
  • #84
Ivan Seeking said:
Real men swallow.
That did it. I'm officially ill now.

I was feeling a little queasy earlier tonight from a bad frig experience. I went to put some salsa on my baked potato and narrowly escaped disaster when I noticed at the last minute-- the inside of the salsa jar had grown a fuzzy grey beard! pleh.
 
  • #85
Ivan Seeking said:
Real men swallow.

I don't think it matters which context I take that in, it just doesn't bode well for you there. :smile:
 
  • #86
Ivan Seeking said:
:confused: oh, ...their chew.
Nice save. Feeble, but acceptable.

Math Is Hard said:
the inside of the salsa jar had grown a fuzzy grey beard! pleh.
Well, if that's your reaction, I'll keep shaving.
 
  • #87
Speaking of things that have been sitting in the frig too long.. the PF birthday cake is starting to look a little green and moldy

https://www.physicsforums.com/images/misc/birthday.gif

I think it might be time to bake a fresh one. :approve:
 
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  • #88
Math Is Hard said:
the PF birthday cake is starting to look a little green and moldy
Is that avocado icing I see there? :-p
 
  • #89
I think I'll bring this thread back...

Our refridgerator has hundreds of jam jars that have expired about a year ago. I opened one recently to find the most horrid smell to ever enter my nostrills

(thank god I smelled it first and didn't eat it...)
 

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