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November 13, 1997

devilot said:
Yup. My mom is like your friends :eek:... but at least one bio teacher I had taught me what you said-- the bacteria and/or mold spores are present elsewhere in the food. Best to throw the whole thing out if a part of it has mold on it.
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With cheese it is safe to cut the mouldy part off. Bread is not safe.
 
Agreed. It's okay with cheese. It's the mold spores in the air coming into contact with the outer surface of the cheese. With bread, it's porous, so the chance of total 'sporage' :p is very likely.



Here's to the Crazy Ones ​
 
What kinda cheese? ;) It wasn't 'safe with cheese' for me...

A bag of shredded cheddar... It actually didn't look moldy at all but it sure tasted moldy. :(
 
Ugh. My Dad has this weird habit of making HUGE batches of soup, pasta sauce, etc. putting most of it in large ziploc bags and freezing it in this enormous freezer out in the garage. Once, after putting some soup in there, the door didn't close all the way so everything melted. I went through the freezer and took everything out. The oldest bag in there was dated - and this was early summer 2004 - was dated November 1993. My family had moved three times since then (within the same general part of town) but the soup had journeyed with us each and every way.

My Dad has since broken that habit.
 
ColoJohnBoy said:
Ugh. My Dad has this weird habit of making HUGE batches of soup, pasta sauce, etc. putting most of it in large ziploc bags and freezing it in this enormous freezer out in the garage. Once, after putting some soup in there, the door didn't close all the way so everything melted. I went through the freezer and took everything out. The oldest bag in there was dated - and this was early summer 2004 - was dated November 1993. My family had moved three times since then (within the same general part of town) but the soup had journeyed with us each and every way.

My Dad has since broken that habit.
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Once when I was young my family ought a side of beef, and put it in our freezer in the basement. A week or so later the freezer stopped working. Turned out the door was ajar and it just burned up the motor.
Do you have any idea how bad 200 lbs. of week-old dead cow smells? Instead of ice in the little defrost pan, there was a gallon of blood. We were throwing up getting it cleaned out.
 
pseudobrit said:
mpw's million-dollar case of Chateau d'Yquem, for instance, will, if he's lucky, taste like rancid pickled yak piss filtered through a pile of rotting monkey corpses.
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If he's not lucky, it will taste roughly like a bottle of Bartles and Jaymes wine cooler.

Les Kern said:
<disgusting beef story>
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Thanks for that :eek:

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devilot said:
What kinda cheese? ;) It wasn't 'safe with cheese' for me...

A bag of shredded cheddar... It actually didn't look moldy at all but it sure tasted moldy. :(
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I will NEVER get shredded, seasoned italian cheese again! Because of the multi colored seasoning, I had no idea that it had molded, and grabbed the bag, poured some on my chips ( was going to make (italian?) nachos). For whatever reason, I didn't note the smell of the stuff until the toaster oven started to heat it.

It instantly smelled like a bloated Raccoon exploded on my countertop. I was actually gaging! It turns out that this cheese was the OLDER bag that had been in the fridge for 5 months!

Les Kern said:
<World of ISH Post>
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oh my (politically correct religious figure)!
 
pseudobrit said:
And you'd probably retch if you tried to drink it. Over 99% of wines will have peaked well before they're 45 years old.

mpw's million-dollar case of Chateau d'Yquem, for instance, will, if he's lucky, taste like rancid pickled yak piss filtered through a pile of rotting monkey corpses.
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I'm no wine expert but I thought most red wines (which are longer lived than white) will start to go downhill after about 25 years. I keep remembering the story about Thomas Jefforson's wine being auctioned off - essentially a bottle of vinegar.

Scotch, on the other hand, is pretty immortal. mmmmm, yes. :D

An army surplus store near me has a sealed can of spam from the Korean War circa 1951. :eek: :eek:

This summer I was doing some archeological work in a 19th century privy and we found a huge beef bone and a bunch of nice whiskey bottles....

And thanks Les Kern. I think you win the award for nastiest story. Unless you count the field trips I took to the local Coroner's office as an undergrad - rotting human flesh has a distinctive smell that I don't think I'll ever forget. :eek: :eek: :eek:
 
2nyRiggz said:
i think im going to be sick.....please no more i have to travel tonight.:p
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Don't even get me started talking about airline food... :eek: ;)
 
I actually like airline food. :eek:

I admit it. Most people are afraid to admit it. Seems like hating airline food is the cool thing to do, but seriously, it's not that BAD!


Here's to the Crazy Ones ​
 
Lacero said:
I actually like airline food. :eek:

I admit it. Most people are afraid to admit it. Seems like hating airline food is the cool thing to do, but seriously, it's not that BAD!
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Well, now that they are selling pre-packaged snacks, it's not so bad. That and the food in Business/First Class is pretty good too ;)

Prior to the prepackaged snacks, coach food on airplanes was horrid. I was flying every week back then, so perhaps I just got overdosed on it, but the breakfasts were especially bad.
 
If you order a "special" meal on a plane, you may get better results, because it won't be the usual "mysterious meat with sauce". Low fat, vegetarian, and even kid's meals are often just as good (and perhaps safer) than the regular choices.

Or you can fly Japan Airlines. The food was great, meals came with a hot towel to clean your hands, and they even served free plum wine!
 
Les Kern said:
Once when I was young my family ought a side of beef, and put it in our freezer in the basement.
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Is that a location thing or was it tied to a time frame? When I was growing up in Southern Indiana (late 70s) we did this also but when I moved out east (Mid to late 80's) they all thought I was crazy.
 
pseudobrit said:
...mpw's million-dollar case of Chateau d'Yquem...
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WTF? OMG Million $?:eek: *Runs to kitchen sink and licks plug hole sobbing*

pseudobrit said:
...will, if he's lucky, taste like rancid pickled yak piss filtered through a pile of rotting monkey corpses.
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Mmmmm Yak piss.......


PS My brother and I once cleared out the family cellar and sold some cases of, apparently special (not a port guy myself but we took advice), port we found to a guy (wine dealer) for £500,000 ~$890,000.:D
 
mpw said:
PS My brother and I once cleared out the family cellar and sold some cases of, apparently special (not a port guy myself but we took advice), port we found to a guy (wine dealer) for £500,000 ~$890,000.:D
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Next time you all need help cleaning out a cellar you just let me know.. Okay...:)
 
Lacero said:
I actually like airline food. :eek:

I admit it. Most people are afraid to admit it. Seems like hating airline food is the cool thing to do, but seriously, it's not that BAD!
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I don't mind airline fiood either for the most part, unless it's obviously horrible. :eek: ;) Maybe it's that I'm not picky, or that when I'm traveling usually it's backpacking and roughing it somewhere, so any prepared meal is a welcome sight. ;)

If you want good airline food, fly Singapore Airlines. They give you menus and the whole lot. On my trip from Vancouver to Singapore I had a nice Waldorf Salad as my apetizer, steamed perch fillet for dinner, chocolate cake for dessert... Definitely the furthest thing from airline food. :cool:
 
emw said:
So what's the oldest food item you've ever thrown out?
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Got rid of some old tins last winter, as I told in the "out of date tin"?-thread, one of which went bad in 1996. Which mean we had brought it with us at least the last three times we moved... :eek: :D

So far this year I've been pretty good at discarding old food, but just a few weeks ago I found and threw out an open carton of milk, more than a month over it's expiering date. :eek: I hadn't seen it earlier because I don't drink milk...
 
About 2 years ago, we were at my grandma and grandpa's house in Sarasota, which is like an hour away. While cooking lunch, my dad and I found a container of minced onions from "Safeway" (an old grocery store) with no expiration date on it.

Now, my grandparents used to live in Council Bluffs Iowa and by looking online, we found out that the last Safeway there closed in 1978. My Grandparents had only moved twice since 1978, and the fact that they kept it that long was quite scary.
 
It seems that there is a trend with grandparents not wanting to throw stuff out. Perhaps I'd better start saving stuff for when I get older so my grandkids can talk about it with their friends.

"My grandpa has a 28-year-old can of Costco chicken salad in his pantry. I'd open it, but it's around the time of the great Bird Flu scare, so I think I'll just toss it."
 
Lacero said:
I actually like airline food. :eek:

I admit it. Most people are afraid to admit it. Seems like hating airline food is the cool thing to do, but seriously, it's not that BAD!
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I like it too, but it's always really cold which can be disconcerting. :(
 
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