Would You Eat This OMG Edition

Oh, man. Poor kid. I assumed basic food safety was fairly common knowledge, but I guess not.

short thread, yes it would!

And this is exactly why my MIL’s “it was only opened a little” for year-past expired jar goods (specifically shrimp sauce) concerns me.

How sad. The worrying thing is that if it wasn’t for me then my soon to be DH would actually do this too and he’s 41!

How very sad.   I’m going to relate this story to my neighbor who was in full belly laugh at me when she saw something in my refrigerator.  I had a partially used box of chicken broth in there and I wrote the date that I opened it on the container.  Sometimes I forget how many days it has been in the refrigerator and I have a fear of spoiled foods, especially meat-related.  She thought I was crazy.  I told her i’d Rather be crazy than spend a day on the toilet getting sick.  Death hadn’t occurred to me.  Truthfully, I was unaware of the rice/pasta thing.  I would eat 5-day old plain pasta if it had been in the refrigerator the entire time.  I admit I put the date on pasta sauce if there is any left in the jar too.  So this was left on the counter for 5 days?  I would be sure there would be visable mold in it after that long.  No?

We had to do that at my MIL’s house too. When we cleaned out her cupboards after she passed away, we were amazed by the dates on some of the stuff we threw away. We realized some of it had to have been YEARS out of date when she moved in and brought it with her from her previous house and was still there in the cabinet at least 6-8 more years later!   You definitely took your life in your hands eating at her house if she was preparing the food.

Pasta, potatoes and rice are only good for a couple of days in the fridge. Actually, you probably shouldn't eat anything left over after 2 days unless you can freeze it.

Where did you get this info? Still tasty website says pasta is good refrigerated for 3-5 days.

My old roommates used to do this type of thing. Make tacos, leave meat out all night. Return the next evening and eat the meat. They used to get mad at me for throwing it out because I needed to use the pan!

What an awful story. I have absolutely no problem eating cooked pasta, rice or potatoes that have been kept in the fridge for several days. I am aware of being careful with rice and often make extra to have to reheat another day. Once cooked I immmediatley rinse rice under cold water and stick in the fridge. A tip I learned here and I think is promoted by your FDA but I have never heard said in the UK, is that it is safer to put warm food into the fridge and have the fridge temp rise a bit but soon recover than leave things out to cool. I now always do that too. I have a separate colder section of my fridge with a flap over it which is meant for meat I think and I try to put the warm stuff in there. Otherwise, I make sure the warm food isn’t touching anything.

Reheated pasta, rice and potatoes is better for you as the chemical structure changes and we digest it more like a fibre. I’ll keep eating leftovers as I’ve always done. Link

Sobering story though - most folk wouldn’t associate food poising with being fatal. So sad.

Wellllllll...... when I saw a thread recently that asked if anyone has pencil lead stuck in them, I thought for sure that would be a short thread, with only the OP answering in the affirmative. Boy was I wrong! Who would have thought so many people have been stabbed with a pencil and still have the tip still stuck inside their body?!?! 






Yeah, just out of interest I asked my 14yo son whether he would eat spaghetti that had been sitting on the bench for 5 days. Thankfully he answered "No way!" and was shocked that a college aged kid would have done so.

I totally ate fried rice last week after it sat out for a few hours. I’m probably dying.

Why shouldn’t you reheat rice? 

Never mind. Read the rest of the thread. Been eating leftover rice my whole life. We must have cast iron stomachs around here!

There is a risk of B. Cereus contamination in rice. Some of it depends on pantry hygiene (dust, open bags of rice, old rice etc). Then in some cases the cooking doesn't kill the spores and may even increase them. Then if the rice is left out for too long or not heated correctly the amount of bacteria will have increased enough to potentially make people sick.
It is a legitimate risk, however it's still unlikely to make most healthy adults sick, the risk is much greater for those who already have compromised immune systems.
Unless of course you've managed to really screw up every stage of the preparation, do it all incorrectly and there's a huge bacterial load, then it probably ill make everyone sick.