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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 8, 2022 18:47:23 GMT
As I’m sitting down to have some lunch, I discovered a yogurt in the fridge that DH must have brought back from the lake cabin recently with a best by date on it of Nov 11, 2021. I realize he probably never even looked at the date on it, but really? Who’s gonna eat that? I’ve eaten yogurt (and sour cream) past the date on it after opening it and seeing if it smelled/tasted okay, but not four MONTHS past. I’m also sure I’ve eaten some dodgy stuff that DH’s mom made. So what’s the weirdest or most questionable thing you’ve eaten that didn’t make you ill? 🥴
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Post by myshelly on Mar 8, 2022 18:50:42 GMT
I’m really, really easily grossed out by food.
It’s not at all that I’m worried it will make me sick, just that the thought of certain things is gross and makes me completely lose my appetite.
It’s not unusual for me to throw things away that aren’t past their date just because I’m grossed out by how long we’ve had them or how long they’ve been open.
So, I have literally never eaten anything past its date because it never even makes it to its date in my house.
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Post by papersilly on Mar 8, 2022 19:04:27 GMT
the first thing that comes to mind is some Pilsbury Grands Biscuits that were 1 years expired in the fridge. they still cooked up well. thank god.
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 8, 2022 19:17:27 GMT
I didn't eat it, but I had to stop my FIL from topping off ice cream from an already opened can of whipped cream that had expired 6-months earlier. He saw absolutely nothing wrong with feeding it to the kids, and was really annoyed with me for suggesting he toss it. Of course, that was the same trip that MIL served us PB sandwiches that had rancid PB in them. When I subtly threw out the sandwich and the jar, she pulled it out of the trash and yelled at me for wasting food. I think she had smoked for so long that her sense of taste and smell was seriously dulled.
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Post by bc2ca on Mar 8, 2022 22:01:03 GMT
I was looking for something in the garage yesterday and discovered a can of coconut whipped topping sitting on a shelf. Our garage fridge died midDecember and I'm sure it ended up there in the frenzy to save as much as we could.
DH saw me toss it in the trash and asked what the use by date was. Irrelevant I said because it's been unrefrigerated for over 2 months. I double checked that it was still in the trash for pick-up today. DH is willing to eat dodgier food than me.
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Post by AussieMeg on Mar 8, 2022 22:04:43 GMT
I have eaten yogurt that was a few months past it's use-by date. 🤷♀️ As long as it hasn't been opened, and there are no green furry bits, it's all good!
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Post by Delta Dawn on Mar 8, 2022 22:06:04 GMT
I ate hotpot of cow intestines in Japan and went home and threw up. It was so disgusting I thought I would throw up at the table. So gross. It is a local delicacy to where I lived and it’s nasty.
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Post by peabay on Mar 8, 2022 22:08:38 GMT
My brother in law grew up on a farm in Ireland and let's just say his standards for what is "dodgy" differ from mine.
His mom would keep a pot on the stove - not with heat, by the way, just a pot ON the stove - and throw each day's scraps in it: veggies, pieces of meat etc... at the end of the week, she'd turn it into soup. This stuff had been sitting there all week and then they'd eat it.
He laughs at our reactions when he talks about it - he has a cast iron stomach!
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Post by garcia5050 on Mar 8, 2022 22:13:21 GMT
I was probably around 10 years old when this happened (40 years ago!). Every summer as a child, we spent a month in Mexico. My mom was afraid to fly (and cheap), so we would take a 3 day bus ride to get to her small town. There was one stop where I was STARVING. The bus stopped at a little shack, where strips of meat were drying/hanging in the open air - right next to the dusty road. The meat was also covered in flies. As you ordered your tacos, the worker would yank down one of those strips of meat and cook it for tacos. I was so hungry, I ate it. And I didn't get sick.
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Post by deekaye on Mar 8, 2022 22:16:13 GMT
When I was first dating DH I went to his parent's house for dinner around the holidays. His elderly great aunt was also invited and brought everyone tins of homemade Christmas cookies. Very quietly my DH told me not to open the tin. I thanked her and thought nothing of it. After she left I was told that she was a heavy smoker (I could already tell) and that her house was permeated with smoke-smell... including her kitchen, flour, sugar, etc. and that she was such a sweet person that no one wanted to hurt her feelings but the cookies were not edible. For the next few years while she was still alive, she would kindly bring us cookies, breads, etc. and sadly we never ate them because they smelled so smokey. I always felt bad but thankfully she would bring her baked goods as a "gift" and not as something to be eaten in front of her so we never had to eat them.
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Post by christine58 on Mar 8, 2022 22:33:01 GMT
I ate hotpot of cow intestines in Japan and went home and threw up. It was so disgusting I thought I would throw up at the table. So gross. It is a local delicacy to where I lived and it’s nasty. You win LOL
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Post by cmpeter on Mar 8, 2022 22:52:44 GMT
As a child I loved to eat the red/pink parts of raw bacon. My mom was pescatarian, so we rarely had it and she apparently didn’t know it wasn’t safe to eat raw.
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Post by KiwiJo on Mar 8, 2022 22:59:50 GMT
I very much suspect that the human race in general has slowly become quite precious about food safety - if things could so easily hurt or destroy us, how did we survive all these thousands and thousands of years without refrigerators….
I think things like the scraps being thrown into a pot to be later turned into soup was probably the norm, but these days most people would get sick if they ate it.
I’m certainly not saying we should do things like that - I (mostly) follow Use By dates, although I do think many of them are very conservative just so the manufacturers aren’t likely to get sued, and their foods would actually be perfectly safe to eat quite a while after the Use By date.
But I also think we have changed our (general) bodies’ microbiomes so that we can no longer tolerate what humans used to tolerate.
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Post by workingclassdog on Mar 8, 2022 23:04:48 GMT
As a child I loved to eat the red/pink parts of raw bacon. My mom was pescatarian, so we rarely had it and she apparently didn’t know it wasn’t safe to eat raw. I missed the raw part of your sentence and was thinking there was a bad part of bacon.. NO WAY.. lol I used to love to suck the fat off a cooked steak... is that bad?? lol.
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Post by Delta Dawn on Mar 8, 2022 23:08:14 GMT
I ate hotpot of cow intestines in Japan and went home and threw up. It was so disgusting I thought I would throw up at the table. So gross. It is a local delicacy to where I lived and it’s nasty. You win LOL Believe me I did not want to win! Yuck!
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Post by scrappinwithoutpeas on Mar 8, 2022 23:14:10 GMT
My brother and I always begged to eat little bits of raw potato (not the skins) when my mom was peeling or chopping potatoes while preparing dinner. We were probably 6 or 7 - never got sick, but my mom always scared us off by telling us we'd get worms if we ate too much raw potato. Ewww
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Post by christine58 on Mar 8, 2022 23:15:27 GMT
Believe me I did not want to win! Yuck! Oh I hear ya!
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Post by anaterra on Mar 8, 2022 23:22:30 GMT
Believe me I did not want to win! Yuck! We eat menudo made with intestines and stomach (tripe)... its a soup... not bad, actually very good a cure for hangover.. lol... Of course we also eat beef tongue and ox tails... so those aren't dodgy to me.... We did vacation in Jamaica once and some street jerk chicken that was really dodgy!!!
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Post by Lexica on Mar 8, 2022 23:36:17 GMT
My brother in law grew up on a farm in Ireland and let's just say his standards for what is "dodgy" differ from mine. His mom would keep a pot on the stove - not with heat, by the way, just a pot ON the stove - and throw each day's scraps in it: veggies, pieces of meat etc... at the end of the week, she'd turn it into soup. This stuff had been sitting there all week and then they'd eat it. He laughs at our reactions when he talks about it - he has a cast iron stomach! Ok, this actually made me gag. Meat sitting at room temperature for up to a week? Unless their house was kept freezing cold, they were really gambling with their health. My dad would make a pot of vegetable soup about once a week out of whatever vegetables bits were in the refrigerator that were not enough to make a normal family vegetable dish. But, these were in the refrigerator (other than the onions and potatoes that were in the pantry). He didn't like vegetables being wasted so he had a routine of collecting all the various bits and making a weekly soup out of them. It was funny, the ingredients always varied based on whatever vegetables were in it, but it always tasted basically the same.
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Post by Ryann on Mar 8, 2022 23:47:25 GMT
I don't eat dodgy food. I will eat leftovers the next day, and that is it. Leftover pizza was kept on the kitchen counter growing up. That's probably the dodgiest thing I have ever eaten.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 8, 2022 23:55:05 GMT
I’m really, really easily grossed out by food. It’s not at all that I’m worried it will make me sick, just that the thought of certain things is gross and makes me completely lose my appetite. It’s not unusual for me to throw things away that aren’t past their date just because I’m grossed out by how long we’ve had them or how long they’ve been open. So, I have literally never eaten anything past its date because it never even makes it to its date in my house. You guys must throw out a lot of food! I end up tossing more stuff than I like. I think we get sick of a certain thing after eating it for a while (cereal, crackers, stuff like that) so the last little bit sits in the pantry until it gets stale smelling and then out it goes. Same with giant Costco containers of fruit or bunches of bananas that my family promises they will eat but then they never do, so I eat as much of it as I can but then the last of it ends up going bad before I can either make it into something they’ll eat or freeze it. I really should just give some of it to my neighbors right away when I buy it.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 8, 2022 23:56:11 GMT
the first thing that comes to mind is some Pilsbury Grands Biscuits that were 1 years expired in the fridge. they still cooked up well. thank god. I’m brave, but not that brave! 😳
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Post by iowgirl on Mar 8, 2022 23:59:02 GMT
I used to beg my mother for a pinch of raw hamburger when I was a kid. I thought it was SO good. She would only give me a small pinch and tell me I can't eat too much of it. Now - the thought of that makes me gag! LOL But I know a lot of people love it on a cracker. I would only do it, if I knew where my meat was butchered! I would never eat it from a plant that butchers antibiotic free beef. Nope. That stuff is NASTY! My brother and I always begged to eat little bits of raw potato (not the skins) when my mom was peeling or chopping potatoes while preparing dinner. We were probably 6 or 7 - never got sick, but my mom always scared us off by telling us we'd get worms if we ate too much raw potato. Ewww Mmm... I love raw potoato! I only eat a slice, with a little salt on it. I know you don't want to go overboard on the raw taters. My kids loved them too... and when at college one of my daughters roommates saw her eat a slice raw and about died. LOL Of course we also eat beef tongue and ox tails... so those aren't dodgy to me.... I don't keep the heart/tongue/liver when we butcher beef, but our elderly neighbor loves it! I take it to him and he is in heaven. He says he can't get any liver that tastes as good as what comes from our beef - we don't feed any distillers, and I think that is what makes it good. He pickles the tongue and liver. That's kind of a food that our younger generation doesn't go for anymore.
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Post by zella on Mar 9, 2022 0:00:00 GMT
Similar to the Irish story... I worked in a Filipino home for over 2 years. Lovely family. Always trying to feed me. But they left all kinds of food on the kitchen counter for days... rice, pizza, meat dishes, lumpia...everything. I never saw anyone get sick, but I always turned down their offers no matter how good the food looked; my delicate GI system would not have coped, lol!
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 9, 2022 0:05:30 GMT
I didn't eat it, but I had to stop my FIL from topping off ice cream from an already opened can of whipped cream that had expired 6-months earlier. He saw absolutely nothing wrong with feeding it to the kids, and was really annoyed with me for suggesting he toss it. Of course, that was the same trip that MIL served us PB sandwiches that had rancid PB in them. When I subtly threw out the sandwich and the jar, she pulled it out of the trash and yelled at me for wasting food. I think she had smoked for so long that her sense of taste and smell was seriously dulled. OMG, where to begin? This describes my MIL to a T! You took your life and health into your own hands eating at her house! Once she made us breakfast with freezer burned sausage patties and eggs that had a best by date on the carton that was 6 weeks prior. I passed on that, it definitely smelled off. And on a related note: When I was first dating DH I went to his parent's house for dinner around the holidays. His elderly great aunt was also invited and brought everyone tins of homemade Christmas cookies. Very quietly my DH told me not to open the tin. I thanked her and thought nothing of it. After she left I was told that she was a heavy smoker (I could already tell) and that her house was permeated with smoke-smell... including her kitchen, flour, sugar, etc. and that she was such a sweet person that no one wanted to hurt her feelings but the cookies were not edible. For the next few years while she was still alive, she would kindly bring us cookies, breads, etc. and sadly we never ate them because they smelled so smokey. I always felt bad but thankfully she would bring her baked goods as a "gift" and not as something to be eaten in front of her so we never had to eat them. After one Halloween, MIL gave us a couple bags of various candy bars that were left over because she didn’t have many kids come to trick or treat. We thought since Halloween was only a little over a week prior it would be okay, plus two of the bags had never been opened. Yeah, NO. You could smell the cigarette smoke the minute the bags were opened and it was so gross! I couldn’t believe it had permeated all the way through the bag and the wrappers!
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Post by Delta Dawn on Mar 9, 2022 0:06:11 GMT
Similar to the Irish story... I worked in a Filipino home for over 2 years. Lovely family. Always trying to feed me. But they left all kinds of food on the kitchen counter for days... rice, pizza, meat dishes, lumpia...everything. I never saw anyone get sick, but I always turned down their offers no matter how good the food looked; my delicate GI system would not have coped, lol! My Okaasan (mother) in Japan left stewed chicken and bamboo shoots on the stove for weeks and just kept adding to it. It made me sick but it took a long time to figure out why because it tasted fine. I am not sure that made me sick but it could have.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 9, 2022 0:13:31 GMT
I was probably around 10 years old when this happened (40 years ago!). Every summer as a child, we spent a month in Mexico. My mom was afraid to fly (and cheap), so we would take a 3 day bus ride to get to her small town. There was one stop where I was STARVING. The bus stopped at a little shack, where strips of meat were drying/hanging in the open air - right next to the dusty road. The meat was also covered in flies. As you ordered your tacos, the worker would yank down one of those strips of meat and cook it for tacos. I was so hungry, I ate it. And I didn't get sick. Ha ha! This reminds me of another story. A friend’s son was getting married and they had the reception in a barn. A working barn with a DIRT floor. In October. It was so dry and dusty in there and with all the people coming and going there was a LOT of dust getting kicked up. The catered food was mostly in those covered chafing dish things with the lids, but the cake was sitting out on a table. Normally the wedding cake would be something I’d shove grandma out of the way to get the biggest piece, but this one? Not so much! I scraped the dusty frosting off and just ate the part in the middle. So sad! At least it wasn’t covered in flies. I’d have to draw the line there!
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 9, 2022 0:15:52 GMT
My brother in law grew up on a farm in Ireland and let's just say his standards for what is "dodgy" differ from mine. His mom would keep a pot on the stove - not with heat, by the way, just a pot ON the stove - and throw each day's scraps in it: veggies, pieces of meat etc... at the end of the week, she'd turn it into soup. This stuff had been sitting there all week and then they'd eat it. He laughs at our reactions when he talks about it - he has a cast iron stomach! I’d take a hard pass on that, as well as the dish Delta Dawn mentioned. 🤮 HARD pass!
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Post by Zee on Mar 9, 2022 0:16:01 GMT
I have eaten yogurt that was a few months past it's use-by date. 🤷♀️ As long as it hasn't been opened, and there are no green furry bits, it's all good! Yeah, yogurt was invented as a way to keep milk longer. I'm not at all grossed out by eating expired yogurt unless it smells or looks funny or if the packaging is bulging.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 9, 2022 0:18:15 GMT
iowgirl we usually get our beef a half or a quarter at a time and we always end up with these packs of mystery meat in with our hamburger and steaks and roasts. We never know what to do with any of that weird stuff so we usually end up throwing it out along with all the soup bones. I think the last time we got beef we told the butcher to just keep all that stuff!
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