Fluff thread, What’s the dodgiest food you’ve ever eaten?

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 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.

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.

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.

You win  LOL

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.

Believe me I did not want to win! Yuck!

Oh I hear ya!

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.

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!


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

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.

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.