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Post by Zee on Mar 9, 2022 0:20:59 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. Oh definitely. We're too delicate to drink water or eat stew that's been out for days but we evolved doing those things. I'm very glad not to have worms and parasites and bouts of tummy trouble due to food poisoning, though!
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 9, 2022 0:23:46 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.LOL. There was an episode of Hoarders where the lady was a food hoarder and her fridgeS (multiple!) were packed solidly full with assorted stuff. The social worker who was in there helping her to declutter was asking about the expired yogurts in her fridge and whether those could be thrown out, and the lady said, “No, those are still perfectly good. They’re not bulging or anything.” 😆
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Post by iowgirl on Mar 9, 2022 0:26:53 GMT
I think the last time we got beef we told the butcher to just keep all that stuff! Our butcher gives us the option to not take it. We usually don't but when we found out how much our neighbor loves it - we get it for him now. I really don't get soup bones anymore either. I used to roast them and make beef soup base, but I just don't do that much anymore. I used to cut up the liver for our farm cats, but I told DH that if he wanted to do it and keep it in the shop fridge, that was fine. But my time with liver was done. He passed on that deal. LOL
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 9, 2022 0:28:57 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. DH loves watching those survival shows where people get dropped off in the middle of nowhere and then have to survive for 30- 90- 120 days or whatever. They almost always end up eating some weird fish or bugs of something that sat too long after they killed it and then end up puking their guts out for two days. Or they risk drinking the water without boiling it first, and same thing. Sick for days from some parasite.
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Post by littlemama on Mar 9, 2022 0:40:09 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 We all eat raw potato! My mil, on Christmas Eve was making mashed potatoes and gravy. The potatoes were mashed and ready when she began to make the gravy. The gravy instantly curdled at which point I looked at the milk and found that it has expired EIGHT DAYS earlier. I told her that was why her gravybwas curdling and she said that they "always" use milk that far past the date (side note: mil and her husband always have unexplained stomach issues). She scrapped the gravy and remade it, but still served the potatoes. I managed to whisper to everyone about the potatoes amd a few people took some to be polite, but didnt eat them. Our nephew, who was maybe 2 at the time took a bite and then gagged. And then took another bite and gagged. And so on until SIL finally took them away. They were nasty and smelled and tasted horrible
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 9, 2022 1:05:50 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 We all eat raw potato! My mil, on Christmas Eve was making mashed potatoes and gravy. The potatoes were mashed and ready when she began to make the gravy. The gravy instantly curdled at which point I looked at the milk and found that it has expired EIGHT DAYS earlier. I told her that was why her gravybwas curdling and she said that they "always" use milk that far past the date (side note: mil and her husband always have unexplained stomach issues). She scrapped the gravy and remade it, but still served the potatoes. I managed to whisper to everyone about the potatoes amd a few people took some to be polite, but didnt eat them. Our nephew, who was maybe 2 at the time took a bite and then gagged. And then took another bite and gagged. And so on until SIL finally took them away. They were nasty and smelled and tasted horrible Milk can stay good for a week or more past the date on the carton. Heavy cream lasts a really long time. I try to always buy my milk at Costco because it seems to last the longest from there. It seems like the milk I get from the grocery store or Target goes bad days earlier. Once it gets close I smell it and make sure it’s still okay, but I don’t always automatically dump it just because it hits the date on the jug. Once DH dumped out an entire carton of heavy cream that I had just bought without even looking at the date because he thought it was milk that had gone bad because it was thick, LOL.
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Post by sabrinae on Mar 9, 2022 1:13:41 GMT
Street food when I studied abroad in Mexico. The tamales from grandma on the street corner were the best tamales ever though. Sometimes I wasn’t even sure what I was eating. We only had classes Monday- Thursday, so every Thursday night we would hop on a bus and go explore. Definitely some questionable food as we grabbed whatever was available.
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Post by littlemama on Mar 9, 2022 1:24:24 GMT
We all eat raw potato! My mil, on Christmas Eve was making mashed potatoes and gravy. The potatoes were mashed and ready when she began to make the gravy. The gravy instantly curdled at which point I looked at the milk and found that it has expired EIGHT DAYS earlier. I told her that was why her gravybwas curdling and she said that they "always" use milk that far past the date (side note: mil and her husband always have unexplained stomach issues). She scrapped the gravy and remade it, but still served the potatoes. I managed to whisper to everyone about the potatoes amd a few people took some to be polite, but didnt eat them. Our nephew, who was maybe 2 at the time took a bite and then gagged. And then took another bite and gagged. And so on until SIL finally took them away. They were nasty and smelled and tasted horrible Milk can stay good for a week or more past the date on the carton. Heavy cream lasts a really long time. I try to always buy my milk at Costco because it seems to last the longest from there. It seems like the milk I get from the grocery store or Target goes bad days earlier. Once it gets close I smell it and make sure it’s still okay, but I don’t always automatically dump it just because it hits the date on the jug. Once DH dumped out an entire carton of heavy cream that I had just bought without even looking at the date because he thought it was milk that had gone bad because it was thick, LOL. This milk was bad, I cant even describe the smell of it. And honestly, I wouldnt use 8 day expired milk to serve to other people at all, much less on a holiday. I've had food poisoning. I dont mess around with expiration dates on fresh food. Canned food is good for long after the expiration date. Fresh food, not worth the risk.
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Post by padresfan619 on Mar 9, 2022 1:31:43 GMT
No one ever touched it but I remember my Grannie having a can of Coke in her fridge from the 90s when she passed in 2009.
At the height of food scarcity in the pandemic I ate some Kraft mac and cheese I had in my pantry that had expired two years prior. I figured if the milk and butter I used was still good I would be fine. I was!
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Post by 950nancy on Mar 9, 2022 1:34:50 GMT
I'm not a big fan of eating things that gross me out, but I do push the expiration dates and things that have fallen on the floor are just considered a little distressed. . For me, the grossest thing I've eaten was liver, and I know some people who actually like it.
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Post by tenacious on Mar 9, 2022 1:46:27 GMT
Oh, man. This thread is giving me anxiety! LOL!
I try very hard to not waste food. I try to get my fridge at least half empty before I go to the store…but, I am pretty picky about eating suspect things from the fridge (I am less squeamish about pantry items). So, I can’t think of anything that I have eaten out of the fridge that would be of note.
Now, weird things? Too many to list. I lived in Asia for a long time, so:
Pig’s blood soup Pig testicles Bird’s Nest Soup (look it up) Shark Fin Soup (gross) Pickled pig’s feet Chicken feet Pig’s kidney Cordyseps
Just off the top of my head.
Also-I just had a close friend that spent 2 days in the hospital with salmonella from eating raw cookie dough. She was in bad shape. And, my daughter had a $3,000 trip to ER this year with E. coli (origin unknown). After seeing what both of them went through, I am more careful than ever!
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Post by greendragonlady on Mar 9, 2022 1:54:32 GMT
DH is willing to eat dodgier food than me. Same here. I'm pretty picky about dates. And most stuff the date goes out the window after it's been opened. When in doubt, toss it out!
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Post by busy on Mar 9, 2022 1:56:12 GMT
that it has expired EIGHT DAYS earlier. Those are sell by dates, not "expiration dates."
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Post by Zee on Mar 9, 2022 1:59:37 GMT
Oh, man. This thread is giving me anxiety! LOL! I try very hard to not waste food. I try to get my fridge at least half empty before I go to the store…but, I am pretty picky about eating suspect things from the fridge (I am less squeamish about pantry items). So, I can’t think of anything that I have eaten out of the fridge that would be of note. Now, weird things? Too many to list. I lived in Asia for a long time, so: Pig’s blood soup Pig testicles Bird’s Nest Soup (look it up) Shark Fin Soup (gross) Pickled pig’s feet Chicken feet Pig’s kidney Cordyseps Just off the top of my head. Also-I just had a close friend that spent 2 days in the hospital with salmonella from eating raw cookie dough. She was in bad shape. And, my daughter had a $3,000 trip to ER this year with E. coli (origin unknown). After seeing what both of them went through, I am more careful than ever! Nothing on earth could ever get me to stop eating cookie dough or cake batter. Not even salmonella! I've been at it for almost 50 years, I'll continue to gamble 😸
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Post by grammanisi on Mar 9, 2022 3:53:14 GMT
I get so easily grossed out by food, that I can't even read this post.🤢
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Post by peasapie on Mar 9, 2022 12:28:37 GMT
Oh, man. This thread is giving me anxiety! LOL! I try very hard to not waste food. I try to get my fridge at least half empty before I go to the store…but, I am pretty picky about eating suspect things from the fridge (I am less squeamish about pantry items). So, I can’t think of anything that I have eaten out of the fridge that would be of note. Now, weird things? Too many to list. I lived in Asia for a long time, so: Pig’s blood soup Pig testicles Bird’s Nest Soup (look it up) Shark Fin Soup (gross) Pickled pig’s feet Chicken feet Pig’s kidney Cordyseps Just off the top of my head. Also-I just had a close friend that spent 2 days in the hospital with salmonella from eating raw cookie dough. She was in bad shape. And, my daughter had a $3,000 trip to ER this year with E. coli (origin unknown). After seeing what both of them went through, I am more careful than ever! This is the first time I’ve ever heard of someone actually getting sick from eating raw cookie dough. I always thought moms made that up to keep us from eating all their cookies before they baked them. My mom was a Depression child and saved every bit of leftovers. There were times I’d question whether something in the fridge was still edible and she always assured us it was — but I can guarantee some of it definitely was not.
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Post by zella on Mar 9, 2022 14:56:26 GMT
that it has expired EIGHT DAYS earlier. Those are sell by dates, not "expiration dates." Actually there are at least 4 different types of dates: Expires on: Best by: Purchase by: Use by: None of us know which was on the milk; if littlemama says it had expired I believe her.
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Post by littlemama on Mar 9, 2022 15:24:33 GMT
Those are sell by dates, not "expiration dates." Actually there are at least 4 different types of dates: Expires on: Best by: Purchase by: Use by: None of us know which was on the milk; if littlemama says it had expired I believe her. Thank you. Not really sure why people are arguing with me about bad milk that I personally experienced, but that's 2Peas for you!
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Post by scorpeao on Mar 9, 2022 15:35:41 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. Same. My mom would yell at me for doing it, but the minute her back was turned I was eating it again. I don't know how I'm alive. We also used to put leftover pizza in the oven...not on, just stored in the oven. We'd eat it for the next day or two. So gross!
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Post by malibou on Mar 9, 2022 15:44:44 GMT
I've been taking my life into my own hands for 30+ years. My in-laws have the worst food handling practices I've ever seen. They keep a dishpan of water in the sink all day and toss dishes in. At the end of the day, they just rinse the dishes off and set them to dry. There is no hot water used, no dish soap and no actual scrubbing with a cloth or sponge.
For longer than I care to admit, I was sick every time I left their house. It was years before I understood why. For the past 20 years, I take all food with us when we visit and cook it there. While I'm cooking, Dh sneaks in to wash whatever dishes and cutlery we will need to use.
I have been care giving for my mil for the last several months, first thing I did was take every dish and piece of cutlery out of the cabinets and wash it all. She is now getting around a bit, and desperately wants to do all the things she did before. This has come to include doing dishes. So, on top of everything else, I have to hop up and do dishes immediately after a meal, or she will beat me to it and then I end up having to rewash everything on the sly so I don't die. Oh, and she lets the dog lick the dishes clean, and it leaves a film on the dishes, that I have to seriously scrub to get it off, so when I'm rewashing dishes and I come to the ones that the dog has licked and that gross film is on the allegedly clean dish, I gag.
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Post by Susie_Homemaker on Mar 9, 2022 15:59:17 GMT
Once it gets close I smell it and make sure it’s still okay, but I don’t always automatically dump it just because it hits the date on the jug. Dairy products will tell you when they're expired by the smell and taste, not the date on the jug. I tell my DH 'the milk can't read!'.
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Post by busy on Mar 9, 2022 16:07:46 GMT
Actually there are at least 4 different types of dates: Expires on: Best by: Purchase by: Use by: None of us know which was on the milk; if littlemama says it had expired I believe her. Thank you. Not really sure why people are arguing with me about bad milk that I personally experienced, but that's 2Peas for you! It's not that we don't believe you that the milk was bad... opened milk, especially if it wasn't stored properly, of course could go bad regardless of the date on the package. But dairy manufacturers in the US use sell-by dates, not expiration dates. The problem was most likely either with the temperature it was stored at, or the amount of time it had been opened (milk should be consumed within a week of opening).
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Post by julie5 on Mar 9, 2022 16:12:06 GMT
I’m pretty good about not eating anything I think is bad. When I was a teen and it was just me and mom at home, she had some chicken that had been in the fridge a bit too long. She cooked it up into chicken and dumplings which was my fave. We ate all of it. Then we took turns throwing up all night long in the bathroom. I was ridiculously sick.
So I won’t let meat sit in the fridge more than 2 days. I probably waste a lot of good food but I’ll never forget that night.
I do routinely eat eggs past their date because I know how eggs are made-I live 4 miles from one of the largest egg farms in the world. They can still be good past the sell by date and aren’t kept cold until they leave the farm. However our fridge was down last week-we had probably 3 weeks where it wasn’t at the right temp. I tossed the eggs I had. My gut said it wasn’t worth it.(toss almost all of the dairy except the butter) I usually won’t eat eggs more than 2 weeks expired. Certainly if they’ve been warm too long as well.
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Post by julie5 on Mar 9, 2022 16:13:29 GMT
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.LOL. There was an episode of Hoarders where the lady was a food hoarder and her fridgeS (multiple!) were packed solidly full with assorted stuff. The social worker who was in there helping her to declutter was asking about the expired yogurts in her fridge and whether those could be thrown out, and the lady said, “No, those are still perfectly good. They’re not bulging or anything.” 😆 puffy food! Lol I’ll never forget that lady. Her kid had some serious trust issues and I don’t blame them.
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Post by julie5 on Mar 9, 2022 16:15:28 GMT
Once it gets close I smell it and make sure it’s still okay, but I don’t always automatically dump it just because it hits the date on the jug. Dairy products will tell you when they're expired by the smell and taste, not the date on the jug. I tell my DH 'the milk can't read!'. Yep. I’ve had milk go bad long before the date on the package. I’ve had sour cream last beyond the date. I smell amd taste-look for green or gross consistency-before I toss. I mean I don’t want to make my family sick but if it looks good it’s good.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2022 16:19:31 GMT
Sheep brains on a bed of couscous in the open air market of J'ma Fna in Marrakech.
Did it once...won't do it again.
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Post by katlady on Mar 9, 2022 16:20:30 GMT
I stay away from food that smells bad, looks bad, and is way past the use by date.
But, as for leftover rice, as a kid my mom left it on the counter overnight. The only time she would put it in the fridge was if it was going to be a hot day. I would some times take the rice to school the next day for lunch. Still unrefrigerated. Never got sick from it. I guess that would be considered dodgy today.
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Post by scrapmaven on Mar 9, 2022 16:26:10 GMT
I had a bad Snapple back in the 90's. I took 3 sips and stopped, because it tasted horrible. I was horribly ill for a month. I had just started a new job and didn't have insurance. So, I refused to let them admit me to the hospital. I was flat on my back for a month w/that stuff. I called customer service to report it and they told me that no one had ever complained about their beverages making them ill. At the time, one of the top stories on the news was about Snapple making people ill. Oh, how I wanted to punch Wendy, (the Snapple spokeswoman) in the nose!!!
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Post by bbkeef on Mar 9, 2022 16:56:00 GMT
For longer than I care to admit, I was sick every time I left their house. It was years before I understood why. For the past 20 years, I take all food with us when we visit and cook it there. While I'm cooking, Dh sneaks in to wash whatever dishes and cutlery we will need to use. Sounds a lot like my in-laws! I've told these stories before but my dodgiest foods come from my in-laws! 1. DH and I were dating, his parents invited us out for brats and a bonfire. Said raw brats were on a plate. Brats were grilled, then placed back on the raw brat plate. My face fell and DH gave me "the look" that said don't offend my parents. So I TRIED to grab one from the top, and I ate it and yep you bet I got sick later. I may have gotten sick from just thinking about it all night! 2. BIL (married to DH's sister) is a bold guy. At family dinners he has absolutely thrown out salad dressings that are 1-3 years past expiration date. 3. MIL will absolutely take out a block of cheese with green fuzzies on it, cut that off and then cut up cheese for appetizers for all of us. I now volunteer to bring the cheese and crackers every single time we visit. We now all try to bring all the food so MIL doesn't have to cook. Because we are all afraid we'll get sick!
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Post by katlady on Mar 9, 2022 20:51:14 GMT
For most cheese (not the fresh kind like mozzarella), you can cut off the moldy part and still eat the rest. Cheese stores will check their inventory and cut off the mold.
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