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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 9, 2022 22:46:46 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! Ha ha ha! YOUR POST gives me the heebie jeebies! There’s no way I would eat any of that stuff on your list! 🤣 I’m not even gonna look them up. 🤮
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 9, 2022 22:55:11 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! Oh, I don’t doubt that it was bad. I just wouldn’t wholesale dump out a carton of milk without checking it first because ours almost always is still fine for days after that date on the jug. It really does depend on the temperature it’s stored at among other things. I had to work to convince DH to stop bringing the entire gallon jug of milk with us back and forth to our cabin on weekends (one hour in the cooler there, another hour back) because the milk that was left would go bad sooner from being only in the cooler so much. He thought I was nuts. Now we just bring a small quart sized container of it for my breakfast cereal and for DD to have the occasional mug of cocoa or to add to a batch of pancakes or something. The rest of the gallon keeps so much longer sitting at home in our 38° unopened refrigerator while we’re away!
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 9, 2022 23:02:22 GMT
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 😸 I get so skeeved out by raw eggs! No matter how good the dough or batter smells, I just can’t eat it or lick the beaters. My kid though is always trying to snag some raw dough!
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 9, 2022 23:13:49 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. Again, reminds me of MIL so much! DH and I would volunteer to go open up the lake cabin in the spring for her so I could go through and wash every single dish, pot, pan and piece of silverware before anyone could eat off of it. And after she passed away, we went to go clean out her condo. All the dishes on the top of the stacks were clearly not clean. She had a dishwasher, so I’m not sure what the deal was with that unless she just wasn’t using it and was “washing” them by hand and just putting them back in the cabinet with stuff still stuck on them.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 9, 2022 23:15:46 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. Yeah…no. Just no. 🤣
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 9, 2022 23:20:03 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. My mom used to do that! I think that I read somewhere once that there is some sort of preservative on the wrapper/package that the cheese is packed in from the factory. I have noticed that if I take the torn up wrapper off and put it in a ziplock bag, it will get moldy faster than if I leave what’s left of the wrapper on it too. Cheese doesn’t last long enough in our house to get moldy, LOL.
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