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Post by littlemama on Jun 26, 2017 22:50:37 GMT
We found it in the back of my car.
Not regular old three dollar a gallon milk.
Lactaid milk.
$5.99 for 3 quarts.
Go big or go home, right?!
Tell me some "lost grocery" stories!
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Post by cannes on Jun 26, 2017 22:53:13 GMT
Had that happen to a friend once. Just regular milk, though. Left for 24 hours in a car in Arizona. It leaked all the way through the floor and onto the driveway below.
She had to trade in that car. No matter what she did, they couldn't get rid of the sour milk smell.
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Post by scrappinwithoutpeas on Jun 26, 2017 23:08:25 GMT
Oh, wow! I feel your pain, and lost $$. We once had a can of frozen OJ (back when I bought frozen OJ) roll out of the bag in the back of the van and didn't find it until the next day...after it had broken open and spilled spoiled OJ concentrate all over the back. (Sour milk smells way worse though.) We also had a can of crescent roll dough do the same thing - the heat popped the can open when it was left in the vehicle where it had rolled under a seat. That one was a big, soggy, sticky, mess - and it didn't smell very good either. It rises and begins to spoil immediately, especially in a warm vehicle. UGH! Not a "lost grocery" story, but the other day DH & I came home from work (we commute together some days) and DS had left the milk out of the fridge...since breakfast!  He had to replace that one himself... |
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Post by azredhead on Jun 26, 2017 23:10:26 GMT
oh no!! If we did that here I think we'd have to get a new car just to get rid the smell! lol! We forgot the ice the other day it's 115 here, I expected it to be fully water bag. It only melted the top... I hope you don't have that left over milk smell!
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Post by unknown pea on Jun 26, 2017 23:12:08 GMT
Had that happen to a friend once. Just regular milk, though. Left for 24 hours in a car in Arizona. It leaked all the way through the floor and onto the driveway below. She had to trade in that car. No matter what she did, they couldn't get rid of the sour milk smell. You win. Well, your friend does. |
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Post by Dani-Mani on Jun 26, 2017 23:14:25 GMT
I was on the phone with my mom once when I left the grocery store. Got out the car, still talking to her. Realized I didn't unload the groceries when I went to cook breakfast the next morning. Milk, eggs, meat---all gone.
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Post by littlemama on Jun 26, 2017 23:17:16 GMT
Well, here's the great thing about Lactaid milk- it has a foil seal under the lid. The lid is deeper than a normal milk jug and the foil seal goes down the sides a bit. The jug was bulging, but did not leak. I cannot imagine the smell of spoiled milk in a car.  |
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Post by littlemama on Jun 26, 2017 23:19:21 GMT
Oh, wow! I feel your pain, and lost $$. We once had a can of frozen OJ (back when I bought frozen OJ) roll out of the bag in the back of the van and didn't find it until the next day...after it had broken open and spilled spoiled OJ concentrate all over the back. (Sour milk smells way worse though.) We also had a can of crescent roll dough do the same thing - the heat popped the can open when it was left in the vehicle where it had rolled under a seat. That one was a big, soggy, sticky, mess - and it didn't smell very good either. It rises and begins to spoil immediately, especially in a warm vehicle. UGH! Not a "lost grocery" story, but the other day DH & I came home from work (we commute together some days) and DS had left the milk out of the frdge...since breakfast! He had to replace that one himself... Ds left the ketchup out overnight on Saturday- I found it Sunday. He had played softball for 12 hours, and I had just bought three pack of ketchup at Costco on Saturday, so I cut him some slack. |
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Jun 26, 2017 23:20:03 GMT
Oh no. I'm sorry that happened. I have a fear of forgetting chicken or meat in the trunk, and finding that horror hours (or days ) later. |
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Post by christine58 on Jun 26, 2017 23:22:50 GMT
Ds left the ketchup out overnight on Saturday- I found it Sunday. He had played softball for 12 hours, and I had just bought three pack of ketchup at Costco on Saturday, so I cut him some slack. Ketchup doesn't need to be refrigerated. I've left mine out over night and it's fine |
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Post by Linda on Jun 26, 2017 23:32:22 GMT
years ago we had a chub of ground meat roll out of one of the grocery bags unnoticed...DH found it a couple of days later...it wasn't pretty....
a few years after that we took a road trip and visited my sister. Her grandfather-in-law gave us some home-grown tomatoes...they didn't get unpacked when the car did when we got home several days later...they weren't pretty when DH found them either.
DH has been MUCH more careful about checking the car since then
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Post by Sue on Jun 26, 2017 23:37:49 GMT
Our $20 package of hamburger made it out of the car but was left sitting on the counter near our basement freezer. I found it 2 days later. Thanks husband.
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Post by Zee on Jun 26, 2017 23:41:41 GMT
Oh, wow! I feel your pain, and lost $$. We once had a can of frozen OJ (back when I bought frozen OJ) roll out of the bag in the back of the van and didn't find it until the next day...after it had broken open and spilled spoiled OJ concentrate all over the back. (Sour milk smells way worse though.) We also had a can of crescent roll dough do the same thing - the heat popped the can open when it was left in the vehicle where it had rolled under a seat. That one was a big, soggy, sticky, mess - and it didn't smell very good either. It rises and begins to spoil immediately, especially in a warm vehicle. UGH! Not a "lost grocery" story, but the other day DH & I came home from work (we commute together some days) and DS had left the milk out of the frdge...since breakfast! He had to replace that one himself... Ds left the ketchup out overnight on Saturday- I found it Sunday. He had played softball for 12 hours, and I had just bought three pack of ketchup at Costco on Saturday, so I cut him some slack. I never refrigerate ketchup. I hate cold ketchup, ours lives in the pantry. Been doing it for 20+ years. |
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Post by Belle on Jun 26, 2017 23:52:17 GMT
I have bought milk and forgot about it in the car until the next day. Also, have bought milk and left it in the shopping cart in the parking lot....
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Post by padresfan619 on Jun 27, 2017 0:05:51 GMT
My mom bought a gallon of ice cream and a pork loin and somehow thought she didn't make it home with those items. Went back with her receipt and got replacements, two days later she found the melted ice cream and rotten pork loin in her trunk.
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Post by magenta on Jun 27, 2017 0:11:04 GMT
I never refrigerate ketchup. I hate cold ketchup, ours lives in the pantry. Been doing it for 20+ years. Me too! Exactly this word for word for word. Also wanted to add that I've found perishables still in the reusable bags the day after shopping. The kids helped me unload the car and just set bags down in the family room instead of the kitchen. |
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Post by monklady123 on Jun 27, 2017 0:19:03 GMT
Ds left the ketchup out overnight on Saturday- I found it Sunday. He had played softball for 12 hours, and I had just bought three pack of ketchup at Costco on Saturday, so I cut him some slack. Ketchup doesn't need to be refrigerated. I've left mine out over night and it's fine Yeah, the ketchup is fine. Our "pantry" is down in the basement in cupboards in our laundry room. So when I haul in the groceries I put stuff away in the kitchen and sort the canned goods in bags to go downstairs. One time my dh was looking for the lunch meat which he had put on the list. I thought I'd bought it, but then second guessed myself and figured I'd forgotten. Nope. I bought it all right. Found it a week or so later downstairs among the canned goods that were still sitting in the bags.  Thankfully it was the prepackaged kind so it was sealed up very well. Thank goodness! ick |
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Post by vspindler on Jun 27, 2017 0:21:42 GMT
My do helped bring in groceries from the car and I asked him if he got the hamburger. I was referring to the large box of patties but he thought I meant the pound I'd gotten for chilli or something. That was a Thursday. I don't remember if I was off work that Friday or what but the upshot is that it sat in my car until Monday (this was in the summer). I know it was a Monday because my boss and I got rear ended when we went to lunch that day, and I referred to it as my "rotten, pain in the neck Monday" because of it. They were wrapped in plastic but ugh it reeked.
I actually used a thing meant for taking the odor out of a basement in my trunk to remove the smell.
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Post by Merge on Jun 27, 2017 0:32:11 GMT
In college I left a head of broccoli in my car for several days in the summer. That car never was the same again.
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Post by bc2ca on Jun 27, 2017 0:48:58 GMT
My story is at the opposite end of the your food in the trunk disaster.
Many years ago I'd picked up beer & soda for a party. I lived in a walk up apartment and instead of schlepping the beverages upstairs and back down again a few days later, I left them in the trunk of the car. Winters in Vancouver are not harsh, but temps do go below freezing. Far enough below to freeze beer and soda. Frozen cans and bottles do explode. When it warms up the next day, the liquids melt and mix. The easy part was pulling out the mangled cans and broken glass.
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Post by miss_lizzie on Jun 27, 2017 1:00:49 GMT
My story is at the opposite end of the your food in the trunk disaster. Many years ago I'd picked up beer & soda for a party. I lived in a walk up apartment and instead of schlepping the beverages upstairs and back down again a few days later, I left them in the trunk of the car. Winters in Vancouver are not harsh, but temps do go below freezing. Far enough below to freeze beer and soda. Frozen cans and bottles do explode. When it warms up the next day, the liquids melt and mix. The easy part was pulling out the mangled cans and broken glass. I asked DH to get a 12-pack of soda out of the back of my car, but he forgot. How did I know? Because the next day it was really hot and the cans exploded--as I was driving. It's a miracle I didn't drive off the road. |
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Post by deekaye on Jun 27, 2017 1:02:00 GMT
Two summers ago a small carton of half-n-half rolled under the passenger's seat. It was not a normal thing for me to buy so I didn't even miss it. I have seasonal allergies so the smell got good and ripe before I realized it (it's in my commuter car that only I drive). Ended up having to use some type of puppy-accident spray to finally get the smell up... after steam cleaning. It was a mess and even though I think we got all the smell out, my "memory" was sure I could smell it every time I got in the car on a hot day... |
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Post by littlemama on Jun 27, 2017 1:13:22 GMT
According to the Heinz website, ketchup is shelf stable, but after opening, the stability can be affected by storage conditions. They recommend refrigeration after opening for the best quality. I know there are people who don't refrigerate it. I'm not one of those people. And I don't like ketchup anyway!  |
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Post by kate on Jun 27, 2017 1:22:00 GMT
I think I've told this story here before.
I went shopping and got a couple of bags of groceries. Got home, went to the mailboxes (apartment building), took the mail upstairs, read it... Oh yeah, better put away the groceries. But there were no groceries in the kitchen, nor the foyer, nor anywhere else in the apartment.
Gee, I must have left them by the mailboxes! Ran back to the elevator, down to the lobby and the mailbox area... no groceries. I figured someone must have found them by the mailboxes and given them to the concierge desk to hold. Sheepishly, I went to the desk and asked if anyone had found a couple of bags of groceries by the mailboxes. The concierge was visibly holding back laughter. I went and looked around some more... nothing.
Finally, I decided to go back to the store, just in case. I walked in, and the workers all erupted in laughter. "We wondered when you were coming back!" They handed me my bags.
Then came the worst part: the Walk of Shame back into my own building. I was hoping against hope that the concierge was on a break, and I could sneak back up to my apartment. Of course not. He broke out in a belly laugh - "Well, where were they?" Of course I was laughing, too, by that time - what else are ya gonna do?
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Post by Lexica on Jun 27, 2017 1:24:53 GMT
Mine is a milk story too, but with a really bad ending. We had driven out to see my sister, and we always stopped at this little mom and pop dairy on the way home because their milk is the best I've ever tasted. It's amazingly fresh and creamy, and everyone I've ever served it to has commented on how delicious it is. Their chocolate milk is the best I've ever had too.
Anyway, we picked up a couple of gallons of milk and a half gallon of chocolate milk and were driving through the canyon on the way home when my Weimaraner decided to flip his kennel over. He had never done that in the car before, and I'm not sure he intended to do it this time. He just stood up and kind of leaned on the side of it and it rolled over. Unfortunately, it landed on the box with the milk in it. The lids popped off both gallons of milk and spilled out all over the carpeting in the back of the car. I have never smelled a stench quite so bad as that car for the next few weeks. Finally someone told me to put something with an enzyme in it that would eat the stinky bacteria. I can't remember what I used, but it worked! I was seriously considering buying another car because the smell was so horrific.
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Post by scrapmaven on Jun 27, 2017 1:38:06 GMT
I bought a Honeybaked ham for Christmas dinner at my in-laws. It was the star of the dinner. Left it in the trunk overnight. The next am we were packing the car and found the ham. Luckily, I found an open Honeybaked on the way and was able to save Christmas dinner. That was a huge and expensive mistake.
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Post by tracylynn on Jun 27, 2017 1:43:37 GMT
Oh, wow! I feel your pain, and lost $$. We once had a can of frozen OJ (back when I bought frozen OJ) roll out of the bag in the back of the van and didn't find it until the next day...after it had broken open and spilled spoiled OJ concentrate all over the back. (Sour milk smells way worse though.) We also had a can of crescent roll dough do the same thing - the heat popped the can open when it was left in the vehicle where it had rolled under a seat. That one was a big, soggy, sticky, mess - and it didn't smell very good either. It rises and begins to spoil immediately, especially in a warm vehicle. UGH! Not a "lost grocery" story, but the other day DH & I came home from work (we commute together some days) and DS had left the milk out of the frdge...since breakfast! He had to replace that one himself... Ds left the ketchup out overnight on Saturday- I found it Sunday. He had played softball for 12 hours, and I had just bought three pack of ketchup at Costco on Saturday, so I cut him some slack. Ketchup doesn't have to be refrigerated. It can be left out for several weeks without spoiling. |
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Post by beachbum on Jun 27, 2017 1:47:18 GMT
Years ago I really lost a half gallon of milk... on the way home from the grocery store.... through the rusted out hole in the back floorboards of my old, held together by a wing and a prayer car  The hole wasn't quite that big the last time I looked, but I guess some more had rusted out. There was a piece of carpet over the hole and I put the milk next to it. Oops! It must have fallen through when I hit a good bump in the unpaved country road we lived on at the time. Lost the carpet, too. |
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Jun 27, 2017 2:03:54 GMT
A large frozen all meat pizza....in Houston....in the summer. It slid out of the grocery bag and up under a stack of empty reusable bags in the back of my SUV. I didn't realize it until the next evening when I went to put it in the oven. Fortunately the big trash can is just outside the garage because that's where it went.
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Post by melanell on Jun 27, 2017 2:18:24 GMT
We have 2 of those freezer bags that stores sell that keep food cold for 2 hours.
One Friday evening DH went shopping for me. He unloaded all of the bags, and I helped put the food away. I only emptied one of those freezer bags, but I assumed that he had emptied the other. Nope.
We found it the next afternoon in the hatch portion of car when we went to fill it with plants from the nursery.
Then we hit the grocery store on the way home and repurchased everything that was in that bag. It was about $14.00 worth. So not awful, but still annoying. And thank goodness everything was still inside its sealed containers on a cool day, so there were no odors as it was all things that needed to be refrigerated---hummus, milk, yogurt, etc.
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He had to replace that one himself...
Thankfully it was the prepackaged kind so it was sealed up very well. Thank goodness! ick
The hole wasn't quite that big the last time I looked, but I guess some more had rusted out. There was a piece of carpet over the hole and I put the milk next to it. Oops! It must have fallen through when I hit a good bump in the unpaved country road we lived on at the time. Lost the carpet, too.
