I have a question about food!

[ajoe]

How many hours do I have before the chicken + salmon I have in a closed container (not in the fridge) go bad? I planned to eat it for lunch tomorrow, but if it won't last that long, I may as well have a second dinner later this night.

[amuse]

if you buy food at the grocery store and leave it out, i believe you've got 6 hours before it goes bad...i don't know about the "if cooked" part, though. :(
but i wouldn't take chances! why not have elevensies.

[imthefoolonthehill]

goes bad? why... in my day....

lol....

if it tastes good and smells good, eat it. To hell with food poisoning.

[emily655321]

LoL Agreement with Fool. In my house, expiration dates are a suggestion. If you had salmon for dinner Monday, you might as well have it for lunch Saturday. We never get sick. Smells good, looks good, eats good too. :D

[Admin]

Cooked food goes bad at a much slower rate than uncooked. Cooked and salted food even slower. Ham for instance can last for weeks.

[ajoe]

Meh. Ate them two hours after I posted the message anyway.

[Lara]

yuck!

Okay, I forget the exact stats, but bacteria multiply and grow, something like one million or one billion times every 15 minutes. That's multiplying and waste products, yuck. No wonder people get food poisoning. Refrigerate unused portions of food immediately.

[emily655321]

Originally posted by ajoe
Meh. Ate them two hours after I posted the message anyway.

ROFLMAO :D

Best. Thread. Ever.

[simon]

Second the motion of best thead ever.

[Sancho]

Ptomaine poisoning builds character.

[Shea]

Any one here ever eat mouldy bread to keep from throwing it away? My husband grew up in a large family that never threw away food, and sometimes it almost turns my stomach to watch him eat what he eats.

At least he dosen't rebrew old coffee anymore. When we were married, I insisted on asking for a new coffee maker because his was ruined. Coffee at his house was always bitter!

[papayahed]

If the date is within two days of the date on the carton my mom is convinced the milk is spoiled. She will even say that it smells sour.

[Shea]

My husband once put an open bottle of orange juice in the pantry instead the fridge and I could tell it just about broke his heart to pour it down the sink. At first he was temped to drink it anyway, but it had fermented, and we don't drink.

[ajoe]

Geez, would people let go of this thread already?? :D

[Lara]

hahaha you started it!

[emily655321]

What's more fun than talking about rotten food? Let's see how far we can go with it. Just to confuse the gods. I think it's the longest we've gone yet without going off topic! :D

Our grape juice fermented once when I was little, and I had drunk almost a whole glass before I said to my mom, "the juice smells funny."

[amuse]

oh, god. my older sister played a trick on me: we used to love whipped cream - didn't matter if it was fresh or from the can - and she squirted some into my mouth; we were teens, i was voracious, she was cruel - the **** was MILDEWED. i hated her for quite some time afterward...

[emily655321]

How does whipped cream get mildewed??? :eek: We've had cans in the fridge from one Thanksgiving to the next, and all that happened was the can lost pressure. That stuff's invincible.

[amuse]

heck if i know, but the taste, the taste. :( :( :( :(
it was in gramma's fridge. who knows for how long...

[papayahed]

Ok who hasn't made the perfect sandwich, taken a bite then noticed the moldy bread.....

[Shea]

My husband's old roommate before we were married would cook hamburger helper, eat about one-eighth of it and then put the whole skillet uncovered in the fridge for weeks. It would start to grow green fungus and made everything in the fridge stink!

[Lara]

Quote by emily:
<What's more fun than talking about rotten food? Let's see how far we can go with it. Just to confuse the gods. I think it's the longest we've gone yet without going off topic!>

Okay Emily!

When my daughter was four I bought her and I a chocolate milk, the kind that come in the little cartons. She drank hers so quickly, I had barely tasted mine. Hers was gone when I noticed the bad taste. Poor little thing. An hour later she power puked, it lasted for about two hours, then she was better.

And your story Shea? eeewww!

[Sancho]

Originally posted by Lara
An hour later she power puked, it lasted for about two hours
Ew, been there, done that. "Puking through the nose for power and distance"

Ok so I'm sittin' in a hotel room, watchin' a baseball game, drinkin' a beer, and eatin' some Doritos from a bag on the floor. Bottom of the seventh, I notice an ant crawling on the chip that I'm about to munch. I look in the bag and it seems to be alive. The ants had a very impressive assembly line from my bag - across the carpet - under the door - across the sidewalk and into the grass. No telling how much extra protein I got that day.

[emily655321]

Eww. Poor Sancho.

When I was about eight I was playing under the big pine tree in our yard, and I brought out a bottle of orange juice. It was one of those ones with the screw-on cap that the big straw goes through, and they usually have a little cap on the end but this one's had gotten lost. I didn't think anything of it, and left the bottle on the stone wall while I ran off to do something else. Then I came back and took a drink, and saw something dark go up the straw. I spit it out, and there was a HUGE carpenter ant wriggling on the end of the straw. UGH.

Not quite as bad as yours, but I still remember it really vividly.

[IWilKikU]

Shea, even people who DO drink don't drink rotten orange juice! We're not barbarians!

[verybaddmom]

i actually had one of those Rubbermaid "sip n sport" drink bottle full of orange juice that had been forgotten in a bag somewhere for waaayyyy too long. anyhow when i found it, it was all swollen and the bottom and sides were bulging. i called my son to check it out and i opened the kitchen window (which faced a really busy street) and sort of flipped up the straw thing facing outside. the second the straw was up, this rancid orange wine stuff went shooting out with a velocity that stunned both my son, myself and the guy in the passing car that got an orange wine shower across his windshield. we immediately ducked behind the counter and rolled on the floor immersed in fits of giggles.

btw, the container needed to be thrown out. was worth it though.

[IWilKikU]

In highschool I raided one of my friend's fridges (went to boarding school), and he had a carton of OJ, so I took a big swig. It was 4 months old. NOTHING got that taste out of my mouth for about 3 days.

[emily655321]

Oh my God, I'm remembering all sorts of childhood things. VBM (still laughing, btw :D), your thing reminded me of this. In 6th grade the class returned from lunch and a couple of boys had been playing with an unopened can of Sprite. It got shaken up so much that it puffed out on the sides, and the top and bottom. It looked like a football with two rings around each end, and it was kind of shaking. They didn't know what to do with it, because it had turned into like a soda grenade. For about 15 minutes everyone in the class just stared at it rolling itself back and forth in place on the floor, until the teacher got up the nerve to pick it up with two fingers and put it in the corner behind the trash can. The janitors were warned, I guess, and disposed of it somehow. No one found out what happened though.

[verybaddmom]

LMAO, Em...nice....hehehe soda grenade!!

its funny some of the strange food things that happen. i remember one of my old roommates, thinking he was really slick, sneaking into my cupboard one night in the dark, making himself a goopy peanut butter and jam sandwich. i got up in the morning and saw the stuff moved around and called him on it. the best part though was that he put so much stuff on the bread that he couldnt really taste the bread. when i showed him the rest of the loaf from the cupboard and how fuzzy and green it was......he was so totally grossed out, but i dont think he ever tried to sneak into my cupboards again! my sons rule is that when something in the fridge has been around long enough it either gets named or adopted out.

[emily655321]

LMAO :D Speaking of sneaking into cabinets....

They shouldn't make kids' medicine so tasty. When I was 2 I woke up and decided I had a cold, so I pulled a chair up to the counter and climbed up and poured myself a medicine cup full of orange Triaminic. (mmm yummy) That's the only part I remember, but my mother says she came out and found me, called poison control, and they told her not to let me go to sleep. (I just happened to be napping on a blanket on the floor while she was on the phone.) They told her to go to the drug store and get Ipacac or however you spell it, the stuff that makes you throw up. So she drove all the way there, but they weren't open yet, so she went to the one in the next town, but they weren't open yet. Meanwhile, I'm falling asleep in the back seat and she's freaking out. So she went home and called the lady back and said, screw it, she's fine, if she was going to slip into a coma or something she'd have done it by now. LOL Nothing happened to me.

[Koa]

I read it all waiting for the moment when the thread would tragically turn off topic...and it didn't! :eek: (more or less)

And I agree: best thread ever!

[ajoe]

Originally posted by Koa
I read it all waiting for the moment when the thread would tragically turn off topic...and it didn't! :eek: (more or less)


Wow, what a change!
(Have I been saying wow too much lately?)

[emily655321]

LOL I haven't noticed.

And thanks, Koa. I've started to fail, but I've been trying so hard! :D

[papayahed]

Back in grade school a couple of the boys had a chocolate milk drinking contest, who could drink more of the little cartons of milk during an allotted time......about half an hour after lunch the classroom floor was covered in chocolate milk, it was like a domino effect......the first one blew chunks and the rest quickly followed.

[emily655321]

Ooohh!! EW! That's the best. :D :D

[verybaddmom]

UGH, that's like the pie eating contest from .... was it "stand by me"? kik, you should know this!

[emily655321]

Oh yuck, I remember that. Yeah, it was "Stand By Me." Although, I'd say the greatest lesson of that movie is "don't be so quick to reject the geeky fat boys," because they grow up into hot actors. :D

Wait! Back on topic. In the elementary school cafeteria there were always the boys' tables and the girls' tables, just because the kids seemed to decide that was the way it was. Of course I always sat at the boys' table because they had more interesting conversations, and that's where my friends were. But somehow in 2nd grade I became the kid who would eat strange things on a dare. Sometimes I would pretend I had to leave the caf and go puke, just to entertain them. :rolleyes: But the only time I actually did have to puke was apple sauce and whole milk. Those really, really just don't mix.

[kilted exile]

The rule I use for food is: If the rotten taste/smell cant be covered up by a healthy dose of HP sauce, it is no longer edible

[emily655321]

Ew, but what covers up the taste of the HP sauce? :p

[simon]

Just take out your tastebuds.

[emily655321]

Or do like Homer and drink a candle.

[verybaddmom]

drink a candle? i have consumed bug soup but not a candle. homer is a braver soul than i.

[simon]

Would this mean drinking hot wax or swallowing a lit flame? I think I would try the hot wax.

[emily655321]

It's in the "Soul Mate" episode that ends with Homer and Marge at the lighthouse. They go to the chili cook-off and Homer can't take the super hot chili, so he runs to get something to drink and drinks a candle by accident, then realizes that with his tongue coated in wax he can eat the chili and reclaim his honor. :D

HOMER:...Oh, and the talking coyote was just a talking dog.
DOG: Hi Homer. Find your soulmate.
HOMER: Hey, wait a minute. There's no such thing as a talking dog!
DOG: *bark bark*
HOMER: Damn straight!