Expired / Spoiled Food Experiences -

[The Empirical Bogey]

I'm very sensitive to expired food. I have no idea how my old friends could eat most of that shit.

I remember one time I had expired apple juice and god it was awful. It tastes fine on the first sip, but then it started getting sour and more apple-cider vinegar like? After I realized it was expired I kept throwing up and I got a really bad headache from it.

That reminds me I once drank two juice boxes that had expired a year ago. It tasted fine, just a little off. Didn't get sick.

Recently I bought cheese sticks that looked fine and dandy through the packaging, but had mold spots on the back and on the ends. Happy ending tho: I got my money back.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

I want to throw in my observation of milk, in that the half-gallons seem to last a significantly shorter amount of time than full gallons. Most of the half-gallons I've had don't even reach the expiration date before going bad, where I've had full gallons last a good several days after.

One time I drank a half-gallon that had only been open a couple days prior and had a good five days before the expiration date and it tasted rancid. That's why I rarely buy half-gallons. At least the full gallons I'm guaranteed good milk until the last day.

 

[biophonic]

>Be me.
>Cook Eggs.
>Eggs were in date for a week before expiry.
>Crack open an egg.
>Yolk was jet black and smelled like raw sewage.
>Dumped that shit in the trash.
Note to self that expiry dates don't mean shit on an egg carton that's 12 egg capacity since it's russian roulette with potentially rotten eggs.
Btw , THIS SHIT IS TRUE LOL

 

[Xarpho]

Milk is really hit and miss, different brands are different; some stay fresh for a long time, some start going bad before you buy them.

One of my early "food I shouldn't have eaten experiences" happened when I was in elementary school, I had won some sort of "eat lunch with a local author" prize that was a school-wide thing (only maybe four people got it), forgot who was the lady, not important. We had pizza (Little Caesars). Unfortunately, I had to leave early because my class had another thing planned (going to a park or something). A few days later, I happened to be in the same room as where I had the pizza earlier (it was basically a large shared classroom space/conference room) and spied, behind another table, the same table where we ate about three days prior, and lo and behold, there my pizza was!

I ended up retrieving and eating it, noticing no obvious bad taste (beyond being kind of old and stale) or ill effects. It was Little Caesars after all (probably better quality in the late 1990s/early 2000s, but not by much) so it was more or less desiccated cardboard that could survive 48+ hours without refrigeration.

 

[keyboredsm4shthe2nd]

One time when I was twelve I had put milk in my coffee and I thought it tasted funny (a little bit like olive brine) but like a goddamn retard I shook it off. This continued for FIVE DAYS until I couldn't take it anymore and dumped the coffee out. The milk was clinging to the side of the cup.

 

[Same Shit Different Ass]

Once I made elderberry syrup at home, which is a thick yellow-ish substance, I stored it in my fridge for some time and mixed with water it tasted great. One day I opened the fridge and saw that the bottle was gone, I imagined someone drank the last of it, but then I noticed a glass with already mixed syrup in the refrigerator and took a big chug.

Now, as it turns out, there was no more syrup left at all, instead someone used egg yolks to cook something the day before and didnt want to throw out the egg whites, so he poured them into a glass and put it in the fridge, so I swallowed a mouthful of raw egg whites, thinking it was a bottle of cold, sweet liquid refreshment, it was disgusting.

 

[Yamma Damma]

When I was in my late teens first learning how to cook, my Dad bought a bunch of chicken cutlets to make chicken-themed dishes that week. The day he got them we made chicken sandwiches for lunch (he got Burger King fries to go with them, it was good) and chicken alfredo for dinner. The 2nd day we got takeout to get a break from cooking. On the third day, the remaining chicken smelled really bad. Turns out the cutlets were on sale ON THE DAY THEY EXPIRED. It didn't take long for our fridge to smell like a goddamn crime scene. I smoke cigarettes, weed and cigars at family parties. None of those have been able to erase that smell from my memory. It will haunt me until the end of days.

Note to self that expiry dates don't mean shit on an egg carton that's 12 egg capacity since it's russian roulette with potentially rotten eggs.
Btw , THIS SHIT IS TRUE LOL

Tip from my aunt: Crack eggs in a plastic bowl or cup to see if they're good or not. It saves a dish being completely ruined.

 

[MarauderShields]

Had an incident where someone who doesn’t understand refrigeration stored maple syrup in the cupboard after it was opened. Next time it was used it poured out chunky and green right onto the pancakes

 

[wunhunglo]

Found a box of oddball canned and dried goods on the curb, being curious I took it home. There was a can of mangosteen, the white fruit from asia about the size of a small plum that comes inside a hard dark purple rind. Those are delicious and nearly unobtainable if not from some specialty import place (not supermarkets). I have no qualm about old canned goods, however these may have been from the 90's, because when I cracked it open the syrup had turned thick and cloudy and the fruit was brown. I was disappointed.

 

[Jeff Boomhauer]

There's a discount food store near where I live. I went in there once to look around. Everything that you can think of that doesn't have a long shelf life was well past the date anyone would want it.

I remember seeing yellow mayonnaise, brown lettuce, spoiled milk, and blue bread. I haven't been there since.

 

[KifflomKween]

There was a time my current fridge wasn't configured properly and I didn't know how to configure it so the meat that I'd leave there overnight would get this dirt/mold like taste. I ate semi-spoiled meat because of this several times and somehow didn't get sick. This taste and smell stuck to one of my tupperwares and even though I washed it several times with bleach it still didn't disappear.

Yesterday I ate spoiled turkey meat and my stomached ached all day and I felt horrible. I feel good now.

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

At the lunch break in highschool, we usually bought food from a supermarket 5 mins away, but we had a game of HoM&M 3 going on so we just ran to the nonstop store right across the road, and a friend bought a package of ham as part of his feast. It turned out to be suspect and smelled and looked weird, but he already ate a slice so he dared us to eat a slice too. At least we got to go home early that day as we got all green.

 

[jje100010001]

FYI if you're not sure if a mussel is dead, if the meat's stuck to the shell, don't eat it at all.

Also, for some reason I find that lemons in my house left unrefrigerated tend to mould over quickly, but only the skins- the insides are still completely fine! I wonder if it's the effect of the acidity of the pulp or that the mould prefers the pectin in the skin instead?

Found a box of oddball canned and dried goods on the curb, being curious I took it home. There was a can of mangosteen, the white fruit from asia about the size of a small plum that comes inside a hard dark purple rind. Those are delicious and nearly unobtainable if not from some specialty import place (not supermarkets). I have no qualm about old canned goods, however these may have been from the 90's, because when I cracked it open the syrup had turned thick and cloudy and the fruit was brown. I was disappointed.

Same thing for a can of lychees for me- but the fruit was fine though tinny-tasting and discolored- I wonder if it's an effect of the soft pulp being unstable even when preserved, rather than actual spoilage?

 

[Gargoyle]

When the pandemic began, we were told that remote work would only last a few days, so we just left our shit in the fridge we had in the office, thinking that we'd be back in no time. One guy even left a mug half-filled with coffee.

So, that is obviously not how things turned out - remote work was extended to 2 weeks and then indefinitely. We came back to the office like 4 months later and it was a disaster. The coffee mug was unsalvageable, just completely covered in mould - the guy didn't even think about trying to clean it and just threw it in the trash. The fridge was a nightmare - we left there things like open sardine cans and other meat, milk, salads, yoghurts, vegetables, etc. The entire fucking fridge was mouldy and smelled absolutely foul. Since we weren't getting a replacement for it and a fridge was like a treasure in this office, we had no other choice but to clean it in the bathroom sink. The guy who was the most involved in cleaning it left two weeks later and now we joke that he left because he was so traumatised by the disgusting fridge experience. And I am still hesitant about putting my food there.

 

[Wintersun]

Back when I was about 15 I was making late night omelettes because I had slept way too late and missed breakfast and lunch, and I left the kitchen to go grab my phone so I could watch stuff while I was waiting for my toast to toast. I hadn't noticed that my parent's cats had practically layed down all over the fucking things and I was shoveling tomato covered eggs into my mouth on toast. I got about halfway before I realized that there was an entire cat's worth of fur in it and I started puking in the sink.

The worst part of it was that the hair held together with the eggs, and there was a long string of egg chunks and cat hair I had to manually pull out of my throat, which caused me to retch even more.

Didn't touch eggs for years after that lmao

 

[Bad Gateway]

When I was younger I used to bring two water bottles with me to sports practices, a white one full of water, and a black one full of something else, Gatorade, juice, iced tea, etc. I stopped doing this after I forgot the black bottle in my car for most of a spring and a summer, only to find in the fall that the Arizona tea I had left inside had fermented and turned into alcohol. Smelled horrible. But I didn't smell it before I squirted it into my mouth.

 

[All Cops Are Based]

The worst food poisoning of my life was from an expired Eggo. It felt like I was giving birth. Rolling-around-on-the-floor-in-agony type stomach pain/vomiting. I'm still suspicious about Eggos.

 

[Chive Turkey]

I used to have a bad habit of creating mug graveyards where I just set my mugs down and forgot about it.

I did that with glasses of milk. Three days of summer heat turns it into a congealed cottage cheese-like substance, with all the water having seperated and oozed out from it. Smelt very sour.

I've had expired beer on more than one occasion. Depending on how cheap and horrible the brand is you may not notice that the six pack you just bought is an entire year out of date.

I remember back in high school buying cheapo beers for a party from a legal-aged girl who herself had bought them at a discount weeks earlier because they were about to expire. They tasted like shit. Like actual shit. Like someone had bottled farts.

Needless to say the other people didn't like them much. I was determined to make the most out of my investment, however, and that resulted in me vomiting Chinese food all over my friend's rug and getting thrown the fuck out. Good times.

 

[KeepHopeAlive]

Once, as teenagers many moons ago, my older brother and I were both hanging on the fridge door, looking for something to eat after school and all of a sudden WE GOT SLIMED!!!!! My aunt had left a plastic bottle of Spirulina there several weeks prior and it finally erupted. Perfect timing. We, and the inside of the refrigerator, were covered in green shit. My brother made me clean it up, of course. Ya gotta love big brothers; they're the people that first teach you that life is unfair. We laughed about it for years.

Mom always said, Don't play ball in the house hang on the refrigerator door!!

RIP Bro

 

[Same Shit Different Ass]

When the pandemic began, we were told that remote work would only last a few days, so we just left our shit in the fridge we had in the office, thinking that we'd be back in no time. One guy even left a mug half-filled with coffee.

So, that is obviously not how things turned out - remote work was extended to 2 weeks and then indefinitely. We came back to the office like 4 months later and it was a disaster. The coffee mug was unsalvageable, just completely covered in mould - the guy didn't even think about trying to clean it and just threw it in the trash. The fridge was a nightmare - we left there things like open sardine cans and other meat, milk, salads, yoghurts, vegetables, etc. The entire fucking fridge was mouldy and smelled absolutely foul. Since we weren't getting a replacement for it and a fridge was like a treasure in this office, we had no other choice but to clean it in the bathroom sink. The guy who was the most involved in cleaning it left two weeks later and now we joke that he left because he was so traumatised by the disgusting fridge experience. And I am still hesitant about putting my food there.

This reminded me, once in highschool someone purposefully left their lunch in their locker as a joke for the entire summer vacation (that is 3 months long in my country) and by the time we got back to school, the translucent plastic box the two ham sandwitches were in was completely filled with deep green mold. When they opened it, the smell was so palpable you could tumble on it.