What's the most uncomfortable food spoilage you've ever experienced?

[TrogL]

I ate an entire bag of bagels, not particularly watching what I was diong and wondered why they tasted strange.

The last three in the bag were totally green and black from bread mold.

[Nite Owl]

1. Came home from a two week

summer vacation once and the freezer had at some point broke down. It was filled with meat and the blood was dripping out of the closed door. Unbelievable smell.

[lpbk2713]

2. Drank all of a 12 oz can of Budweiser before I found a big roach in it.

Before I drank it all he was floating around in it, couldn't see or hear him.


No more Budweiser for me thanks. I think of it now as Bugweiser.

[pnorman]

3. I was away from my apt. for several months.

During my absence, the maintenance man had entered the apartment and had done some rewiring in the kitchen. He had forgotten to put the refrigerator plug into the NEW socket. I had left about 4~5 lbs. of ground meat in the freezer. :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

I used a LOT of baking soda rinses. Also, acting on a suggestion from my brother, I laid out trays of charcoal briquettes, and changed them from time to time. (he also suggested Kitty Litter, but I think he was joking). Contrary to my almost unvarying practice, I dined OUT for several days. That was about 15 years ago. It's "all right" now.

pnorman

[hedda_foil]

4. I once had something in the cheese-keeper turn into

what looked and smelled for all the world exactly like that pink liquid penicillin. It was the freakiest thing I've ever experienced in a lifetime of food spoilage experiences.

[Taverner]

5. What's the most uncomfortable food spoilage you've ever experienced?

for me? Drinking milk that was left in the sun for a day, curdles and all.

[slackmaster]

6. My neighbor bought a box of Lucky Charms cereal for her kids once

One of the cute lovable twin boys said the cereal tasted funny. Mom looked at the bottom of the box. Its expiration date was FIVE YEARS in the past.

:puke:

Our local independent grocery store changed hands shortly after that. It's run much better now.

[ceile]

7. A sack of potatoes

rotted on top of my fridge while I was out of town. It took me several days to find where the smell was coming from because the potatoe "goo" had dripped down the side of the fridge I couldn't see. I never buy them in bags now.

[demily]

9. Eeewww!!!!

That happened to me once too! The bag was way in the back of our pantry, and we'd noticed a smell for a couple of days but didn't know what it was. Then all of a sudden brown liquid was everywhere!!! We figured it out and cleaned it up, but I've never heard my roommates scream and retch like that!

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[Jamastiene]

16. I've had that happen too.

And I can third that motion. Rotten potatoes are absolutely horrendous. That smell is like a cross between gym locker room stench, moldy dirt, puke, and ass. Or maybe, the puke smell came from all the gagging and not winning the wretch control game I had to play in order to get that mess cleaned up. That ranks up there with the ham incident, but in a different way.

[libodem]

10. no kidding!

rotting potato's stink so bad....what's up with that....I've reached into a sack and stuck my fingers into that mess yuch....aaaahhhhgggg and I could probably top all the spoiled food stories with the revenge of the ex-husband during our embittered divorce. He not only unplugged the frig and the freezer but broke eggs and spilled stuff inside. Incredible putrid mess. I was pregnant to boot. yee gods the things we go through....

[snickersnee]

8. just this week, made pasta

...ate it, then as i was putting the (fairly recently acquired) tomato sauce back in the fridge, i finally notice the fuzzy green soulpatch on the underside of the lid.

i didn't die, but obsessed about what species i might have ingested, whether it might only invoke a spell of st. vitus' dance, or survive my stomach acids to bind with my dna, creating some hideous snickermold.

so far so good, but i'll keep you posted.

[Nikia]

11. I was eating cake for breakfast

Which wasn't that untypical for me in junior high. It tasted kind of strange. Then I noticed that there was a green layer between the cake and frosting and it wasn't green food coloring.

[yellowdogintexas]

12. my dad was snacking late at night, and probably really sleepwalking

and ate a big hunk of German Chocolate Cake that had been in the cake box just a little too long, and had become somewhat hairy, if you get my drift.

He did not realize it was spoiled, which is why I firmly believe he was sleepwalking all along.


the funny part about it is that he did not like German Chocolate Cake!!!!!

[yellowdogintexas]

13. This was just sent to me by my sister, and is so appropriate:

"Revenge of the Curtain Rods"

Hell hath no fury like.......



The Curtain rods!
>
> She spent the first day packing her belongings into boxes,crates and
> suitcases.
>
> On the second day, she had the movers come and collect her things.
>
> On the third day, she sat down for the last time at their beautiful
> dining room table by candlelight, put on some soft background music, and
> feasted on a pound of shrimp, a jar of caviar, and a bottle of
> Chardonnay.
>
> When she had finished, she went into each and every room and deposited a
> few half-eaten shrimp shells dipped in caviar, into the hollow of the
> curtain rods.
>
> She then cleaned up the kitchen and left.
>
> When the husband returned with his new girlfriend, all was bliss for the
> first few days. Then slowly, the house began to smell.
>
> They tried everything, cleaning, mopping and airing the place out. Vents
> were checked for dead rodents and carpets were steam cleaned. Air
> fresheners were hung everywhere.
>
> Exterminators were brought in to set off gas canisters, during which
> they had to move out for a few days and in the end they even paid to
> replace the expensive wool carpeting. Nothing worked.
>
> People stopped coming over to visit. Repairmen refused to work in the
> house. The maid quit. Finally, they could not take the stench any longer
> and decided to move. A month later, even though they had cut their price
> in half, they could not find a buyer for their stinky house.
>
> Word got out and eventually even the local Realtors refused to return
> their calls. Finally, they had to borrow a huge sum of money from the
> bank to purchase a new place.
>
> The ex-wife called the man and asked how things were going. He told her
> the saga of the rotting house. She listened politely and said that she
> missed her old home terribly and would be willing to reduce her divorce
> settlement in exchange for getting the house back.
>
> Knowing his ex-wife had no idea how bad the smell was, he agreed on a
> price that was about 1/10th of what the house had been worth, but only
> if she were to sign the papers that very day. She agreed and within the
> hour his lawyers delivered the paperwork.
>
> A week later the man and his girlfriend stood smiling as they watched
> the moving company pack everything to take to their new home...including
> the curtain rods.

[Jamastiene]

18. That's priceless.

If I ever am lucky enough to get a woman to like me enough to actually go out with me for any length of time, please remind me not to piss her off.

[Cornjob]

14. Staph-infected chicken!

About 300 of us ate it in the college cafeteria many years ago.

The local hospital emergency rooms were overrun with the victims.

That was about as sick as I have ever been.

I will never forget that day, and it took me several years before I would eat chicken again.

[Jamastiene]

15. Sandwich ham, kind of a long story,

but, we had an unusual ice storm. In the south, when we have freezing weather, it usually is ice, not snow, and it's usually horrendous. It didn't used to happen very often at all, but lately we have had it every year several times a year. And the worst thing about it is that it never happens when I have enough water and canned goods to last through it. We had had a particularly bad ice storm that one year and every 2 seconds, we would hear the "gunshot" sounds of the pine trees snapping under the weight of the ice. My nerves were shot. I am one of those chicken shits that is afraid of thunderstorms, hurricanes, tornadoes, wind storms, and just about anything in the natural disaster in the making category. Murphy's law applies to my life in a huge way. If anything bad is going to happen, it usually happens to me.

Well, during that particular ice storm, there was some sandwich ham in the refrigerator. I normally like ham okay in a sort of take it or leave it type way. Well, naturally the power went out for 4 days because no one in this idiotic, badly run town had the foresight or the money to maybe put the power lines underground. Well, the ham went bad and I cannot stand the smell of spoiled ham. I don't even like the smell of ham when it is close to getting old. Like I said, while it is fresh, I like it okay, but when it goes bad, I turn into Jack Nicholson's character, Jack Torrance, from the Shining.

Despite my best efforts, I turned into a monster I hated during that storm. I couldn't control myself. I started feeling funny, and every time my aunt would go into the refrigerator to get something out or check for food that wasn't going to be good any more anyhow, I would feel this maddening rage come over me. I cannot explain it. I'm ashamed to say that I got cabin fever so bad that time that I started losing it and ended up so enraged that I had to go outside and throw anything I could get cracked loose from the ice as far as I could throw it. I don't know why being trapped indoors with no heat and no electricity and no food for 4 days affected me that way. I turned into a monster. Now, I make sure I at least get rid of any ham if the weather people are calling for bad bad precipitation of any kind during cold weather. I honestly think it was the smell of the ham, because I have been snowbound a couple of times since that incident with no major anger issues springing up out of nowhere. I still felt that end of the world scared feeling and I did feel sort of bored and frustrated, but I didn't end up going outside and throwing things and yelling nasty things to everyone and no one in particular.

[Darth_Kitten]

17. All I remember is that it was bubbling........

I don't remember much else. :evilgrin:

[SW FL Dem]

19. I went on vacation with a freezer full of meat and other foods

Something tripped the GFI to the garage several days before we returned. This was July, in hot and humid Florida. We got home after midnight and as I walked through the garage, I smelled something but was too tired to investigate. I won't describe what we found in the freezer the following morning. My poor son had to help me unload a couple hundred poundsof rotting food. He put on his diving mask to cut the smell, but it didn't really help. Needless to say, we ditched the freezer.

[burrowowl]

20. Forgot some

broccoli in the car for a few days in summer.
BAD SMELL!

[baldguy]

21. Furry fruit juice

Left in the back of the bottom drawer of a filing cabinet for about a year.