Office workers will be familiar with the drama and intrigue that surrounds the office fridge – the disappearing sandwiches, the opening of new milk when others remain unfinished, the passive-aggressive notes left by disgruntled colleagues… it’s all part of the fun.
This story isn’t about a missing snack however, it is quite the opposite! Reddit user jgbones, also know as Julia from Philadelphia, shared the office legend that is a tub of pineapple cottage cheese (sounds pretty gross to be fair, I wouldn’t touch it).
This little tub of cheesy weirdness has survived in the fridge for seven years now!
“Happy Anniversary to this lil tub of pineapple cottage cheese – it has now survived SEVEN years in our work fridge without being thrown out! I take a picture with it each year,” Julia wrote.
Julia told Bored Panda her guilty secret – the cheese is indeed hers. “I bought it back in 2012 – opened it – tasted it – hated it (no surprise, its low fat and has weird fake pineapple in it) – and threw it in the fridge,” she told us.
“It managed to get pushed to the back, I forgot about it, no one touched it, and then, sure enough, it managed to survive a whole year with no one noticing it. Then it became a joke – no one wanted to throw it out!”
“The cheese is in a tub, with the lid on. The seal has been broken, but it’s never the perpetrator of any weird odors. We moved offices earlier this year and now we have more room, two fridges – no smells – and we’re a happy family. Besides – everyone respects the cheese – it’s been here for a long time!”
Julia is waiting for the right moment to open up the cheese or throw it away – either when she leaves the job or it hits 10 years residence in the fridge. “Or maybe I’ll bestow it on another colleague?” she adds with a laugh.
“I haven’t opened it since I bought it – so I wonder what it looks like inside. My boyfriend is incredibly against it staying in the fridge at home, so it’s got a bunch of post-it notes saying DON’T TOSS, and everyone here in the office knows not to touch it.”
Image credits: jgbones
What do you think? Do you have an office fridge? What kinds of stories have arisen from this controversial space? What is the longest you’ve ever left an item in the fridge? Let us know in the comments below!
Here’s what people had to say
The real question here is: PINEPAAPLE cottage cheese?! Who came up with such an abomination!
Well, wondering why it’s been unfinished/unopened in the fridge for 7 years?
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This is like Garfield and Jon's kitchen. "I think we need to clean out the fridge- the mayonnaise is yodeling"
We had the same problem..solution: on friday evening, the fridge has to be empty...if you forgot your stuff, don' t worry, monday morning "the purge" will happen: everything is thrown away
I'm supposed to do that every Friday here too. however, it's really hard for me to throw away good food.
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Would be hilarious if the cottage cheese company saw this a sent her a lifetime supply of flavoured cottage cheese for the publicity.
My friends and I used to have "contests" in high school as to who had the most expired food in their house. I was reigning champion until mum threw out the can of escargot that expired in 1983.
I would just like to give a very special thanks to that woman for not opening the lid and showing us what's inside.
This has got to be the worst Bored Panda article ever! She didn't even open it, just 7 pictures of her holding cottage cheese.
Why hasn't that fridge been cleaned in 7 years?...
It has, but everyone in the office is apparently in on the joke. There are post-it notes on the cottage cheese saying "don't toss". I doubt I'm alone in saying, "ick".
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I'm very interested to see what's inside. Can there be like an "unboxing of the cottage cheese" live feed?
I am sure if that container is opened that it would wipe out the human race.
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We all have something in the fridge that only comes out when the power cuts and everything has to come out.
We used to have a bottle of Raspberry Vinaigrette salad dressing that expired in the early 2010's and had been around prior to my employment there (in 2012), I believe somebody finally finished it off in 2018. Perhaps she has a coworker who's still "working on it".
A book could be written about office fridge stories. I once brought a yogurt to the office but didn't feel like eating it that day, so I left it in the fridge overnight. The next day, I saw that someone had eaten half of it and put it back in the fridge! At another job I had, one of the top administrators put commercial frozen meals in the fridge, but people kept stealing them, so he had to tape his business card to the boxes. They weren't even tempting frozen meals like Stouffer's lasagna or Swanson's fried chicken -- I think they were diet frozen meals like Smart Ones. Some blame the cleaning people for such thefts, but I think company employees are the real culprits!
It’s funny I was going through my grandmas cupboards and I found some pepper expired in 2001
I worked with a doc who kept 2 things on his desk- a can of 'spotted d**k' (some British concoction) and a mug with a stick figure, arms stretched to the sky, and the caption read, "I pooped today!" I LOVED working with you, Jay Lee!
So it’s been in the fridge for seven years and it never walked away on its own? 😳
"7 years" and "goes viral" seems to have an additional meaning... DO NOT OPEN IT PLEASE! :D
When I first moved in with hubby, he had food in his cupboard from a store that had closed over a decade before!
Ugh, throw it away already. I can smell the damn thing from here! And I don’t even want to think about the new life forms evolving inside it.
The real question here is: PINEPAAPLE cottage cheese?! Who came up with such an abomination!
Well, wondering why it’s been unfinished/unopened in the fridge for 7 years?
Load More Replies... This is like Garfield and Jon's kitchen. "I think we need to clean out the fridge- the mayonnaise is yodeling"
We had the same problem..solution: on friday evening, the fridge has to be empty...if you forgot your stuff, don' t worry, monday morning "the purge" will happen: everything is thrown away
I'm supposed to do that every Friday here too. however, it's really hard for me to throw away good food.
Load More Replies... Would be hilarious if the cottage cheese company saw this a sent her a lifetime supply of flavoured cottage cheese for the publicity.
My friends and I used to have "contests" in high school as to who had the most expired food in their house. I was reigning champion until mum threw out the can of escargot that expired in 1983.
I would just like to give a very special thanks to that woman for not opening the lid and showing us what's inside.
This has got to be the worst Bored Panda article ever! She didn't even open it, just 7 pictures of her holding cottage cheese.
Why hasn't that fridge been cleaned in 7 years?...
It has, but everyone in the office is apparently in on the joke. There are post-it notes on the cottage cheese saying "don't toss". I doubt I'm alone in saying, "ick".
Load More Replies... I'm very interested to see what's inside. Can there be like an "unboxing of the cottage cheese" live feed?
I am sure if that container is opened that it would wipe out the human race.
Load More Replies... We all have something in the fridge that only comes out when the power cuts and everything has to come out.
We used to have a bottle of Raspberry Vinaigrette salad dressing that expired in the early 2010's and had been around prior to my employment there (in 2012), I believe somebody finally finished it off in 2018. Perhaps she has a coworker who's still "working on it".
A book could be written about office fridge stories. I once brought a yogurt to the office but didn't feel like eating it that day, so I left it in the fridge overnight. The next day, I saw that someone had eaten half of it and put it back in the fridge! At another job I had, one of the top administrators put commercial frozen meals in the fridge, but people kept stealing them, so he had to tape his business card to the boxes. They weren't even tempting frozen meals like Stouffer's lasagna or Swanson's fried chicken -- I think they were diet frozen meals like Smart Ones. Some blame the cleaning people for such thefts, but I think company employees are the real culprits!
It’s funny I was going through my grandmas cupboards and I found some pepper expired in 2001
I worked with a doc who kept 2 things on his desk- a can of 'spotted d**k' (some British concoction) and a mug with a stick figure, arms stretched to the sky, and the caption read, "I pooped today!" I LOVED working with you, Jay Lee!
So it’s been in the fridge for seven years and it never walked away on its own? 😳
"7 years" and "goes viral" seems to have an additional meaning... DO NOT OPEN IT PLEASE! :D
When I first moved in with hubby, he had food in his cupboard from a store that had closed over a decade before!
Ugh, throw it away already. I can smell the damn thing from here! And I don’t even want to think about the new life forms evolving inside it.
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