One of the good things that can come out of quarantine is finding time for things that you have been putting off for a long time. Many people out there are using this time wisely. Some do simple home renovations, others are starting art projects, and let's not forget those who finally have the time to organize their closets and cupboards and also get rid of things that haven't been used in a long time. That's the course Michael Patrick's mother decide to take and her cleaning adventure went viral!
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Apparently, the woman decided to get to the bottom of her 30-year-old chest freezer and found something unexpected--25-year-old puff pastry. Her son couldn't believe his eyes when he saw this long-expired pastry and couldn't help but share it with his twitter followers.
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However, his mom had some other idea of what to do with it. So, she decided to eat it and according to herself and Michael, it still tastes good. Well, let's just hope there will be no side effects of this after discovering this hidden 'treasure'.
Image credits: micktheejit
Image credits: micktheejit
Image credits: micktheejit
Image credits: micktheejit
While some people reacted by saying that food items shouldn't be consumed this long after the expiration date, others disagreed and shared their own decades-old groceries that got forgotten in their freezers and shelves, some of which were eaten, too. Scroll below for the list!
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don't throw that out, that's a collector's item and also I don't think it counts, because someone probably purposely kept that AS a collector's item
if it's in the shed, it's been used to hold something else and is not what the label says. It's probably some poisonous weed killer.
Is there any real difference between 25 year old Spam and fresh Spam?
and now Mary's little lamb has jaundice and is no longer white as snow.
Yeah, it's dye... light should be more of an issue than microorganisms. And if it's still the intended color, the molecular structure probably didn't change anyway.
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I wish people had a better understanding of what they can eat or use in cases like this instead people just throw away valuable resources.
Pretty sure food coloring doesn't expire, if the bottle isn't plastic I'd have used it.
Really, it says Best Before not Expiry Date. It might not have been as good a colour, but I don't think anything would be wrong with it.
Well good cuz Red 40 was probably still legal then, cancer in a bottle, yikes.
LOL, either it held sentimental value to her, or it was gross and she didn't have the heart to trash it. By the way, I was born in 1983. :-)
With the amount of booze that goes into Christmas pudding that may still be edible...I wouldn't risk it though.
since when does potatoes go with bolognese?!? it's meat and tomato and spices. it goes on pasta.
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I guess these people think they are being frugal but they actually are wasteful. Who doesn't clean a freezer or cabinet for 30 years? Ick.
I imagine at least some of these folks survived the Great Depression and WWII (food rationing) - their need to save stuff is really deep-seated.
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I was baking at my grandmother's house about a week before quarantine (she is 94 and when I cook at her house, she sits in the kitchen and tells me how I am doing it wrong - it is my favorite thing in the entire world!) and she told me she had some black walnut flavor in the cabinet so I go get it. It expired in 1968. That is 5 years before I was even born - and she has moved three times since 1968. She had spices and colorings that were even older than that.
When I was cleaning out a freezer last year I found home-made cucumber bread that was literally older than me, and I'm 34. I ate it and it was still delicious :) Not even close to the oldest things I found in the place. There was hot chocolate mix from the 1970s, empty bottles dated 1899, I even found cough drops with CHLOROFORM in them!
Well I mean you can't be coughing your guts out if you've been knocked unconscious ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Not quite as old, but I once found a chocolate egg, seven years expired, in our wood shed. Apparently my mom hid it there for easter and I never found it.
I thought the Worcester sauce at my mom was weirdly thick.i found it strange and the label was scratch at the date so i went on a Worcester sauce collector website (yep) and found it dated from the 90s.. Still tasted normal just thicker. Anyway im relieved to see this is "kinda" common. 😅
I'm sorry, but I found this gross. Who doesn't go through their fridge and freezer every week when making a grocery list. I find it hard for someone to overlook an item in the freezer for 20 years!
I no longer feel bad for finding expired dry goods in my cupboards - at least they expired this decade.
Um, this is kind of cool but also ewww... First off, why aren't these people cleaning their freezers, and second, why are some actually eating the stuff they find?
1. Dunno 2. It's exciting! It's possibly deadlier than bungee-jumping gone wrong, but it's a lot cheaper to try!
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I found dill in my house that was like 8 years expired, but that's nothing compared to these!!
I bought a jar of Quails Eggs in 1971. He threw the jar away about 20 years ago. That would have made them a good 25 years old. Of course, if I had my way, they be in their 50's now. Sort of sentimentality v wanting to try them, but being afraid. I don't like HB eggs particularly.
Here's mine... A friend of ours was moving and said we could go through the fridge and take anything we wanted. I found a bottle of salad dressing (in 2020) that expired in 2006. We didn't take that. :P
What nobody here unplugged the freezer to plug the vacuum cleaner and then forgot to plug it again and left for a two weeks vacation coming back to a monstruosity that would make jabba de hut go “eeeerk”??? Just me??
Back in 1999, my friend's great-grandmother died. We helped to clean her house and found such treasures as flour from late 1970s.
Ugh! I have to wrestle expired food and mouldy bread off my friend. Or he'll eat them
Once my sister bought a frozen lobster but as she didn't have enough room in her freezer, she put it in my parents'. This thing stayed there a very long time (my sister had time to give birth to 3 boys and I think the older was a teenager by the time we got rid of the lobster). In the meantime, I watched Cowboy BeBop and almost laughed to death at the episode involving a frozen lobster invading the spaceship.
My sister found a package of Mission Flour Tortillas. Unrefrigerated. 10 years past their expiration date. No mould. No drying out. That's some good preservatives right there!
Yes, I only just learned that tortillas don't have to live in the fridge or freezer. Who knew?
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I guess these people think they are being frugal but they actually are wasteful. Who doesn't clean a freezer or cabinet for 30 years? Ick.
I imagine at least some of these folks survived the Great Depression and WWII (food rationing) - their need to save stuff is really deep-seated.
Load More Replies... I was baking at my grandmother's house about a week before quarantine (she is 94 and when I cook at her house, she sits in the kitchen and tells me how I am doing it wrong - it is my favorite thing in the entire world!) and she told me she had some black walnut flavor in the cabinet so I go get it. It expired in 1968. That is 5 years before I was even born - and she has moved three times since 1968. She had spices and colorings that were even older than that.
When I was cleaning out a freezer last year I found home-made cucumber bread that was literally older than me, and I'm 34. I ate it and it was still delicious :) Not even close to the oldest things I found in the place. There was hot chocolate mix from the 1970s, empty bottles dated 1899, I even found cough drops with CHLOROFORM in them!
Well I mean you can't be coughing your guts out if you've been knocked unconscious ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Load More Replies... Not quite as old, but I once found a chocolate egg, seven years expired, in our wood shed. Apparently my mom hid it there for easter and I never found it.
I thought the Worcester sauce at my mom was weirdly thick.i found it strange and the label was scratch at the date so i went on a Worcester sauce collector website (yep) and found it dated from the 90s.. Still tasted normal just thicker. Anyway im relieved to see this is "kinda" common. 😅
I'm sorry, but I found this gross. Who doesn't go through their fridge and freezer every week when making a grocery list. I find it hard for someone to overlook an item in the freezer for 20 years!
I no longer feel bad for finding expired dry goods in my cupboards - at least they expired this decade.
Um, this is kind of cool but also ewww... First off, why aren't these people cleaning their freezers, and second, why are some actually eating the stuff they find?
1. Dunno 2. It's exciting! It's possibly deadlier than bungee-jumping gone wrong, but it's a lot cheaper to try!
Load More Replies... I found dill in my house that was like 8 years expired, but that's nothing compared to these!!
I bought a jar of Quails Eggs in 1971. He threw the jar away about 20 years ago. That would have made them a good 25 years old. Of course, if I had my way, they be in their 50's now. Sort of sentimentality v wanting to try them, but being afraid. I don't like HB eggs particularly.
Here's mine... A friend of ours was moving and said we could go through the fridge and take anything we wanted. I found a bottle of salad dressing (in 2020) that expired in 2006. We didn't take that. :P
What nobody here unplugged the freezer to plug the vacuum cleaner and then forgot to plug it again and left for a two weeks vacation coming back to a monstruosity that would make jabba de hut go “eeeerk”??? Just me??
Back in 1999, my friend's great-grandmother died. We helped to clean her house and found such treasures as flour from late 1970s.
Ugh! I have to wrestle expired food and mouldy bread off my friend. Or he'll eat them
Once my sister bought a frozen lobster but as she didn't have enough room in her freezer, she put it in my parents'. This thing stayed there a very long time (my sister had time to give birth to 3 boys and I think the older was a teenager by the time we got rid of the lobster). In the meantime, I watched Cowboy BeBop and almost laughed to death at the episode involving a frozen lobster invading the spaceship.
My sister found a package of Mission Flour Tortillas. Unrefrigerated. 10 years past their expiration date. No mould. No drying out. That's some good preservatives right there!
Yes, I only just learned that tortillas don't have to live in the fridge or freezer. Who knew?
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