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A terrifying part of growing up is realizing just how many people either are ignorant of the most basic food safety rules or simply do not care. Add in the folks who have significantly different standards of hygiene and you have a minefield of disgusting food and potential food poisoning.
Someone asked the internet “What is your “can’t eat at everybody’s house” horror story?” and traumatized netizens shared what happened to them. So best to finish your lunch, snacks, or other meal first, then get comfortable and scroll through. Upvote your “favorites” and share your own experiences in the comments section below. We also got in touch with Dr. Joe, M.D. to learn more.
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#1
I used to help an old neighbor out w grocery shopping, I’d drop the bags at her door and she’d give me a check for the amount of groceries. She’d give me homemade cookies once in a while, chocolate chips. I didn’t ever eat them because one time I caught sight of her apartment-it was a large studio, a small kitchen and tv and bed/couch. And about 20 cans of cat food, half eaten and 1 million flies and small maggots in diff stages of growth, dishes w crusty food stuck to them, and a wall of empty beer cans. After I saw that, and got a whiff of her apt, I started helping her w taking garbage out and putting groceries away, cleaning out her fridge and making sure her cat was healthy. A couple months later she got Covid, ended up at rehab facility and passed within 2 weeks.
Some people need help and a little company…
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
You were a great neighbor. I'm absolutely sure she appreciated it to no end. I'm currently surrounded by trash because I have no room in my garbage, and I'm not capable of taking it to the curb. I have no support system here, and I haven't been able to find decent paid help that I can afford.
Xitxarel•lo Panda 2 years ago
Sadly ,you live in another country. If not, I would help you bro .
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María Hermida 2 years ago
An accumulation of rubbish may be a sign of depression. You are a good person, because you helped without judging. It sounds as if she really needed a little company. Keep on being so nice! We need more people like you!
YouKiddingMe (hey you) 2 years ago
Was wondering the same thing. If she didn't even go out to get groceries or dump trash, who brought her covid?
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#2
My MIL fished around in the green bin (compost bin) with her bare hands, didn't wash them, WIPED her GARBAGE JUICE HANDS on the tea towel, and then WENT BACK TO PREPPING THE SALAD.
She also got horrifically offended if I didn't want to eat at her house.
Anne Jones 2 years ago
I worked with a woman who said she thought it was stupid that people wash their hands all the time. She said she hardly ever washed her hands even after she’d changed the cat litter and cleaned up some cat vomit. She said it had never caused her any problems. She was preparing the Board meeting lunch at the time.
Julie Stevens 2 years ago (edited)
My mother in law was making huge amounts of dough one weekend to be sold as fresh fried dough at a local fair. She's putting batches in a big tall rubbermaid container as she goes. My 3yr old neice wakes up from a nap, toddles down the stairs and beelines for the open box of dough. Sticks her hands in and starts playing. GUARANTEED this child did NOT wash her sleep-snotty little hands before coming downstairs, and my MIL is just smiling happily at this "cute" scene. I'm fully shocked into silence. It gets worse. Niece had a case of pinworms at the time, MIL knew it, but she thinks things like lice and pinworms are a common and normal childhood, and are "no big deal" but heaven forbid you chemically treat the damn things. She fried this stuff up at the fair and sold it to people.
#3
Listen up, because I’ve got a story that’ll make you swear off potlucks for life. Meet Carol. She’s that office angel who brings cookies on Fridays and rescues the printer. We all love Carol. Carol decides to host a dinner party and, let’s be honest, we’re all expecting this to be the food equivalent of a TED Talk—inspirational and enlightening. We get there, and Carol unveils the main dish: her “World-Famous Tofu Casserole.” Now, I’m no food snob, but this thing looked like it had already been eaten and returned to the plate for round two. Being the brave (or stupid) soul I am, I took a scoop. First bite, and it’s like my mouth got ambushed by the ghost of expired vegetables and tofu that had given up on life. It’s so bad, even the dog won’t touch it, and this is a creature that eats its own vomit. But wait, it gets worse. I’m trying to power through when I hit something crunchy. I dig it out and find—no s**t—a whole-a*s acrylic fingernail, complete with chipped glittery nail polish, looking up at me like the Eye of Sauron.
María Hermida 2 years ago (edited)
😂😂😂😂 I loved the dog part. However, I must say that, at least my dogs, are difficult to understand. STOP READING NOW IF YOU ARE SQUEAMISH. NOW. STOP. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED. They will eat cat s**t, vomit, etc, but there are some brands of dog food they won't eat even if they were starving. Crazy creatures.
Racing Tadpole 2 years ago
Anyone who ate Mary's chicken at the Xmas party was sick...chicken is not good to leave on the bench all day
Bored Panda got in touch with doctor and TikTok creator Dr. Joe, M.D. to learn more about food safety. We wanted to hear what items are safe to leave unrefrigerated. "Most dishes that are safe to leave out at room temperature are those with low moisture content or those that are high in sugar or acid, which can inhibit bacterial growth."
"Examples include whole fruits and vegetables, bread, and baked goods that don't contain cream or custard. Dried foods like jerky or fruit, high-sugar items like cakes and cookies that don't have cream fillings or frostings, and pickled products. However, once cut or prepared, even these items may need refrigeration to prevent spoilage."
#4
My mom thought that the turkey would “dry out” if you cooked it for the recommended time. We even used the turkeys with the popping thermometers in them and never once did I see it popped, as a kid I just thought it was a turkey button😂 then she would eat the outside of the turkey (that was cooked) because she “liked the white meat and skin” like ma’am there would be a lot more “white meat” and less “pink meat” if you cooked it longer! Sibs and I always got sick after thanksgiving and she’d tell us it was because we were fat and ate too much. Wasn’t until I moved away for college that I found out turkey wasn’t supposed to be pink, I honestly thought I was just allergic to turkey
LegendsNeverDIE 2 years ago (edited)
What kind of a mom calls her own kids fat?! And she just happens to like white meat better...
Rocky 2 years ago
A whole lotta moms. That was definitely not the shocking part of this story. But she's obviously self-centered to think of the good meat for herself.
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Andy Cran 2 years ago
top tip: to stop whole poultry from "drying out" fill the cavity with butter!!!! (add herbs and garlic etc to butter if you like) but the important bit is to cook the bird upside down all the butter etc cooks into to breast keeping it moist.... turn bird right side up for last half hour of cooking to brown the skin... voilà (both my parents were good cooks,father was cook at sea on trawlers and mother ran the kitchen at a restaurant for 25yrs.... they taught me well)
Rebekah Krause 2 years ago
Cooked my turkey upside down about 10 years ago totally by accident. I have never gone back to breasts on top.
Load More Replies... Anne Jones 2 years ago (edited)
That’s incredibly dangerous. https://www.salon.com/2022/11/23/these-are-the-pathogens-you-might-ingest-if-you-undercook-your-turkey/#:~:text=coli%20infections%20include%20severe%20stomach,if%20contracted%2C%20can%20be%20deadly.
Ace 2 years ago
Another of my pet hates is undercooked poultry, as often seen on TV cookery shows. If it doesn't pull away from the bone oit is not cooked. It doesn't need to be undercooked to stay moist, but even if it's a bit dry then that's what the gravy os for! Better dry than undercooked.
I heart Boo-BI-es 2 years ago
Last I checked kids usually don't do the grocery shopping, so how dare this woman try to pass blame on her food poisoned children by calling them fat?? The audacity!
Javelina Poppers 2 years ago
The Munchausen by Proxy mom, good thing Dr. Kevorkian wasn't your dad too.
Mooooomooooo 2 years ago
If that isn't some kind of passive aggressive child abuse, I don't know what is
Reenzy Bennington 2 years ago
"She'd tell us it was because we were fat and ate too much" oh yeah parenting lvl99 :D
#5
My grandma made me a food phobic from a young age. Whether it was ramen with moths floating on top, or chunky milk in my cereal it just scarred me for life. Dinner at her house was always a fight. Not eating her food was not an option. I'm not sure why that was the hill she would always choose to die on, because she was an amazing grandma other than this. Expiration dates aren't a thing. If the cheese was moldy, you cut it off.... I think living through the great depression and raising kids in poverty changed her mindset on food. I mean obviously she's doing something right because she's 91. She must have the immunity of a super hero
Dragons Exist 2 years ago
Remembering the time I took a big spoonful of chunky milk with my cinnamon toast crunch
Load More Replies... Chez2202 2 years ago
I became vegetarian for almost a decade to avoid eating my Gran’s cooking!
Alyssa Phillips 2 years ago
Best buy, sell by, use within, and expires on are very different standards. This is something I still struggle to explain to my husband.
Panda-sized Potato 2 years ago
They don't really do expiration dates anymore because it isn't possible to tell when each product actually expires.
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Exotic Butters 2 years ago
The chunky milk and such is gross, but cutting mold off cheese is common
Bob Brooce 2 years ago
Doing things right? Did you ever hear about what it took to kill that Rasputin guy?
Matt Campbell 2 years ago
Lets see....shoot, stab, poison, drowned......He's the Terminator.
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Lillian Tracy 2 years ago (edited)
There is no industry standard for expiration dates. There's no team of scientists that assess all the ingredients of food and determine how long they last they are basically made up most of the time, as it is entirely dependant on the company policy. You should still have common sense to know when food is bad -smell,color, texture,etc. It is true that food can make you sick before outward signs exist, but those little printed numbers don't check that. Most food borne illness is caused by improper washing and mishandling at the wrong temperature
Matt Campbell 2 years ago
It's marketing, all marketing so people say "Gee it's one day late, now I have to buy more" which means more sales. [ but also means tossing away perfectly good food sometimes ] Gotta use the old nose.
Load More Replies... Racing Tadpole 2 years ago
No no no I got very ill after drinking milk my useless colleagues gad left out ..didn't know it was off until I came to the clotted dregs in the bottom of the cup...was throwing up in the carpark...
Dr Robert Neville 2 years ago
I had one grandmother who was a superb cook and one who could cook a mean breakfast and enjoyed spoiling us with McDonald's. Miss them both.
#6
I was gonna complain about raisins in the potato salad but the other comments on here are scary. OMG
Blue Bunny of Happiness 2 years ago
Reading the other posts on here, I’m hoping they were definitely raisins and not something more sinister!
CatLady 2 years ago
I like raisins just on their own. Nice hit of iron. Or in rice pudding.
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Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
Yeah, my stepmother put olives in the tuna casserole. I love olives but, UGH.
MacintoshID 2 years ago
What in potato salad?? OMG- the dreaded raisin addition to a perfectly good meal! Yes, my mother was just like every other mother when it came to adding raisins to something, luckily my father was the one person in the house who would put his foot down on experimenting with food and to not add things that do not belong. This was in the 70s so just remember there were tons of magazines and recipe books just for jello molds and making a meal your entire family would die first before eating that jello thing. So thank you Dad for saving your family from Mom experimenting too much with the main course and only putting raisins in your molasses cookies that you loved so much.
Krizzy Wilde 2 years ago
If the 'raisins ' weren't raisins then yes, it counts as scary but personally I think raisins in potato salad sounds just as nasty!!!
We also wanted to know some common mistakes folks make at home. "Not washing hands, cutting boards, and utensils properly before and after handling food, especially raw meat. Not cooking meats to the recommended internal temperature."
"Using the same utensils or surfaces for raw and cooked foods without cleaning in between. Not cooling leftovers quickly enough before refrigerating. Overstocking the refrigerator prevents cold air from circulating."
#7
I slept over at a friend's house when I was in middle school, it was really dirty and trashed and also had this bizarre, powerful funk I couldn't identify, but I didn't think much of it. At the time I had a bad habit of getting up in the middle of the night for a midnight snack, so I went into the kitchen cause they had left the leftovers from dinner out and a kid don't know any better.. I hit the lights and man every plate, dish, item of silverware, etc on the table was absolutely covered in cockroaches. They didn't even run when the lights came on cause they knew they owned that house. I somehow managed to turn the light back off and retreat to the living room before emptying the contents of my stomach and curling up in a ball imagining every stray itch or other sensation to be bugs crawling on me for the rest of the night. This is why I have a serious phobia of bugs.
Em 2 years ago
Oh, I lived with a friend like this. Every place he ever lived was chock full of roaches. I'd occasionally wake up covered in them. He liked to berate me on the rare occasion I'd leave a plate in the dining room or whatever -- "this is why we have roaches!" It's weird how I've never had them in any place I've lived without him.
Kat 2 years ago
This is why I don't let my husband bring home stuff from his parents house anymore. Roaches here in Florida are already everywhere and it seems like every time he brings home a TV or a gift or anything from them there's bugs in it and now they're in my house too. My house is also old and I'm sure they're finding plenty of hiding places I can't get to so no amount of spray or gel I put down seems to completely eliminate them.
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HelluvaHedgehogAlien 2 years ago
Chinese cockroaches fly at people’s mouths. You have been warned.
◦•●◉ 𝒮𝒽𝓎 𝒟𝓇𝒶𝑔𝑜𝓃 (𝓈𝒽𝑒/𝒽𝑒𝓇) ◉● 2 years ago
i will never, ever, EVER go to china. why am i reading this post before bed??!!
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Wheeskers 2 years ago
Lived over seas in middle school. There was a pool party and I was in my swim suit all day. Got home and went to shower. Took off one piece suit and 3-4 of the giant cockroaches came crawling out. I screamed and screamed. 40 years later I can not get the image out of my brain.
Riley Quinn 2 years ago
I remember renting a temporary flat where the cockroaches were smart enough to hide during the showing. Cheap and on the bus route, I grabbed it. It wasn't until I was in bed and felt things dropping on me, crawling on my skin, that I realized I was actually an additional roommate. It was awfully creepy, but I don't harbor any ill feelings to the cockroaches just eking out a living. Gotta hand it to them though. They certainly can adapt to pretty much any living arrangement.
Avery August 1 year ago
Everyone has some kind of phobia of bugs. Like, I 'm scared of every spider but the daddy long leg. I love capturing grasshoppers and crickets, give them a kiss , let them go and wash my lips.
#8
My BIL sweats alot.. He sweats ALOT. We're Italian and there's always lots of cooking, sauce, etc on holidays. My mom and I went to my sister's and watched him standing over the sauce, wiping the sweat from his head, and saw sweat dripping in the sauce.. It was disgusting. We always eat before we go there and we also will order catered items to bring with us for everyone. We don't eat anything that's cooked at my sisters anymore. I'm getting nauseous thinking about it.
Kobe (she) 2 years ago
Then, hopefully, the same thing does not happen in the kitchens the catered food comes from. Seems professional kitchens are hot as h*ll. Maybe for the better, we don't know or see everything...
Jennifer 2 years ago
I'm convinced this happens everywhere.... Even on cooking shows where I'm sure there's heavy editing, they're sweating like crazy. Does anyone really think that's not ending up in your consomme? Also, not to make it worse, but your skin is meant to come off and regenerate. Wanna knead some dough? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Dawnieangel76 2 years ago
Sweat is probably the best thing you can hope goes into your food....
#9
Neighbor invited me and couple friends over for pan fried steaks with mushrooms. He answered the door wearing the same swimming trunks and torn, filthy t shirt as the day before and barefoot. Those trunks with their netting inside really hold on to swampa*s and ballsweat stink and it was obvious he hadn't showered or washed the clothes. No dish soap on counter. No hand/bar soap or toilet paper in bathroom. Someone notified him about lack of tp or soap and he said he just jumps in the shower after he poops. There's no soap in the shower either. I didn't eat. Everyone else spent the next 24 hours vomiting into trash buckets while they ejected from the other end on the toilet. Later he confessed they were mushrooms he'd foraged himself. They all got lucky the idiot hadn't served them something deadly. No idea what they were. Was it food poisoning or a toxic mushroom? Idk but don't you eat at people's houses unless you're certain of their food safety precautions. Some people are too stupid to be trusted around food.
Kat 2 years ago
You don't play around with mushrooms you don't know! In this situation though who knows if it was even just the mushrooms.
Stephanie Goadsby 2 years ago
He probably cultivated the mushrooms growing around his toilet and shower drain.
Load More Replies... Andy Cran 2 years ago
yes some people should never be allowed in the kitchen unsupervised...and never go foraging unless you know exactly what you're foraging (after 30+ yrs I still can only safely identify 5 types of edible fungi, UK species,) guesswork is very deadly
Rebekah Krause 2 years ago
30+ years? And you can only safely identify five? That’s insane. There are way more than five that don’t even have poisonous look-alikes in the UK. Foraging is not as dangerous as it used to be with smart phones and being able to get detailed videos, descriptions, diagrams, and images. Mushroom foraging is something to take dead serious, but it’s definitely not as arcane as it was 30 years ago. You should expand your horizons.
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Ali Sherlock 2 years ago
Lucky, lady here in Aust just got arrested for foraging mushrooms from garden and feeding to family which killed them
Reenzy Bennington 2 years ago
I'm gonna get slapped around for this but why does this sound like something a hillbilly would do?
CatLady 2 years ago
Like the guy who has a nephson and his sister doesn't know which one of her husband's brothers knocked her up? To me, that's hillbilly.
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Thomas Ewing 2 years ago
Be very wary about anyone in your kitchen. People who don't know how to cook or use good kitchen hygiene can wreck a nice place and expensive cookware in seconds.
lakitha tolbert 2 years ago
There are Youtube videos of people being that bad around food. They are ALL nauseating!
María Hermida 2 years ago
Mushroom foraging is a "national sport" where I live. Every person in every village has their favourite secret spots and every autumn they collect big baskets of fresh mushrooms. I only eat mushrooms if two specific neighbours have picked them. They are responsible and they only collect the two varieties they know perfectly well. The rest goes straight to the compost bin. I'm really sorry, but I won't take that kind of risks. Every year there are several cases of idiots who pick up the wrong mushroom and end up in hospital for a liver transplant. If the people in OP's story were only sick for one day, they were very, very lucky.
However, it's possible to still get food poisoning, so we asked what a person should do to try and feel better. "If You Have Gotten Food Poisoning: Stay hydrated. Drink plenty of fluids to prevent dehydration. Electrolyte solutions or rehydration drinks can be particularly helpful."
#10
Told my dad my sandwich tasted like fly spray at my grandmas house. He didn’t believe me. Two days later I catch my grandma spraying the benches “clean” with the $2 fly spray you find at the cheap store. Dad figured it was safe to make sandwiches straight on the countertop because they looked clean. I dragged him over to see and he apologized and took my sister and I for fish and chips for lunch.
Rosie Red 2 years ago
It's probably the kind of thing that when you smell it, it feels like you can taste it.
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Anna Drever 2 years ago
I have never made a sandwich on a kitchen bench. Ever. This is why the good lord invented PLATES. FFS. 😬
Brier Random 2 years ago
I don’t get this one. She sprayed a bench, and it somehow got into the sandwich?
#11
There was one time I was eating at my bf's house at the time and his grand mother was cooking food. She wasn't feeling well and everyone offered to cook that night but she insisted. Usually, when she's cooking, she doesn't like anyone in the kitchen. Thing is, the kitchen is the first thing you see when you walk into the apartment. So I came from the store to help pick up a few things for dinner. I walked in, saw her blowing her nose with her hand and then used the same hand to massage seasonings into the chicken. She cooked the chicken in the rice. I didn't eat that day and just said I ate before I came over. Some of his family members thought I was rude but I didn't have the heart to tell them since they also didn't like me very much cause I was shy.
electronicgogo 2 years ago
wait, blowing her nose INTO her hand? and you didn't warn them about the SNOT CHICKEN???
Bob Brooce 2 years ago
1. The raw chicken is already a health hazard, and cooking it takes care of both problems. 2. They didn't like her very much.
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lakitha tolbert 2 years ago
I was gonna say something about all these people being white, but you know what, I know plenty of aunties that we don't allow to fix the potato salad. Not all black people are good cooks. It just seems that way because that's the stereotype.
Riley Quinn 2 years ago
Massaging snot and seasonings into the meal's meat is a long, cherished recipe in some households.
Reenzy Bennington 2 years ago
I mean I'll forgive the trolls in The Hobbit for seasoning food with their snot but a grandmother who cooks for humans??
#12
I had a small circle of co-workers that I was friends with, and we would occasionally hang out together outside of work. One of those co-workers was Lisa, a mid/late 40's woman who was single, but had a couple of little yappy dogs and several cats. Lisa invited several of us over to play board games, and said she would cook us dinner. We got there while she was still cooking, and were standing around the kitchen talking to her while she finished up cooking. We all about s**t our pants when she took the spoon out of the pot of spaghetti sauce she was cooking, tasted it, and then casually held it down for her 2 little yappy dogs to lick the spoon, and then stuck it right back in the pot of spaghetti and continued stirring it like it was the most normal thing in the world. I am not sure how the rest of them got out of eating it, but just before we were supposed to sit down and eat, I faked an emergency call from work and said I had to run in to the office and deal with a problem, and got the hell out of there. I was always "busy" every time she invited us over after that (and NEVER ate anything she ever brought to an office pot luck)
Riley Quinn 2 years ago
I'll admit my kitchen behavior is not suitable for guests. I live alone, so sticking my finger in the peanut butter jar or whatever is fine with me. I just wouldn't offer it to guests. When cooking for others, my micro-biology class comes back to me.
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
Yeah seriously. Cooking for myself I don't give a c**p but for someone else I take all precautions. I have dogs and if I'm making something for people I am hypervigilant to make sure there isn't a stray fur anywhere in the kitchen. Nevermind it being gross, but if someone with a dog allergy gets it that could be very bad or even dangerous.
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Xitxarel•lo Panda 2 years ago
S**t.......I can understand let your doggo lick the yougurth when you have finished, mine love it and it was a little portion of yougurth. But this is just idiotic.
María Hermida 2 years ago
The yoghourt tub is going to the bin after your dog ate the leftovers, you are not going to put more food in it and keep on eating. That's the difference. You are not sharing your dog's saliva... The mouth, even a clean human mouth, is full of bacteria. I think this woman will get something nasty sooner or later.
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Kaye 2 years ago
We had a Lisa where I used to work. She was retired military, and always brought good food to potlucks. One day, she was showing off pictures of her multiple cats. They were all over her kitchen counter, stove (when she was cooking), and eating whatever she was making. Every potluck after, everyone wanted to know what she brought so no one would eat it.
"Rest to allow your body to recover. Avoid anti-diarrheal medication unless prescribed by a doctor, as these can prevent your body from flushing out bacteria or toxins. If necessary, seek medical attention, especially if you experience severe symptoms such as high fever, prolonged vomiting, signs of dehydration, bloody stools, or if you suspect botulism."
#13
When I was a kid, Christmas Eve was always celebrated at Grandma's. I always got sick afterwards. Like Merry Christmas, you're going to puke now. It wasn't until I was all grown up and helping her out in the last weeks of her life that I learned why. She did not believe in expiration dates on anything!
Harley 2 years ago
I think from now on instead of using the term expiration date, we should just call it spoiler alert
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago
Here, you’ve won the internet today 🏆
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Andy Cran 2 years ago
some things don't expire,the dates are there because manufacturers have to put them on....dry goods are a prime example (if kept in the proper storage,dry cool and out of sunlight) also jams and preserves, chutneys and pickle all can and do live forever (honey is a prime example) anything high in sugar salt or vinegar as they preserve food...the biggest enemy to food is the air around us therefore keeping the air out of a product will extend shelf life
majandess 2 years ago (edited)
Exactly. It sounds more like there's an unknown allergy happening. My sister discovered when she was older that she's allergic to shellfish, gluten, and garlic. And every time she ate Chinese food, she got sicker than s**t. Once I'd learned more about Asian foods, I realized that of course she got sick - oyster sauce, wheat (noodles, batter, soy sauce), and garlic are super common - we just didn't know while she was growing up (we also fixed shrimp every year at Christmas, and she always got sick then, too). This story sounds like it could very well be something like my sister.
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Riley Quinn 2 years ago
Really depends on the contents. Sure, there might be some flavor/texture depletion past the exp. date, but the contents don't necessary spoil on that day. You really need to check the food first before blindly throwing it the trash.
Beth H 2 years ago
I cooked for an older, very wealthy gentleman in his home for a few years. The absolute antiques found in his pantry...it was museum worthy. Before he hired me God knows what he ate.
Lara Verne 2 years ago
I once helped friend's grandmother to clean her house. She had flour that expired in the early 1990s.
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Silre (she/her) 2 years ago
I always got sick at Christmas too, until we determined that I was severely allergic to pine.
Lucy Shupe 2 years ago
MIL passed recently but before this she was in a nursing home in the community where hubby and I live. After we got her settled, we drove back to the town where she lived and the two of us grew up. Started cleaning out the fridge, found her prunes, they were disgusting. Went to the freezer, found her spices and herbs in the freezer. Some were so old they didn’t have bar codes, they had the old sticky prices. Found Cool Whip that was 12 years ago was it’s expiration date. Needless to say threw out everything.
lakitha tolbert 2 years ago
There are some food items where you can ignore those dates, mostly its non-perishable or unopened cabinet foods like cereal, flour, crackers, sugar, although those items will at some point go stale. If its any kind of soft food, needs to be refrigerated food, or food that's been opened I always throw it out though.
Melinda Flick 2 years ago
A lot of expiration dates are negotiable. But YEARS out? I wouldn't even open that to get the cardboard in the recycle bin - ALL of it in the trash...
#14
I was babysitting a kid in a pretty dirty house. I was told to wake him up, supervise bathing and changing clothes, and feed him. I was welcome to whatever was in the fridge. Ok. The house and his clothes were filthy. Then, when I opened the cabinets, floods of roaches poured out. There were roaches in every opened box and container. I took him back to my house and returned him later that day. I hope the boy ended up in a better situation. I found out CPS got involved shortly after.
Candace Mccoy 2 years ago
Always shake your clothes out and spray them with roach spray if you bring even one home your house will be infested.
Sans Serif 2 years ago (edited)
As each roach can produce dozens of baby roaches...
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I used to be a really sick kid and constantly in and out of the hospital but no one could ever tell me exactly why I was always feeling so bad but once I moved out of my moms house I never had tummy issues again and I wouldn’t get sick as often or feel horrible so frequently. Then once I went to visit my mom and she had chicken in a ziplock bag sitting outside on the steps right where any number of animals could get to it. I was about to throw it away but she stopped me and said that was for dinner, she was just thawing it in the sun. I’ve never eaten at my moms house since. But it did make me realize that a lot of the things she’d do in the kitchen were just not ok at all like leaving food out to thaw in the sink all day, maggot covered chocolate, mouse eaten Kraft Mac and cheese boxes, roaches in cereal, apple juice so old it started growing a large mass inside the bottle, oh god and the times she would cook pork and it would smell like burning p**s. I thought that’s what pork was supposed to smell like and assumed I just didn’t like pork but nope, it was very clearly expired.
pineapple87 2 years ago
This reminds me of a colleague who was having weird stomach aches even the doctors couldn't figure out. Fast forward some months when in a casual conversation someone mentions how they'd had an argument with a spouse about leaving rice in the rice cooker overnight. We all agree that this is how you get the kind of food poisoning that may kill you when this one colleague looks baffled. Turns out she was in the habit of eating rice that might have been sitting in the rice cooker for a day or two. The strange stomach pains suddenly stopped being a mystery.
Richard Michael 2 years ago
I am amazed every single day that I survived childhood. My mom did a lot of this.
Ansi 2 years ago
My mother in law thaw things in hot water in the kitchen sink. They are in a package or plastic freezer bag, so according to her it's hygienic even if the doesn't clean the sink first. 🤢 The same sink were they usually have dirty dishes soaking in water until the evening, with the dish rag also thrown in the water. 🤮
"When it comes to food safety, it's better to be proactive than reactive. Follow best practices to avoid foodborne illnesses from the start. If you're catering to special populations such as young children, the elderly, pregnant women, or those with compromised immune systems, be extra vigilant, as these groups are more susceptible to the effects of food poisoning. Always keep an eye out for food recalls and safety alerts in your area," Dr. Joe, M.D. shared with Bored Panda.
#16
Had a Christmas party at work... Someone brought pasta salad. The bowl was full of cat hair... Some hairs in the salad looked like human hair. I wanted to throw up immediately... Unfortunately I'm bad at keeping a pokerface
René Sauer 2 years ago
When the pandemic started my logistics company (DHL) loaned me and my coworkers out to other companies. Some went to Zalando across the street while I and a few others went to a garden company, handling fresh flowers and accessories for gardening. For some reason they seperated me and my three coworkers, each of us working in another department. One guy working with my coworker took a liking to him and would talk non stop while they worked, even thought my coworker wasn´t interested. One day that dude brought a salad to work for my coworker. The problem with that? It was a pasta salad with chicken and some milk or cream based sauce. And he kept it unrefridgerated in his car for 5+ hours in the middle of july...
Kaedyn Walsh 2 years ago
I'm sure your poor coworker let the guy know he felt bad but since he's vegan and has lactose intolerance..... I SURE would have pulled those cards immediately. The amount of sun and heat created poison in that salad..... 🤢😵😵💫
Load More Replies... featherytoad 2 years ago (edited)
Where I used to work, we would occasionally have pot luck lunches in our department. On one such occasion, a girl brought in a cheese cake. I love cheese cake and couldn't wait to get my hands on a piece. It just tasted off and I couldn't think what it was. I later found out from another coworker that she dug it out of her freezer and it was like a year old or something. She didn't know. One person never participated in these and now I know why.
jdtimid123 2 years ago
This is why I always lint roller my clothes before I cook. Although if it's to that point I don't think it's just the stray hair falling off your clothes...
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
This could potentially be very dangerous. I'm very allergic to cats and I can't imagine the affects of ingesting cat fur.
◦•●◉ 𝒮𝒽𝓎 𝒟𝓇𝒶𝑔𝑜𝓃 (𝓈𝒽𝑒/𝒽𝑒𝓇) ◉● 2 years ago
my dog sheds 24/7 so i sometimes find his fur in my mouth 😭
Sarah Kathrin Matsoukis 2 years ago
Reminds me of my exes mom, she lives on a boat with her bf and two huskies. Everything she made had dog hair in it.
#17
When I was a kid, my sister and I were great friends with the kids that lived next door. We mostly played outside and would spend time at whatever house we felt like at the time. I went to their house early on a Saturday once when they had just finished breakfast and were cleaning up. They were pouring the milk out of the glasses the family had been drinking out of right back into the milk jug. They had 6 kids so I guess they had to be frugal. I never ate there, not with the thought of backwash milk in my head.
Bored something 2 years ago
Why wouldn't you a) pour smaller glasses or b) just drink the rest?
Squirrelly Panda 2 years ago
And if you insist on saving it, give it it's own container in the fridge. Putting leftovers into the original container is gross and will shorten the shelf life of the portion that wasn't served.
Load More Replies... María Hermida 2 years ago (edited)
You can be frugal without being a pig. Serve smaller portions, and serve a second helping if somebody is still hungry. I save food from one meal to another if 1. nobody has touched it 2. it is my food, in my plate, and *I* am going to eat it later. This is so unhygienic!
Reenzy Bennington 2 years ago
Oh no. No, no, no. I'm not a very phobic person, but I could never even drink out of the same glass, bottle or can as my boyfriend and that is nothing compared to kissing. Just no. There's a line.
Heidi Nicholas 2 years ago
My parents had six kids and we have NEVER ever done this, nor would my mother ever allow this. I mean yes we had to be frugal, but not to the point that we were drinking backwash milk. Absolutely not, food is a necessity and should not be wasted(at least in my house) but that doesn't mean we would ever pour a drink back into the thing it came from. That's just nasty.
Shelli Aderman 2 years ago
I’m more shocked that the kids helped clean up! 🤣 (parent of teens here…)
featherytoad 2 years ago
My mom did this when I was a kid but, I was really the only one that drank it.
#18
When I was a kid I used to visit my grandmother a lot. One day she gave me crackers and cheese to snack on. I was about to take a bite of a cracker when I looked down and saw something moving on it. “Hey,” I said, “There’s bugs on this cracker!” My grandmother took a look: “There’s nothing there, eat your crackers.” But I insisted, so my aunt took a look: “There’s nothing there, eat your crackers.” But I continued to insist until my other aunt took a look. Sure enough, she saw little brown bugs crawling all over the crackers. My aunt opened the box the crackers had come from: bugs. She pulled boxes from the cupboards and looked inside: more bugs. The whole kitchen was infested with little brown bugs. They were in the cookie tins, in the bread box, in the flour… My aunt asked my grandmother, an avid baker, how she hadn’t noticed the colony of bugs that had taken over the white flour. Her response: “Oh, I thought it was whole wheat!” They ended up tossing out at least three garbage bags of food that night. The cupboards were bare when they were done. It seemed to take care of the problem but I was always a little weary about eating at my grandmother’s house after that.
Debbie 2 years ago
Flour bugs are common - in the sense that it can happen to clean people too, and they come with a package (imported into your house). Once you have them you have to toss out almost anything flour/dry (check EVERYTHING dry, flour, paper), thoroughly clean (I mean alcohol clean, disinfect,bugspray clean) your cabinets. Many people I know once had it, me too, I always check my flour thoroughly now. It sucks. But it can happen to anyone that gets flour in their kitchen.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago
Same thing with Indian Meal Moths. We occasionally get them in our rice and my dad basically nukes the whole kitchen from orbit 😂
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JB 2 years ago
Sometimes bugs can't be avoided. In such cases, you should choose the lesser of two weevils.
Meadow 2 years ago
"Wary" = cautious "Leery" = cautious (can be spelled "leary") "Weary" = tired, exhausted
ί𝔫ＣίŦᵃт𝐔𝐬 2 years ago
I am weary of the fact that no one seems to know this.
Load More Replies... Racing Tadpole 2 years ago
Put the flour etc in the freezer for 24hrs kills the eggs everything
Na Schi 2 years ago
But this would not erase the bugs already living in the flour, won't it?
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Imreallyjustaghost 2 years ago
I think those are "drugstore" beetles? My MIL had them....she was CLEAN CLEAN...but she brought home groceries and those little f*****s got in. So much food waste just to get rid of them.
realenancy170 2 years ago
I had flour bugs once many years ago. I was very poor but I still threw out every dry good in my cabinets. The only good thing was that because I had little money I didn't have extra food hanging around.
MarieL 2 years ago
I never knew that bugs can be found in dried rice, until one day, when I was 50 years old, I was visiting my mother and she was sorting through a bag of rice. I asked her about it, and she explained that the insect eggs are so tiny that they usually go unnoticed during harvest and packaging. Why did it take until I was 50 to experience this? Because, as a child, our family would eat through a 5 lbs. bag of rice in 2 weeks - which is not long enough of a gestation period for the eggs to hatch. But since, later in life, my mother was only cooking for her and my father, that 5 lbs. bag lasted for months...
Dr Robert Neville 2 years ago
I remember finding grain mites in my cereal at work, closer inspection revealed the entire cupboard was infested. I kept my cereal in a Tupperware container in my desk after that.
#19
I visited a friends house who was living with his mother, she asked if I wanted a coffee and I said I would, upon getting to the bottom of the cup and taking the last few gulps I found there was a used bandaid stuck to the bottom…never ate or drank there again.
Riley Quinn 2 years ago
Friend came out of the kitchen with a mug of coffee for me. Thing was, I distinctly remember seeing this mug among the pile of dirty dishes in the sink, but I didn't hear him washing it first. Sure enough, he'd grabbed the dirty mug, filled it with coffee and gave it to me. I left.
#20
I was at a friends house pretty late, and his mom asked if I wanted to stay for dinner. I ended up staying. I was told we were gonna have "Spaghetti and meat". I know, I can hear what you're thinking. "Surely you mean meatballs?". My names not Shirley and that's what I thought. She told us to go play and 15 minutes later she was calling us. I was naturally confused because I know Spaghetti takes longer than that. We rush inside and what I was served sure as hell was not spaghetti. Sitting in front of me was a plate of stone cold, wet spaghetti noodles, covered in ketchup with chunks of cold spam. I ate like 2 bites and was full. But they happily gorged themselves on this insult to Italian cooking. But it did finally explain why my friend hated coming over to my house when my Mom made real spaghetti. He thought that was 'fake' spaghetti. First and last time I ever ate over there. My Mom did not believe me until he visited again and confirmed it. As an adult I asked him what in the hell that was and he said it was real spaghetti... And that he eats as an adult regularly and despises "fake spaghetti" as he calls it. You might be thinking they were poor, they were not.
Brenda White 2 years ago
C.O. Shea please stop the hate. I personally don't like Trump but the constant hate is such an unhappy thing
PickleDragon she/her 2 years ago
When I was a little kid my mom would make me and my siblings spaghetti with cut up hot dogs and my little sister would put ketchup on it but my parents also made real spaghetti which was amazing. I would understand the peoples pov if they hadn't used spam and hadn't made it the usual or the real spaghetti for their child.
Javelina Poppers 2 years ago
Fried Spam slices with a brown sugar-mustard glaze is the berries.
Ropre 2 years ago
When I was 12 years old I started babysitting the two kids next door. They were around 6 and 8 years old. I go over there and their mom and dad are getting ready to leave. Mom says the kids are eating dinner. I go into the kitchen and they have spaghetti and they're pouring ketchup on it. I'm Italian....like off the boat Italian....and I was so disgusted.
Cyndi Hafele 2 years ago
Anybody see the Honey BooBoo show, can't remember the name. The mom made pissgetti with spaghetti noodles, a tub of I Can't Believe it's Not Butter, and half bottle of ketchup.
David Redman 2 years ago
I had spaghetti in Nairobi years ago at a German owned hotel. The meat sauce was delicious. Asked what the meat was....monkey. still enjoyed it.
#21
A girl I was interested in at the time had cats, I came to her house one day to pick her up for a date and she had a large sack of rice open in her pantry with the pantry door open. One of the cats hopped out of the sack of rice and she just casually laughed at it like “oh they are always getting into things.” Came over the following weekend that SAME sack of rice was in the pantry and I could hear one of them tussling around in it again, we stopped dating sometime after that but anytime she offered to cook for me I immediately pivoted to taking her out to eat instead.
Bored something 2 years ago (edited)
Nope, rice kitty litter is gross. I love my cats but they do not get in the pantry or on the table or bench.
Andy Cran 2 years ago
the only food animals and pets should be around is their own food and away from all human food prep areas...."no Sharon it's not ok to let your cats wander around on the worktops it's not cute and freeing "
Load More Replies... Sahil Islam 2 years ago
The two places my cats are forbidden to enter is the kitchen and pantry. They know exactly I'm bringing out spray bottle of vinegar water if they even put a paw 5 inches into the kitchen/pantry. I will allow 3 to 4 inches worth of entry but nothing more. Still love the little rascals tho
ILoveMySon 2 years ago
My friend is a lovely person but I will not eat as his house for this reason. He is what some would say is an irresponsible cat owner. The kitchen turns my stomach.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
We do enjoy sleeping in your foods. Kibble just isn't that comfortable to sleep in, nor does it horrify our soft can-openers. Sleeping in a bag of rice is much nicer, and definitely gets noticed.
Riley Quinn 2 years ago
I knew my cats were getting on the counters and table, so I did something crazy. I used special colored-coded cloths and disinfectant on the surfaces before cooking or eating. Loved my kitties with all my heart, but not the microbes they tended to leave behind.
#22
I graduated high school at 6' 10" tall, but weighing only 120 lbs. That's not skinny, that's emaciated. The food prepared by my bio-mom was so bad that it wasn't providing me with the nutrients or calories I needed to survive. I went off to college where I had to cook for myself (I wasn't allowed to cook at home because my father insisted that "cooking was women's work") Not only did I discover that food didn't have to be burnt to a crisp, flavorless, or boiled until everything was grey. I also discovered that food can be made to taste good, and using things like salt, or pepper, spices, or various condiments can make it taste amazing. The "freshman 15" likely saved my life. The thing is, I don't think that my biomom was even *aware* that her food was that disgusting. Whenever we went out for dinner (which was more often than what my father wanted, but *he* was the one that insisted on going) she did nothing but complain about how the food was undercooked, "practically raw," or "too spicy," to eat. When she went to other people's houses (including her own extended family) she would criticize them for "doing it wrong" when she watched them cook anything. She would often end up refusing to eat their food because she "watched them ruin it," when they cooked it. We never had guests over to eat her cooking. Ever.
Lara Verne 2 years ago
One would think that mom would find out that food in restaurants taste good even though they don't cook the same way she does.Apparently not. Btw, did OP's father think that single men die of starvation on regular basis?
Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
She probably grew up learning from her own mom, who may have gone through the Depression or maybe it's a generational thing
Riley Quinn 2 years ago
People's palates differ. I consider jalapeños mild, where someone else would be gagging from the spiciness. My mother had a partial denture that obscured her ability to taste certain things. Example: she neve pressed or salted eggplant before cooking it. We complained that it burned/itched our mouths, but she was totally unaware of this sensation. Left home, learned how to prepare the dish, and haven't had a problem since.
Brooke Weber 2 years ago
I see your point, but cooking things to the point of desiccation with nothing on it (sauce or salt, even), that's a whole 'nother ballpark.
Load More Replies... Reenzy Bennington 2 years ago
The weirdest part is bio food not providing nutrients. Isn't that the whole point? (I believe you, I'm simply confused as to how it works)
Terry Tobias 2 years ago
The poor kid probably didn't eat much which led to his being underweight.
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#23
Recently at my mother in laws. She asked for a jar of Alfredo sauce from her cabinet. Grabbed one, a year expired. Grabbed another, two years expired. The oldest I found expired in 2018. There was also a day recently where she wanted me to make taco meat out of ground beef. I opened the meet and it smelled rancid, like totally rotten. She smelled it “oh it’s fine that’s just how ground beef smells”. She tried to make me cook it and I refused. No wonder her autistic daughter accidentally s**t in the pool this summer if she’s cooking expired foods just because she’s cheap and doesn’t want to replace something if it’s bad. Had to tell my 9 year old that I don’t want him eating at nanas house anymore.
Ace 2 years ago
Sauce in jars past it's best-before date will usually be fine. As long as the top still seals properly - it should make a noise when you open it as the pressure equalises 0 it should be fine. If in doubt, the nose test is all you need. Throwing away things that are "expired" without checking if they've actually gone off is one of my pet hates.
Rebekah Krause 2 years ago
I agree. I have a relative who throws out canned goods and dried goods a month before the expiration date “just in case”. She threw out a perfectly good bag of white rice. When I told her it would be safe for years if stored properly, and was dated within a couple years of production regardless of the actual shelf life she told me I was “gross and disturbed”. I’ve also seen people throw away dried pasta the month it expired, beans, lentils… not to mention all the canned foods that probably had at least another six months. Makes me so sad.
Load More Replies... Reenzy Bennington 2 years ago
Her poor daughter... can you imagine the bullying if that happens on a regular basis?
Okido 2 years ago
Some foods never expire, like sugar, salt and rice. But the law here in the Netherlands says there needs to be an expiration date on everything. So with some foods you need to look, smell and taste it to know if it’s good or not.
Ace 1 year ago
"Expiration date" is an incorrect and misleading term anyway - in NL like most of the EU you have a "Best Before" date and a "Use by" date, but the latter is only required for fresh produce, notably "perishables" like meat and dairy. As such the vast majority of cupboard staples including the ones you list will only have the Best Before date, so official government advice is ""Look... sniff... and taste."
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 2 years ago
I periodically go through my kitchen cabinets because I'll have things I've purchased on a whim and never got around to. If the expiration dates are still good, I drop them off at the local food pantry. Waste not...
Kelly H. Wilder 2 years ago
This is our strategy as well. I have a couple neighbors that I share things with when I buy things on markdown. If they decline the items, I will give them to the food pantry near my house.
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Javelina Poppers 2 years ago
Around our house all meat gets vacuum sealed and put in the freezer unless we're going to cook it right away. Vacuum sealed meat will last for several years with no freezer burn. I had a ribeye steak that was 3 years old and it was delicious.
One legged Steve 2 years ago
When my mom started sliding into dementia, we found a ton of expired stuff in her cabinets. It just never occurred to her to check labels.
Kaedyn Walsh 2 years ago
Let me guess. "As long as it's unopened, the expiration date doesn't matter."
#24
My friend told me that she put whipped cream on top of a cheesecake solely to hide the footprints her cat left when he stepped on the cake. I never ate anything that she baked from that moment forward
MaireC 2 years ago
I wouldn't say that; cat goes to the toilet in litterbox, cat walks on litterbox litter, cat licks own feet, cat walks on cheesecake
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Miss Cellania 2 years ago
Besides the cat prints, she apparently left the cheesecake out of the refrigerator unsupervised long enough for that to happen.
Reenzy Bennington 2 years ago
Listen, I love my cats, but when I cook, they are either outside in the yard or in the room. Closing the door on your cats while making food is not illegal, people.
#25
My colleague always brings me food to work. I work in a hair salon, inside of a hair salon, if that makes since. She owns the main salon and I have my own small salon. We share an entrance and backroom. I always knew she was a bit of a slob, but when I saw she used the same sponges to clean the dishes she served me from to wash counters, hair color bowls, bleach bowls and sink basins I couldn't do it anymore. The thought of eating from something with bleach, Ammonia, hair color, counter dirt and the shampoo bowl grime was too much for me
pineapple87 2 years ago
Well, the bleach probably takes care of any bacteria, but what you get from eating bleach is a whole other story...
Javelina Poppers 2 years ago
I quit using the cold water fountains at work after I saw the cleaning crew wipe it down with the same rag they used to wipe the toilet seats and sinks.
Miss Cellania 2 years ago
I cannot use sponges at all. Dish rags, cleaning rags, etc. can be tossed in the laundry.
#26
Worked as a cleaning-lady.
There was one woman who had schizophrenia, she was kind, but damn. That house was the stuff you see on tv shows. They should sent a team of professionals.
She had a rat cage, and I've had pet rats myself, so I asked her about it. She said he had died.
I took a closer look and the water in the bottle had black spots all over it. The water had gone bad or something. I've never seen water go that bad in my entire life.
The rat was gone, luckily. But the whole cage was still in there, like the rat had never left.
Decided to do some dishes, they were piling up quite a bit. But she had no clean sponge or clean towels. She also didn't knew where they were.
There was a spot on the floor where 2 flies were feeding themselves of, as I vacuumed they flew away.
She asked me if I liked some coffee and just automatically I said yes before I realized what I had done.
Right before she handed it to me she said "I wonder when I last cleaned that thing... must have been about 2 years ago."
I said I forgot I had a cup of coffee at the previous house and shouldn't drink too much caffeine, and excused myself.
Debbie 2 years ago
"There was a spot on the floor where 2 flies were feeding themselves of, as I vacuumed they flew away. " ... 2 flies.... honestly, all of it doesn't sound THAT bad. The rat died and she never cleaned out the water bowl, so it went bad, that can happen within a week. Dishes were piling up "quite a bit" - was that an understatement or just dishes from a few days? That she didn't know where the sponge or towels are could be because of her condition. At the start I thought of a filthy hoarders house, but then there would be mention of piles of trash, piles of dishes, stains everywhere etc.... but this sounds mild in comparison to that image.
Reenzy Bennington 2 years ago
I do feel bad for people like her. Most of the time they don't realize how messy their houses have become or they are too depressed to bother. I know because it's a running theme in my family.
René Sauer 2 years ago
I expected that OP would see the dead rat in there...
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 2 years ago
It would've been kind had the cleaning lady reported this situation to the authorities so the woman could get the help she actually needed.
#27
I went with my then-fiance to visit some relatives of his. We arrived at their place to find that they were serving up the leftovers of this noodle dish (pancit) that had been their fare the night before.
Now if you know anything about handling pancit safely, you'd know that it goes rancid real quick in hot weather. I could smell that it had gone off, even from the doorway of the house. One of the older relatives knew this too, and bundled some of us to get McDonalds nearby. Those who insisted on eating the pancit got a bit sick later that day. What a mess.
Lavendar rose 2 years ago
I grew up eating Pancit and never knew about it going rancid. Probably because there were never leftovers.
Lame Llama 2 years ago
Fried noodle goes rancid very quickly in hot humid weather.
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Fickle_Pickle 2 years ago
Pro tip in cooking pancit: do NOT add bell pepper. For some reason adding it makes the dish go bad faster.
#28
This is a family story. It happen when I was a baby so no memory. It was a family thanksgiving pot luck style. Everyone brought one dish plush a drink to share. One of my aunts by marriage brought mash potatoes. She let it slip that while cooking she ran out of milk. So instead of having her husband run out to try and get more: she used her own breast milk. No one touched it but her, my uncle, and the older kid. After that it was a rule of thumb; if she Made it don’t eat it. Mind you after my grandma died in ‘07 we haven’t had any family holiday get togethers like that since, so no worry there.
MonsterMum 2 years ago
I wouldn't eat breast milk potatoes either but surely all non plant milk is breast milk, just the species varies
Yettichild 2 years ago
Yes, but store bought milk is pasteurized to kill any bacteria present. Pretty sure this lady didn't pasteurize her breast milk.
Load More Replies... Benita Valdez 2 years ago
I've just used extra butter and sour cream when not enough milk; so delicious
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Reenzy Bennington 2 years ago
The thought process like "don't worry, honey, I got this" and squeezes her b00b into the pot. (Yes, I know, she probably had it in a bottle already)
Riley Quinn 2 years ago
Why? Where the hell do you think cow's milk comes from? Bigger breasts, that's where. For all you squeamish eaters, watch a documentary on dairy farming and you'll think twice before condemning others for using fresh human breast milk.
Impasta (she/they) 2 years ago (edited)
Yes, but cows milk is pasteurized to get rid of bacteria
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the quickening 2 years ago
I mean... surely human milk is hell of a lot more nutrious than skimmed cow milk? IT'S LITERALLY WHAT BABIES EAT TO GROW. I feel it's very odd to be disgusted by that.
Rebekah Krause 2 years ago
Here’s the thing, it is not generally dangerous, and it is not necessarily disgusting- It’s just kind of disturbing and gross in a different way. You just don’t want to die just the bodily fluids of a person in your food (at least most people don’t)
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#29
We have a 73 year old coworker who's a legit hoarder. I'll get to the point without going too far down this rabbit hole.
Years ago we had a potluck for our crew. As lunch is coming up we are all getting cleaned up and putting all the food out. I go to the bathroom to clean up and I see Ron walk out the stall as he's buttoning up his pants and walk right out. I go to our lunch area and I see him in line and first thing he does is grab a hand full of chips and put it on his plate. I grab that bag and hand it to him. I tell him "these are yours now" long story short I tell my boss why I did it and he agreed. After that I never participated in potlucks on the same crew as Ron
WindySwede 2 years ago
That why tongs should be used. But some f*****s still would use their hands for the chips...
Reenzy Bennington 2 years ago
Tongs aren't better in that scenario. Imagine eating with the same hand that touched the d*ck flavored tong.
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FloralDangerNoodle 2 years ago
What does having poor hygiene have anything to do with Ron being a hoarder?
Julie Stevens 2 years ago (edited)
My inlaws never make the kids wash their hands. I make sure my kid washes theirs and tell them if they want chips, to grab some first and then leave them alone after that. I never eat shared snacks at the inlaws; And there's no point in my trying to get all the kiddos to wash while we're there, cus no one else cares and won't speak up to help enforce that every kid goes to wash before touching food. It's a lost battle.
Jill Bussey 2 years ago
All the children in my family are taught not to double dip in this sort of scenario. It means not eating part of a crudité and then putting it back into the dip, thereby adding saliva to it!
#30
I went to a friend's house after school, he was going to teach a group of us to play d&d. We got there and his house was disgusting. I'm not the neatest person but the carpet hadn't been vacuumed in forever, clothes were all over the place, and dirty dishes were stacked everywhere. I tried to be polite even though the place reeked, but at some point he was like "who wants snacks!" He picked up a bowl that was crusted with stuff, splashed in some water, wiped it with a towel that clearly hadn't been washed that decade, and poured chips into it. Then he asked if we wanted to stay for dinner. We did not.
I heart Boo-BI-es 2 years ago
Literally came here to say exactly that..haha
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 2 years ago (edited)
Oh, I knew a couple like this. "Footpaths" through a clusterfick of everything and anything, literally piled to the ceiling in some areas. It was disgusting, but more tragically, a fire hazard. Between their obvious carelessness, their incessant smoking and drug use, plus the house's balloon construction, it was a death trap. I didn't like them enough to risk my life visiting.
#31
I was working as an interior painter during my college years. This middle aged man put a container of strawberries in the sink, then proceeded to trim his nose hairs over that same sink with an electric trimmer. He rinsed the strawberries and then offered me some.
pineapple87 2 years ago
And somehow this is one of the least disgusting stories in this chain.
#32
My distant uncle's wife couldn't cook or use seasoning to save her life, so I would pretend to eat it then give it to the dogs. My aunt got a text from said uncle saying he caught me on camera feeding the dogs and that he didn't feel comfortable with me staying over at the house anymore. MF why do you have cameras in your HOUSE??!!
Dawn Grewell 2 years ago
I have cameras in my house because I have family who visit that I don't trust. Husband and kids are great. Other family, you have over and you keep an eye on them.
Alexander Pic 2 years ago
So that when a burglar does their thing I have a better chance of them being caught and a better case for the insurance company to pay for my things and any damages.
Squirrelly Panda 2 years ago
Make up whatever excuse you want to not eat, but don't feed other people's pets unless they tell you it's OK.
stephanie chesnalavage 2 years ago
I have 1 dog that can open doors and gates. So I have cameras inside with our security system to make sure she hasn't let herself or siblings outside.
DragonflyGreen 2 years ago
I have cameras in my home so that if I'm burglarized again, I'll have it all recorded. Last time my home was broken into, it would have been nice to have footage.
#33
My dad's house. I stayed with him once and on the first day, he took some ground sausage out of the freezer to thaw for dinner. He put it on the stove in between the burners to thaw. He said the heat from cooking breakfast and lunch would make it thaw faster. He moved it to cold water in a bowl, but according to him, that was to appease me because I'm a "germaphobe." He also has a habit of scratching his belly and back almost constantly, even dipping into the waistline of his shorts in the back to scratch and never washes his hands. I asked him about it because I saw him doing it while he was making breakfast, and he said very defensively IT'S NOT LIKE I'M SCRATCHING MY A*S CRACK, JUST MY LOWER BACK. So yeah, that was day one, and I made myself scarce at mealtimes the whole time I was there.
Spooky Demon Bat (they/them) 2 years ago
It's not germaphobia if you don't want someones gross, unwashed hands in your food. That's called being normal and hygienic
#34
Recently, our friend had to move his family in with his in-laws due to financial reasons (single income, rent was going up, want to save up for a house) and he found out his mother in law will cut raw chicken with kitchen scissors, and then put them back without washing them. Apparently she has been doing this for decades
Little Wonder 2 years ago
omg my mum is the same. I wash the scissors when she's not looking these days.
lakitha tolbert 2 years ago
I will wash anything and everything that I suspect has even sat next to chicken!
Lena Flising 2 years ago
Salmonella might KILL you, it's not just a few days of food poisoning!
Squirrelly Panda 2 years ago
My kitchen shears are the cheap kind that doesn't break apart for washing. They'll never see raw meat because I don't believe I could clean them enough to be safe for fresh herbs.
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
I use kitchen sheers and wash immediately after use every time. It's just too gross and dangerous not to.
#35
I had to stay at a friends cousins house for a few days.The thing is the house was..hoarder level. I slept on the floor which was covered in clothes and a three inch layer of cat hair(I hope it was cat hair) she fed me macaroni and cheese but I distinctly remember there being green crusts on the noodles and the fork being dirty. Not wanting to be rude I picked out what noodles I could and claimed I wasn’t hungry since I had to leave my home. The milk she offered me the next day was cottage cheese and I politely phoned another friend to ask if I could sleep on their couch because I was finding bugs on my body.
Mel Colley 2 years ago
I'm more worried that you HAD to stay at a friends' house. Family problems are much worse
MiriPanda 2 years ago
A family or medical emergency perhaps and the parents couldn't watch OP for a couple of days? Why assume a worst case scenario...
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Reenzy Bennington 2 years ago
Weirdly enough, these posts are making me feel better about my own messy house.
Angela C 2 years ago
Same here. I might have some clutter and a few unwashed dishes in my sink but compared to these people my house is immaculate
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Brian Droste 2 years ago
I hope you didn't bring any bugs with you to the second friends house?
#36
I dated a girl once that thought it’d be a nice idea to bake some muffins. She forgot to wash the muffin pan. Do you wanna know how I know she forgot to wash the muffin pan? Because we had a mouse problem and there was mouse s**t in the muffins, not funfetti.
Reenzy Bennington 2 years ago
I'm on desktop, no emojis. Can somebody help me out with the about-to-puke face in a reply? LOL
JM 2 years ago
mouse poop comes out as little pellets and is so small it doesn't really smell
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Sleepover in the 5th grade at a friends house. Her mom made chicken and veggies. I took a bite of chicken and something was off. Flipped it over and the backside was COATED in black dog hair.
Kat 2 years ago
How do these people get so much dog hair in their food and not notice or care?? I live with a husky and constantly have hair on me somewhere but it's never in my cooking.
M Penguin 2 years ago
I have a long haired cat with an undercoat. Even with brushing there is hair everywhere in spring. But i am extra careful in kitchen because duh.
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Riley Quinn 2 years ago
Okay, I admit I follow the 5 second rule, but I at least rinse off whatever fell on the floor. And, I wouldn't serve it to guests.
#38
My narcissistic mother would fake illnesses and not leave bed for months. There was also a portable toilet next to the bed. She hadn’t showered in months and has highly questionable hygiene habits. Last Christmas my now husband and I were visiting and she said she made the meatballs. I brushed it off because she’s highly delusional and typically my dad cooked anyways. Turns out my dad brought her the raw hamburger and supplies to make the meatballs in bed to make her feel better. She made the meatballs with her dirty hands next to the portable toilet. I found this out months later. We are now no contact for other reasons. But I am thankful my husband and I will never risk eating her sketchy meatballs again.
the quickening 2 years ago
... that doesn't really sound like "faking an illness". In fact, it sounds like an extremely serious illness on top of another on top of another.
Reenzy Bennington 2 years ago
I was just about to say. Sounds like a serious case of depression, actually, and who knows what else.
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#39
Went to a barbecue on my uncle’s farm decades back. We used to have Christmas and Easter dinners there, so I didn’t think anything of it. Unfortunately, the guys were doing the grilling - *not* my aunts. Lots of farm guys don’t have the greatest hygiene and I think whoever made the burgers had been in contact with some “bio hazardous matter”, if you catch my drift. By the time I got home, it was coming out both ends. Couldn’t eat for almost a week, I heard a lot of people ended up ill. I don’t touch anything that isn’t prepackaged if I’m there now.
#40
I’m a germaphobe & I cannot eat at my friends house. but every single dish, cup & fork has dried food on it bc the dishwasher didn’t clean it all the way. But it’s “clean” bc the dishwasher “sanitized it.” Don’t get me started on her reusable straws. & if u don’t find a plate with dried food on it, you’ll find dog hair. Oh & they used the same sponge to clean the dog bowls, the sink & coffee mugs. Just no.
M Penguin 2 years ago
Had my hair done by a friend in their kitchen. They grabbed the kitchen sponge, wiped the excess dye off my neck, then wiped up some that had dropped on floor. I declined her coffe and cake.
Reenzy Bennington 2 years ago
That would be okay if they threw out the sponge or moved it to the bathroom for cleaning purposes afterwards.
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my mom tells one about going over to her aunt Virginia's house. she, her parents, and siblings are sat around the kitchen while aunt cooks, and my mom cannot figure out why no one else is having ANY of this incredibly delicious bread that's on the table. she's on her third slice when aunt steps out to do something else, and my mom is told by her brother to go look in the flour bin.
absolutely filled with miller moth larvae. aunt Virginia had been losing her eyesight for years.
Racing Tadpole 2 years ago
Extra protein with the bugs in it...weevils in the rice kept the POWs alive during WW2
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
So instead of telling her and getting her help, they just didn't eat the food and kept quiet to be 'polite'?
Sheena Leversedge Wood 2 years ago
do they know she didn't sieve it though? people don't tend to sieve flour these days, as the larvae aren't as common as they used to be, but if you look at most older recipes, they say to sieve the flour, and that's why. I'm not saying that makes it a good thing, just that she may well be from a generation where sieving out the bugs from flour was just another stage in baking.
Shannon Mallory 2 years ago
So _that's _ what they're called! I always called them "pantry moths" because I didn't know what else to call them
#42
My inlaws leave food out on the table, and then expect you to eat it until the dish is gone. Like, on monday lunch might be a pork fried rice. The leftovers stay on the table and you eat more for dinner, then overnight it stays on the table and you eat it for lunch again. They do the same thing with seafood, chicken, any dish, any weather, its staying on the table. And if for some reason food is leftover after 2 days, instead of throwing it out, my inlaws will add it to the new dish theyre cooking (eg. 3 day old chicken thats been on the table during summer will get added to a stirfry)
C.O. Shea 2 years ago
The poor guy who died recently after eating take-out food left on the table for 8 hrs convinces me... food handling is important.
Li’l E. 2 years ago
Dunno if that makes you feel any better, but it was a bit more extreme than that. The man died because he ate that food had been left out for FIVE DAYS. He died 10 hours after eating it. Source: https://nypost.com/2023/09/12/fried-rice-syndrome-death-is-freaking-out-tiktok-form-of-natural-selection/amp/
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Mi So 2 years ago
Oh hell no! After 3 days in the fridge, leftovers get tossed at our house. Rice especially is surprisingly effective at rapidly growing some nasty bacteria.
Joe Publique 2 years ago
There's a line between being sensible and wasteful. If you're cooking from scratch with fresh ingredients and your fridge is working properly, most leftovers are good for longer than 3 days.
Load More Replies... Reenzy Bennington 2 years ago
I mean, eating leftovers is fine, but at least put them in the damn fridge?!
Reenzy Bennington 2 years ago
Or freeze them if no one wants more of it, it will come in handy at the end of the month.
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Little king trash mouth 2 years ago
Right but surely there's a fridge they can put it in!
Load More Replies... lakitha tolbert 2 years ago
I learned my lesson after just one bout of food poisoning from some accidentally thawed chicken that I thought would be okay to eat becasue it was prepackaged frozen food. That was a horrible mistake. Now if its been out or thawed for more than 24 hours (without refrigeration) it goes directly to the garbage. I don't even bother to smell it.
#43
My 3 year old nieces birthday party. The kids, all around the same age, gather round the cake, which was a really nice one that was custom made by a bakery. One kid has a snotty nose and he’s really fascinated by the candles and trying to get up close so he can blow them out. He’s blowing and blowing and his mom keeps trying to pull him back so my niece can blow them out. I’m thinking this is gross, he’s blowing flu germs all over the cake. I ain’t eating that. He breaks lose and gets right up next to the cake to blow, but this time he sneezes instead. A big blob of snot lands on top of the cake. I was laughing my a*s off. Funniest thing I’ve ever seen. Then the adults were racing to pull him away from the cake and they scraped off the icing and served the cake. I don’t think anyone really ate it at that point. They just kind of scattered it around their plates so it might look that way.
Lavendar rose 2 years ago
Eww I don't get people who allow their clearly sick kids to go tomorrow go to school or parties! Gross
Clown fish 2 years ago
I have never and will never eat cake that candles have been blown out on. The amount of saliva that comes out when people blow is nasty!
Load More Replies... Julie Stevens 2 years ago
All my inlaws have serious FOMO issues and would never ever think it a viable option to keep their kids home when they're sick. "Kids get sick!" Yeah of course they do MONICA. But MAYBE your kids would get a little LESS sick if y'all stopped letting the sick cousins mingle so casually with the healthy ones.
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
I absolutely refuse to eat any cake where someone has blown out the candles. Period. It's just gross.
Giraffy Window 2 years ago
I don't eat shared chips at gatherings full of children, either.
Load More Replies... #44
Saw Linda from billing on that show hoarders. Her kids had her do the show not realizing she had a very legit career outside of her home. She stopped coming to work, I stopped participating in Potlucks
Debbie 2 years ago
Even people with legit careers can have issues, and if she was doing well at work, her being a hoarder should not have to affect her career. I bet it was the shame why she didn't come in anymore. How could this be prevented or remedied?
Alex Davis 2 years ago
According to the OOP, she didn't realise that the show would be popular and her episode was incredibly popular compared to most. So guessing she was forced to participate by her daughters and didn't think about the show being so popular she would have to give up her job. So sad
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Dr Robert Neville 2 years ago
Used to work with a guy who was on how clean is your house, dirty nappys down the back of the sofa was the highlight. Urgh.
Marnie 2 years ago
I wonder which Linda this was. There were multiple Lindas on that show. This is very sad.
Tamara Augustine 2 years ago
Linda isn't her real name. The op changed it
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I went to a friend’s house after school. She was going go make us toast. went to put the bread in and realized there was already bread in the toaster. Pops it up and it’s covered in mold. A lot of mold.
Mochi 2 years ago
Ok but that one seems like someone was in a hurry, was gonna make toast but forgot about it and then no one else used the toaster that week. Not necessarily a hoarder
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My first boyfriend’s parents invited me for thanksgiving. I came over a few days before Christmas and all the same dirty dishes from thanksgiving were still in the kitchen. I passed on coming over for Christmas dinner.
Reenzy Bennington 2 years ago
I'll be naive and point out that Thanksgiving and Christmas are almost a whole month apart and those might have been the same dishes but maybe not since Thanksgiving?
Russell Orem 2 years ago
i doubt she saw a white plate and assumed it was the same white plate. she likely saw say the turkey pan with 5 plates and a red bowl in it, came back a month later to see a turkey pan with 5 plates and a red bowl
Load More Replies... Em 2 years ago
S****y way to live, but I can't see how it would affect the food. If they were actively cooking with the still-dirty dishes, that would be a different matter.
Costa 2 years ago
Not washing dishes for at least three weeks is a reasonable indicator of other hygiene issues, I'm with the OP on this one.
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My crackpot aunt served us a lovely tray of deviled eggs, complete with very old paprika sprinkled on top. So old, in fact, the many weevils mixed in it were dead.
Reenzy Bennington 2 years ago
The disrespect!!! - greetings from the paprika growing region of Hungary lol
Peter Trudell Jr 2 years ago
Pride of Szeged is the stuff I use here in the States. (Both hot and sweet!)
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#48
A lady I knew told me a story about how they were at a potluck and halfway through one of the other ladies started talking about how she uses a crockpot to autoclave her menstrual cups. No one was able to get her to clarify it wasn't the same crockpot she brought food in.
deejak 2 years ago
Well, an autoclave involves both heat AND pressure, so she wasn't doing that with a crockpot.
Beth H 2 years ago
An old friend was babysitting years ago and found butt plugs in the parent's dishwasher.
John Carr 2 years ago
A lot of toy manufacturers suggest cleaning their products in the dishwasher.
Load More Replies... Sheena Leversedge Wood 2 years ago
damn. I at least have a specific milk pan only for the purpose of boiling that and only that. no food items ever go in it, even though it's boiled thoroughly. just because I'm pretty sure other people don't want anything prepared with what I use to clean the cup, no matter how hygienic it might be after cleaning. it's just good manners not to serve guests food with a side of mooncup.
Annika Kremer 2 years ago
One of the reasons I can't be bothered with cups, too much hassle to clean properly.
#49
A friend’s mom poured salt on my mac and cheese. She later called my mom and said I must not like mac and cheese very much, because I didn’t really eat it. (It has always been my favorite food of all time). My mom asked me about it and I felt awkward that it merited a call home.
Jodi 2 years ago
One of my friends puts salt on everything including pizza and big bags of crisps doesn't matter what flavour she will pour a load in its so gross
Julie Stevens 2 years ago
Is your friend a smoker? Smoking tends to kill off the sense of taste, so a LOT of smokers also tend to have a high added salt/sugar diet.
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When we were just starting out, my first wife and I were invited to a couples house for dinner. Being polite (Also not knowing any better) we accepted and sat down to a nice home cooked spaghetti dinner. Now, every young couple we knew made a version of "basic a*s white people pasta and sauce". Dry pasta, boil and drain, sauce from a bottle and meat, toss it all together. Maybe make a version of garlic bread if yer fancy. This did not occur. Wet a*s poorly drained noodles, sauce and meat together until the meat basically boiled through and sugar...heaps of it in the sauce. To top it off, yeast rolls (A family recipe!!) that I would have sooner taken to a riot and used to smash windows with. Shockingly enough, rich only kid and his head cheerleader wife did NOT, in fact know how to cook. How polite were we? Two duty stations later we wound up at their Christmas dinner and no, their culinary skills did not improve.
Raphapablap 2 years ago
Can someone explain "white people pasta and sauce" is? What has race got to do with someone's inability to cook?
NerdyMom 2 years ago
I believe that its due to the stereotype that white people don't like/use seasonings when they cook
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Hphizzle 2 years ago
Had a roommate so excited to make spaghetti for a few of us. So excited to tell us the secret ingredient added to the store bought sauce…sugar! Grandma’s recipe. It did not taste good, not horrible but would have been delicious without the sugar. Couldn’t bare to tell her that.
Anxious&Bored Bear 2 years ago
Supposedly, if you add a little sugar to the sauce, it balances out the acidity. But no one tells you what "a little" is.
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Louise Higgins 2 years ago
The stereotypical white people should count themselves lucky they weren’t mugged and murdered by the stereotypical black people!!
What do you think ?
Poison Ivy/Boo 2 years ago (edited)
I've got one.....my grandpa used to dumpster dive back in the day and once he brought home a lot of eggs. My grandma made some Hungarian dish (can't remember the name tho) when my sister (18) and I (9) were visiting. I ate a tiny bit and it tasted off....it was the rankest thing I've ever had. My sister on the other hand ate loads. She ended up in hospital with severe food poisoning and missed her graduation ceremony. After that I refused to eat anything but toast at her house.
Alan Williams 2 years ago
Nokedli I suspect - these are Hungarian dumplings.
Load More Replies... Alan Williams 2 years ago
I have another one. I have a friend who lives in Zimbabwe. He is a hoarder and is originally from the UK, having gone out there in the 1960s. Anyway - around 20 years ago I was visiting his house in Bulawayo and there was a dreadful smell coming from the kitchen. What was making such an ungodly smell I hear you ask? It was a dead rat that had crawled behind the sink unit and died. Yum!
Alan Williams 2 years ago
In the 90s I visited an old school friend. He had recently married. In fact I had been best man but this was the first time I had seen him since the wedding. He and his wife had a dog and this young dog was not house-trained. We went into the living room and there was a turd on the carpet. His wife was eating chocolates from a big box on the carpet. The dog was walking over the open box of chocolates. My friend saw the dog turd and without saying a word, picked up two cushions and picked the dog turd up between them and took it outside. Needs to say, I did not eat any of the chocolates or any food inside the house.
SnackbarKaat 2 years ago
I survived my mum cooking so pretty sure I can eat anything and live. Porkshops: Bake them in a pan, add water and let it be for 2 hours. She refuses to eat them if you bake them in less time. I had blue molded bread, green molded waffles, sour soup (She doesn't taste it and happily eats it), expired milk, maggots in boiled eggs in summer and living ants in a biscuit. There's more but these came up first.
Will J Dochartaigh 2 years ago
“Came up first”? Yeh, prob’ly did, came up or out, quickly.
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crabbiest crab to ever crab 2 years ago
My grandma coughs (and she coughs a lot) into her hand and serves food with her bare hands. She also doesn't think that the dishwasher cleans dishes well so she washes them by hand, without soap because she thinks soap makes her skin dry. We also offer to wash the dishes for her and told her that it was not safe to do that, but she ignores it.
Jared Robinson 2 years ago
Nope nope nope nope nope a billion times nope. I couldn't get past number 5. all of this is just a reaffirmation to never eat ANY food you did not make or see made yourself. People are so disgusting. gonna go boil my insides with lava coffee.
Poison Ivy/Boo 2 years ago (edited)
I've got one.....my grandpa used to dumpster dive back in the day and once he brought home a lot of eggs. My grandma made some Hungarian dish (can't remember the name tho) when my sister (18) and I (9) were visiting. I ate a tiny bit and it tasted off....it was the rankest thing I've ever had. My sister on the other hand ate loads. She ended up in hospital with severe food poisoning and missed her graduation ceremony. After that I refused to eat anything but toast at her house.
Alan Williams 2 years ago
Nokedli I suspect - these are Hungarian dumplings.
Load More Replies... Alan Williams 2 years ago
I have another one. I have a friend who lives in Zimbabwe. He is a hoarder and is originally from the UK, having gone out there in the 1960s. Anyway - around 20 years ago I was visiting his house in Bulawayo and there was a dreadful smell coming from the kitchen. What was making such an ungodly smell I hear you ask? It was a dead rat that had crawled behind the sink unit and died. Yum!
Alan Williams 2 years ago
In the 90s I visited an old school friend. He had recently married. In fact I had been best man but this was the first time I had seen him since the wedding. He and his wife had a dog and this young dog was not house-trained. We went into the living room and there was a turd on the carpet. His wife was eating chocolates from a big box on the carpet. The dog was walking over the open box of chocolates. My friend saw the dog turd and without saying a word, picked up two cushions and picked the dog turd up between them and took it outside. Needs to say, I did not eat any of the chocolates or any food inside the house.
SnackbarKaat 2 years ago
I survived my mum cooking so pretty sure I can eat anything and live. Porkshops: Bake them in a pan, add water and let it be for 2 hours. She refuses to eat them if you bake them in less time. I had blue molded bread, green molded waffles, sour soup (She doesn't taste it and happily eats it), expired milk, maggots in boiled eggs in summer and living ants in a biscuit. There's more but these came up first.
Will J Dochartaigh 2 years ago
“Came up first”? Yeh, prob’ly did, came up or out, quickly.
Load More Replies... crabbiest crab to ever crab 2 years ago
My grandma coughs (and she coughs a lot) into her hand and serves food with her bare hands. She also doesn't think that the dishwasher cleans dishes well so she washes them by hand, without soap because she thinks soap makes her skin dry. We also offer to wash the dishes for her and told her that it was not safe to do that, but she ignores it.
Jared Robinson 2 years ago
Nope nope nope nope nope a billion times nope. I couldn't get past number 5. all of this is just a reaffirmation to never eat ANY food you did not make or see made yourself. People are so disgusting. gonna go boil my insides with lava coffee.
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