Have you ever left something in the fridge for so long that it was ready to walk out on it's own?

Question

I made some homemade macaroni and cheese one time that wasn't very good and it sat in the fridge until the end time. It was in a bowl and I just threw it out bowl and all. I didn't even want to look at it.

Answer 1

Walk out on it's own? Helk, I started charging it rent and made it take out the garbage once a week!

Answer 2

Boy have I ever! And now that I am getting older, I do it more often. I "batch" it, and since I live by myself I have no one else to check up on me. I have left stuff in there so long the covers have been popped off by the stuff growing inside!

Some stuff, had it been found in Iraq, could have been considered biological weapons! I try to keep a neat, orderly, 'fridge. But when you get so busy you forget what you had for dinner the night before, it's not easy. (Not to mention that some of it is blocked from vision by the cases of beer!)

I have been given hints on putting tape with the date on it on the dishes, or store them, using color coordinated covers, (i.e. blue one week, red next week, etc.) but nothing works for me. Not even the horrid stench that pours out of the dish when I open it.

I don't think there is a person in the world that has not had this happen to them. Even me Mum! She has left stuff in the freezer that was in there so long, and so badly covered with freezer burn, that she had no idea what it was!

Ain't got rid of no bowls or dishes though. If they can heat stuff in hospital with steam and use it on other people, I can certainly wash the bejeezus out of my dishes and use them again!

Answer 3

Sure! Who hasn't done it?? It's always that random piece of tupperware that makes itself to the back of the fridge and hides. I can't even tell you what the last bowl I threw out was because I COULDN'T RECOGNIZE WHAT WAS IN IT.

Answer 4

I can't bare to look at stuff that has sat too long in the fridge, so it tends to sit even longer, then usually the whole container goes.

Answer 5

Nice to hear some other people are just as bad. Yes, unfortunately. Cant tell what they were anymore. At least you still knew yours to be formerly macaroni and cheese.

Answer 6

well, I haven't left anything in my fridge too long, but I did leave a few lunches in my locker for the better part of a year when I was in jr. high school. It really beefed up my immune system, but it smelled sooooooo rancid in there!

Answer 7

I've had things in there sooo long they became a new life form. All you can do is what you did, get rid of it all, including the bowl.

Answer 8

My x once had this fricken fungus in a huge glass jar - she would drink the water from it :o Nasty nasty chit. It had magical powers and was an ancient practice she claimed. Sumbit was nasty looking and it kept growing....fungusy red looking thing with reddish brown water..dayem

Answer 9

Been there done that got the T shirt

Answer 10

yeah I think everyone has done something like that ...or at least I have to many times