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Found a jar of pickled Asparagus that is 10 years old, no signs of the seal being broken, wondering if it is still safe to eat or should it be trashed? they were great back in the day especially in a bloody Mary

mmmmmmmmm, botulism.

botulism won't grow in vinegar.

I say take a little nibble on one in the name of science.

Open it man. If it smells bad don't eat it.

This is an important rule to remember. If it smells bad don't eat it.

Is a good jar of pickled asparagus actually supposed to smell good?

On one hand, its ok to eat and you save $4.

On the other, it's not and you end up with projectile vomiting/diarrhea.

Go for it.

Why not just make some fresh and not risk it?

10 year old pickled asparagus... seems like it would be mush by now.

That's what she said...

What the heck, I opened it, I cut one of the spears up to see how the center looked and it is cool not mushy at all now all I have to do is make the wife a drink....

^This.

This cracks me up, when my wife moved in a year ago she went through my kitchen... she found some stuff dated 2009/2010... she would stick it in my face like she just found rat poison...

However don't think I would sample anything ten years old... what is your health worth?

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We used to find old discarded C-rations out on some of the Army posts I was sent to. If the can was OK, the stuff inside was OK.

My girlfriend is always gettin' onto me for eating out of date stuff. It says "Sell By:". Not "Eat By:".
I always tell her "It's been cold the whole time". She says she gonna put that on my grave marker...

Eat the Spargel! I bet it's good. I'd be willing to guinea pig it for ya.

Carter

eating 10 year old food seems illogical.

My father frequently eats fruit that has been frozen that long. He's still alive and kicking.

'Best Before' <> 'Will Kill You After'

At a former job we had a community fridge in the break room. One of the single guys would happily eat the food others were going to throw out. The ladies would bring leftovers from home and not finish it. Over the weekend they were ready to throw it out. Everyone learned to just call George up front. He happily ate it all. Some of the others would bring leftovers from home just to give him rather than throwing it out. He was a 2 legged garbage disposal.

He finally met his match with some 10 day old fried chicken. He was out sick for 3 days.

I would have expected the vinegar to be cloudy and have a bad smell or at least have spots all over the aspargus but nothing Maybe I'll just have 1

If you have to ask... you probably shouldn't be eating it.

Nasty! :eek:

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freeze dried boneless pork chops?! i don't know if i could get hungry enough to eat that.

I would eat it. Why don't people cringe at drinking 40 year old wine?

Sell by, best if used by, etc... are not expiration dates. Sell by means just that, sell it by this date. They don't expect people to eat the food in their car in the parking lot. Best if used by is similar. It means that the food will taste best if eaten before that date. If it expires or must use by or something like that, then yeah, they may mean that the stuff may be bad after that date. Even milk is not definitely bad after it's date. Smell is usually the best indicator, but it's not 100%.

Pickled food may be totally fine. It is pickled which is a way of preserving, but 10 years seems like a long time.

You guys need to read this.

The Sneeze - Half zine. Half blog. Half not good with fractions.

and then just read them all here. the one above was one of the least entertaining.

The Sneeze - Half zine. Half blog. Half not good with fractions.

You'll laugh until you cry.

Well I went and ate a whole spear Friday and chased it down with a shot of Vodka.
it was better than I expected, still had the spicey taste that they originally had and were chrispy /crunchy and have no ill feelings .....but I have thrown them away, no since tempting fate.

OMG, that second link....so funny. SO DISGUSTING...

Same here. My favorite are the ones listed as "Best by". So... now that it's a week later, does that mean it's still "pretty good?".

My wife puts a two day limit on leftovers. I go 5... unless it's seafood.

That doesn't seem too bad to me. I've eaten leftovers over a week old countless times.

Once I was eating some leftover lemon chicken from Panda Inn... It didn't taste right, so I called my wife and asked how long ago did we go to Panda Inn? Apparently it had been 3-4 weeks. I threw it out, but had already eaten about a third of it. It tasted funny but I was fine.

I found it only mildly amusing - at best.

First of all I do not think throwing curse words around ads to comedy. But worse:

Making fun of pickled pork rinds? And tripe as an ingredient? What is happening with the pussification of our menus? Liver and onions has all but disappeared from diner menus. And taquerias all want to be Chipotle now, taking anything interesting off their meat selection. Just glad I hunt and live close to a Ranch99. :D

G