It’s interesting what happens to food if you leave it out for awhile. In college there was a horrible smell coming out of our kitchen. We cleaned and cleaned but couldn’t find where it was coming from. I finally discovered that someone had decided to put a plastic bag full of potatoes on top of one of the wall cabinets. I don’t know how long they had been there but it had been long enough for the potatoes to liquefy.
yup…
you made some cheap-ass vodka with the liquid potatoes.
I wonder if you ran it through a britta filter pitcher a bunch would it be drinkable
So far nothing has gotten anywhere near “liquefied”, but carrots and spinach get slimey, then we throw them out. Also, once a sweet potato sprouted, and it got big enough that I didn’t want to just throw it away, so I planted it. Sweet potato plants make for a nice groundcover.
*shudders* cucumbers at the bottom of the produce drawer in the fridge……….after about 6 months.
Oh, the fridge’s bottom drawer is a weekly problem 8-(
A few years ago we had a disgusting reek coming out from somewhere at the ground floor. There was a room the home owner hadn’t yet given us access to, and after a few days of the terrible smell we started to fear that somebody was dead in the room. We had the room opened and – luckily- nothing. We washed the floors and stairs an the smell didn’t go away. Long story short, it turned out that someone had emptied the big freezer in the basement, thrown some 20kg of frozen meat in a trash bag and forgotten the bag in a corner. The day I went to inspect the basement I almost threw up at the view of the hugestestest worms ever to crawl the planet. You could hunt whales with that guys. Sci-fi-horror stuff!
Looks like Biff has discovered that bacterial glue that sticks things together down at the molecular level and makes them inseparable until the bacteria die.
My husband doesn’t throw anything away. Whenever I try to discard rotten food or mystery containers, he gets mad or tells me not to throw them out now and to put them back. So I discard things on garbage day after he’s left for work.
There’s something weird in the fridge today
I don’t know what it is.
Food I can’t recognize.
My roommate won’t throw a thing away
I guess it’s probably his.
It looks like it’s alive
And living in the fridge!
–Weird Al “Living in the Fridge”
Dear Bachelor: Bacterial, mold, wild animals or insects will not clean the dishes either.