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Your Refrigerator Door Can Kill You – A Rant

September 3, 2009 at 9:33 am Leave a comment

I went to get something off the shelf of my refrigerator door the other day and noticed a partial can of pumpkin sitting there.  Now thinking back to the last time I used any canned pumpkin I realized that it had been on the shelf for about 8 weeks.  This got me thinking about all the other condiments, jars and containers that were in my fridge and had been for quite a while.

We buy stuff all the time and simple store the opened containers in the fridge.  I remember years  ago my wife was home recovering from some surgery and decided to make herself a salad; she reached for the Ranch dressing bottle and poured it over the salad.  A very few hours later she was in tremendous pain and realized that the dressing was way beyond its limit.  Luckily, hers was a mild case of food poisoning and she was only sick for 24 hours.

Here is what we should be doing… take a good look at the jars and bottles that are in our fridges.  Check out the buy by date on everything, if it is beyond that date; throw it out.  If you are probably not going to use it again; throw it out.  Those few ounces aren’t going to make or break you but they could give you a good dose of food poisoning.  And oh yeah, next time your visit your mom, take a look at her refrigerator door.  Chances are she has something that resembles a “chia pet” growing on her shelves.

Entry filed under: Rants, Semi-Rants and Non-Rants. Tags: food poisoning, outdated food.