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Have you eaten any of these 'will I die' hazards AND LIVED?

have you eaten any of the following and LIVED? without food poisoning?


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Damn! Forgot the bins one.

Top tip I found out from doing a short stint at a homeless food provider thingy is that if you go around Pret a Manger or Eat or any other sandwich chain towards the end of the day (early evening) they stuff all their uneaten, but still fresh, sarnies in a big black bin liner and just dump it in the nearest dustbin. If you get in quick you've got yourself a full binbag of top notch sarnies.

they give em to the staff too. my mate shares a house with a couple who both work in Pret. we ate like sandwich kings last time i visited :)
 
Regarding Pret, when I sold the Big Issue in Brighton they used to deliver all that day's out of date sandwiches to the distro office :cool:

Free Pret sandwiches and Knorr soup, who wouldn't want to be homeless!?
 
How does everyone defrost then? 'Cos I know it isn't right but I just chuck small joints of meat in a sealed bag (if it isn't already) then into a bowl of warm water. Did a joint of pork like this on Sunday, it was lush.

I use the defrost cycle on my microwave. It takes about 4 minutes per pound.
 
How does everyone defrost then?

Take thing out of freezer, leave on worktop til defrosted, sometimes put it in the fridge overnight.

I occasionally eat yoghurts(up to 2 months old) and the mayo is often well out of date before it goes in the bin.
 
I use the defrost cycle on my microwave. It takes about 4 minutes per pound.

My microwave's a bit crap for this, I'll end up with a joint of meat defrosted in parts and still frozen in others OR cooked in parts and defrosted in others. Then when you cook it in the oven it turns out all tough and dry.

I used some beef that had been in my freezer for about 20 months recently, anyone beat this? :cool:
 
My microwave's a bit crap for this, I'll end up with a joint of meat defrosted in parts and still frozen in others OR cooked in parts and defrosted in others. Then when you cook it in the oven it turns out all tough and dry.

I used some beef that had been in my freezer for about 20 months recently, anyone beat this? :cool:

the other day my housemate ate some turkeyburgers that had been in the freezer since 2006.
 
Mmm, yes but can't remember specifics atm. If it's frozen it's fine :p
Dates are just guidelines ime/o.

I had some yoghurts that were about 3 or 4 weeks over not long ago... a whole pack of 4 had sort of worked there way to the back of the fridge and gone un-noticed. I scoffed all 4 at one after the other, tasted fine.
I'll eat fresh chicken if it's a day or two out of date if it smells Ok, same with milk. I think the only thing I will no way, ever, ever compromise on the use-by date is seafood.
Sod that.
 
I picked some nice pretty little mushrooms from a cowpat once and ate them.
I saw pretty colours, and had a few hours of very interesting thinking and general oneness with nature.

I am paranoid about meat though, old veg, yeah, I will take a risk, but meat, erm......... dunno, it goes nastier dosen't it.
 
I'm pretty slack with food hygiene really. Just don't let raw meat and raw vegetables mix and don't pick stuff up off a dirty floor. A clean floor, then a quick rinse/blow/wipe - yeah why not. Oh and old shellfish and random fungi are really silly ideas so none of them either. Otherwise fuck it, hasn't killed me yet.
 
Well, nobody's ever said you will die if you eat that stuff, just that you could, possibly, and might well become ill.

Eggs are the only thing I eat beyond their sell-by date because it's so easy to tell if an egg's actually off. Same goes for most natural produce, actually, like milk and meat - it's just that I don't use them. Flour, though, is one thing I'd never, ever use after its use-by date because you can't really tell and it can make you really sick. Mmm, microscopic organisms, yum!
 
Poll is flawed - should have included:

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The only one (knowingly) is 'undercooked egg product'. Lots of things have raw egg in e.g. mayo.

I must have (unknowingly) eaten one of the hazards though, and didn't die, but felt like I was going to.
 
I always used to reckon stirfries benefited from having some of yesterday's stirred in - shame I couldn't have removed it from the wok the previous day and put it in the fridge ....

I routinely don't wash my cooking / eating bowl for a week - even when I've had fish - I always reckon it's OK if it dries before mould appears - though I once got caught out with a porridge bowl ...

Hummus that after a mouthfull or two appeared to move by itself when I glanced at it in the right way.

The worst thing I did recently was take a swig out of the wrong beer bottle I'd left the cap off overnight - at a time when I was doing a lot of fishing and the house had 3 new types of fly in addition to the usual fungus gnats and fruit flies.
 
when I was a kid, I'd visit an aunt and uncle of mine every other saturday, while my dad went to the rugby.

Favourite treat was toast (done on their open coal fire), with butter and paté.

The paté was raw sausage meat we used to squeeze from the skins. :D Right nice it was too, never got sick once. (Ah the 70's)
 
when I was a kid, I'd visit an aunt and uncle of mine every other saturday, while my dad went to the rugby.

Favourite treat was toast (done on their open coal fire), with butter and paté.

The paté was raw sausage meat we used to squeeze from the skins. :D Right nice it was too, never got sick once. (Ah the 70's)

Hahaha, but early eighties for me, that and raw bacon rind to chew on.

Have eaten raw chicken by mistake -carved a seared breast after two minutes a side, not luvvly, and raw pork by choice.

Maybe the dead people didn't eat enough dirt as babies.

Gash
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I picked some nice pretty little mushrooms from a cowpat once and ate them....
I am paranoid about meat though, old veg, yeah, I will take a risk, but meat, erm......... dunno, it goes nastier dosen't it.

That's potty! You'll eat random funghi - that really really could kill you - but get a bit funny about a slightly off lamb chop that would probably just make you a bit poorly. Nowt so queer as folk eh? :D
 
Cooking from frozen is fine, you just need to make sure it's cooked through... So is reheating shellfish really. Pork is pretty safe these days (although I wouldn't just chow down on basics range raw sausages) and reheated rice is fine (although not a great idea to use the remains of yesterday's takeaway).

Random mushrooms and aged seafood are asking for trouble though.
 
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