Have you ever wondered what year-old food looked like?

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Have you ever wondered what year-old food looked like?

Posted Aug 14th 2007 11:01AM by Marisa McClellanFiled under: Breakfast, Pork, Food Oddities, On the Blogs, Eggs

When I was 6 years old, I conducted an unintentional experiment on what happens to perishable food when left out at room temperature for an extended period of time. I left a thermos full of milk in my school bag over the weekend. By Monday morning, when my mom opened it, the milk had turned into a gassy, curdled, explosive concoction. She was not happy. About year ago, Carl started his own perishable foods experiment. He put a strip of bacon and an egg into their own air-tight plastic containers and let them sit. After two months, the bacon was starting to rot and ferment, while the egg looked almost the same. Now, a year later, they are quite gross. The egg has decomposed into a murky mess, while the bacon has both rotted and petrified. The picture above is a close-up of the year old bacon. If you didn't know it was a putrid slice of porcine, it could almost be art. Oh, the dedication to scientific discovery! It certainly puts my 48 hours of rotting milk to shame. Via Serious Eats

 

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21. Many times I have saved all of mankind by runing some unknow growth down the disposer. From the color of the growths I figured it was either a wonder drug for mankind or something that would kill all. So I thought that it was best to get rid of it and keep the fridge from exploding.

Posted at 6:35PM on Aug 18th 2007 by Harold Steffee

22. i forgot a little left over roast in the 'fridge and about one month later i discovered it...it had something that looked like hair growing out of it..about one inch long!!!!! truth.
gpg

Posted at 6:48PM on Aug 18th 2007 by geraldine p graham

23. Any body ever make seabreaze? I left some eggs on top of my mom's fridge for at least 19 years now and never try to put old TUNA down the garbage disposal....and my dinner tonight is a porterhouse w/roasted garlic pesto....

Posted at 7:05PM on Aug 18th 2007 by holly haines

24. This is awesome- good "home-grown"fun, and not any more offensive to me than so-called news of the rotting lives of "stars" and papparazzi that we always have forced down our throats. I checked out the "Stinkymeat" experiments, and had a right good laugh. It was a kind of- umm- refreshing (I think!) departure from reading about spoiled rich people and the media hounds that incessantly chase them to make a buck off them. Now the question remains: Which stinks worse? ;)

Posted at 7:11PM on Aug 18th 2007 by janine

25. Slow news day????

Posted at 8:34PM on Aug 19th 2007 by Jim

26. when i was cleaning out our family pantry, i found a potato in the back, at least a year or a few old. it smelled like rotting poop. no joke. it was mushy and the most digusting thing i have ever smelled in my life.

Posted at 8:35PM on Aug 19th 2007 by leya johnson

27. My husband left a banana in his golf bag at the beginning of the summer a year ago, and when he took the bag out to sort his gear, found what appeared to be a vanilla bean. What a riot when he realized it was the banana he took for a snack and forgot about!

Posted at 8:46PM on Aug 19th 2007 by Janice McIntyre

28. blue cheese is molded cheese. a lot of people don't know that

Posted at 8:48PM on Aug 19th 2007 by ladydi9251

29. I have done an similar experiment. However, I used my own feces. last year I placed one of my turds in a vacuum-sealed plastic bag. To my surprise, the gas being created and expelled from the turd began filling the bag up. After about 6 months, the bag began to leak due to the pressure of the gas in the bag. Yet, my turd was still the same size, but a little dry. Just yesterday, I decided to eat it,only because I was convinced that it had magical powers. I am waiting to see if there was any positive effects. to be concluded soon...

Posted at 9:14PM on Aug 19th 2007 by ben

30. Try cleaning out your freezer and fridge after being evacuated for 2 weeks and electricity. Oh, and then the floor where all the lovely juices have seeped thru. Thanks hurricane Rita.

Posted at 9:20PM on Aug 19th 2007 by leslie

31. My co-worker/ office mate kept a fruit pastry that was sealed in plastic in his desk drawer at work. He purchased off a lunch truck, and for some reason he just never got around to eating it, yet decided to keep it. He would whip it out every so often to show people who came into our office and said they were hungry. After a year or so it had become quite a sight, but didn't smell due to the sealed plastic it was in. No one had the b_lls to open it and unleash it's noxious, rotten malodorous fury on the outside world. It was like a moldy, mummified pastry.

And. I might add, an amazing work of art.

Posted at 9:32PM on Aug 19th 2007 by didier

32. Twinkies have a half-life of ten years!

Posted at 10:01PM on Aug 19th 2007 by Ken

33. Here's an idea: buy the food and then eat it!

Posted at 10:15PM on Aug 19th 2007 by Hollerbox

34. my refrigerator always got me honorable mentions in school. Someone should do a coffee table book on the subject.

Posted at 10:21PM on Aug 19th 2007 by Linda Giffen

35. oh, so glad I am a vegetarian.............

Posted at 10:24PM on Aug 19th 2007 by teresa

36. What a waste of completely good bacon? T-T

Posted at 10:43PM on Aug 19th 2007 by n/a

37. Don't you people have anything better to do???

Posted at 10:56PM on Aug 19th 2007 by ST

38. It's interesting that a properly cured Virginia Ham seems to be capable of being left out in an unrefrigerated state for a VERY long period of time without suffering adverse effects. I'd say it might give a twikie a run for it's money ......

Posted at 11:12PM on Aug 19th 2007 by JerryC

39. now i want bacon.............................................................................

Posted at 11:12PM on Aug 19th 2007 by melllllllll

40. Mmmm year old bacon uhhh!!

Posted at 11:21PM on Aug 19th 2007 by elephantman

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