Whats the oldest thing in your fridge?

I was just rustling around in my fridge and I consider myself a *fairly* tidy person (except for my office :blush:) and I found 3 very suspicious items...

* a block of parmesan cheese that has a best before of 12th July 2005
* a jar of tomato paste that you could easily mow the contents growing under the lid.

and get this....

* a jar of seeded mustard, best before 07th December 2003!!!!!!!!!!! :eek:

WTF??? I moved house in 2004, so it was already out of date and I took it with me????


:greenface

I've got some chocolate syrup from 1999...

I think I have a jar of Ukrainian pig fat in there somewhere...

I'm pretty sure I have some blueberries from July in there. I'm kinda afraid to look.

I think you can safely say you had blueberries from July in there...

A bottle of Hickory Smoke. The price tag is still on it. $0.99 and from a store only found in a town I haven't been in since 1982.

Still good, tho. I still use it. Sparingly - one or two drops is all it takes.

I figure at this rate (its half full) it should last me until 2030 or so. I wonder what it will cost then?

Save it Beestie, by then they'll discover it prevents 7 major diseases and can't be produced any more. You'll be rich.....or healthy. :D

I have some mellon chunks that are a few years old..... maybe 6 or 7. But they are immersed in 190 proof, so they are fine, although colorless.

Since I'm in the fridge myself fairly often, I'd have to say the oldest thing is 31 years...

I have an undated jar of Blueberry Butter (there's no dairy product involved, it's like Apple Butter only made with Blueberries) that I am fairly sure is at least five years old. I am sure it was purchased sometime prior to 9-11-01, but I can't get more specific than that.

The next time I let my yogurt expire I'll think of this thread and ' be okay';)

Hmm...oldest thing in my fridge is a bottle of pink champagne:P Which I guess makes me a bonafide 'Champagne Socialist'.

Why do they call it a vegetable "crisper?" I've got some grapefruits that are working toward their second year down in that thing.

You can make a safe bet, it ain't beer

I've often wondered about the *crisper* thing, I've yet to find anything you put in there and it comes out "crisper"....hmm.....maybe I should put the bread in there and see if it stays softer, longer that way?

gee, thanks guys... checked my crisper today....

shouldn't there be drain holes in it?

ewwww you dont want that sludge leaking into the bottom of your fridge!!! you will open the door and it will ooooze out onto your socks :p

Last weekend my fridge door just fell right off and crashed to the floor. That was unexpected.......... I went to make eggs this morning and found an egg with a perfect tiny hole right on top of it. It's not even cracked just a hole. I haven't thrown out the egg yet because it seems like a tiny marvel. This is my contribution. "Strange contents in fridge".

Try moving a 'Katrina Fridge' and have the sludge from the drip pan splash around. Yeah, there were bugs involved... and contents falling out.

TMI Scopulus Argentarius , TMI !!!!

Brianna wrote:

I'm pretty sure I have some blueberries from July in there. I'm kinda afraid to look.

Um...I *definitely* have a Tupperware container filled with blueberries from July in my fridge. Are you saying they're not still good? Damn.

This:

tw drinks JD?

*faints dead away*

Personally, I'm horrified that he keeps it in the fridge, even if it isn't great bourbon, it's at least passable bourbon, and should be served at room temperature.

Brianna wrote:

tw drinks JD?

Not if it's the oldest thing in his fridge!

bluecuracao wrote:

Not if it's the oldest thing in his fridge!

Should we do a Bastille Day on tw?

As in: storm his refrig and set his bourbon free?

As in: storm his refrig and set his bourbon free?

As long as you set some of it free down my throat I'm in!

DanaC wrote:

As long as you set some of it free down my throat I'm in!

Dana, honey, my only objective is to get you drunk...

Well... get you drunk and then convince you to invite me over to your place. :D

*grins* my now....that would be a party!

....on a slightly different note, I'd be even more eager to raid tw's fridge if it was Wild Turkey!

My ex.

Oh wait.... he's in the freezer.

I guessing some old salad dressing or a tub of *really* sour cream.

seakdivers wrote:

My ex.

Oh wait.... he's in the freezer.

Darn, beat me to it - I was going to claim the severed head of the last person who slapped their chops in my hearing.

I have a tiny, tiny fridge - donated by my Granddad when mine packed up. It's called a tabletop fridge, which should give you an idea, so nothing gets to hide in there. In fact I have to keep quite a few items on top of it (it's in an unheated room anyway)

But at work.....!
I have always stuck my nib in and kept the work fridges clean, but in the last building I only concerned myself with sealed goods, figuring if someone had brought something in from home they would remember it.

Bad mistake

At the back of the fridge was a china bowl, covered in foil. In the dish was what I think was previously pasta. Hard to say - it had a blue/ green foam of mould all over the top.

BLEUGH

Took a picture on my camera phone before binning it, as my best friend wasn't in work that day. Now why did she find that weird?

BTW Bri, Bastille Day was pretty much an empty exercise - only 4 prisoners remained by the time it was stormed. But if you, me, Shawnee & Dana get together I reckon we could take more prisoners :)

hmm... Ty Ling Hot Mustard and Millers Horseradish. No dates eeeeeek!!!!

Scopulus Argentarius wrote:

Try moving a 'Katrina Fridge' and have the sludge from the drip pan splash around. Yeah, there were bugs involved... and contents falling out.

That's freakin' gross. And I know.

BigV wrote:

We intended to remove the freezer from the garage by tipping it up enough to slide the blade of the handtruck underneath and the haul ass to the curb. When we tipped it up, it began to leak. It poured out a milky yellowish liquid with little sparkles in it. Actually, what I thought were sparkles were little wigglers of some kind--maggots probably. Eww.

Oldest thing in my fridge right now is an expired bottle of milk.. (Wasnt ever opened) -- Going on 2 months past now........ (Gotta throw it out one of these days)

I have a pint of milk that's been in there for over a year... but it was frozen and I'm just now thawing it, so it's still good.

Clodfobble;1026337 wrote:

I have a pint of milk that's been in there for over a year... but it was frozen and I'm just now thawing it, so it's still good.

that's cheating!

Oldest thing inside my refrigerator is my refrigerator.

Yo dawg

Undertoad;1026343 wrote:

Yo dawg

We also don't keep the dawg in there. Dawg is no longer considered a good source of food.

busterb;284051 wrote:

You can make a safe bet, it ain't beer

a buster classic :)

:lol2:

Clodfobble wrote:

I have a pint of milk that's been in there for over a year... but it was frozen and I'm just now thawing it, so it's still good.

Ya if ya shake it up good when its completly thawed it SHOULD taste the same :)

Got some pretty damn old condiment packets.

Lotta Taco Bell sauce. A lot.

Some of it would need carbon dating to know how old it is.

About a year and a half ago, when I was cleaning out my folks' house, I came upon several half-empty jars of mom's homemade pickles in her garage fridge. There's no telling how old they were when I found them, but I took them home with me.

Just had one yesterday at lunch with my chicken salad sandwich. Still yummy.

Love you, mom. Miss you like crazy. :heartpump