I don’t have fridge but I had a storage of noodle packets. Whenever they would run low I would top them up. So the ones at the bottom ended up unused and became expired. I learned my lesson and now reverse their position while storing.
There’s a jar of brown sauce in the fridge here, with a best before of May 2015. It still has some sauce in it, so will probably leave it there as it might still be good.
On today’s episode of “how old is my meat?”
Seriously, there’s some very old meat in my freezer, awful things that happen from my parents and growing up in rough economic times, I remember when we’d buy 20 pounds of beef and make it last six months.
I never told my wife or anyone about that. She never asks where the meat comes from though. We make it work. TBH, some weird old german use of tin foil or plastic bags, but still….
I mean it’s just questionable because if we were better off we would throw it away. If you keep the air away from beef you can get 12-24 months out of it. Most people eat frozen beef within three months. However you can buy a freezer full (in my case for my deep freeze that’s like 50 pounds depending on how it is cut/processed) for discounted rates, and there’s no way you are eating all that in three months.
I’m also a bit joking, I’m sure she knows the deal. More often we buy five pounds and only use one pound of it. The rest ends up frozen. It’s me being a paranoid prepper.
It’s not like we didn’t see this coming. This has been going on for a year now with inflation and whatnot. We’ve been economizing for a long time. Everyone who has been helping us has been experimenting with cutting their help randomly for longer than that.
So I’m saying eating spoiled meat was a lifestyle for a long time before now. It was that or not eat meat, which we do a lot of too.
“She never asks where the meat comes from though.”
so last night I was watching a documentary on this serial killer… he sold “meat”- ooof. (not suggesting your parents bought questionable meat but that sentence brought up that documentary in my head). hell, between monsanto and big ag, i guess all food is now “questionable” -_-
Heh, there was this German guy who made Ed Gein (speaking of whom, best movie on the guy I ever found was Ed Gein the Musical, hilarious.) look like weak sauce, and he was earlier, and he would take travelers into his home. He also had a business selling “pork” products.. then he expanded into “leather” working.
Yeah and he made pickled pork stuff and everyone was really amazed at all the meat this guy had because it was in the middle of this economic downturn and nobody had meat for sale. His prices were really good too. They loved the flavor supposedly.
Turned out it was people …… because of course.
He didn’t live long enough to stand trial. Which is different than Gein who actually successfully used the insanity defense and died in a mental ward in the 1980s.
Also, Gein was in Wisconsin, supposedly one of the best states as far as quality of life so as far as predicting people going nutso…… quality of life isn’t a good correlator.
What actually is the deal with all these serial killers and the great lakes? HH Holmes, Gein, I read about this guy who would have been serial if his first brutal crime hadn’t been caught. That’s all that makes a serial is isolation from reporting entities. The thing about this one guy is he had a next door neighbor who shared a wall to complain about the smell. If Holmes or Gein had that…. different story.
Geez I can think of at least a few dozen cases from the great lakes area that would have been serial if they handn’t happened in appartment buildings, trailer parks or hotels. Economic depression really takes a toll on serial killers.
Not that the world needs serial killers, just we’re seeing these stories end earlier because the killers can’t isolate. Maybe some other killers are finding new ways to adapt, we can’t know until we have all the data, and we may never have all the data.
Since my move, it was condensed milk from like 2020, that expired in like 2022.
Luckily for me, when I used it out of a lack of regular milk, I could see it had gone bad and threw it out.
Just reminds me of when I’ve had to risk eating stuff that was a good bit older and staler so as to not waste food in the fridge/lacked money to get food sometimes…
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I don’t have fridge but I had a storage of noodle packets. Whenever they would run low I would top them up. So the ones at the bottom ended up unused and became expired. I learned my lesson and now reverse their position while storing.
There’s a jar of brown sauce in the fridge here, with a best before of May 2015. It still has some sauce in it, so will probably leave it there as it might still be good.
On today’s episode of “how old is my meat?”
Seriously, there’s some very old meat in my freezer, awful things that happen from my parents and growing up in rough economic times, I remember when we’d buy 20 pounds of beef and make it last six months.
I never told my wife or anyone about that. She never asks where the meat comes from though. We make it work. TBH, some weird old german use of tin foil or plastic bags, but still….
Where does the meat come from?
I mean it’s just questionable because if we were better off we would throw it away. If you keep the air away from beef you can get 12-24 months out of it. Most people eat frozen beef within three months. However you can buy a freezer full (in my case for my deep freeze that’s like 50 pounds depending on how it is cut/processed) for discounted rates, and there’s no way you are eating all that in three months.
I’m also a bit joking, I’m sure she knows the deal. More often we buy five pounds and only use one pound of it. The rest ends up frozen. It’s me being a paranoid prepper.
It’s not like we didn’t see this coming. This has been going on for a year now with inflation and whatnot. We’ve been economizing for a long time. Everyone who has been helping us has been experimenting with cutting their help randomly for longer than that.
So I’m saying eating spoiled meat was a lifestyle for a long time before now. It was that or not eat meat, which we do a lot of too.
*aged and freezer burned* not spoiled, I suppose the difference matters.
“She never asks where the meat comes from though.”
so last night I was watching a documentary on this serial killer… he sold “meat”- ooof. (not suggesting your parents bought questionable meat but that sentence brought up that documentary in my head). hell, between monsanto and big ag, i guess all food is now “questionable” -_-
Heh, there was this German guy who made Ed Gein (speaking of whom, best movie on the guy I ever found was Ed Gein the Musical, hilarious.) look like weak sauce, and he was earlier, and he would take travelers into his home. He also had a business selling “pork” products.. then he expanded into “leather” working.
Yeah and he made pickled pork stuff and everyone was really amazed at all the meat this guy had because it was in the middle of this economic downturn and nobody had meat for sale. His prices were really good too. They loved the flavor supposedly.
Turned out it was people …… because of course.
He didn’t live long enough to stand trial. Which is different than Gein who actually successfully used the insanity defense and died in a mental ward in the 1980s.
Also, Gein was in Wisconsin, supposedly one of the best states as far as quality of life so as far as predicting people going nutso…… quality of life isn’t a good correlator.
What actually is the deal with all these serial killers and the great lakes? HH Holmes, Gein, I read about this guy who would have been serial if his first brutal crime hadn’t been caught. That’s all that makes a serial is isolation from reporting entities. The thing about this one guy is he had a next door neighbor who shared a wall to complain about the smell. If Holmes or Gein had that…. different story.
Geez I can think of at least a few dozen cases from the great lakes area that would have been serial if they handn’t happened in appartment buildings, trailer parks or hotels. Economic depression really takes a toll on serial killers.
Not that the world needs serial killers, just we’re seeing these stories end earlier because the killers can’t isolate. Maybe some other killers are finding new ways to adapt, we can’t know until we have all the data, and we may never have all the data.
Joseph Metheny. That’s the guy in that video I watched. Makes you wonder…how many ppl who offer roadside BBQs are using “questionable” meat?
Since my move, it was condensed milk from like 2020, that expired in like 2022.
Luckily for me, when I used it out of a lack of regular milk, I could see it had gone bad and threw it out.
Just reminds me of when I’ve had to risk eating stuff that was a good bit older and staler so as to not waste food in the fridge/lacked money to get food sometimes…
Was not fun.