What's the grossest thing you have found in your pantry/fridge?

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Okay, if I must...

A month ago, I opened a tupperware container in the back of the fridge. It contained a rare steake, leftover from our "welcome" barbecue -- THREE MONTHS PREVIOUSLY. Most of it was gelatinous and black, with a healthy carpet of bright green mold, and some coagulated blood. I immedietly threw it out, WITH the container, as it had BONDED TO THE CONTAINER. Gross.

When I was 18, I was going on a camping trip. I realized I needed a second backpack, so I grabbed an old one from the storage room. I opened it, and was slammed in the FACE by the most hideous smell ever (even worse than my potato funk) -- and in the split second before I turned my head, I saw a container of chocolate milk. I took the backpack outside, and very gingerly, reached in to remove the milk. It was a mistake: as SOON as I touched it, it BURST, and green OIL fired everywhere, like a bomb. I'm not joking: green oil. I was so disgusted I tossed the whole backpack out. As I was throwing it out, I found the last (non-food) item I had put in my backpack -- my rehearsal schedule for opening night of "Oliver," which I had been in when I was FOURTEEN. I had bought the milk on my dinner break, put it in the backpack, forgotten about it, and that evening, my mother had surprised me with a new backpack. That milk funkified for over FOUR YEARS.

This one's not food, but one day a squirrel got into our house. We chased it and chased it, and eventually it was gone. We didn't know how it got out, but as long as it did, we didn't care.
Over the next few days, I noticed a gross smell in my bedroom... I ripped my bedroom apart looking for it, but it wouldn't go away. Whatever. It got worse for 4 or 5 days... on the fifth day, I was reading something online, and pushed my chair away from my desk to take a break. The chair bumped into the large, old box fan sitting on my floor of my room (as it was a very hot and humid August.) The fan fell over, I heard a soft "fwump!" noise, and turned around to see an EXPLOSION OF FUR fly out of the fan. Literally, it was a fountain of fine gray and brown hair -- and the smell of decayed squirrel. Turns out the squirrel had tried to hide in the fan by going through a hole in the grill, but the blades had killed it immedietly... it had sat, dead and rotting, in my fan, for a week. We threw the whole fan out.

AND, last week, I bought a bag of oranges. I have just recently DISCOVERED oranges, and am in LOVE with them (I used to be allergic, so I didn't have one from the time I was 2 to the time I was 21.) So, I peeled this one, looked delicious, seperated it in half... and inside it was liquid black, with white maggots crawling everywhere. It was the most disgusting thing I've EVER experienced, INCLUDING all of the above stories. I immedietly threw it out, the rest of the oranges as well, and swore I was NEVER going to eat another orange. Gross...

So how're those? Do I get any points?
 

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The worst thing that ive found was this juice drink....I use to love it because it had a creamy orange taste to it. You could also get apple flavor and stuff like that. I decided to get some from the fridge and poured a big glass.
I was really thirsty and started slamming it down. after the second big swig had gotten down I realized it was WAY past its expiration date.
I've never had a tase for it since.
 

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Oh! When I was moving out of my old place, I found a banana on a back shelf that had to be at least 2 months old! It about half its original size, leathery and COMPLETELY BLACK. It looked like Satan's Plantain. Eesh!

Or the time I found the last orange from a bag my roommate bought behind a box of noodles! It was also completely black, and left an unliftable stain on the shelf.

OH! And I just remembered there's a roast in the fridge that's about six weeks old... my roommate said "Don't you throw that out unless I'm here... I want to see it when that Press N' Seal comes off of it!"

You'd think I lived in a dump, really, but my apartment's very pretty :p
 

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I remember once we had some whiskas cat food for one of our cats and the can was oddly shaped but we opened it anyway. As soon as we started opening it we could hear this horrible bubbling sound..it was green and fizzing! I can't even imagine how old that cat fod must have been but we brought it from our dairy a week before. We complained to Whiskas and they sent us a whole heap of grooming gear.
 

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The worst thing I found in a cupboard under the kitchen was a dead mouse in a trap that I had caught as we had a family of mice going into our cupboards and drawers. I caught 5 mice in total. I haven't done it in the past couple of years though so I'm assuming the mice don't come in the house anymore.
 

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oh yeah - mice.

My ex-FIL had ALWAYS had a Stanley steel Thermos that he'd carry to and from work with coffee in it. MIL washed it one spring and put it in the cupboard after air drying on the counter, but did not tighten the cap to avoid any mildew funk. Mousie got in, couldn't get out and starved to death in the Thermos. They finally discovered the source of their kitchen odor some two weeks later, and nothing, I mean NOTHING would get the smell out. Then ended up throwing the whole Thermos out, much to FIL's chagrin; the entire family is very thrifty and it galled them all to throw out good money.

Ex-hubby and I gave him a new one for Xmas a couple years later, along with some new mousetraps as stocking stuffers
 

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Well, it's not anything gross, but it was pretty horrid. My dad bought some fresh LIVE blue crabs and put them in the fridge in a plastic bag to "slow them down". He decided to put the right smack in the middle of the top shelf along with all the milk, OJ, and drinks. I looked into the fridge and saw the crabs, but thought they were dead, so reached over them to grab the OJ, my forearm brushed up against the bag of crabs, and BAM!

I lost so much blood I was feeling dizzy... and it went all over the crabs. But we were in such a flurry to get to the emergency room, we just shut the door and ran off. After spending 9 hours in the hospital (8 of which were just waiting around) we came back home and I was thirsty, so I go into the kitchen and there was dried blood all over the floor and one of the crabs was dead in the corner, and I open the fridge to get some OJ (ironically), and I find myself staring at a bag full of crabs soaked in dark dried blood. It looked like something out of a horror movie. After staring into the fridge for a moment debating whether it was worth getting the OJ or not, I settled for a glass of tap water.
 

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You're telling me you were gored by chilled cuisine? Good lord, even the roast we threw out tonight wasn't moving fast enough to cut me open! Next time someone tries to put ANYTHING in your fridge that's still breathing, I suggest you put your foot down... lord, that's like having expired milk bite your arm!

Well... not ENTIRELY like that, but hilarious nonetheless!
 

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i hadnt replied to this thread because i couldnt think of anything untill i saw the little bottle last night in the cup board.
5 months ago, i made this little lemon juice portion to spray around the wood so teufel wouldnt scratch it, I put half of it away and 2 weeks ago i took it out and it was a thick mouldy stuff in the bottle, i chucked the liquid out and all this powder just flew up the air!

i washed the bottle and now its usable again
 

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Originally Posted by MeezerPleezer

They pinch that hard!? geez. Here in florida I love to play with the little crabs
Yep, they pinch pretty fricken hard. And they're not little. Just their body is about the size of an adult's hand, the look like this:



They're predatory crabs, so their claws are very sharp and they do this double claw pinch attack when anything floats above their heads. If the crabs got me anywhere else I would've been alright, but they just happened to nail the soft under part of my forearm and hit a few blood vessels there.
 

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I was reading through this earlier and couldn't think of anything, then I went to the fridge to get something to snack on. In the vegetable bin, I swear I saw a cat poop - turns out it was a very old piece of ginger root.
 
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Originally Posted by Lemur 6

Yep, they pinch pretty fricken hard. And they're not little. Just their body is about the size of an adult's hand, the look like this:



They're predatory crabs, so their claws are very sharp and they do this double claw pinch attack when anything floats above their heads. If the crabs got me anywhere else I would've been alright, but they just happened to nail the soft under part of my forearm and hit a few blood vessels there.
Are the blue manna's? my dad and i9 were snorkelling once when he let out an aweful scream, he had one attatched to his big toe!
it bled for ages.



My ex boyfriend. Half in it, half out of it, naked apart from a pair of red wellington boots, claiming to be God and licking some week-old coleslaw off the inside of the fridge door. I'm not sure what was worse... the furry colseslaw or the ex. Probably the ex.
OMG! What was wrong with him? i'd say the coleslaw pales in comparison




*cough* HIS rancid potatoes *cough*
oops!




Oh boy... I shared a flat once with this girl who just didnt have any idea about food hygiene... She was a really nice girl, but boy she had some foul habits.

Anyway, one day, bright and early, the guys in the next place were going into the markets so we tagged along. She buys this huge raw chicken saying she wanted to roast it - Fair enough.

We get home from the markets, I go to work. I get back from work late in the evening to see her get home at the same time. She was out all day in the boiling heat with the darn raw chicken in her backpack.. She forgot to take it out.

So by now its really late - what does she do? I come downstairs in the morning to see it resting on the kitchen bench, where it had been cooling it's heels all night!!

By now the thing is starting to scare me - the weather was really warm too. The crazy thing was, she still cooked it in the evening!!! AND she kept insisting I have a piece!! She seemed really offened that I wouldnt eat it...

It sat in the fridge for two weeks - I pretended to eat some by ripping of a piece with disposable gloves on and hiding it in the trash! After two weeks I flipped and told her it had to go...
my husband would have had a fit! i can't even defrost the chicken then put some back
he would have thrown the chicken out straight away no matter how much she protested


that is not only discusting but not very healthy either



(As gross as it is, Im kinda lovin this topic!)
heheh, me too! it's just so funny to find out what gross things lurk in people's kitchens
 

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Originally Posted by HeldDown

Oh! When I was moving out of my old place, I found a banana on a back shelf that had to be at least 2 months old! It about half its original size, leathery and COMPLETELY BLACK. It looked like Satan's Plantain. Eesh!

LOL!

I think I peed my pants a little on that one, too funny!
 

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My disturbed then girlfriend of my brother (later they married) put a raw chicken wrapped in a plastic bag, into a metal drinking pitcher. She placed the pitcher WAAAAAYYY back in the top most cuboard in my parents kitchen. She lived with us for a short while and always had power struggles with my mother. She didn't want the house to sell so to get even, she purposed placed hid this raw chicken in the kitchen. The odor was really bad for months but no one could find the source of the odor. My mother and father DID finally sell the house. As they were packing up the kitchen supplies my mother found the source of the rancid odor....the chicken.

It was SO rotted it was mostly a black liquid in the plastic back.
 

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Gee I don't feel so bad now about the odd liquid lettuce or cucumber.
Mostly I don't do too bad, but some grossness is almost inevitable.

Tip for you: Line your crisper with a double layer of paper towel. Then when whatever goes gross and pees all over the crisper, the liquid is sopped up, doesn't get into everything, and is much easier to remove and clean up. The voice of experience.
 

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All our veges end up going soft and leaking all over the vege bin. I tell you cleaning that horrible smelly liquid stuff out is a days job on its own. Not to mention horrid.

If there was something mouldy, rotten or even just a few days old in a container that I eat out off or in a drinking device then you can bet your bottom dollar I'll never use it again and most likely throw it out. Yuck!!
 
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