Crazy story on dinner leftovers

[CYdTracked]

Sounds like the chance you took by eating at King Buffet by Staples in Ames when it was open.

I think someone posted this here in another thread once: Restaurant inspection update: moldy food, rodents and immediate closures - Iowa Capital Dispatch

I have not ate at the first one on the list in over 2 years and I am not sure I will ever go back there after reading that. Jack Trice Stadium made the list too

 

[BCClone]

Per the last paragraph of the story:

Yeah, but I don't think that was a common vaccination for us old farts. I question if I have ever received it.

 

[SCNCY]

Yeah, but I don't think that was a common vaccination for us old farts. I question if I have ever received it.

That's fair. Additionally, some people can just deal with sickness better than others. My wife gets sicker than I do when she gets a cold or something. Often times I don't even get symptoms.

 

[swiacy]

My old school tough guy farmer Dad would leave leftovers from sack lunches on his pick up dash where it was sitting with the sun beating down on it. Several days later he would grab it and eat it. I would say to him: hey there is green stuff growing on it and he would brush it off and say: that's what they make penicillin out of. He was a proud ISU Ag grad btw.

 

[urb1]

Late 90s or early 2000s, yeah? I'd heard it was stuff that he'd had in the fridge for three weeks, but I remember it. He got botulism, and I want to say he passed away. It was literally that when I stopped eating leftovers willingly.

So unbelievable to waste good leftovers. I make a couple good meals on weekends and have leftovers the rest of the week.

 

[Cydar]

When I was at ISU there was an international student who got very sick (and maybe died?) after eating some unrefrigerated leftover potato pancakes.

I remember reading about this in the Iowa State Daily. Here's the article:
Student lucky to be alive after severe case of botulism

 

[SCNCY]

So unbelievable to waste good leftovers. I make a couple good meals on weekends and have leftovers the rest of the week.

I operate in a similar way, If it still smells good and no difference in color, I will eat it. I still have pasta sauce that I made 2/12 in the fridge that I plan on using tomorrow.

 

[Angie]

So unbelievable to waste good leftovers. I make a couple good meals on weekends and have leftovers the rest of the week.

We generally have enough for that meal, and the others in the family are better about eating them on the occasion we have extras. There are some things that seem safer than others - meat or dairy that's been left out too long seem like an extra bad idea.

 

[NickTheGreat]

So unbelievable to waste good leftovers. I make a couple good meals on weekends and have leftovers the rest of the week.

We eat a lot of leftovers, but we always store them in the fridge and reheat properly!

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

I've eaten leftover rice my entire life.

 

[NWICY]

Lol I have no idea how many slices of left out on the counter overnight pizza I've eaten in my life. Living life on the edge I guess.

 

[VeloClone]

I remember reading about this in the Iowa State Daily. Here's the article:
Student lucky to be alive after severe case of botulism

But it took care of all the wrinkles on his face...

 

[besserheimerphat]

I remember reading about this in the Iowa State Daily. Here's the article:
Student lucky to be alive after severe case of botulism

Thank you, my Google-Fu failed me yesterday.

 

[besserheimerphat]

I operate in a similar way, If it still smells good and no difference in color, I will eat it. I still have pasta sauce that I made 2/12 in the fridge that I plan on using tomorrow.

I'll usually throw stuff out after about a week. Tomato sauces freak me out since the one time I opened a jar that I knew was open and old, but didn't know how old, and the pop was extra loud and the inside of the jar got cloudy. Took a closer look and there were black fuzzy chunks sitting on the top. Ever since then I don't even like to keep leftover jarred pizza sauce at all - buy the smallest jar I can, use the half cup or whatever I need for a homemade pizza, and throw it away 80% full.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

I'll usually throw stuff out after about a week. Tomato sauces freak me out since the one time I opened a jar that I knew was open and old, but didn't know how old, and the pop was extra loud and the inside of the jar got cloudy. Took a closer look and there were black fuzzy chunks sitting on the top. Ever since then I don't even like to keep leftover jarred pizza sauce at all - buy the smallest jar I can, use the half cup or whatever I need for a homemade pizza, and throw it away 80% full.

I have done the same with pizza sauce in the past. Now I just open jar of pasta sauce and use that for pizza. I just have to plan on making something else that uses that sauce. So I'll make Chicken Parm (or something else) and pizza a few days apart.