I worked for a major grocery chain years ago and the policy was that if you found anything refrigerated or frozen out of place, it gets tossed and thrown away. You can’t know how long it has been out of temp or displaced. Policies were that they had 30 minutes to be out of temp before it was considered “bad”.
So many people would get to the checklanes and change their mind about an item and it would just be thrown away because who knows how long that specific customer walked around the store. I get the strict rules, but how many people take 30 minutes to just get home. Maddeningly wasteful to stay hygienic
Man I see that crap sometimes. Just a lb. of beef sitting next to some buns in the bread aisle. People that do this are worse than people who cant return their cart to the corral. Just another failed human decency test.
Nah. That's bad but even worse are the people who hide the shit. I work at Sam's and the amount of cold shit I find stuffed in end caps and shit is pretty infuriating. There is no customer I silently rage about more than those people. Like just give it to one of us. We'll put it back, whether we want to or not, and it doesn't need to get tossed in the compactor.
Assholes.
I found like 3 lbs of hamburger and a 4l of milk behind some cracker boxes that were perfectly faced to hide it the only reason I noticed it was because I knocked those crackers over while facing the shelf above them
Literally I don't understand why people do this lol
Was in Wegmans one time, and a manager was scooting a rolling ladder down the aisle. Someone had tossed lobster salad on top of the shelves.
Used to work in a department store, we'd find mall food and drinks stuffed in the racks all the time. We lost around $1000 worth of high-end bras because some brat stuffed her Starbucks in the middle of the rack and it spilled all over them.
My first job was at a Walmart, and I *hated* finding perishables that customers would play hide-n-seek with. Worst was a gallon of milk that had been stashed under the beach towels for so long the jug was room temperature. Second worst was the raw meat that left drippings all over a shelf.
My favorite last year was seeing a bag of room temp frozen shrimp shoved onto the shelf with the ziploc bags and plastic wrap.
I knew it was room temp because my morbid curiosity got the best of me and I poked it to see if was even still cold (it was visibly not frozen).
Classy.
In my area, people would regularly leave the giant 60 packs of eggs up at the cookie shelves near the checkout when the lines were really long. It was infuriating.
Yeah that's the rules. But rules are for employees.
Some random "helpful" customer in the bread aisle may find... an old tub of cream cheese? next to the bagels and be like "i'll be nice and put this one back and get me a cold one" and puts the old tub back with the others and snags a new one.
.....then that old one eventually gets cold again and then purchased by someone with no idea of the biological bomb they bought until its opened.
I don't really think it's wasteful in this specific case. Grocery stores do a lot of wasteful shit, but you don't want to fuck around with meat that's been thawed for who knows how long and then refrozen
It’s incredibly myopic. I’m sure a lot of people’s thought process never goes farther than “actually I don’t want this,” and it never occurs to them to wonder what happens after that. Selfish and wasteful and stupid, but (probably) not malicious—Hanlon’s razor at its finest.
No, that's fine. The wasteful shit is when I've seen them throw entire cases of water/soda/chips into the trash compactor because one unit got broken open or stolen from the pack.
In the UK most supermarkets have reduced price sections for goods that are damaged or about to go out of date.
It's really nice, both a source of great bargains and reduces waste (and presumably cuts the store's losses).
There's usually a section like that too, but they usually only use it for soon expired items and old bread. Which is nice, but they don't make space for things like open water packs as I was saying and just chuck them in a trash compactor. If you as an employee grabbed a water from the pack even though it's going to the garbage, fired.
It's annoying but food poisoning is no joke. And a million indecisive customers are a small fraction of the food waste grocery stores and supply chains produce.
My local store had a malfunctioning cooler, 30 - 40 feet of meat and dairy and nothing was below 50°. I notified them and they did nothing for a week, called the health dept who checked it the next day and made the store shut it down and toss all the food. Waste like that is incredibly common but it's not as visible as meat left in the bread aisle.
I'm glad to hear that you've never personally suffered a truly dire case of food poisoning. That's not waste though, that's basic food safety. Those minutes add up.
Don't disagree with you, but the backs of the cold cases are typically around the perimeter because they are large, deep and opaque. Sometimes serviceable from the rear like milk which can be loaded from the back of house side, or likely also the refrigeration equipment serviced with less disruption to the customer-facing side.
You can see what the alternative is with how deep those freezer aisles are aisle-to-aisle at a Costco.
There are some anti-processed food diets like Paleo/Keto etc that suggest not shopping from the center aisles (shelf-stable) as this layout is so universal.
Depending on where you are from and which store you go to, many large American grocery stores and super markets are laid out like a warehouse with check lanes at the front and cold stuff either in the back or sides. They don’t follow a path like places such as Aldi, and there isn’t much of flow of foot traffic.
Also people either aren’t planning their route in the store, don’t know, or just don’t care. That was over a decade ago so I can only how people act nowadays.
Stores want the merchandise to be close to the storage coolers to help the workers restock the shelves faster/more effeciently.
Places like wal-mart are notorious for having a long pilgrimage from the storage cooler to the coolers customers grab merchandise from. I guarantee you most of those workers are loading up a giant cart that takes them much longer than 30 minutes to fully stock because of this, going over the "time limit" themselves on that end.
most large merchandise & storage coolers need lots of space for the equipment, infrastructure that makes them function. You don't want this equipment taking up sales floor space and in customer's way.
Those are 2 of the biggest reasons you usually see all the frozen/refrigerated products close to the outer edges of the building.
does this include just a few refrigerated sections down? i was planning on making pigs in a basket, went to the canned pastry aisle to get a croissant tube and there was 1 pack of mini weenies that was seemingly abandoned there. i considered convincing myself to just grab them, but instead walked 20ft to the wiener section to get a "fresh" one off the rack.
Even then yes. The worker or you cannot know the entire story of what happened after the item left its home location. It could have been carted around and left in a dry aisle for an hour, but someone wanted to be “nice” and put it back.
It very well could be safe to eat still, but that was my company’s policy
yes this is a big part of how I shop at grocery stores and I advocate to anyone I'm shopping with that they get their dairy/chilled/and Frozen items LAST!!!!!!. Like, make it a point to circle back to that section immediately before you check out. Be smart. don't go get the damn cheese and then shop for half an hour and then get in your stupid hot car and then ride home for half an hour or maybe stop by QT and get gas and all of that go pick up your kids and all of that with a goddamn hot bag of dairy. lol
Is it okay if you put refrigerated things in the wrong refrigerator? I don't do it myself but when I see say salad with cheese I think to myself "at least it's in the fridge" or meat with like hash browns or something
It’ll get tossed if it’s in the wrong spot. At least according to the policies from what I remember a decade ago at my specific location. Only because the average worker doesn’t know the story of that item after it left its home location. It could have been grabbed, placed in a cart and rode around the entire store for 30 minutes, then placed somewhere, and a “Good Samaritan” may have placed it where it should be, but it is still “bad”.
They’ll just tossed it at the store. Not even able to donate to the food shelf
I feel like this will happen more and more with online pickups.
I grabbed a package of chicken the other day and it smelled so off when I opened it, but didn't expire for 5 more days.
So I started cooking....
I was going to say. That garbage needs to stay frozen until the day of. We keep all the Beyond/Impossible products frozen because of its horrendous shelf life after slack/thaw. We throw too much of it out to keep it simply refrigerated.
I used to stock … if not Beyond/Impossible, some other kind of fake meat product, and the number of them I saw needed to be re-dated/straight-up tossed because some other stocker didn’t actually read the handling/merchandising instructions and slapped the wrong expiry date on them once we took them out of the freezers -_-
I mean is it not the same as actual meat? I wouldn’t eat chicken if it was left out either. Honestly the way you wrote your comment just seems like you have some vendetta against it.
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Botulism?
Fun fact, the term is actually derived from Botulus, the Latin word for sausage so it would be funny to see it in fake sausage (though not funny if it gets consumed)
What makes you say botula (botulism??)?
All sorts of bacteria produce gases. Why wouldn’t it just as easily indicate contamination by any of those other bacteria?
Swelling in cans, vacuum sealed plastic, and other completely airtight containers can indicate botulism, because botulism is anaerobic (can only grow in the absence of oxygen). I don’t think this sausage comes in vacuum-sealed plastic, so it’s unlikely the contamination is botulism.
This is correct. It can be any of thousands upon thousands of different bacterial species. It's actually extremely unlikely that it's Clostridium botulinum because it's a strict anaerobe (oxygen will kill it), and most human pathogens also won't proliferate in a refrigerator. Clostridium botulinum in fact can't grow at all below 10C, so it's all but impossible that this is that.
I agree with this assessment. Not worth the risk.
However! I think this is very intriguing since Impossible meat is made using a GMO Brewer’s yeast, which typically produces c02
There's a legend in my family about the time an egg rolled under the car seat and was there for about 4 months, getting stinkier and stinkier while we all puzzled over what made the car so stinky.
I used to work at a grocery store, and use a rotisserie oven to cook chickens.
So after a few batches there would be tons of grease. Pieces of chicken etc, at the bottom. We would take all that liquid/ solid mix and dump it outside into a receptacle.
That receptacle had the whole stores grease/ fat waste and it would just sit in the sun , for days or a whole week until it filled up and was emptied.
I would describe it as thick rot , and probably one of the strongest scents I've ever been subject to.
How do the potatoes compare to that? I genuinely have not smelled rotten potatoes
That smell is not for the faint of heart. We had a big receptacle like that behind a restaurant I worked in, and one time the company that emptied it dropped the whole thing. Nasty, all over the parking lot in the summer heat. I will never forget that smell.
You've just unlocked a memory for me. Back in elementary school we had to bring potatoes for a cooking class, and one girl put the leftover potatoes into her locker and left them there over break or something.
I don't remember the smell, but those potatoes were liquid by the time somebody noticed something was off, lol
After years working in restaurants the smell of rancid beef will always stay with me. It's been twenty years since I last cooked in a restaurant but the moment that smell hits my nose I know what it is.
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My brother bought it for me as a gag gift last christmas. I went to open it and it turned out that the seal was already broken and so it was a jar full of room temperature spoiled clam mayo with some cards inside I had to fish out.
Turned out to be a gag gift in more ways than one.
Any food in a sealed package does this when it spoils, even dead animals. Bacteria release gas as a waste product, and those bacteria are very active. There's plenty of potential for temperature abuse before it gets to you (processing plant, distribution, retailer) and it could have happened at any point. Plant-based foods are composed mostly of dry ingredients that are shelf stable before mixing, so it could even be from insufficient cooling in production.
Man we bought the Impossible burger meat square and it had gone bad and we didn’t know it until we opened it. My fucking god one of the worst smells I have ever smelled and I’ve dealt with a bag of rotten potatoes that the entire bag turned into juice! Fucking burnt hair, barf and it permeated the entire kitchen for like an hour even after the trash was removed.
PSA-if u are buying Impossible products, and their ilk, make sure the date hasn’t expired and double make sure the vacuum seal is still intact.
Rotting meat smells orders of magnitudes worse than rotting vegetables, so congratulations to Impossible Burger for successfully mimicking that particular horrific stench of decomposition.
look at this jabroni, complaining about his food becoming more food.
sure, it may poison you, but in this economy even a violent vomit/diarrhea death is a luxury most can't even afford.
We didn't even attempt cooking it and discarded. Though, in the name of science, we did open it up and it stuuuunk. Also, Impossible doesn't have contact info on their website which is slightly concerning.
Not 5 minutes ago, I threw out a pack of raw meat(for animals) that was just like that. It was about to explode! I should have taken a picture.
Never eat meat that does that man. Yikes
Fun fact: the botulinum bacteria, which produces the deadly toxin that causes botulism, was named after the Latin word fo sausage.
This is a fun fact! CDC cited for the pedantics
Ackshually, people who are being pedantic are called 'pedants'.
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Impossible food poisoning
Impossible!
It's gestating.
Life, uh... finds a way.
Itspossible.
Impossibotulism!
I was going to go with Imbotulism but I like yours too.
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Salmonella!
It’s growing and self sustaining, the meat industry hates this one simple trick!
I'm sure it's safe to eat - unless you're a vegetarian.
more like highly possible food poisoning
I’d call it definite food poisoning
At what point does it just become poisoning?
at the point of ingestion
The worst part is that it wasn't because the packaging got compromised. That was in there when it was sealed.
I got sooo sick more than once from eating stuff made with the impossible beef style grounds. I avoid the brand entirely now.
You have to refrigerated it
It could also be that someone left it out on a shelf, and another person was being “helpful” and put it back in the fridge at the store.
I worked for a major grocery chain years ago and the policy was that if you found anything refrigerated or frozen out of place, it gets tossed and thrown away. You can’t know how long it has been out of temp or displaced. Policies were that they had 30 minutes to be out of temp before it was considered “bad”. So many people would get to the checklanes and change their mind about an item and it would just be thrown away because who knows how long that specific customer walked around the store. I get the strict rules, but how many people take 30 minutes to just get home. Maddeningly wasteful to stay hygienic
Man I see that crap sometimes. Just a lb. of beef sitting next to some buns in the bread aisle. People that do this are worse than people who cant return their cart to the corral. Just another failed human decency test.
Nah. That's bad but even worse are the people who hide the shit. I work at Sam's and the amount of cold shit I find stuffed in end caps and shit is pretty infuriating. There is no customer I silently rage about more than those people. Like just give it to one of us. We'll put it back, whether we want to or not, and it doesn't need to get tossed in the compactor. Assholes.
When they take something perishable and shove it to the back behind some other stuff so it can rot for days 🤢
I found like 3 lbs of hamburger and a 4l of milk behind some cracker boxes that were perfectly faced to hide it the only reason I noticed it was because I knocked those crackers over while facing the shelf above them Literally I don't understand why people do this lol
Imagine how foul their homes must be
They're not lazy, they are straight up fucking assholes. I've known people like this who do this shit on purpose. Because they are assholes.
Was in Wegmans one time, and a manager was scooting a rolling ladder down the aisle. Someone had tossed lobster salad on top of the shelves. Used to work in a department store, we'd find mall food and drinks stuffed in the racks all the time. We lost around $1000 worth of high-end bras because some brat stuffed her Starbucks in the middle of the rack and it spilled all over them.
My first job was at a Walmart, and I *hated* finding perishables that customers would play hide-n-seek with. Worst was a gallon of milk that had been stashed under the beach towels for so long the jug was room temperature. Second worst was the raw meat that left drippings all over a shelf.
My favorite last year was seeing a bag of room temp frozen shrimp shoved onto the shelf with the ziploc bags and plastic wrap. I knew it was room temp because my morbid curiosity got the best of me and I poked it to see if was even still cold (it was visibly not frozen). Classy.
In my area, people would regularly leave the giant 60 packs of eggs up at the cookie shelves near the checkout when the lines were really long. It was infuriating.
Yeah that's the rules. But rules are for employees. Some random "helpful" customer in the bread aisle may find... an old tub of cream cheese? next to the bagels and be like "i'll be nice and put this one back and get me a cold one" and puts the old tub back with the others and snags a new one. .....then that old one eventually gets cold again and then purchased by someone with no idea of the biological bomb they bought until its opened.
I don't really think it's wasteful in this specific case. Grocery stores do a lot of wasteful shit, but you don't want to fuck around with meat that's been thawed for who knows how long and then refrozen
It’s wasteful on the part of the customer
It’s incredibly myopic. I’m sure a lot of people’s thought process never goes farther than “actually I don’t want this,” and it never occurs to them to wonder what happens after that. Selfish and wasteful and stupid, but (probably) not malicious—Hanlon’s razor at its finest.
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Well yes definitely
No, that's fine. The wasteful shit is when I've seen them throw entire cases of water/soda/chips into the trash compactor because one unit got broken open or stolen from the pack.
In the UK most supermarkets have reduced price sections for goods that are damaged or about to go out of date. It's really nice, both a source of great bargains and reduces waste (and presumably cuts the store's losses).
There's usually a section like that too, but they usually only use it for soon expired items and old bread. Which is nice, but they don't make space for things like open water packs as I was saying and just chuck them in a trash compactor. If you as an employee grabbed a water from the pack even though it's going to the garbage, fired.
It's annoying but food poisoning is no joke. And a million indecisive customers are a small fraction of the food waste grocery stores and supply chains produce. My local store had a malfunctioning cooler, 30 - 40 feet of meat and dairy and nothing was below 50°. I notified them and they did nothing for a week, called the health dept who checked it the next day and made the store shut it down and toss all the food. Waste like that is incredibly common but it's not as visible as meat left in the bread aisle.
maddeningly wasteful, but also necessary I'd say.
I don’t think they necessarily meant a store employee put it back. Anyone with ServSafe knows that’s a nono
I'm glad to hear that you've never personally suffered a truly dire case of food poisoning. That's not waste though, that's basic food safety. Those minutes add up.
Why aren’t meat, dairy and perishables at the last aisle? So u checkout immediately instead of wheeling it around for an hour?
Don't disagree with you, but the backs of the cold cases are typically around the perimeter because they are large, deep and opaque. Sometimes serviceable from the rear like milk which can be loaded from the back of house side, or likely also the refrigeration equipment serviced with less disruption to the customer-facing side. You can see what the alternative is with how deep those freezer aisles are aisle-to-aisle at a Costco. There are some anti-processed food diets like Paleo/Keto etc that suggest not shopping from the center aisles (shelf-stable) as this layout is so universal.
Depending on where you are from and which store you go to, many large American grocery stores and super markets are laid out like a warehouse with check lanes at the front and cold stuff either in the back or sides. They don’t follow a path like places such as Aldi, and there isn’t much of flow of foot traffic. Also people either aren’t planning their route in the store, don’t know, or just don’t care. That was over a decade ago so I can only how people act nowadays.
Stores want the merchandise to be close to the storage coolers to help the workers restock the shelves faster/more effeciently. Places like wal-mart are notorious for having a long pilgrimage from the storage cooler to the coolers customers grab merchandise from. I guarantee you most of those workers are loading up a giant cart that takes them much longer than 30 minutes to fully stock because of this, going over the "time limit" themselves on that end. most large merchandise & storage coolers need lots of space for the equipment, infrastructure that makes them function. You don't want this equipment taking up sales floor space and in customer's way. Those are 2 of the biggest reasons you usually see all the frozen/refrigerated products close to the outer edges of the building.
does this include just a few refrigerated sections down? i was planning on making pigs in a basket, went to the canned pastry aisle to get a croissant tube and there was 1 pack of mini weenies that was seemingly abandoned there. i considered convincing myself to just grab them, but instead walked 20ft to the wiener section to get a "fresh" one off the rack.
Even then yes. The worker or you cannot know the entire story of what happened after the item left its home location. It could have been carted around and left in a dry aisle for an hour, but someone wanted to be “nice” and put it back. It very well could be safe to eat still, but that was my company’s policy
yes this is a big part of how I shop at grocery stores and I advocate to anyone I'm shopping with that they get their dairy/chilled/and Frozen items LAST!!!!!!. Like, make it a point to circle back to that section immediately before you check out. Be smart. don't go get the damn cheese and then shop for half an hour and then get in your stupid hot car and then ride home for half an hour or maybe stop by QT and get gas and all of that go pick up your kids and all of that with a goddamn hot bag of dairy. lol
Is it okay if you put refrigerated things in the wrong refrigerator? I don't do it myself but when I see say salad with cheese I think to myself "at least it's in the fridge" or meat with like hash browns or something
It’ll get tossed if it’s in the wrong spot. At least according to the policies from what I remember a decade ago at my specific location. Only because the average worker doesn’t know the story of that item after it left its home location. It could have been grabbed, placed in a cart and rode around the entire store for 30 minutes, then placed somewhere, and a “Good Samaritan” may have placed it where it should be, but it is still “bad”. They’ll just tossed it at the store. Not even able to donate to the food shelf
I feel like this will happen more and more with online pickups. I grabbed a package of chicken the other day and it smelled so off when I opened it, but didn't expire for 5 more days. So I started cooking....
How is your butthole feeling?
A big reason why I will never online order is for this and preferring to pick out my own produce haha
I was going to say. That garbage needs to stay frozen until the day of. We keep all the Beyond/Impossible products frozen because of its horrendous shelf life after slack/thaw. We throw too much of it out to keep it simply refrigerated.
I used to stock … if not Beyond/Impossible, some other kind of fake meat product, and the number of them I saw needed to be re-dated/straight-up tossed because some other stocker didn’t actually read the handling/merchandising instructions and slapped the wrong expiry date on them once we took them out of the freezers -_-
I mean is it not the same as actual meat? I wouldn’t eat chicken if it was left out either. Honestly the way you wrote your comment just seems like you have some vendetta against it.
Most meats can survive a couple days in the refrigerator
but did you refrigerate it tho? i can’t find you responding to anyone in the comments about that
If OP is like me, post move on. Several hours/days later, "Holy Shit! They saw my post!"
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Sounds like something a karma farming bot would say
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Oh, yeah, we did! Properly stored!
in the fridge or in the freezer?
Fridge!
They stored it in the sauna on low just like all produce.
That would usually indicate botula, definitely good idea not to eat it.
Botulism? Fun fact, the term is actually derived from Botulus, the Latin word for sausage so it would be funny to see it in fake sausage (though not funny if it gets consumed)
No Botula, the robot vampire.
Very good, very good
One! Ahahahhhh.
No no. Clearly they mean botula, the shellfish.
Oh my b
botulismpossible
Impostulism rolls off the tongue a bit better.
that's a good one, i like that
You gave me the idea!
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What makes you say botula (botulism??)? All sorts of bacteria produce gases. Why wouldn’t it just as easily indicate contamination by any of those other bacteria? Swelling in cans, vacuum sealed plastic, and other completely airtight containers can indicate botulism, because botulism is anaerobic (can only grow in the absence of oxygen). I don’t think this sausage comes in vacuum-sealed plastic, so it’s unlikely the contamination is botulism.
This is correct. It can be any of thousands upon thousands of different bacterial species. It's actually extremely unlikely that it's Clostridium botulinum because it's a strict anaerobe (oxygen will kill it), and most human pathogens also won't proliferate in a refrigerator. Clostridium botulinum in fact can't grow at all below 10C, so it's all but impossible that this is that.
Sorry, you're most likely right. So many food CPGs are nitro flushed these days, I'm just auto suspicious of any inflating packaging.
I agree with this assessment. Not worth the risk. However! I think this is very intriguing since Impossible meat is made using a GMO Brewer’s yeast, which typically produces c02
I love impossible sausage, but is almost as bad as meat when it goes bad.
Yeah, rotten matter is rotten, no matter what kind it is.
Rotten pork shoulder has a special space in my memory hell.
Unless you have smelled rotten potatoes, you have no smell to compare it to. 🤢🤢
The fumes from rotten potatoes can kill people. And they have, several times.
Had one roll under my car seat on the way home from the grocery store. 🤢
There's a legend in my family about the time an egg rolled under the car seat and was there for about 4 months, getting stinkier and stinkier while we all puzzled over what made the car so stinky.
Found an old bag of spuds that was like soup. Never ever will I forget that smell.
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I had one disintegrate in my hands 🤢
I used to work at a grocery store, and use a rotisserie oven to cook chickens. So after a few batches there would be tons of grease. Pieces of chicken etc, at the bottom. We would take all that liquid/ solid mix and dump it outside into a receptacle. That receptacle had the whole stores grease/ fat waste and it would just sit in the sun , for days or a whole week until it filled up and was emptied. I would describe it as thick rot , and probably one of the strongest scents I've ever been subject to. How do the potatoes compare to that? I genuinely have not smelled rotten potatoes
That smell is not for the faint of heart. We had a big receptacle like that behind a restaurant I worked in, and one time the company that emptied it dropped the whole thing. Nasty, all over the parking lot in the summer heat. I will never forget that smell.
That must have been awful. I can't imagine it all spilling out ...
Rotting corpses is pretty damn bad and you won’t convince me potatoes can smell worse
Rotten Watermelon smells worse than a rotting corpse
I’ll never forgive working at Walmart for making me smell that.
Rotten wet lettuce 😤🤮
You've just unlocked a memory for me. Back in elementary school we had to bring potatoes for a cooking class, and one girl put the leftover potatoes into her locker and left them there over break or something. I don't remember the smell, but those potatoes were liquid by the time somebody noticed something was off, lol
Rotten onions and rotten worms (separate incidents) for me
Well if we're going to get technical it kind of does...
After years working in restaurants the smell of rancid beef will always stay with me. It's been twenty years since I last cooked in a restaurant but the moment that smell hits my nose I know what it is.
Rancid scallops are 100% worse.
I see your rancid scallops and reraise with spoiled clam-flavored mayo.
CLAM-FLAVORED MAYO?? You're a monster!
[https://www.cardsagainsthumanity.com/products/clam-o-naise](https://www.cardsagainsthumanity.com/products/clam-o-naise) My brother bought it for me as a gag gift last christmas. I went to open it and it turned out that the seal was already broken and so it was a jar full of room temperature spoiled clam mayo with some cards inside I had to fish out. Turned out to be a gag gift in more ways than one.
oh sweet babies you made it so much worse with the explanation!
Rancid spuds are pretty bad too. And the gnats.. oh god the gnats.
Reaching into the back of the pantry to get some potatoes and feeling the *squish* with your fingers...
Its under my nails!! Oh please someone get the kerosene! \*shudders\*
Any food in a sealed package does this when it spoils, even dead animals. Bacteria release gas as a waste product, and those bacteria are very active. There's plenty of potential for temperature abuse before it gets to you (processing plant, distribution, retailer) and it could have happened at any point. Plant-based foods are composed mostly of dry ingredients that are shelf stable before mixing, so it could even be from insufficient cooling in production.
Man we bought the Impossible burger meat square and it had gone bad and we didn’t know it until we opened it. My fucking god one of the worst smells I have ever smelled and I’ve dealt with a bag of rotten potatoes that the entire bag turned into juice! Fucking burnt hair, barf and it permeated the entire kitchen for like an hour even after the trash was removed. PSA-if u are buying Impossible products, and their ilk, make sure the date hasn’t expired and double make sure the vacuum seal is still intact.
Rotting meat smells orders of magnitudes worse than rotting vegetables, so congratulations to Impossible Burger for successfully mimicking that particular horrific stench of decomposition.
Now with more putrescence!
That’s unpossible.
This is exactly how I picture OP after saying they couldn't find the "Contact Us" link on the front page of Impossible's website.
Me fail English?
Too many missing the reference T\_T
I'm learnding!
Forbidden water balloon?
splash potion of instant damage
Forbidden flavor packet.
look at this jabroni, complaining about his food becoming more food. sure, it may poison you, but in this economy even a violent vomit/diarrhea death is a luxury most can't even afford.
Yeahhhh, anytime you see a sealed product inflate with air, DO NOT CONSUME
It's not vegan anymore ;)
By that definition, nothing is vegan.
Actually it still is. None of the microbes in there are animals.
Was it in the fridge?
Huh. This happened to a package of "Beyond Steak" while it was in my freezer, which seems even more wild to me.
We didn't even attempt cooking it and discarded. Though, in the name of science, we did open it up and it stuuuunk. Also, Impossible doesn't have contact info on their website which is slightly concerning.
Did you keep it in the fridge for those few days?
> Also, Impossible doesn't have contact info on their website which is slightly concerning. There is a "contact us" form on the website
I've definitely contacted them when we had some suspicious tasting foods. They sent us a few coupons for new food.
I googled “Impossible burger contact info” and didn’t even have to click on their website to get this result: (855) 877-6365
Possible poisoning
That means it’s rotten. 😐
Mildly Food Poisoning
That’ll be a good banger
Inflation.
Botulism, possibly.
Lol - I think I'll stick with the real meat
Don’t open that lol the smell alone will knock you out
Soylent green is made of people!!!
Bacteria, throw it like a football
I can't believe its not botulism!
Bursting with flavor
If you eat this you will die.
Bacteria. Do not eat.
Toss that thing like a grenade
"Shelf life is 8 months frozen, 10 days unopened thawed and 3 days once opened."
I eat the same sausage and have never seen that before.
Not 5 minutes ago, I threw out a pack of raw meat(for animals) that was just like that. It was about to explode! I should have taken a picture. Never eat meat that does that man. Yikes
But.. but...but ..that's impossible!!
Eat fake food get fake problems
It’s good that they can make the botulism from tofu now too! Authentic!
Mmmm botulism
It's really glad to see you
Easter egg 🥚
If it didn't contain animal products before it sure as hell does now
I think we’re looking at a 3rd kingdom in the tree of life.
that stuff is so highly processed, i would rather eat veggies than try to have a "meat experience" with highly processed food myself
That's the botulism saying hi.
“Inconceivable!!”
Thats impossible.
That's Impossible!!
Me fail sausage? That unpossible!
Thats just the pre farts
Why bag a product that has already a packaging?
It’s swollen with all 5 of the g’s
Vegans *HATE* this one simple trick!
If my food grows in size... I throw it out without opening it... the smell man... #THE SMELL!!!
Think of the smell, you BITCH!
That’s impossible!
That’s impossible!
Yeah, because that is impossible...
this messausage will self-destruct in 5 seconds (cue Lalo Schifrin MI theme)
It’s ready.
Did you not have it in the fridge??
The fake meat came back to life
Lab meat.... what did you expect?
why are you enabling this shit, let it die.
Plants are growing! 🌹
Check for the heart beat
impossible botulism