The Oldest Food in Your Fridge
The Oldest Food in Your Fridge
slimandslam
Broadway Star Joined: 9/26/05
#0The Oldest Food in Your Fridge
Posted: 2/28/06 at 11:18pm
So, everyone... what's the oldest food in your fridge, and how long has it been there?
In my fridge, there's a bottle of toasted pecan syrup, which I believe has been there since February of 2002.
#1re: The Oldest Food in Your Fridge
Posted: 3/1/06 at 12:00am
Some butterscotch topping that's been in there since like last year.
And truly disgusting...
some chocolate syrup that's been in there since about 1999.
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#2re: The Oldest Food in Your Fridge
Posted: 3/1/06 at 12:03amI have no idea how old my Mayo is, and I don't even want to know!
#3re: The Oldest Food in Your Fridge
Posted: 3/1/06 at 12:17amI think our oninon dip is 2 months old. Yeah we just got a new fridge so its not like anything is utterly disgusting and ancient.
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#4re: The Oldest Food in Your Fridge
Posted: 3/1/06 at 12:42amIt wasn't in the fridge...but there were some oats in the pantry that expired 3 years ago.
#5re: The Oldest Food in Your Fridge
Posted: 3/1/06 at 12:44am
Oh, god.
In the pantry things are ancient.
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#6re: The Oldest Food in Your Fridge
Posted: 3/1/06 at 1:41amHmm...I've got some soda from last January and a bottle of teriyaki sauce from, I believe, late 2001. That's pretty bad...
#7re: The Oldest Food in Your Fridge
Posted: 3/1/06 at 8:49amI've got some jelly from last summer I think. Nothing is really that old because I am easily grossed out by left overs. If it is over 3 days old it gets thrown away.
#9re: The Oldest Food in Your Fridge
Posted: 3/1/06 at 9:15am
I realized the only meal I've cooked in my new apartment is still represented by a container of leftovers in my fridge. So it's only about three weeks but thank god for dollar store storage containers.
#10re: The Oldest Food in Your Fridge
Posted: 3/1/06 at 9:17amI am not too sure but it could be a scary situation. There is a bottle of wine in there fron '02, but that was opend last weeend.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 1/31/04
#11re: The Oldest Food in Your Fridge
Posted: 3/1/06 at 9:19am
Teriyaki sauce (Rose, does it age well), Worcestershire sauce, and a box of baking soda that will be replaced this weekend.
Oh, and a bottle of chili sauce which, I believe, I brought home from a picnic last summer.
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#12re: The Oldest Food in Your Fridge
Posted: 3/1/06 at 9:20amWhen my mom cleaned out the fridge last week we threw out leftovers from Christmas dinner. I thought that was pretty disgusting.
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NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#13re: The Oldest Food in Your Fridge
Posted: 3/1/06 at 9:23am
Condiments, as well.
I think a jar of mustard. Blech.
#15re: The Oldest Food in Your Fridge
Posted: 3/1/06 at 9:24amI know that there's a jar of boysenberry jam that glows green after I close the fridge door.
#16re: The Oldest Food in Your Fridge
Posted: 3/1/06 at 9:26amwow, how weird this topic should come up b/c last night i couldnt sleep so i cleaned out my fridge and freezer - took everything out and scrubbed it out. the oldest thing in my fridge, and i am surprised, was a jar of mayonaisse from the first week i moved in which was 2 1/2 years ago.
#17re: The Oldest Food in Your Fridge
Posted: 3/1/06 at 9:26am
Haha, funny topic. I just went to check, and there are a few contenders in there for the title, but I'll go with a jar of pepperoncini. How old? I'd have to guess at over a year!
Shame on me.
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#18re: The Oldest Food in Your Fridge
Posted: 3/1/06 at 9:26am
The mustard has never been opened, bway. 
I have some fancy jam jar that is pretty ancient, also... frightening thoughts.
#19re: The Oldest Food in Your Fridge
Posted: 3/1/06 at 9:31amThe only good thing about hurricane Katrina was that it forced me to clean out my fridge and freezer. The power was out at my place for about 11 days, so I cleaned it out on day 4, and found stuff that had been in there since I bought the place in October of 04.
peach
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/29/05
#20re: The Oldest Food in Your Fridge
Posted: 3/1/06 at 10:33am
I'm pretty good about cleaning out the "main cabin" of the fridge. But the condiments in the door - some of them are old, pushing one or two years, probably.
Mustard is a huge culprit. And there are about four jars of it, because I always forget it's there and I buy more!
I finally ran out of soy sauce (goodness knows how old that was!) and had to buy a new bottle.
#21re: The Oldest Food in Your Fridge
Posted: 3/1/06 at 10:37am
Umm, do you have to refrigerate soy sauce once it's open, because I don't? Oops!
It's up in a cabinet with the olive oil, spices and the Pam.
#22re: The Oldest Food in Your Fridge
Posted: 3/1/06 at 10:40amWhich is EXACTLY where mine is keeping the EXACT same company Shameless.
peach
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/29/05
#23re: The Oldest Food in Your Fridge
Posted: 3/1/06 at 10:42am
Shameless - good question, I don't know, actually if soy sauce needs to be refrigerated.
Honestly, I put a lot of things in the fridge that don't "need" to be there (soy sauce, peanut butter, for example), because I have limited cabinet space. I figure - fridge won't hurt it and there's even some room in there!
Gotta love the galley kitchen. My monster bottle of olive oil (definitely NOT in the fridge) takes up almost the entire spice area...
Updated On: 3/1/06 at 10:42 AM
#24re: The Oldest Food in Your Fridge
Posted: 3/1/06 at 10:44amWell, I use it whenever I order in sushi, because I use the low salt version, and it hasn't made me sick yet.
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