One day I randomly discovered that watered down coke zero tastes just fine, when served partially frozen or with a lot of ice. Further, I found that randomly admixing other beverages to it lends a certain interest to the concoction, creating a kinder, gentler chalice of iggy pop.
My husband’s peculiarities are such that he never finishes his seltzer completely. Waste not want not, I have taken to using the dregs of his seltzers to flavor my watered down coke zero. This is disgusting to him, but he allows it. But my newest transgression might be so odious that it provokes murdilation with extreme prejudice, and therefore it must remain a dark secret between you and you and you and I.
There is also at least some risk of foodborne illness. That said, I’ve seen a guy regularly eat bananas that have turned completely brown and mushy – like that was his preference – and he never died, so here I go…
Last week I sliced an apple and I did not eat the whole thing. It remained in the crisper until this week. It wasn’t completely rotten, but it was a little off. Random areas had become lightly discolored, and more peculiar, the taste was altered by proximity to a big bag of fire roasted hatch chile peppers. Both the apple and the peppers were sealed in ziploc bags, but those peppers were radioactive. This experience is like eating a radish with light sweetness and a healthy dash of green pepper flavor.
Why am I strangely compelled to continue eating this corrupted apple? By the time this post comes out of queue, I will either be dead from the consequences, or alive and fine, despite my poor judgment. Stay tuned.
Hello from beyond the grave perhaps. I hope you’re having a nice day.
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You might find this site useful. Good luck!
https://www.eatortoss.com/
Vegetable and fruit molds are generally not dangerous to eat. I once gobbled down a sandwich in the dark, not realizing until the end that the bread was green throughout. Despite the overwhelming wave of queasiness at the revelation, I never got sick.
Meat rot, on the other hand…
Stay safe.
Please be careful of your health!
i lived! didn’t even get a tummyache.
@2 Dennis K
Green bread mold is what penicillin is derived from. It’s also used in various cheeses (Roquefort for example…) you may have gotten healthier from eating it!
As a fellow frugal-beyond-the-pale kind of person (who has yet to be injured by any food born illness), I too “enjoy” — that is perhaps not quite the right word for it, but anyway — finding new ways to salvage old food. After all, I do love me some cheese….so I am convinced if mold can make old milk taste this good there must occasionally be a moment when mold also improves my less-than-fresh produce too. While I have yet to discover proof that supports this hypothesis of mine, the scientist (and cheapskate) in me enthusiastically keeps experimenting!
y’all are a hoot