"-L." > said:

> Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
> > Can navy beans go bad between being made into soup on Sunday and being
> > eaten on Tuesday? The soup has been refrigerated the whole time during the
> > interim.
> >
> > The reason I ask is, I had a bowl of leftover soup today. Tonight, my
> > waist measurement has to be approaching 80 inches, and Crash tells me I'm
> > burping methane. It ain't pretty.
> >
> > Is it likely the soup, or should I be looking elsewhere for the cause of
> > this? Whatever it is, I don't want a repeat of tonight's performance.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Carol, having "Goodyear" tattooed on her belly
>
> Probably the beans. The starches are breaking down into sugars.
> (Pfffftoot!)

Thanks, -L. A few minutes after posting this query, I threw the rest of
the soup into the trash.

I never knew how to spell "Pffffoot!" before. LOL!

Thanks again. From now on, we eat the stuff the day it's cooked, then
freeze the rest so it can't sit in the fridge fermenting or whatever the
heck it was doing.

Carol