On Sat 13 Dec 2008 09:13:56p, SteveB told us...

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> "Kathleen" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
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>>> On Sat 13 Dec 2008 05:20:45p, SteveB told us...
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>>>
>>>>My wife and mother in law (I see where my wife got it) have the idea
>>>>that if you put something in the refrigerator, there is no such thing
>>>>as shelf life.
>>>>"Well, it's been in the refrigerator," is the common answer to "Is
>>>>this good?"
>>>>
>>>>I finally made a rule that if you can't tell me when it was cooked, I
>>>>won't eat it................ Oh, I cooked that last week some time
>>>>.............. Was it Thursday, or the Thursday before .........
>>>>
>>>>I'm telling you, we went through the Clorox wipes thing after she saw
>>>>it on Oprah, and wiped down everything in the kitchen if so much as a
>>>>fly landed on anything in the kitchen including the ceiling, but she
>>>>will leave chicken to thaw from 7 AM to 4 PM in the sink at 70 F.
>>>>
>>>>I need to get ahold of Oprah and have her do a show on shelf life and
>>>>kitchen safety foods.
>>>>
>>>>I mean, it can have brown mold on it, be unrecognizable, and she will
>>>>still say, "I don't understand it. It's been in the refrigerator."
>>>>
>>>>Help me out. I've tried explaining it. Some good sites that I could
>>>>send to her friends, and they could forward to her (she won't believe
>>>>it if it comes from me, but her friends and Oprah are Goddesses).
>>>>
>>>>Steve
>>>
>>>
>>> Perhaps if you can't convince your wife that virtually foods have a
>>> shelf life, refrigerated or not, that you will have to assign *her* a
>>> shelf life. :-)
>>>
>>
>> Either that or stage midnight command raids on the fridge, eliminating
>> suspect foods.
>>
>> I'll never forget being invited to dinner at my future parent-in-laws
>> house and being offered previously opened bottled salad dressings that
>> were FIVE YEARS out of date.
>>
>> That was just the tip of the extremely disgusting iceberg.
>>
>> And years later, my MIL, a prime example of Darwin's Hammer, was
>> offended when I declined to leave our infant daughter with her for
>> overnight visits.
>
> I commonly go through the fridge when left home alone. Only thing worse
> than being served something out of date is being told to taste it and
> see if it's bad.
>
> Steve
>
>
>

Ugh, yes!

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Wayne Boatwright
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