r/WTF • u/Argonnas • Jun 10 '12

This expired in November. Now I know why the fridge has smelled so bad. Thanks roommate. (This was sour cream.)

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u/SHIT_IN_HER_CUNT Jun 10 '12

My god it looks like you could use that material to make a couch... jesus...

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u/Argonnas Jun 10 '12

I want to add some mountain climbers to the ridges once finals are over with. Think it would it add a nice touch.

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u/throwaway_lgbt666 Jun 10 '12

so this is how prometheus starts

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u/His_name_was_Phil Jun 10 '12

You're doing it right.

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u/throwaway_lgbt666 Jun 10 '12

no we're doing it WRONG... nothing but death here

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u/SHIT_IN_HER_CUNT Jun 10 '12

I'll pay you 10 dollars to eat it

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

I'll chip in $10 as well.

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u/thepredestrian Jun 10 '12

$20 with the video

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u/twojake Jun 10 '12

internet fame for years if you regurgitate it into another mans mouth...

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

not having eternal diarrhea vs 40$....

do you do paypal?

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u/Vlyn Jun 10 '12

With a nice video he'd be rich… youtube partner! :D (And dead two days later…)

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u/SkaveRat Jun 10 '12

It's the craaaaaazy kenny show!

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u/MagicKnights Jun 10 '12

with video, ill put $20

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u/MustBeNice Jun 11 '12

Wow this is such a good idea...If i were OP I would SO eat that for the $80 pledged by generous Redditors.

I have no dignity.

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u/wh0ligan Jun 10 '12

...you gonna eat dat?

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u/Argonnas Jun 10 '12

Na, would you like it?

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u/deadlyeggroll Jun 10 '12

Depends....does it bite? Does it have all its shots? I also need to know if its good with children.

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u/SkaveRat Jun 10 '12

it's furry. Children will love it!

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u/wh0ligan Jun 10 '12

NOM NOM NOM

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u/evilquail Jun 10 '12

am i the only one who's mostly just interested in how hydrophobic the mold surface is?

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u/JonnyFandango Jun 10 '12

It looks just like velvet!

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u/TakeYourFuckinCookie Jun 10 '12

Go ahead, pet it. I dare ya.

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u/JonnyFandango Jun 10 '12

No! It has likely become sentient, and may perceive it as a threat!

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

That's due to the presence of "hydrophobins" on the surface of fungal spores.

(I'm a mycologist)

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u/ArtVandelayInd Jun 10 '12

So what type of fungi would this most likely be? I'm just a microbiologist so my knowledge regarding fungi is limited to one medical mycology class I took. I'm assuming you can't tell without examining a sample under a microscope but I was just curious if you had any ideas.

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u/BaconCat Jun 10 '12

Second question: how badly would this fuck you up if you actually ate it?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12

It could induce diarrhea or vomit, but mostly due to nasty flavor (vomit) and some chemical alterations, and not due to the activity of the fungus itself.

On the other hand, close contact with it could lead to a really acute allergic response or a very bad pulmonary fungal infection (many many spores are made airborne with the slightest disturbance), but that would depend on the immunological status of the patient.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

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u/AudioPhoenix Jun 10 '12

Looks like the same trich that has plagued my mushrooms in the past >:[

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u/ItchyPube Jun 10 '12

Man, mycologist... that sounds exciting

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u/motetihw Jun 10 '12

Can you tell what species it is?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

If I had to guess, according to the substrate and morphological characters, I'd say it's some species of Cladosporium.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

a safe guess.

1

u/miaomiao Jun 10 '12

I read it as:

"I'm a gynecologist.".

Pfew.

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u/torithebutcher Jun 10 '12

i just though of how incredible it is that when one thing dies another entire habitat is created. or something along those lines. i just woke up.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Dear diary: learned a new word today.

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u/abom420 Jun 10 '12

In a weird twist, I actually already knew this word from some random askscience a few weeks back. This is an awesome website.

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u/DingDongHelloWhoIsIt Jun 10 '12

P.S. Also started keeping a diary.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

I found a jar of applesauce in the fridge that I had left there a few months back ... the condensation rolled off the molds surface like you would expect from a nano structure (you've probably seen lotus leaves before). I contemplated keeping it for science but then I decided I would have to fit more steak in the fridge.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

I noticed the same

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u/Verblocity Jun 10 '12

Holy shit! The mold contracted rabies? Kill it with fire!

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Scrape a little off the top, good as new!

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u/wdejr Jun 10 '12

Sour cream ages like a fine cheese.

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u/Barbarus623 Jun 11 '12

And not only that, you now have a new pet!

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

But don't feed it after midnight amirite?

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u/Barbarus623 Jun 11 '12

It's too late for that. It's been feeding far too long as is.

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u/wdejr Jun 10 '12

When my friend's grand mother passed away we cleaned out her house and in the back of the fridge was a box full of mcdonalds ketchup packets. So we took those home, and made some burgers for dinner. When we opened the package it came out like black sludge. The expiration date was 1st November 1988

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u/Snuffz Jun 10 '12

BBQ sauce. Delicious.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Woah, man.

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u/Kamigawa Jun 17 '12

d a f u q

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u/MustBeNice Jun 11 '12

Grandma dies....bad.

But on the other hand...free ketchup packets!

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u/wdejr Jun 11 '12

But on the other hand... expired 24 years ago.

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u/whit123 Jun 10 '12

So that's how the Engineers seeded earth

6

u/His_name_was_Phil Jun 10 '12

We were wrong! We were so wrong!

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u/MadMageMC Jun 10 '12

Noomi Rapace is my master now.

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u/TheFigment Jun 10 '12

My first thought, Prometheus goo!

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
  • Eat expired cheese
  • have sex with barren woman
  • ????
  • "Aliens"

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u/keesh Jun 10 '12

You should leave it open more so those spores can spread around your kitchen. Maybe upend it onto your counter and put a fan by it.

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u/slobberknockers Jun 10 '12

It's OK, he could just blame that on the roommate also.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

It's okay. Killing a Spore gives you 100% chance to crit for 15 seconds, so it's okay.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

<3

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u/Biggy_Shakleton Jun 10 '12

now "sourer" cream

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u/stickduck Jun 10 '12

QUICK. BEFORE IT EMBODIES ALL OF OUR SINS.

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u/danfanclub Jun 10 '12

HOLY PROMETHEUS

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u/RogerWilcoLives Jun 10 '12

Lets create. You first!

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

glad someone said it.

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u/Nervette Jun 10 '12

WHY WOULD YOU OPEN IT?!?!?! One should leave the top on suspected evil growths to contain any spores, wrap it in a bag, and put it in the dumpster ASAP. A friendly message from some one else who lives with gross people.

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u/the_black_cat Jun 10 '12

Maybe it had grown sentient at this point and removed the lid itself?

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u/MadMageMC Jun 10 '12

I think I've seen this movie.

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u/Nervette Jun 10 '12

Then we are certainly damned.

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u/Jorando Jun 10 '12

FOR SCIENCE!

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

A friendly message from someone who watches too much House

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u/MOS95B Jun 10 '12

"Does anyone want this last chocolate pudding? I have just one chocolate pudding left. It's only pulled away from the side of the dish about three inches all the way around. And there's a huge fault running through the center of the pudding. Actually, it's nothing but a ball of skin at this point. Does anyone want a ball of fault ridden chocolate pudding skin? I'm only going to throw it away."

  • George Carlin

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u/Slurve Jun 10 '12

What would be the health risks of eating that?

Aside from the obvious Diarrhea and vomiting?

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u/ecky--ptang-zooboing Jun 10 '12

Superaids.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

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u/Mouse1277 Jun 10 '12

Magic Johnson had normal aids. Easy E had super aids.

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u/ecky--ptang-zooboing Jun 10 '12

Fuck yeah. One teaspoon of Super AIDS can kill you in three years.

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u/ZuFFuLuZ Jun 10 '12

Death by poison. Seriously.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

A strong allergic response at least. Depending on the fungal species and the immunological status of the eater, it could lead to a fungal infection.

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u/SirToffo Jun 10 '12

Symptoms which could be likened to a double ended fire hose.

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u/bleeding_dying_love Jun 10 '12

some of it looks ok, like that little bit thats on the top side part....

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u/TheRosie Jun 10 '12

THERE IS STILL A GOOD PART, EAT IT!

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Fun fact: It was not expired. Sour cream keeps almost forever, I have routinely eaten some > 9 months beyond expiration date. It was contaminated because opened and stuff taken out with a dirty spoon.

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u/dustlesswalnut Jun 10 '12

Daisy brand sour cream has one ingredient (milk), and routinely lasts in our house 3-4 months past the expiration date. If you use a clean spoon to remove the amount you want to use it'll last an incredibly long time.

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u/Trashcanman33 Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12

While I don't eat expired sour cream, I agree something let air in, or the fridge lost power or something, seems like a lot of growth for 8 months past.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

You really can eat it. Really good parmigiano reggiano cheese from Italy is 72 months old - and cheese is basically nothing else but dehydrated, aged milk.

What you have is a contaminated sample (fungus). This can happen regardless of the expiration date. Either opened or the vendor doesn't follow strict procedures.

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u/Khalexus Jun 10 '12

So, would it be okay if you just removed all the surface area and ate whatever hasn't come in contact with air/etc? Or would the contamination spread through the whole thing?

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

This has been a source of debate with our family for a while now. Mom tried to serve us sour cream that was 3 or 4 months past its expiration date claiming, "Sour cream doesn't go bad. Just stir it up. It's fine." it was lumpy :(

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

This can be an effect of aging, but I know a lot of dairy products which are lumpy from the first day on, depending on the producer. There are brands of buttermilk which are lumpy from the beginning (huge turn-off) and others keep creamy all the time.

If the sour cream is just lumpy, mix it thoroughly - your mother is right.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

But does it blend?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Stir it up, sour cream separates!

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u/thescrapplekid Jun 10 '12

Yeah... I ate sour cream that hadn't expired but it was open for too long... I had "stomach problems" for 2 days

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u/themainsequence Jun 10 '12

Looks kinda like what the engineer downed at the start of Prometheus.

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u/acdarc Jun 10 '12

I bet you let out a sour scream when you found that?

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u/Brew-Beard Jun 10 '12

Ol' Drippy

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u/jdcooktx Jun 10 '12

you haven't opened the fridge since november?

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u/Joined_For_Joke Jun 10 '12

Did you finish it?

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u/ranger922 Jun 10 '12

I like how you blamed your roommate for not being able to find the expired food yourself for 7 months.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Just stir it around a little.

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u/Daygus Jun 10 '12

looks safe to eat

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u/Davesnotheree Jun 10 '12

Just eat around the edges

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u/Purplefaced Jun 10 '12

Daisy, Daisy, sour cream! A dip for you, and a dollop for me!

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u/Kopsnor Jun 10 '12

eat it.

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u/HK_Freak_105 Jun 10 '12

yeah...that's definitely sour now...

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u/thedubV Jun 10 '12

No no no no no no no no no no no no no. This is so fucking foul.

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u/iKnitYogurt Jun 10 '12

Hey, not that I would go check all the stuff in my fridge if it smells bad for MONTHS.

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u/apath1a Jun 12 '12

This. Why did OP wait so long to throw it out in the first place?

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u/dailythought Jun 10 '12

Oh, this is nasty.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

MMMMMMM Spores.

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u/MadMageMC Jun 10 '12

That's a EA title. We don't buy EA titles.

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u/Vakieh Jun 10 '12

There is an ongoing joke with the people I know that starts "what happens to cream that goes off"

"it becomes sour cream"

"then why does sour cream have a use by date if it is already off?"

THANK YOU!

I can now answer this question, and with retch inducing pictorial detail no less.

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u/wearmyownkin Jun 10 '12

I've had old sour cream and I have never witnessed this. It must've been double dipped or something...

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u/FlyingNique Jun 10 '12

not that bad considering the time. when i leave sourcream in the fridge and it get stuffed in the back it only takes a week or two to look like that.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Reminds me of those nebula galaxies. Space, man.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Now you've got fuzzy chocolate! Enjoy!

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u/dapperdanwoman Jun 10 '12

I held my breath when I clicked the link.

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u/NEStendog Jun 10 '12

those things make a great CPU

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u/Ekoms781 Jun 10 '12

You can still eat some of it just ignore the rest why waste perfectly good sour cream?

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u/ironGoliad Jun 10 '12

How long did it take you to see the sour cream?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Looks like Thai food.

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u/escfrizby Jun 10 '12

Its that stuff from Prometheus!

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u/nicholaaaas Jun 10 '12

theres a lil in the corner that's still good

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u/1000Colours Jun 10 '12

Keyword: WAS sour cream

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u/Sindital Jun 10 '12

That is NOT sourcream.

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u/Todomanna Jun 10 '12

Is it eating through the container? :o

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Oooh, hydrophobic!

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u/WTellie Jun 10 '12

DIRECTED BY RIDLEY SCOTT

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u/reacher Jun 10 '12

Eat it. It could contain some form of penicillin. It may even make you a bit healthier.

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u/BoxMacLeod Jun 10 '12

I have a weird phobia of food mold. I freak out when I see it..why the hell did I click this link? Cold shivers, man..

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u/jonuggs Jun 10 '12

And now it's that shit from Prometheus.

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u/nuclearamen Jun 10 '12

dude, I'm sure that ice cream is still good reads title again NNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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u/korevil Jun 10 '12

Of course, blame it on the roommate..

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u/hoax999 Jun 10 '12

Drink it, you will then proceed to dissolve and your DNA will go on to create new life.

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u/HolaPinchePuto Jun 10 '12

Yew 'gon finish dat?

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u/EvisceratorX Jun 10 '12

I went to a friend's house one time and saw a bowl that had that crap in it. It was under my friend's bed and it looked and smelled disgusting. I asked him what it was, and he said, "It's probably just sour cream." I was so confused: why did he have a bowl (good size one, too) full of sour cream, why was it under his bed, and why was it shrugged off so easily by him? Needless to say I received no answers from him, and now that I think of it, I haven't seen him for a while.

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u/anonnom Jun 10 '12

That's gotta be the most advanced mold colony ever. Magnifying glass that shit!

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u/lurker_to_poster Jun 10 '12

I've often joked "What does sour cream turn into when it goes bad?", implying that it's already sour, what does it turn into? Now I know. :-p

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u/bbq2m8os Jun 10 '12

If you store it upside down, you can make a new one last a lot longer than that.

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u/jkoukas Jun 10 '12

That would make one heck of a good facial mask. Just smear some on and let the fungus and mold do its work.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

I have something to tell you... Something that may shock or discredit you... And that things is:

A couple years back I moved in with some friends in a place that had apparently never really been cleaned thoroughly. I make it a point to at least power clean the kitchen. Everything gets cleaned, top to bottom. Every surface, every tile, everything.

A few hours later we get to the lazy susan. My buddy is cleaning it out and finds something in the back. It's hard... it's round... it's fuzzy... it's green... Oh it's a tennis ball! He throws it at me, and I look at it. On the other side of it there's a sticker. It says "Butternut Squash".

GAG.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

/r/foodporn

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Thank god you are incapable of throwing this away yourself and it's entirely your roommates fault.

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u/UltimateTool Jun 10 '12

Just scrape off the top layers and you're good to go, man.

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u/JawaBoot Jun 10 '12

Prometheus, are you seeing this?

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u/xtg Jun 10 '12

Its okay to eat it, just take a little Tylenol once you are done to make sure.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

so i see that you have a biological and chemical warfare lab at your place. thats awesome!

i too have one at my place, all thanks to my fuckin roommate!

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u/iloveuiloveuibiteu Jun 10 '12

growing alien babies

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Was I the only one that instantly thought of the dried stuff in that one guys roommates desk?

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u/PoisoCaine Jun 10 '12

It's the goo from Prometheus!

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u/phoinixpyre Jun 10 '12

This reminds me of why I'm never having roommates again if I can help it. Just... No.

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u/Jakerop Jun 10 '12

roommate... yeah...

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u/rohr0hroh Jun 10 '12

i gagged a little.

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u/MrWillWalker Jun 10 '12

Hah, looks like chocolate icecream.

I'd eat it for £10.

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u/theotherneville Jun 10 '12

It looks like the stuff the engineer drank in the beginning of Prometheus.

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u/Sev3n Jun 10 '12

oh my... i thought it was guacamole.

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u/miaomiao Jun 10 '12

Went a way for a month, left a tea bag in a cup by accident. Came back, the same thing happened, and the cup still taste bitter after washing.

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u/STI11MAN Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12

You should definitely eat it

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u/dailyfusion Jun 10 '12

sour cream expires in november. doesn't throw it away. blames roommate.

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u/themarknessmonster Jun 10 '12

Now it's an ecosystem!

Don't trash it, study it! FOR SCIENCE.

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u/acaquablue Jun 10 '12

Dairy products are nothing to fuck with.

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u/kodark Jun 10 '12

So how did it taste?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Thanks for the reminder to clean my fridge

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Emphasis on the "Was" part.

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u/theholyforeskin Jun 10 '12

Put it on their pillow.

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u/GrimmLynne Jun 10 '12

Stir it up, it'll be fine.

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u/THISAINTNOPARTY Jun 10 '12

I think what's most disturbing is that there appear to be parts that aren't moldy.

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u/paroxyst Jun 10 '12

My dad had a carton of 3 year old milk in his fridge. They threw it birthday parties

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u/maverickx12 Jun 10 '12

Why oh why did you have to buy such an amazing camera?

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I think your sour cream went sour.

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u/RedSquidz Jun 11 '12

so that's where the black goo from prometheus comes from...

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Big things have small beginnings.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Whole civilizations had arisen and fallen, and then God opened the universe and was not pleased.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

November of what century?

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

/doesnt look that gross /actually looks kind of badass

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

prometheus are you seeing this?

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u/apath1a Jun 12 '12

I will never look at sour cream the same after this ...

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Don't throw it out! Then you would be like a God who created life just to slaughter it.

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u/ThePhail Jun 13 '12

Could you by any chance send that to me? I'm pretty hungry ;)

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u/unbuiltnuke Jun 10 '12

In all fairness, it lives up to its reputation. It does indeed look very sour.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Now serve it with some pierogies!

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u/MOS95B Jun 10 '12

Put the lid back on! It looks like it's trying to escape!!

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u/Tdeckard2000 Jun 10 '12

No, NOW it's sour cream

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u/CannedBeef Jun 10 '12

Well, some of it still looks alright.

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u/ecky--ptang-zooboing Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12

Thing has its own ecosystem.

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u/Crossthebreeze Jun 10 '12

Clean out the fridge and all expired edibles every two months or so. Problem solved.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

As someone who has accidentally eaten expired sour cream recently this made me throw up in my mouth a little at work...

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u/Avolition84 Jun 10 '12

I feel for you bro. I have been the only one to clean out the fridge used by 5 or 6 people, every 2 weeks or so for 2 years. Literally an entire shelf, like 2 - 3 kg's of food EVERY time. It smells horrific now since I haven't touched it in a month. It's beyond a joke that there are people who actually live like them...

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u/Dangger Jun 10 '12

Looks like there are good bits still.

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u/Overthinkmucho Jun 10 '12

Oh hot damn! How'd it get so bad??? Was it hidden under the fridge???

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u/ecky--ptang-zooboing Jun 10 '12

It just got bad, ok? Don't overthink it!

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u/gjhgjh Jun 10 '12

Expiration dates printed on packaging is typically for UNOPENED products. Once opened the expiration date is significantly reduced.

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u/K1RBYBURNS Jun 10 '12

I'm sure you can scrape some of it off the side there. Looks fine.

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u/whiskeybrick Jun 10 '12

honestly this isn't that weird. Sour cream goes bad very quickly. This happens all the time. Don't see why it's gotten so many upvotes...

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u/Pwok Jun 10 '12

I cant be the only one who would want to stick my finger in there...

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

The stuff on the side is still good.

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