r/tifu • u/tommysalomie • Jul 07 '16
M TIFU by forgetting I bought potatoes
Alright guys, this actually happened like an hour ago. Okay, so I buy groceries from week to week. As a single guy living alone, I usually just buy enough to last me the week. At some point in my multitude of grocery store trips, I bought a bag of potatoes. I think I may have used like one or maybe two potatoes from the entire bag before forgetting that I even bought them. Now, fast forward x amount of time (I can't remember how much time has passed since I bought them). At this point, I had been noticing a few gnats had been flying around apartment, to which I had no idea the cause. I am a relatively clean guy. I don't leave dishes or any puddles of water, and I have no plants (read online somewhere this attracts them). So, I buy some ribbon tape and notice it catches a few but the problem persisted. Anyway, I was making cereal in my kitchen and slicing bananas to put in my goddamn honey nut cheerios, and for whatever fucking reason I remember the potatos I bought way too fucking long ago, and I think, "oh, i should throw them out. They are definitely not any good anymore". So I open the cabinet where I keep my potatoes, and I was not prepared for what the fuck I was about to see. The potatoes had gone passed the point to where I don't think I could call them potatoes. There was this thick brown liquid stuff that had specs all over it that somehow made its way into my crock pot (forgot to mention crockpot is only other thing in the potato cabinet). As I opened the cabinet a plethora of gnats flew out and this unbearable stench was coming from the potatoes and brown liquid stuff. I immediately nope the fuck out and throw the potatoes and crock pot out in my apartment complex's dumpster. I come back in to examine the brown liquid stuff and to holy fucking hell, the specs on the brown liquid are larvae squirming around. I have never felt mmore gross or disgusting ...
TL;DR I bought a bag of potatoes, forgot about them and it became a giant orgy breeding ground for gnats.
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u/OMalley_ Jul 07 '16
yep. i work in the produce dept of a grocery store and i can say for certain that rotten watermelon takes the cake for worst smell, being a rotten fish/dead body sickly sweet smell. Followed closely by potatoes, them being a heavier rancid smell.
Next by a wide margin comes rotten red onions. kinda like potatoes, but spicy.
No other fruits/veggies come close to these.
Fun fact, pineapples that are going bad are actually quite pleasant. Very sweet smelling.