She served expired food. Again.

KoriBrett

Grandma-in-law that is. ?Cocktail sauce for the shrimp. ?It was brown. ?The bottle looked...old. ?I checked the date. ?May of 2002. ?Yep, six and a half years expired cocktail sauce. ?I showed it to her, she goes "that's just the sell by date, that doesn't expire, it's fine".

I threw out the bottle & dumped what was in the dish, she got out a new one and was really pissedoff at me. ?The new one expired in 2007. ?I f*cking hate going to her house!!!!!!?

DesignerMama

2002? That's scary.?

I'm sorry you had to deal with this today :-(?

Littlejen22

I love my Aunt but she is known for that too, I am not sure if it's old age or her "new" husband (she got remarried after my Uncle passed away 10 years ago) but she served 5yo hot dogs which at least were frozen but looked scary and old beer at a summer picnic.  I am actually afraid to even eat her fresh baked pies b/c my cousin told me she will leave stuff made with milk out of the fridge for hours.

I don't think I could keep bringing my kids somewhere that they can get sick from the food like that, if the cocktail sauce is brown I am sure it had bacteria in it.  It's hard b/c you want the kids to see this woman (or I think you do but I might REALLY be wrong) but you cannot have thes. eat at her house.  Sorry, that suck.

KoriBrett

It's sad really. ?DH doesn't like his own grandma. ?She's kinda psycho. ?I can't even say that she means well, because in all honesty, she usually doesn't. ?She's not senile. ?She just doesn't care. ?Ditto on the old meat, ours were brats & hamburgers that were a few years old over the summer...?

We ate before we went. ?We just expect it now. ?We only snack on things that we know other people brought, or out of containers we opened ourselves and checked dates on. ?

ElizabethD

Egads.  Maybe you should get her a book for Christmas on HOW FOOD EXPIRES FOR REAL and the dangerousness of old food. 

kertybird

EWWWWW...

femmegem

Holy food poisoning, Batman!

mrsterry

MH has a great aunt just like that.  I'm sure I've told you about her before (when you mention it before).  It did bring to mind something a bit scarier, though....my own mother.

Since we've been here I have thrown out so much food.  She had salad dressing in the cabinet (unopened) dated back to 2002.  She claimed it was all still good because it hadn't been opened...but I informed her that neither my children nor I will be consuming food THAT old, regardless.  I also found things in her cabinet that had been opened that say to refrigerate after opening.

Part of my mom's problem is that she overshops.  She buys way too much food and her cabinets are packed to capacity as well as her refrigerator.  She doesn't know what she actually has half of the time.

GettinNervous

I always check dates at my in-laws' house. And they leave food on the counter that should be refrigerated. Sometimes if she gives me food to take home, I don't always eat it if it's questionable. Example:  potato salad on the counter at a party, out for at least 4 hours. Hello, landfill.

PiperBride

God, that is nasty. I end up throwing stuff out of MIL's fridge every time I visit as well, the fridge door is usually a hotbed of stuff she hasn't looked at in 4 years.  I remember when she was making potato salad last summer and ALL the old crappy potatoes she was trying to use had spots and rot on them.  I said, "didn't you just get a new bag at the store today?" and she said "yes, but I hate using new ones."  That is her mindset.  She actually hates using fresh food.  WTF?  If I have guests coming, I make sure I have the freshest and the best of everything on hand for them...

ExpatFamily06

I feel your pain, my mil is the exact.same.way.  I cringe going to her house, it's awful.  My dh and his brothers get in fights with her about it all the time.

winery

I know, very late, but I have the very same issue with my parents.  It's not that they don't know, it's just that they don't think dates actually mean anything.

Or that certain things need to be refrigerated.  I can't tell you how many times I've walked into their pantry and seen something opened that says "refrigerate after opening" and they scoff at it. 

They eat food that's 2 weeks overdue.  And leave things like tuna subs in the garage and munch on them all weekend long.  And then give them to my son, which gives him food poisoning.  Anyway.

I get it.  We bring our own food to my parents house.