Today, I opened up a can of tomato soup I'd taken from my parents' house recently. After eating the whole can, I started feeling a little off, so I checked the expiration date. It expired 12 years ago. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my mother decided to inform me that she doesn't believe canned food can have an expiry date and that the food is still okay to eat years after the 'supposed' expiry date. She's probably been cooking my dinner with expired food for over 17 years. FML
Today, while tidying up my grandmother's fridge, I got to play expiration-date-bingo. The winner was some type of concentrated apple sauce supposed to be used for salad dressings. It expired in 1986. FML
Today, I decided to have some bagels. It was only after I ate them that I looked at the cream cheese and discovered that it expired 3 years ago. FML
Today, a friend invited me over for dinner. She presented me with a "gourmet" homemade meal. As I started eating, I realized it tasted… off. She looked at me expectantly, so I politely ate it all. Afterwards, she told me it was a new recipe she was trying "tuna casserole" made with canned tuna… which we found out later expired in 2015. FML
Today, I found a small bottle of chocolate milk in the fridge from McDonald's. I've been living with my grandparents while going to college and figuring they'd never drink it themselves, I took a sip. It had expired two years ago. FML
Today, I was eating cereal while absentmindedly reading the box. I was amused when I found it expires on my birthday. Then I realized it expired on my birthday two years ago. FML
Today, I cleaned out the fridge for my mother. I didn't throw out a single thing that was less than a month past its expiration. Instead of thanks, she complained about everything that I threw away being still good, including a tub of butter that had been expired for two years. FML
Today, I threw out all the food in the freezer that my mom had been keeping since 2013. When she found out, she said, "frozen food doesn't go bad." FML
Today, I had some soup that my dad made. I took one sip and found he had put tons of hot sauce in it. I rushed to drink from a soda can sitting on the counter, only to find that my mom had used it as an ash tray the night before. I can still taste the hot sauce, and the ash. FML
Today, I really wanted something to drink. I looked in the fridge, and found some of my grandma's soy milk. I took a swig, and instead of tasting soy, I tasted something rotten. Turns out my grandma knows I drink her soy milk, so she swapped it with expired chicken broth. FML
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auburnvans 0
Oh damn. Didn't it have a smell of some sort?
Luckster 0
Dude...the FIRST thing I check with canned food from anywhere is the expiration date. YDI for assuming everything in your parents' house is edible. We have canned/boxed food in this house from 10 years ago that my boyfriends' mom won't throw away cause "it's a waste of food", yet she won't eat it herself.
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fretforyerlatte 0
food poisoning doesn't set in that fast. to feel sick almost immediately afterwards, the food would have to have been SO bad that you would see and taste that there was something wrong with it. if it tasted off and you kept eating it, YDI.
Pandacake 0
Did you take the soup from my dad's pantry? My dad seems to believe that no food can ever go bad, especially if it's in a can. That's why I buy my own food now.
NotEven 0
#38, 44, and 48 are all correct. A can of soup really does not expire unless the can is not sealed properly. It will not hurt you. The OP is a liar either because; none of this ever happened, it happened but he never got sick, or he looked at the expiration date and THEN decided he felt sick. If the last is the case, it's psychosomatic and the OP is a drama queen.
mOkYmOkY 0
I check expiration dates at my friends houses now too-I went to my friends house and had chocolate milk that tasted funny, and my friend said she didn't want any so only I was drinking it-and it smelled horrible but I didn't question it until I pulled out the cartoon for a second glass of chocolate milk-it had expired almost a month ago. :[ nothing compared to 12 years but I think you should be able to notice when eating the food that something is weird about it. D:< check your food!
Hellcrapdamn 0
If it smelled and tasted horrible, why would you go back for a second glass? You must be a glutton for punishment.
mOkYmOkY 0
Lol I was thirsty so I just thought "whatever" and went for another glass...although this was very stupid of me.
blastvortex 4
Haha. That's ace. I also don't believe it for a moment. There's no way that you couldn't have seen the deteriorated quality of the can or the off-taste of the food, nor should the food poisoning have (typically) set in that fast. Unless you're either the most unlucky or dopey person I've met in recent memory, this didn't happen.
FerrariCake 2
"Today, after waiting 12 YEARS our daughter finally stole the can of expired tomato soup that we've been wanting to get rid of."
notsoordinary 0
LOL!! your comment made my day :D
Victor21R 1
that can soup didn't had mold in it and stuff because air couldn't get in there that why it still was in same shape
supergamer94 0
It was 12 years old? Why haven't your parents gotten rid of it by now?
supergamer94 0
Sorry, double post....
Erniesduck123 0
I also agree with the few people on here who have explained that a can of tomato soup would still be safe to eat as long as the integrity of the can has not been compromised, i.e. no dents, or bulges. The soup was probably canned using a pressure canner, under high heat, to sterilize it. The microorganism associated with incorrectly canned foods is Clostridium botulinum. The symptoms associated with botulism, vertigo, double or blurred vision, loss of reflex to light, difficulty in swallowing. speaking, and breathing, dry mouth, weakness, respiratory paralysis, appear 12-36 hours after ingesting contaminated food. This would make it quite difficult for the OP to post an FML.