Today, my workplace often leaves out "expired" food from the café that our department coincides with, as it is wasteful to throw away perfectly fine cuisine. I soon discovered that the inside of a seemingly normal looking cupcake was actually filled with mold when I took a large mouthful of it. FML
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Today, I ate what was supposed to be a delicious mini powdered donut. The first one tasted funny, so I pulled out another one and realized that the powdered sugar was now in fact powdered hairy mold. Then I looked at the package and realized it was over a year and a half old. FML
Today, I kept smelling the pleasant odor of baking bread while driving around. Tonight, I realized that the smell of yeast was actually coming from a cup of moldy smoothie that got missed and left in a cup holder in the back of my car. FML
Today, my coworker brought chocolate muffins to work for everyone. This would have been really nice if they hadn't tasted like rotten blueberry muffins spray-painted brown. I reflexively gagged after taking a bite and coughed up a brown mush in front of her. FML
Today, I was halfway through eating a what I though was a delicious sandwich, when I turned it over and saw nasty green mold on the bread. FML
Today, my boss brought us some small cakes from a recent trip to China. I opened mine and noticed a little foil packet wrapped with the cake, so I thought it was a powdered topping. I had a couple of bites before my coworker told me it was actually a desiccant to keep the cakes fresh. FML
Today, I brought a cupcake to school for my friend's birthday. After taking one bite, she exclaimed that it was the worst thing she had ever tasted and that we should sue the store that I bought it from. I baked it myself. 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, I woke up hungover and went to the kitchen for some food. I saw what I thought was a blueberry muffin. Halfway through eating it, I realized I couldn’t taste any blueberries, so I tried another one. I then remembered my dad telling me to throw out any old food we had. It was mould. FML
Today, I was celebrating my birthday when my friend gave me chocolate as a gift. I wasn't suspecting anything and ate about half of it before I noticed something strange. It turned out there were some kind of worms living in it and the chocolate was about a year after the expiration date. I got sick. FML
Today, I learned that instead of discarding expired products at my work, we change the label to make them 'expire' later. FML
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Cbnotme 20
Not completely sure about this, but I'm pretty damn sure that's not ok. You should bring this up to the people in charge. Then again if it is well labeled that it's expired food, and your choice to eat it or not, you kindof deserve it.
BlueBaronBitch 22
Uh yeah, I'm at least like 3% sure that's a health risk, might wanna bring that up to the health dept. or something..
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Cbnotme 20
Not completely sure about this, but I'm pretty damn sure that's not ok. You should bring this up to the people in charge. Then again if it is well labeled that it's expired food, and your choice to eat it or not, you kindof deserve it.
SixthSinEnvy 39
Expired could mean it's the end of the breakfast period. In the food industry, it's considered a health and sanitation issue to put it back in the fridge or in the selling case the next day so food not sold is considered "expired". My friend brings home doughnuts all the time from his job for this very reason. They aren't spoiled at all, but their shelf life at the store is over.
dragoongirl90 34
It is illegal to give anything to anyone past the throw out date and time. Because of this.
Lalala579121 28
Expiration dates are rather arbitrary and mostly meaningless. Every piece of food is different and every location has different things in the air, so things will not spoil at the same rate. In addition, we're talking about the food industry here, not just some food sitting in someone's pantry. Even grocery stores get rid of things before the sell by dates. And since this is a cafe, any food that they prepared for the coming day that didn't get sold would most likely be thrown out.
Shade1982 21
This. Expiration dates are something retailers constructed to avoid them being blamed when someone gets sick from eating old food. However, given the legislative nature in some areas, people went a bit overboard with rules and regulations. Current laws in most western nations requires ALL consumable items to have an expiration date, which is just plain ridiculous. I mean, an expiration date on salt? Really?
DavidMcClain 12
Sounds like the perfect lawsuit
Diarrhea_Volcano 29
It would be bound to fail. The food was labeled expired.
jokerphreak 11
Actually, it no where states that the food was labeled expired.
DavidMcClain 12
Unless the food is packaged, there would be any expiration date on it #8
BoxFullOfLazy 25
There are no grounds for a personal lawsuit. OP clearly knew it was expired food and even said as much. They still chose to eat it despite that knowledge. However, it could be a violation of OSHA, in which case the company could receive a fine.
_EnderDoge 22
#12: When did OP state that they KNEW the food was expired. They said "I soon discovered".
Lalala579121 28
18 - Uh... the very first sentence...?
okamiyazaki 8
Yea let's just sue everyone for the smallest thing, that's the answer to life's problems!
BlueBaronBitch 22
Uh yeah, I'm at least like 3% sure that's a health risk, might wanna bring that up to the health dept. or something..
chessdude 8
3% lol
DrChrisOfWumbo 12
At least now you have a story to tell your kids. You know. Assuming you have little parasites crawling around
Mowmee 14
Awww that sucks. Hopefully you won't get sick OP!
heatherrr17 19
-cringe-
jokerphreak 11
That's kinda weird that it only molded on the inside, rather than having some sort of discoloration on the outside as well.
PrincessZelda_HR 22
Maybe it had a type of filling that expired faster than the cupcake itself?
zaidthunder1 27
I suppose the cost cutting policy gone a bit too far.
dragoongirl90 34
And that is why they have those laws.
auko 6
Where is this? I better avoid going to this restaurant since I'm in same state as you are, OP!
Lalala579121 28
The way I understood it, the workplace takes food that the cafe won't serve anymore and leaves it out for the employees. I doubt you'd have to worry about them serving expired food to customers.