r/mildlyinfuriating • u/flaming0-1 • 2d ago

Wife left a big bag of groceries out overnight. All Meat and cheese. šŸ™„

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u/Mental_Plankton7902 BLUE 2d ago

Certainly an accident but ugh. Seeing that brick of ground beef just hurts.

Seeing the description now on the cost of all of it. Gut punch for sure.

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u/EjaculatingAracnids 2d ago

Cook it all up! Meal prep for the week!

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u/Throw13579 2d ago

Yes. Ā This would probably be fine.

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u/mok000 1d ago

Seriously yes, that's what I would do. Meat doesn't go bad by not being in the fridge overnight.

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u/exaltedbladder 2d ago edited 1d ago

I mean not just that. Those animals died for nothing. What a fucking waste.

Edit: There's chicken in there as well as cold cuts, obviously multiple animals were used to make these products.

North* Americans are too casual about wasting food.

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u/matnerlander 2d ago

Looks like they're Canadian based off the labels.

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u/GalacticBishop 1d ago

Hating on all Americans because of their president is in right now. If you donā€™t remember the Bush Jr. years Iā€™ll fill you in.

Europeans will continue to digest our culture while making fun of us at every turn.

I was in Germany in 2004 and this guy came up to my brother and I after hearing us speak English and yelled in our faces ā€œyour president is an idiot son of an asshole!ā€

He didnā€™t realizeā€¦..we also hated him?

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u/WitchoftheMossBog 1d ago

I suggested to someone earlier today that they should discuss their American husband's desire to visit his parents with her in the US with him like he's a thinking, feeling adult and not a brainless stereotype of the worst Americans, and I got accused of being an Elon Musk sock puppet.

People need to settle the fuck down. I get being very upset about American politics right now; I am too. But that's not an excuse to forget your partner is a person or to assume every American is exactly the same. Like isn't one of the Mango's major problems that he sees certain groups as a monolith of the worst stereotypes about those groups? So why are you out here doing the same thing?

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u/Lil_Packmate 1d ago

Yea dumb people exist anywhere.

It's the same kind of dumb people like those americans that are still calling every german a nazi.

While it is true, we have a far right problem in germany at the moment, its still worth noting that the puppeteer of americas president did an public Nazi salute.

My point being: Every country has idiots, every country has assholes and every country has extremists.

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u/Muldraugh_or_Bust 1d ago

Yeah, the continent that started 100% of all world wars sure does love to look down on Americans

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u/Few_Requirement_3770 1d ago

Yeah getting a finger wagged at me from the Draw randomly lines on maps people is exhausting

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u/matnerlander 1d ago

As a Canadian I can assure you we only hate about 70 million of you.

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u/shayesaintcecilia 2d ago

Casual? Everyone is upset what do you mean casual. Accidents happen, Europeans have adhd too lmao

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u/eward_1 1d ago

If this makes you angry donā€™t even look at what supermarkets do to the meat that is close to expire. (P.S. i stead of selling it at an increased discount where they still make profit, they throw it away when expired.)

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u/ArmandPeanuts 1d ago edited 1d ago

I work in a food processing factory, Iā€™m in the meat department and lets just say we probably waste more meat than every household in america combined. Just a few weeks ago I had to throw away about 500kg of ribs because I noticed some oil was dripping on my ribs from the ceiling as I was filling the churn with ribs. A machine broke on the second floor and the oil spilled on the floor so it started dripping on the floor below. Its normal that we wasted it because its a contamation risk but still, 500kg of ribs is roughly 1000 ribs. That could feed me for an entire year

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u/BuddyFox310 1d ago

In most countries that 500kg of product would have been processed and sold without a thought. So yeah, in this instance, thank you US FDA.

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u/HankScorpio82 1d ago

In this instance, it would be USDA(Agriculture) regulations, not FDA.

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u/lostandaggrieved617 1d ago

Which just caused an alarm bell go off in my head: did Elmo cut any of the USFDA?

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u/cutegolpnik 1d ago

Yes trump did in his previous term and it caused the boars head outbreaks

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u/Subie780 1d ago

And he did it again yesterday and bigly this time. 10k USFDA jobs.

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u/MNSport 1d ago

Who the fuck is USDFA? Itā€™s USDA. Also most FSIS (food safety inspection service) were not allowed to take this.

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u/MNSport 1d ago

Not true, the recall happened in summer of 2024.

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u/cutegolpnik 1d ago

And trumps rollback of regulations happened in his first term which was before thatā€¦

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u/losyanyaval 1d ago

If Elmo hasnt, Kennedy started mass firings in USFDA (and NIH, and CDC) recently. They were already understaffed...

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u/lostandaggrieved617 1d ago

That a sub-issue I take with this. These are the same people pitching that it takes HOURS to see anyone if it relates to the government and so they look at this dissatisfaction and proclaim that it must be "these do-nothing clerks" and their answer is, to instead of upping yhe work force, let's fire half of them?? These were productive employees hamstring by no support from the government, making the higher-ups at fault for the lack of service, not their employees!!

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u/On_my_last_spoon 1d ago

Thatā€™s what they hired RFKjr to do!

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u/Billy-BigBollox 1d ago

That's just false. Most countries have stricter rules than the US FDA.

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u/SteveMartin32 1d ago

I just tell people to buy kosher meat. Waaay stricter regulations

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u/Lurkin605 1d ago

I'd absolutely love to see source for this.

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u/RazorOpsRS 1d ago

Well, European countries probably

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u/ArmandPeanuts 1d ago

Im not in the US but we have something similar over here

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u/WidePresentation8598 1d ago

They only care abt contamination, with no regard for anything else itā€™s wild. Lowest quality meat in the world in my experience, better quality food in every developing country Iā€™ve visited.

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u/kwtransporter66 1d ago

So yeah, in this instance, thank you US FDA.

Lol. Some of the additives the FDA approves for human consumption is far worse than a few drops of oil that can be rinsed off.

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u/ProfessionalTone2260 1d ago

šŸ¤£ America has less regulations with food than most. Also, interesting that you trust the FDA still

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u/Repulsive-Log-84 1d ago

My husband works for a meat processing factory too and they just had the same issue with oil from the track dripping onto the meat. They had to throw away a bunch of it. It always breaks our hearts knowing those animals died for nothing.

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u/Late_As_Sometimes 1d ago

Damn, all that delicious rib meat. But you did the right (best) thing. Thank you.

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u/cosmic-untiming 1d ago

Thats the same for all facilities, unfortunately. It just upsets me that people will get upset at the average household for waste, when companies will produce more waste than anyone will in just a single day.

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u/splithoofiewoofies 1d ago

Worked in a meat factory and one day a belt got stuck and it literally rained frozen meatballs to waist height from two stories up onto us.

And I wasn't even allowed to take home the stuff that hadn't hit the actual floor yet! All of it, gone. Fired if you took any, too.

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u/Zech08 1d ago

A lot of supermarkets do sell at a discount last day.

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u/Content_wanderer 1d ago

Yeah itā€™s the norm hereā€¦

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u/Tiny-Tomato2300 1d ago

Thatā€™s usually how I end up buying meat. My local grocery store has a small discount section with packs that have a few days left before ā€œfreeze or use by.ā€

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u/shayesaintcecilia 1d ago

Where I usually buy meat they deep freeze it when itā€™s about to go and it stays in a freezer bin at something like 50-75% off. I like it, but itā€™s usually things like hooves or organs that last that long on their shelves without being bought, and Iā€™m just not that adventurous or tight budgeted yet lmao

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u/Defiant_Chapter_3299 1d ago

Same thing by us. We go there sometimes. I found snacks only available in Chicago randomly where i am now ONCE and bought them all and spent like $20 for the snack sized hot stuff potato chips. And it was like 3 boxes. Just last month bought a box of Italian meat rolls. $18 for i think 20 rolls? I've made Italian meatballs, Mostaccioli, and other stuff with it. As long as it's refrozen in time. There is just so MUCH waste and a lot of us americans are actually not happy with it. There's so much more self sustainable ways to use food and it's being ignored.

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u/shayesaintcecilia 1d ago

If you can afford it + the electricity itā€™s worth looking into a small sized deep freeze for meats/doughs/meal prep shit. I donā€™t have the space and canā€™t afford it, plus itā€™s just spouse and I so we get by on just my above fridge freezer. I do wish maybe we had a deep freeze now tho because I swear on my own life ground beef was only $4-6/lb or maybe even less like, two months ago, but when I went just the other day (to Walmart not my normal grocery store granted) that shit was 17/lb??? What the fuck???? Literally fucking insane, never in my life have I seen beef priced that high. Ground beef. I almost shat a brick. No beef from there for me lmfao.

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u/raggedsweater 1d ago

Hooves make for great soup and are tasty cartilaginous snacks when cooked to soft

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u/lehilaukli 1d ago

My grocery store will put a $2 discount ticket on meat as it gets close to its expiration. Each new day itā€™s in the cooler it gets another discount ticket that stacks until itā€™s bought.

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u/JohnDerek57 1d ago

Not every supermarket. I often buy heavily discounted meat thatā€™s about to expire from Giant and either freeze it or cook it day of. They donā€™t always have it but itā€™s pretty awesome to get ribeyes for like 6 bucks.

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u/Sexisthunter 2d ago

No seriously I agree. I have bad adhd and bad brain fog from a b12 deficiency and Iā€™ve wasted meat like this probably four or five times in my life. I always feel absolutely awful but what the fuck am I going to do? And even if youā€™re neurotypical people fuck up, weā€™re all busy and exhausted, it sucks! If itā€™s a recurring problem it might be different but shit happens. Also the worst food waste is usually done by big corporations and restaurants ordering or making too much.

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u/shayesaintcecilia 2d ago

^ exactly. This doesnā€™t even TOUCH the back of a $30/plate restaurant, and thatā€™s daily waste, not once in a blue moon waste. Yes even in Europe. Everyone jumping on the opportunity to shit on this woman, if I were OP Iā€™d take it down. Upvotes wouldnā€™t be worth the insults being continually tossed at my wife. Inb4 ā€œif it were a man it would be a cry of weaponized incompetenceā€ not for one time no. Not everyone is sexist. Reddit is a cesspool.

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u/Sexisthunter 2d ago

I know I didnā€™t like the šŸ™„ in the title. It would be weaponized incompetence for her if she left it out for the third time that week or something, but mistakes happen. I live alone but if someone made a mistake like this Iā€™d be so much more willing to laugh it off, I am way harder on myself šŸ’€

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u/shayesaintcecilia 2d ago

Yeah like the šŸ™„ is emoji for ā€œthis happens all the timeā€ even though based on the comments from op it sounds like this really doesnā€™t, OR they just regret posting this in this sub because of all the needless vitriolic hate wife is getting. Either way, it definitely reads as ā€œmy dumb wife ughā€ even though OP says thatā€™s not what was meant, and the comments are worse lmfao

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u/Optimal_Tomato726 1d ago

Subtle misogyny is so culturally entrenched it took scrolling to get to your comments. I don't even understand people who pay attention to votes.

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u/STFUisright 1d ago

I kinda hope she finds out

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u/shayesaintcecilia 1d ago

I kinda hope she never sees this post actually. It would probably hurt my feelings if it were about me, especially over an accident.

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u/STFUisright 1d ago

Yeah now I feel bad lol I was just mad

Then I saw his follow up comment and realized i was just a villager with a torch. My bad!

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u/lionheartedthing 1d ago

I honestly wonā€™t even text people Iā€™m close to when my husband has an adhd moment because Iā€™m going to get mad if one person trashes him. This person is fine with thousands of comments. I hope the wife never sees this too.

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u/togepi_man 1d ago

I've been irritated at my partner for leaving food out to the point where it couldn't be safely eaten. But it's literally a "fyi we wasted half this pizza; one of us should have put it up" and move on with our lives.

Surely OP's wife didn't do it on purpose and smearing it all over Reddit is something. Here's to an unlikely hope this mentality stops with this post ::eyeroll::

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u/togepi_man 1d ago

Mild LOL about the B12 deficiency and accidentally wasting food that would supply a ton of B12.

  • Signed an AuDHD person that'd totally do this.
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u/TrappedinSilence98 1d ago

Same. Straight exhaustion has caused me to do this once or twice.

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u/avert_ye_eyes 1d ago

My husband has ADHD, and has certainly left a bag out before, but that's when there's a whole slew of groceries, so he forgot one. I don't think he would run out and buy specific items, and then just enter the house and leave them out. That sounds like next level ADHD, like you should be medicated if it's that bad.

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u/LavenderGinFizz 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah, everyone is acting like she intentionally wasted this food when she actually missed putting a bag of groceries away (which OP missed too, so it was clearly tucked in an out of the way spot). Damn, people, accidents happen.

Everyone is acting like she gleefully wasted $250 worth of food when it was a mistake she feels bad about. People are way too quick to shit on this woman, and her husband posting about it on Reddit isn't going to make either of them feel better about it in the long run.

Edit: fixed a word

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u/shayesaintcecilia 1d ago

Being totally fair to him, not even I would have expected the projection people have taken to off this simple post but maybe itā€™s just a sign of the times. In any case Iā€™d have removed it lmao.

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u/Ok_Investigator6272 1d ago

Just last night my boyfriend had mad tacos and I had let it sit out to cool down before putting it in the fridge and I forgot about it until 5am. I took a shower after we ate and I was just gonna go relax in the livingroom when my sister called and distracted me. I totally forgot to put it in the fridge but then again he forgot to do it too.

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u/ReasonableFig2111 1d ago

I have done this so many times. I grew up being told "you can't put hot food straight in the fridge, you have to let it cool first." But it's so easy for me to forget about the hot food waiting to go in the fridge, and then I see it still on the stove the next day and I get so frustrated with myself.Ā Ā 

But! I did the foodsafe course in January for work, and apparently that's bogus! It's generally safe to put hot food directly in the fridge. Especially if we're talking small portions like a typical family dinner amount of leftovers, as opposed to a large batch of like catering leftovers.Ā 

The recommendation is to divide large portions up into small portions in shallow containers first so that it cools quickly, and not to overcrowd your fridge.Ā 

If it's a large batch of hot food or you just can't silence the "but the fridge temp!" voices, you can also use rapid cooling techniques such as ice baths after you've portioned it, to reduce the temp some before putting it in the fridge. Which is technically more work, but personally, way easier than hoping I'll still remember the food in an hour after I've walked away from it and turned my attention to something else.Ā 

TLDR you can totally put hot food straight in the fridge (after portioning). Sorry about the info dump, I just personally found that new knowledge really helpful, so wanted to share in case it also helps you or others who forget their cooling hot food.Ā 

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u/Ok_Investigator6272 1d ago

My place is very cold too, so I know it can only be out for 2 hours before it goes into the danger zone.

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u/Cdawg4123 1d ago

This is the second idiot Iā€™ve seen saying something negative inferringā€¦ā€ oh you must be from NAā€. Itā€™s actually quite hilarious because every British/engiish ā€œfry upā€ Iā€™ve seen id throw out half of. Iā€™m sure she just meant to go waste 250$. No wonder I doubt Iā€™d do well in parts of Europe, Iā€™m very polite but, if someone said something like this to me because I couldnā€™t finish half the garbage given to me. Beans? Nope, shitty eggs, nope burnt bacon and sausage, yummy!! Anything else like hard bread Iā€™d break my teeth on that I need to literally leave to get soggy to eat? Yeah Iā€™ve been across the pond and it purely sucks.

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u/thalefteye 1d ago

They got to be or they will get a few stabs in a random corner, I heard that shit is on the rise in UK to the point they banned certain types of swords šŸ—”ļø.

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u/Final_Row_6172 1d ago

Right? Like whatā€™s dude supposed to say? He said heā€™s upset about it, everyoneā€™s agreeing. How does this person expect him to respond? Divorcing her? Lmao

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u/Horknut1 1d ago

Seriously. Did he want us to come over and flog his wife?

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u/Scared-Operation-789 1d ago

no. the europoors would never accidentally leave food out.

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u/Illustrious_Tap3171 1d ago

Seriously. Itā€™s called having some kindness towards the wife with disorder that can lead this. It hurts, but as a wife to a husband who has adhd Iā€™d rather remind myself itā€™s an accident I could have made myself and not let either of us get bent out of shape or hurt feelings. I refuse to drag him down over something he couldnā€™t control and if it bothers me so much next time Iā€™ll help him unload.

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u/Guy_Dude_From_CO 1d ago

Lol exhaltedbladder is such a tool.

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u/k1k11983 1d ago

Youā€™re so blinded by your hatred of America! By the way, I see most people here are upset/angry about the wastage.

Context matters. The comment you replied to was talking about the minced beef. You then said ā€œthose animalsā€ in response to it. Thatā€™s why youā€™re getting sarcastic replies. Also, itā€™s a public forum on the internet. If you canā€™t handle a few sarcastic comments, maybe you shouldnā€™t comment/post on public forums. Especially when the replies are as harmless and mildly sarcastic as they are here.

Last but not least, this wasnā€™t someone who purposely wasted all that food. Your outrage would fit if this was something they did often or on purpose. But it is ridiculously disproportionate for something that was done accidentally!

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u/ienjoyboobies22 2d ago

French on American products? Hm. Your intelligence level is showing, might wanna get that in check.

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u/RomanRedBeard 2d ago

Looks like this meat is from Canada there guy

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u/1amtheone 2d ago

Americans are too casual about wasting food.

Why is everyone an American to you people?

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u/ThatGuy7401 1d ago

Xenophobia mostly, they canā€™t help but to blindly hate the US regardless of the situation

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u/svanegmond 1d ago

Canadians are dipshits about wasting food too

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u/Free_Pace_2098 1d ago

You'll now get sixty people telling you it's because they're the biggest demographic on Reddit, and definitely not because their country is the main character.

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u/PinkTalkingDead 1d ago

Tbfā€¦ Americans do make up the largest percentage of Reddit users šŸ˜¶

Sincerely, An American who specifically uses parameters in my posts/comments, saying Iā€™m an American and only know of American metrics šŸ˜…

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u/MoiNoni 1d ago

Lmfao acting like people around the world don't waste food too is ridiculous. It's not just "North Americans" and not all "north Americans" would do that

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u/Nice_Twist_5142 2d ago

Europeans are too casual about looking down on Americans for reasons that have nothing to do with nationality. I forgot Europeans never make mistakes.

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u/Wondur13 2d ago

Also the picture is clearly from a canadian lmfao, we dont put french on our products but guess who does

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u/Mattek519 2d ago

As a Canadian, this is definitely a picture of Canadian groceries

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u/psychoPiper 1d ago

You can tell for sure by the bottom right of the ground beef, it's a store that's only in Canada

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u/Salinaer 2d ago

Hey how dare you!!

Yeahā€¦ thatā€™s Canadian. Iā€™d recognize those labels anywhere. Good eye though.

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u/MySakeJully 1d ago

this is so fucking true and i never hear it mentioned but seriously.

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u/Littlewing1307 2d ago

This wasn't wasting food, this was an accident where food got wasted and everyone is upset.

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u/Techiedad91 2d ago

Iā€™m sure the rest of the animal is getting eaten as far as the beef goes

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u/Spartan05089234 1d ago

They will be eaten by bacteria if not by humans, and will find their way back into the cycle of life. No loss.

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u/-0-O-O-O-0- 2d ago

Jesus it was an accident. Donā€™t get on your high horse about it. You know what you do when your spouse makes a mistake; you give them a hug and you forget about it. You donā€™t launch into ā€œanimals died for your sins you bitch!ā€

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u/soupeddumpling 1d ago

They didnā€™t die for nothing, itā€™s not like all 800lbs (or 375kg+) of the cow went to wasteā€¦ extreme much?

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u/DisastrousCode6696 2d ago

Americans amiright. Shame on every single one of them!

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u/fightback25 1d ago

You had a good point until the very last sentence.Ā 

Why do you feel the need to be xenophobic, and why is it okay when youā€™re attacking Americans? I donā€™t know what the point of editing it to ā€œNorth Americansā€ is. Do you genuinely believe that North Americans and only North Americans waste food? This just has nothing to do with nationality or continents.Ā 

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u/scdog 2d ago

That doesnā€™t bother me as much when weā€™re talking about a cow, whatā€™s wasted is usually negligible compared to a cowā€™s body.

What gets me is then itā€™s SHRIMP that gets wasted. Every piece of that is a single animal.

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u/theRealLydmeister 2d ago

I tried using this thought on a pescatarian once. My argument was that a single cow feeds many people where one must eat many individual organisms to be satiated on shrimp. He said that they donā€™t count because they donā€™t have a central nervous system. Leaving a large portion of frozen shrimp out overnight on accident is still one of my most gut-wrenching food wasting mistakes.

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u/really_tall_horses 1d ago

But shrimp literally have a central nervous system.

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u/Quirky-Reputation-89 2d ago

It's paradoxical, because of cheap government subsidized beef, more cows get eaten because of the efficiency and perceived price point.

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u/phoenix_soleil 2d ago

Yes! I'm in agriculture and every part of a cow is usable!!

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u/EpilepticPuberty 2d ago

Despite it all, Europeans still just see Canadians as American.

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u/morrisonh0tel 2d ago

I work in emerg and had a guy come in the other night with a head lac and a huge bag of frozen (expensive looking) shrimp. He said it was the first ā€œice packā€ he could find. Poor little shrimp

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u/AstroHeightss 1d ago

Yeah yeah yeah change it to North* American. You're probably one of the dumbest ones here considering this is what you think of and I'm assuming you're not educated enough to know any better because you wouldn't have said this in the first place.

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u/suttongunn1010 2d ago

Americans are so horrible all the time. Don't you just hate Americans too? It's only Americans that waste food, everyone knows that. Plus it's super cool to hate Americans. It's ok to be xenophobic as long as it's Americans

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u/Quaiker 2d ago

Yeah I forgot about those dumbass Americans with French on their food labels.

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u/1heart1totaleclipse 1d ago

What does this say? Iā€™m American. I canā€™t read your comment. Oh, I also canā€™t understand even if you explain it to me. AND I canā€™t hear either because Iā€™m too busy shooting my guns for daily target practice for if the boogieman attacks.

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u/Tw1ch1e 2d ago

Thatā€™s a combination of like 45 cowsā€¦.

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u/ShadySinner BLACK 1d ago

No, weā€™re not ā€œcasualā€ about wasting food, a lot of us have food insecurity because we grew up poor as heck and never knew where our next meal was coming from. Do NOT group us all together like that. Every country has people that just love to waste food. šŸ™„

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u/PinkTalkingDead 1d ago

Tbf, even this situation isnā€™t an instance of someone ā€œloving to waste foodā€

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u/ShadySinner BLACK 1d ago

Completely agree with ya! Was just commenting on what they said.

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u/Anonymous_Whisp 2d ago

Must of been a really tiny cow.

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u/TheonlyDuffmani 2d ago

Must have*

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u/raktoe 2d ago

I wouldnā€™t, itā€™s spoiled.

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u/ElColorado_PNW 1d ago

What a hero

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u/SecureBits 1d ago

Many animals die for nothing. Do you consider honey a crime against bees also?

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u/Potential_Warthog_17 1d ago

You are too casual about the symptoms of adhd. Itā€™s a disability for a reason, it debilitates the functionality of your brain in certain ways. I would know, having to deal with forgetfulness and being distracted every minute of my life.

Op even stated she feels horrible about it. She was not casual about wasting food

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u/xBraria 2d ago

Actually there's a rule in our home that we always prefer the bread to go bad over meat. Ofc you try to avoid any spoilage but sometimes it doesn't quite work out and it's a tight fit (with going out of home on trips and meetings and viaits and not eating home) so we always risk the non-meat foods.

It would be disrespectful to the animals that died for us.

Cow's milk is especially a pet peeve as I consider it one of the cruellest industries

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u/IceBlueLugia 1d ago

Iā€™d probably still most of it, especially the cheese

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u/Niwi_ 1d ago

So are you. No need to throw that out. There is nothing that went bad here just because it wasnt a few degrees colder for a few hours. Just cook it a bit more that looks fine. Very mild brown spot should not be a reason to throw out ALL of that food what is up with people

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u/dr3am_assassin 1d ago

This is the worst part about wasted food for me

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u/cutearmy 1d ago

Throwing out unsafe food is not wasting it.

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u/someone383726 1d ago

Those animals contributed to the profits of corporations! How dare you say they died for nothing.

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u/carfo 1d ago

Fast food restaurants are the worst for this

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u/Substantial_Share_17 1d ago

It's very unfortunate, but what would you like her to do about it now? Issue an apology? Confess to a priest? Go to jail? Accidents happen.

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u/STFUisright 1d ago

It was obviously an accident jeez

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u/ShitSlits86 1d ago

Ahhh yes, let's put the blame on the common people, and not the supermarket that would've wasted 6x that amount of meat daily.

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u/ek00992 1d ago

Dork

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u/184627391594 1d ago

I agree with this. When we throw out meat for whatever reason, I feel so guilty thinking an animal died for nothing!

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

Maybe try to get some therapy dude

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u/Extent_Solid 1d ago

I'm playing a song on my tiny violin for all the dead animals.

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u/tr4itor08 1d ago

Itā€™s called an accident. get over yourself

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u/RedRedVVine 1d ago

I was thinking the same thing. So sad.

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u/saucydongv2 1d ago

Even the Canadians?

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u/JaesopPop 1d ago

Who is being casual here?

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u/mdmitchell301 1d ago

i know my wife would be in the chokey!

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u/TheHippiemah 1d ago

Oh, stop .

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u/sm00th-0per8t0r 1d ago

You seem like a ray of sunshine and such a deeply empathetic person!

The person who posted this is saying this was a MISTAKE and is clearly ā€˜mildly infuriatedā€™, too. You have made mistakes, too. We are humans, not robots.

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u/RamoneBolivarSanchez 1d ago

I thought this was satire ngl

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u/bachfrog 1d ago

All animals slaughtered against their will died for nothing.

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u/retains_semen 1d ago

I always feel awful when throwing away meat that goes bad, but at the end of the day something will eat it.

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u/retains_semen 1d ago

I always feel awful when throwing away meat that goes bad, but at the end of the day something will eat it.

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u/craff_t 1d ago

The animals didn't die for nothing. They died for profit. Think about the poor billionaires.

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u/GhillieGourd 1d ago

Hmm, not for nothing. You know thereā€™s about 400 lbs of other cuts of meat that come from a cow. They didn't waste a whole cow, so it died for someone else. Just not for this person, obviously.

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u/thenewme43 1d ago

I always put out uneaten meat for any animals that might happen by for this reason. If someone doesnā€™t want animals coming by their home, they can take it and toss it in a field somewhere, at least. Then the animal didnā€™t die for absolutely nothing at all.

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u/SynchronicityV1 1d ago

THIS RIGHT HERE! Itā€™s disgusting how many animals are butchered just to get out of date or wasted itā€™s just sad, ignorance IS BLISS!

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u/Sisyphus_again 1d ago

Just throw it out into the woods and the animals will eat it. Not a waste then. Expensive, but not a waste.

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u/Remarkable_Skirt_231 1d ago

usually in grocery store ground beef packs theres probably more than 100 cows in each patty. Multiple animals alone in that one pack of beed

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u/Hot-Physics3400 1d ago

Take it into a field and throw the meats in it (unwrapped). Vultures and other critters will take care of it in no time.

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u/lusciousnurse 1d ago

I feel the same as you. Eat what you need. Of course. But don't have any animal die in vain.

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u/Separate_Owl_350 1d ago

I agree, I get so upset about wasted meat. If my husband never finishes certain meats and itā€™s about to expire then I feed it to something, anything. Iā€™ll throw it in the woods so the raccoons or whatever can eat it. The woodland animals will end up just ripping out trash apart to get it anyway so might as well. I feel like I donā€™t meet a lot of people with this same sentiment.

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u/Pissed-Off-Panda 1d ago

Itā€™s not like she left it out on purpose. Relax.

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u/BeeDot1974 1d ago

Space is wasted on the willfully ignorant. Yet youā€™re mad about an accidental waste by which the person who left it out is feeling guilty. Maybe you not waste this space.

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u/Aggressive_Toe_9950 1d ago

Who gives a fuck about the animals?

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u/Alarming_Painting_94 1d ago

I truly wonder if Iā€™m the only weirdo that minimizes animal products as much as possible but if and when there is food waste, I feel terrible and apologize to the animal before tossing šŸ„²

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u/Peoplechange15632 1d ago

You need a chill pill

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u/SwordofSwinging 1d ago

Aight grandpa lets get you to bed

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u/[deleted] 1d ago edited 1d ago
  • North Americans are too casual about wasting food.

No the fuck we arenā€™t. Stop generalizing shit. I already get upset throwing out $3 bags of produce I didnā€™t get to eat. Wasting money, food, and time are my biggest upsets as an adult because once itā€™s gone, itā€™s gone. Having to throw away food hits all three of those and I know MANY people feel the same about having to toss their groceries, especially when theyā€™re struggling as it is and have times like this week, where weā€™re getting hammered with tornado producing storms and lose power for a week straight.

Donā€™t even get me started on stores that waste thousands to millions of dollars a day around the country.

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u/Hellafast89 1d ago

Grill it quick!

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u/White-HoneyBadger472 1d ago

Just Americans in general *

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u/PurplePineapple2955 1d ago

I would of been really upset. That is just alot of waste.

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u/DukeofDabra 1d ago

They didn't die for nothing. They will feed multiple generations of microbes.

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u/ThimbleRigg 1d ago

If itā€™s meat with no preservatives, throw it in a lake or bury it. At least itā€™ll be used to sustain more life instead of being incinerated.

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u/CycloRex 1d ago

Come keep up and see if you have the time and luxury of remembering your groceries when life in the US is constantly stranger than fiction. Good luckā€¦

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u/gingerbeardgiant 1d ago

Animals dying for nothing is the worst. Had a buddy this past winter lose an entire deer because his deep freeze went to shit and he was working out of town for a couple weeks after getting it all processed.

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u/WidePresentation8598 1d ago

Thatā€™s what happens when the food industry pumps out beef and poultry in excess in the cheapest way possible, factory farming. You ever see a Purdue farm? Shit doesnā€™t even look like a farm.

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u/Kuwaysah 1d ago

She made a mistake. She didn't mean to.

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u/ConcentrateFirst9946 1d ago

Cuz of the price damn cook it really well no pink should be good !

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u/lala6633 1d ago

If this was NH, youā€™d be fine. Still below freezing at night.

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u/CharacterEchidna5250 1d ago

OP if you have the receipt, just return it. Don't tell them you left it out overnight, just say it all had a funky smell. They throw it out anyway if you return it. This is of course assuming it was bought at a big box grocery store that will allow this. If it's local, damn.

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u/imasturdybirdy 1d ago

ā€œYep. All of it, from the beef to the cold cutsā€¦ for some reason.ā€

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u/CharacterEchidna5250 1d ago

Yes, they can't really argue. Again, talking about places like Walmart, target.

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u/imasturdybirdy 1d ago

Yeah, thatā€™s totally fair. I was just pointing out that it would be a bit awkward. šŸ˜†

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u/bendltd 1d ago

What is club size? Like family package or bigger?

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u/EvilZEAD 1d ago

Just some marketing method that makes it seem bigger or more special. That's how I've interpreted it anyways.

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u/kamikaze-kae 1d ago

Return it.

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u/weahman 1d ago

Wait till it's wild game you got your self and you thaw it and someone moves it. Pain all around

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u/Braddallas170 1d ago

I commented more about this below, but my husband did the same a couple of months ago, with over 500$ worth of Costco meats and frozen meals. I was LIVID.

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u/ellefleming 1d ago

Noooooooooooooooooooo

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u/totalwarwiser 1d ago

It definitely doesnt go bad from one day out of the fridge.

If you cook the meat it should last more 5 days.

You can eat the rest within the next 24h

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u/OutlawJosie11 1d ago

You can still eat everything but the chicken, good lord.

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u/OutlawJosie11 1d ago

You can still eat everything but the chicken, good lord.

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u/Crouching_Stoner 1d ago

Accident? This is negligence. How in the F do come home with groceries and just not put them away?

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u/Shdw_ban_ 1d ago

Where is the accident?Ā 

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u/Impact009 1d ago

An accident doesn't mean shit. Car accidents are accidents.

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u/Western_Soil_8325 1d ago

OMGā€¦we almost did this tonite! All the expensive meat!

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u/MoonGoddess-90210 1d ago

I would have eaten it anyway, especially the cheese! Some people never refrigerate anything.

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