Scary food tricks
Feb. 7th, 2006 08:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dianec42So I had this great plan... as we were out of Balance bars, I thought I'd bring a Healthy Snack to work today. So I put some baby carrots into a Gladware tub, and threw a few BabyBel cheeses in with the carrots 'cause I'm lazy and if they were in the bottom of a big shopping bag I knew I'd never find them again.
Now, these carrots were not the shiniest and newest, but they looked and smelled okay this morning.
So around 4 PM I get out the Gladware tub... and it's seriously inflated. Okay.... I'm assuming this means the carrots have gone off. (They still smelled okay, but the one thing worse than having a yucky head cold is having a yucky head cold AND *ahem* digestive distress... so I decided throwing out the carrots was the better part of valor.)
There was also some moisture going on in there, so I put the BabyBels on a napkin... only to discover that the red plastic wrappers were leaching Yucky Red Dye onto the napkin! EWW!
So there you have it: Week-old carrots, the universal solvent. Well, I was certainly impressed.
Now, these carrots were not the shiniest and newest, but they looked and smelled okay this morning.
So around 4 PM I get out the Gladware tub... and it's seriously inflated. Okay.... I'm assuming this means the carrots have gone off. (They still smelled okay, but the one thing worse than having a yucky head cold is having a yucky head cold AND *ahem* digestive distress... so I decided throwing out the carrots was the better part of valor.)
There was also some moisture going on in there, so I put the BabyBels on a napkin... only to discover that the red plastic wrappers were leaching Yucky Red Dye onto the napkin! EWW!
So there you have it: Week-old carrots, the universal solvent. Well, I was certainly impressed.
