h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Whilst responding to the question of redcurrant jam, I was left musing on the above question.

Our fridge contains a year old bottle of sun dried tomato marinade. I am sure it will come in useful at some point. Like when the children have grown up and left home for instance.

PP

Carrot juice. I buy some once a year and stick it in the fridge because it makes me feel healthier to have it in the house. I've been doing this for years, and have yet to actually try the stuff...


Mikey

There's an egg from the last millenium in mine.

It's become a souvenir.

Ahh, the last millenium. I remember it well.

PP

There is nothing old in the fridge at the moment, but::
Whilst at my last University, I had a unopened bottle of milk in the fridge for an astonishing four weeks; on rediscovering the offending bottle of milk, I opened it there are no words sufficient to explain what ensued...
I then attempted to pour the offending milk down the drain::
couldn't, it was completely solid::
went in teh bin..


Oh; I once had a bottle of beer in teh fridge for a whole 4 days, which must be something like a world record?

During the first month at Uni (first degree, not current one), we went through a rather alcoholic phase, everything I had in the fridge was alcoholic; vodka marg, brandy milk, vodka icecubes, vodka jelly, but none of that stayed there very long..

Not my doing; but the fridge here at Uni, which is communal as is the norm I guess, after christmass contained a quantity of some description of fish, that was a good three or four weeks old, and led to the fridge being taken away for a severe cleaning, and a severe telling-off for my floor, as no one would claim the fish as theres, we all got the wrath of guilt..

2Legs,

please don't reduce this thread to farce. Beer! Four days!

PP

Total "Authentic Greek Yoghurt" - 200g: best before 9 Sep 1999
Sainsburys "Fresh Double Cream" - 142ml: best before 7 Jan 2000

Both are sealed and seem pretty OK looking to me. I'll put them back where I found them now

Hi there people

This conversation has brought to mind a question I had a few years ago. How long does beer keep? I am not a beer drinker and only buy beer when I move to encourage the folks that help with the move. On one such instance they didn't drink it all - and it was still there 5 years later. i threw it away eventually but I've always wondered if it would have been fit to drink.

Well I am a Scot - hate to throw anything away!

In my current fridge there is a jar of marmalade that was in the fridge when i got it (secondhand) - that was two years ago. Don't know how long it was there before i got it!

176645

Molecules of Hydrogen.
I drank all the beer.

last week I found a hunk of cheese in the refrigerator that went bad four years ago. Not too long ago I found a bottle of Snapple Iced Tea that was five months past its date and it had this huge unidentifyable mass growing in it. The only problem was that I didn't find out how old it was until after I drank some and it didn't taste at all like iced tea

You lot are starting to scare me.......!!

If I understand you correctly, I may have saved my life last weekend when I cleaned out the icebox!
I DID find some old beer from the last party I threw, over (ahem) years ago; the way I feel about beer, though, I wouldn't have been able to tell if it had turned or not!

SC

One of my friends kept Easter eggs she dyed at my house in her refrigerator for over a year

Does it have to be in the refridgerator? Because in my family we have a tradition of every x-mas buying a carton of this special x-mas drink and putting it on top of the closet. Then the next year we throw it out and buy a new one. But once we found one that had been there for about 4 years. Or maybe 6. It´s not a conscious habit, just nobody ever drinks the stuff. We may have had older things but I can´t remember them right now.

That milk should just have been left for a few weeks more, then you could have sold it as cheese.

Cheese triangles - 3 weeks old.
Bought them for my son, he ate the last pack but this pack has remained untouched. If he hasn't eaten them by the end of this week, they are going out.

My house mates are moving out one by one it being the end of our year out, the fridges are still full, I have 1 shelf, can my last reamaining house mate really use the remaining 2 3/4 fridges?!

So the oldest thing in my fridges is something that doesn't belong to me and probably doesn't belong to my house mate either

Mel

Well none of this was in fridges, but it was all pretty old.

My mother used to make Christmas puddings for consumption the following year, (this works really well), but in about 1988 we found one which must have been made in 1982. My ex thought I was crazy, but I just stuck it with skewers every month or so and filled it with brandy from the middle of the summer onwards. It was the best pudding we ever ate. (6 years)

When we cleared out my parents house in 1995 we found raisins and sutanas with best before dates of 1984, when they moved in. (11 years).

The top layer of my wedding cake is still in my ex's house. (16 years).

In 1999 I took some cardboard and tin spice 'jars' to a friend of mine who had a collection of retail victoriana. These were not victorian, but they were probably pre-war, 1950s at the latest. (>45 years).

My brother has a bottle of scotch which has been up and down the khyber pass either 4 or 6 times and which was intended to celebrate the birth of my uncle (79 years).

I think that's about it.

a robust immune system called Ben

The scotch should be OK. In fact I'd hang on to the bottle its probably worth something now. But the spices will be inedible now.

When my Mum a few years back was clearing out her house she came across a pack of pressed dates with a price label of "5d" making them at least 25 years old. They got turned into a delicious date cake

I did have a 6 or 7 week old bottle of milk (skimmed UHT, ordinary milk after a day makes me churn).
Other than that the oldest thing probably would be some of the film I've got in there. Probably the Kodachrome25 since Kodak has stopped making it.

Mel

Oh thank god, I though I was the only person in the whole world who had stuff the old. The oldest thing right now is probably some whipped cread that is about a week and a half old. I havent had the courage to look in the bowl to see what color it has turned. I think I may do so today.
Oh right, I have a half eaten sack of potatoes in the fridge about 3 months old. They have probably mutated to some other form of vegatable by now. Oh well, eventually they´ll crawl out by them selves.
Truth be told, I always know I have these much to old things in my fridge, I´m just to lazy to throw them out.

Oh, and I have a bad habbit of buying yohgurt and then not eating it because I don´t really like it that much. I just buy it when it´s on sale because it´s cheap and I make myself believe that this time I´ll eat it. I just never do...