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John Junk

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How Long in the Fridge is Too Long in the Fridge?
« on: November 12, 2007, 03:35:00 PM »
Specifically, w/r/t rotisserie chicken.  I'm at the ten-day mark right now.  Dare I partake?  I am ascared.

Andy

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Re: How Long in the Fridge is Too Long in the Fridge?
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2007, 03:36:47 PM »
I probably would, but I'm adventurous when it comes to that stuff.  If it smells ok it's probably alright.
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Re: How Long in the Fridge is Too Long in the Fridge?
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2007, 03:44:46 PM »
under 7 days for cooked meat.

please, for the love of god....
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Sarah

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Re: How Long in the Fridge is Too Long in the Fridge?
« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2007, 04:02:33 PM »
While it's true that if it smells all right, it's probably okay to eat, if it were mine, I'd probably strip the meat off the bones and give it to the beasts.

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Re: How Long in the Fridge is Too Long in the Fridge?
« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2007, 04:04:00 PM »
It doesn't have a funk to it? I'd cut it up into little pieces and make some sort of stew/soup.

John Junk

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Re: How Long in the Fridge is Too Long in the Fridge?
« Reply #5 on: November 12, 2007, 05:00:18 PM »
Okay, here's my update.  I ate a wing and it was okay, but pretty bland and on the gross side.  I inspected the breasts (insert joke), and found them to be developing a tough exterior that is very subtly approaching a greenish hue.  Undoubtedly, this would be fine for a dog to eat, but I am a man, not a beast, so I must abstain. 

Thank you all for your advice and support on this matter.

Sarah

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Re: How Long in the Fridge is Too Long in the Fridge?
« Reply #6 on: November 12, 2007, 05:34:44 PM »
Yeah, food goes tasteless just before it is noticeably rotten.  I applaud the wisdom of your decision.

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Re: How Long in the Fridge is Too Long in the Fridge?
« Reply #7 on: November 12, 2007, 06:17:15 PM »
Go vegan!





Or don't.  It's up to you. 





I'd prefer that you would though.  If you want that is.




Nevermind.

John Junk

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Re: How Long in the Fridge is Too Long in the Fridge?
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Laurie

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Re: How Long in the Fridge is Too Long in the Fridge?
« Reply #9 on: November 12, 2007, 11:41:15 PM »
Why do you guys hate your dogs so much? I swear, my cats eat better than I do. They had turducken cat food for dinner tonight. Check out the ingredients:

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Turkey, Chicken, Chicken Broth, Duck, Fresh Sweet Potatoes, Fresh Carrots, Fresh Snow Peas, Fresh Golden Delicious Apples, Potato Starch-Modified, Dried Cranberry, Olive Oil, Flax Seed Oil (For Omega -3), Cassia Gum, Carrageenan, Potassium Chloride, Tricalcium Phosphate, Choline Chloride, Salt, Taurine, Mixed Tocopherols, Vitamin E Supplement, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Zinc Amino Acid Complex, Iron Amino Acid Complex, Manganese Amino Acid Complex, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Copper Amino Acid Complex,d-Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin A Acetate, Niacin, Lecithin, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement, Folic Acid, Ethylenediamine Dihydriodide, Cobalt Glucoheptanate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Biotin, Thiamine Mononitrate, Sodium Selenite

Seriously, you guys. I don't know if my cats appreciate the fresh snow peas, and I don't know why they need folic acid, but damn it, they deserve it. Tomorrow, they're having California roll cat food.

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Re: How Long in the Fridge is Too Long in the Fridge?
« Reply #10 on: November 12, 2007, 11:46:15 PM »
no wonder your calico has a princess complex.
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Re: How Long in the Fridge is Too Long in the Fridge?
« Reply #11 on: November 12, 2007, 11:50:15 PM »
Can you imagine 200 years ago? Just salt-tack and maggoty biscuits.



 
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John Junk

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Re: How Long in the Fridge is Too Long in the Fridge?
« Reply #12 on: November 13, 2007, 02:13:15 AM »


Seriously, you guys. I don't know if my cats appreciate the fresh snow peas, and I don't know why they need folic acid, but damn it, they deserve it. Tomorrow, they're having $25,000 chocolate sundaes.

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Re: How Long in the Fridge is Too Long in the Fridge?
« Reply #13 on: November 13, 2007, 03:27:18 AM »
Three to four days tops for optimum freshness if it isn't loaded with preservatives. Your name should by now be John 24-Hour-Hell-Out-Both-Ends-Junket. Considering it's meat (actually, same goes for anything high in protein, like beans, chick peas, etc.), unless it was frozen, you were running a slippery gauntlet into lethal illness land. You, my friend, are lucky to be alive (I'm actually afraid to look at the date stamp on your most recent post...). The only thing that may have saved you is your steady diet of greasy funk.
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Sarah

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Re: How Long in the Fridge is Too Long in the Fridge?
« Reply #14 on: November 13, 2007, 08:29:26 AM »
Hey, Laurie, in the wild, dogs will often eat half-rotted meat that's left over from the big-time predators' kills. Old meat is easier for them to digest.  So meat off a ten-day-old chicken would be quite a treat.  Call that hate?

Actually, I'm just all defensive because I've been trying so hard to do right by my beasts for the last six months or so. Every two weeks I remove the meat from chicken quarters, carefully chunk it, grind the bones along with heart, liver, and skin, and then mix everything with organic egg yolks to make my cat food.  My dogs get eggs and raw meat, for now, on an extremely expensive and wholesome kibble but soon exclusively.  As much as I can afford it, I buy my raw materials from the local organic farm.  Hell, my animals' food is tastier and healthier than my own. 

And in any case cats really don't need anything but protein, so all those veggies are just a fancy form of roughage. So there.

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