I've just eaten a three-week old chocolate croissant...

[pattihews]

On the long drive to the in-laws for Christmas we stopped at motorway services and I bought a 4-pack of M&S chocolate croissants to have with coffee. There was one left over, which I put in the glove compartment in its packaging and forgot about. Today my partner emptied the worst detritus out of the car before it went for its MOT.

Later I came into the house, found the croissant on the kitchen worktop, gave it 10 seconds in the microwave to warm it up (it seemed very dry) and ate it. It tasted okay. Wise women of MN, should I be worried?

No you'll be fine

Oh? Have you died now?

😁

At 2 years old, my dd ate an 8 day old party sausage that she found under the sideboard. I think you'll be fine.

It'll just have been a bit stale, drying helps preserve things like that.

I think you'll know within about 3 hours

Thank you for the reassurance. I'm not normally very fussy, but three weeks for something containing butter did make me wonder whether I should cancel plans for tomorrow and send out for extra loo paper.

As long as it didn't have mould on it you should be fine
Let us know tomorrow 😉

Just to let you know that I survived, though (TMI, look away those of you of a delicate disposition) I did have some spectacularly smelly farts — not something I normally suffer from and always a sign of digestive distress. I'd like to shake the hand of the gal who ate the 8-day-old sausage. She and my dog would get on well. The older and fluffier the find, the better! Cheers, all.