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What the heck is this??!!

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fiddlesticksandotherwords · 15/09/2023 15:16

I just had a rummage in my freezer looking for inspiration for tonight's dinner and found a plastic container containing leftovers of some sort. I always write on the lid what things are, and it clearly says:

CEDRIC GROSS

What in the wide world can it be? Do I have to thaw it so I can find out? It looks like it may be something with rice, but what? 😂

OP posts:
Doggymummar · 15/09/2023 15:18

Dead 🐹 hamster?

Oddsocks55 · 15/09/2023 15:20

Could you have written it backwards? So it's actually SSORG CIRDEC?

Happy to help!

marygirling · 15/09/2023 15:20

We need a photo!

fiddlesticksandotherwords · 15/09/2023 15:21

I thought of that @Oddsocks55 and I have also tried holding it up to a mirror so I can read it backwards and upside-down.

Baffled.

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INeedNewShoes · 15/09/2023 15:44

What colour is it?

Could the first word be celeriac?

Be careful OP. I recently had spaghetti a la gravy for dinner due to an unlabelled freezer item.

DrFoxtrot · 15/09/2023 15:46

Obvs you have to thaw it, heat it, taste it and MOST IMPORTANTLY, report back here.

BunnyBunnyJabberJabber · 15/09/2023 15:49

This probably won't help but he is a German footballer.

FunnysInLaJardin · 15/09/2023 15:58

I labelled a pot in the freezer as Runce which was actually tuna.

TBF I knew what it said, DH thought it said Runce

Show us a picture @fiddlesticksandotherwords

cuckyplunt · 15/09/2023 16:00

It’s chilli, it’s always chilli.

43ontherocksporfavor · 15/09/2023 16:03

@cuckyplunt 😂

Spinet · 15/09/2023 16:05

I had cheese sauce for lunch once thinking it was leek and potato soup. Cedric Gross sounds like a Harry Potter character.

cherryassam · 15/09/2023 16:07

Is the gross a comment on the quality of the food - were you giving future you a message that these are last resort leftovers only to be consumed in desperate times?

HadEnoughOfBears · 15/09/2023 16:22

BunnyBunnyJabberJabber · 15/09/2023 15:49

This probably won't help but he is a German footballer.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

HotelNotPortofino · 15/09/2023 16:25

Was a German footballer

now he’s in her freezer 😆

PelvicFloorClenchReminder · 15/09/2023 16:28

I can't believe you would turn a German footballer into chilli and dump him in your freezer. YABU.

MichelleScarn · 15/09/2023 16:31

Poorly translation as Fat Celeraic?

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 15/09/2023 16:33

cherryassam · 15/09/2023 16:07

Is the gross a comment on the quality of the food - were you giving future you a message that these are last resort leftovers only to be consumed in desperate times?

I'm voting for this one. I have been known to scribble DISGUSTING across recipes so I don't use them again, maybe OP thought this would do for rations in a real emergency when you'll eat anything. If we're right does rather raise the question of why freeze it rather than bin it, though.

fiddlesticksandotherwords · 15/09/2023 16:56

Spinet · 15/09/2023 16:05

I had cheese sauce for lunch once thinking it was leek and potato soup. Cedric Gross sounds like a Harry Potter character.

At least you didn't think it was custard and serve it with apple crumble!

I am going to have to thaw it out, aren't I? I have already liberated the rather more usefully-labelled PORK ROGAN JOSH and VEGETABLE SAMOSAS and we're having those tonight, so the suspense is going to have to continue until tomorrow I'm afraid...

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DatingDinosaur · 15/09/2023 17:01

Is it definitely your handwriting OP?

In my flat-share days we had "great fun" [eyeroll] putting inventive labels on each other's food. Usually anagrams but occasionally various body parts of exes.

cocksstrideintheevening · 15/09/2023 17:02

CELERY GROSS?

Need a picture of the contents!

43ontherocksporfavor · 15/09/2023 17:04

Celery gratin?

GreenIsTheMagicColour · 15/09/2023 17:07

Something with a Loyd Grossman sauce?

Alphabet1spaghetti2 · 15/09/2023 17:13

Something Cedric gave you and is gross? Cedric being a cat. and gross being the remains of a fur all awaiting investigation by a vet. Or worse the remains of a furry rodent which may have been last seen as a ‘missing’ poster on Facebook.

Resilience · 15/09/2023 17:19

HotelNotPortofino · 15/09/2023 16:25

Was a German footballer

now he’s in her freezer 😆

GrinGrinGrin

allthehops · 15/09/2023 17:22

Cauli cheese?