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Another year, another rancid, week old Turkey!

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bahhamburgers · 31/12/2023 12:25

Can anyone beat this record?

PIL have had the same massive Turkey and large ham on the go and kept in the oven, not even the fridge, since Christmas Day. They are passing by tomorrow and will drop us off the last bits of them for New Year’s Day (it will go in the bin, I wouldn’t even feed it to the cat).

They have been in kept in the oven since Christmas Day, brought out for bits to be hacked off and sometimes warmed in the oven again.

The oven (and microwave) are magic you see. If you keep things in them, no germs will get to it. Nothing that should see a fridge in their house does. But oddly, that’s where they keep bread and cake.

These are the people who make a chicken stew, or chicken pasta sauce once a week and leave it on the hob for 6/7 days, but it’s okay, they heat it all up before they have some. MIL has dropped round a lasagne a couple of times and helpfully told me just to put it in the oven as it’s been in hers since she made it a few days ago.

I don’t know how they are still alive after decades of this to be honest.

Dh tried the same shit when we first moved in together as he’d grown up like that, but thankfully, he’s seen the light regarding food hygiene.

We never eat there, or anything they have cooked!

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rubywoooooo · 31/12/2023 12:25

Jesus that is so grim.

ANightmareBeforeChristmas · 31/12/2023 12:39

I guess they have developed immunity to it over the years.

JollyHollyXmasTime · 31/12/2023 12:40

What do you think people did before we had fridges?

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YouJustDoYou · 31/12/2023 12:40

Oh sweet lord that is vile! How are they still alive?

Cappuccinfortwo · 31/12/2023 12:42

JollyHollyXmasTime · 31/12/2023 12:40

What do you think people did before we had fridges?

They didn't leave things out for weeks and then heat it and cool it several times that's for sure!

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bahhamburgers · 31/12/2023 12:42

JollyHollyXmasTime · 31/12/2023 12:40

What do you think people did before we had fridges?

I don’t care. I’m not eating food that has been left in an oven/ on the hob and repeatedly heated up for a week.

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Shudacudawuda · 31/12/2023 12:44

JollyHollyXmasTime · 31/12/2023 12:40

What do you think people did before we had fridges?

Why do you think fridges were invented and are such a popular item that virtually every home in the UK now has one?

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bahhamburgers · 31/12/2023 12:45

And I have said something before. I have known them 15 years. It started world war 3 when dd was a baby and MIL tried repeatedly to feed her the chicken pasta sauce that had been sat on the hob for days, even though dh and I repeatedly told her not to. They have never had the children alone as they don’t see the problem and would feed them unsafely stored food. I am the ridiculous one.

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ANightmareBeforeChristmas · 31/12/2023 12:47

JollyHollyXmasTime · 31/12/2023 12:40

What do you think people did before we had fridges?

Not keep food hanging about for a week.

Mrsjayy · 31/12/2023 12:51

JollyHollyXmasTime · 31/12/2023 12:40

What do you think people did before we had fridges?

well they probably got sick !

op thats grim how they havnt had upset stomachs is beyond me !

DobbyRuth · 31/12/2023 12:56

There was a uni student in the news recently who died after eating pasta that was left out for 5 days. I’m genuinely amazed they haven’t become ill

Nineteendays · 31/12/2023 12:58

JollyHollyXmasTime · 31/12/2023 12:40

What do you think people did before we had fridges?

well they obviously found it tricky hence inventing fridges

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bahhamburgers · 31/12/2023 12:59

DobbyRuth · 31/12/2023 12:56

There was a uni student in the news recently who died after eating pasta that was left out for 5 days. I’m genuinely amazed they haven’t become ill

Yes, I even forwarded that to dh to prove to him that it’s dangerous. We had a few arguments over the children not being allowed to eat at his parents until he saw
sense.

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SoupDragon · 31/12/2023 13:02

Their immune systems must be truly amazing!

LittlePudding1 · 31/12/2023 13:02

JollyHollyXmasTime · 31/12/2023 12:40

What do you think people did before we had fridges?

Didn't take long for the stupid comment to appear

CandyLeBonBon · 31/12/2023 13:13

JollyHollyXmasTime · 31/12/2023 12:40

What do you think people did before we had fridges?

Well they got food poisoning and died. Which is why the fridge was invented. Necessity is the mother of invention and all that!

CaramelMac · 31/12/2023 13:14

My in laws do this sort of thing, and they also keep bread in the fridge. And they regularly eat meat well past its use by date. When we found out then the amount of sickness bugs they always seem to have started to make sense.

Trinity65 · 31/12/2023 13:15

Before people had fridges they would go out daily or every other day to buy their provisions
Local shops were better than now though to be honest so you could walk to a butchers, grocers, supermarket etc

LonelynSad · 31/12/2023 13:20

Have they never even had the runs!?!? I bet your DH was coincidentally a 'poorly baby?!?'

N0tfinished · 31/12/2023 13:22

JollyHollyXmasTime · 31/12/2023 12:40

What do you think people did before we had fridges?

They pickled, salted, smoked, dehydrated, canned etc etc

There's a myriad of preservation methods that pre-existed fridges.

Xis · 31/12/2023 13:44

LittlePudding1 · Today 13:02

JollyHollyXmasTime · Today 12:40

What do you think people did before we had fridges?
Didn't take long for the stupid comment to appear

While I’m not suggesting people don’t use fridges and freezers, this isn’t such a stupid comment. I briefly studied at a university in Africa some years ago and remember when one of the unofficial residents of my room cooked a large pot of tomato stew. I wondered what she was going to do with it as it was way too much for one or two people to eat in one day.

She gave it a good heat through every morning for a good few days, don’t remember how many exactly. And this was sub-Saharan Africa, so 25 degree plus temperatures. Our immune systems were possibly more robust than the typical modern-day Brit though, on account of facing greater challenges, so that’s another consideration.

tokesqueen · 31/12/2023 14:00

PIL do this. But throw a dirty tea towel over it.

OhmygodDont · 31/12/2023 14:26

That is grim.

also before fridges we used to still store and preserve as best we could. Canning, dehydrating, smoking, salted or picked. Community fridges/freezers that where in caves and such if you had that local. It’s why people had basements/cellars as they were colder. It’s why larders where built the way they are to keep things cold.

hell my pantry/larder is freezing even in summer because when my house was built it was designed so that the kitchen was north and then the larder is in there on a cold slab with ventilation. The front of the house gets near zero sun. Then the front outhouse is even bloody colder next to the coal shed. That’s how people kept food not just sat on their cookers. The only heat source the kitchen had was the oven and the old style floor boiler that had to have a brick flue and ran one downstairs radiator and the hot water.

Cyclistmumgrandma · 31/12/2023 14:29

My grandma didn't have a fridge and summer holidays were always spent there. My parents, who had both grown up without a fridge were fine as they had cast iron immune systems. Despite milk always being boiled at the end of the day, and food rarely being kept for long, my sister and I got tummy upsets each year with monotonous regularity!

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bahhamburgers · 31/12/2023 17:06

Cyclistmumgrandma · 31/12/2023 14:29

My grandma didn't have a fridge and summer holidays were always spent there. My parents, who had both grown up without a fridge were fine as they had cast iron immune systems. Despite milk always being boiled at the end of the day, and food rarely being kept for long, my sister and I got tummy upsets each year with monotonous regularity!

Dh siblings children spend a LOT of time with PIL and they are often ill. They always seem to have stomach bugs. SIL mentioned once about how my children never seem to have stomach issues and haven’t “inherited” the stomach problems their cousins have. I held my mouth and didn’t point out the bloody obvious.

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