Aibu ...a massive argument over a pack of sausages

[Essiejohn345]

This is so ridiculous but anyway ...
Last Friday I bought a pack of Richmond sausages and opened them.
Today got home and boyfriend had made a sausage sandwich for him and one for me.
Tasted it and it tasted funny...kind of sour.
Anyway I looked in fridge and they were still in date but had been open a week.
I said I wouldn’t eat that,it tastes awful.
He started shouting expiry date was today etc etc.
I threw mine away.
He started moaning we won’t be buying sausages anymore now...then he ate it.
Should I just have ate it?
If it was in date would it be ok?

Who on earth has the self control to open a pack of sausages and not cook and eat all of them?! Bravo to both of you for that, but you definitely shouldn’t eat anything you don’t want to.

Also, if you only have one loo, a good way to respond to his ridiculous comments would be to run a lovely bath, candles, win and a book or music and be sure to lock the bathroom door...

Never trust the dates on packages. Trust your senses.

I never can find a nice sausage

Go to a butcher. Cook what you buy the same day. store cooked sausage in the fridge for a snack the next day. Anything that's uneaten, bag and freeze.

It wouldn't have bothered me. I wouldn't have an issue about eating sausages after 3 days if inside a sell by date and smelling/looking okay. Being a bit dry and losing texture won't cause any harm.

I'd be far more concerned about keeping raw meat in the fridge not covered up properly though, because of potentially contaminating other foods.

I would also be very unhappy about anyone 'shouting' at me about food, to be honest.

Can we start a sweep stake of when he's going to start throwing up?
I think 2.17 tomorrow morning

I think both ends. 10.25pm

Ha! It’s like predicting a baby’s weight and day of arrival.

I say stomach ache by 10pm, shits by 10.30 and the voms but 11....

He'll be absolutely fine.

If something smells dodgy .... avoid!! I wouldn't eat anything that had been open more than 2 nights in the fridge, in date or not!

To use a Denise Royle quote, they're made of eye'oles arse'oles and ear'oles

I wouldn't have eaten it if it tasted sour either

As for finding nice sausages - you need a good butcher! I always get mine from a local, independent butcher and they are always lovely. Can't beat sausages from anywhere else!

nice sausages = debbie and andrews from asda, Heck from tesco/asda.

They're £3 a pack mind but they're about 98% meat or something.

These days meat is hung for something like 3 weeks to tenderise it. It used to be hung for much, much longer. I remember asking my butcher for a joint of beef (special occasion) which had been hung for 18 weeks; he wasn't allowed to sell me anything like that. But it does show that meat can be kept for longer, though if it smelt off and tasted off to you then probably best to throw it away.

Its down to you - you weren't prepared to take the risk. Did the same myself tonight - the mincI don't trust my sense of smell after some serious damage after about 3 bouts of sinusitus one year and No sense of smell or taste for about 3 yrs - its slowly returning but no where near as good as it was and if I get a cold then it can be weird (e.g I can;t smell muck spreading other than a sweetness in the air, but other natural smells like mint or lemon are fine. Its really strange so I asked hubby to smell and taste the cooking and he said fine. Tummy OK so far 2 hrs and counting lol. I also used logic ie I froze it day of purchase, defrosted over about 2 hrs then put in fridge for 36 hrs before cooking so should have been fine.

Some people are also more sensitive than others when food on the turn etc. I am pretty robust but my parents just aren't so if it had been them I would have chucked.

I think just remind him he did all the right things but maybe you are coming down with something so your sense of smell/taste is off.

Who on earth has the self control to open a pack of sausages and not cook and eat all of them?!

People who buy Richmond sausages ;-)
The butcher sausages are really good, at least from mine. I find it better to just get enough for the day or maybe the day after, depending on when you're cooking them.

Asda extra special pork sausages are well nice!

ArchchancellorsHat you make a good point! I’d missed that they were Richmond’s. I’m particularly fussy and get mine from my local butcher, but do always tend to buy more than I need so I can snack on them

I can never understand how people can eat sausages freely without the fear and I mean fear, of biting down on one of those pieces of bone or husk or whatever it is 🤢🤮 Makes me sick to my stomach!

I'd X-Ray sausages before eating them if I could!

Never let the sun set on an open packet of sausages. Cook the lot. Have some hot and eat the rest cold. Mmmm sausages

Jeez just get frozen ones (my teens devour Farm foods ones so shoot me) or veggie sausages. And chill.

Hopefully he’s crouched on the toilet hugging a bucket by now.

halfwitpicker: I never can find a nice sausage.

A good sausage can be so hard to find! And you have to search, and search...

Sod the sausages, what’s all this ‘he shouted at me’ about? Why are you with someone who shouts at you when you say something tastes weird?

I buy veggie sausages (Cauldron, not Quorn) and cook them all, then of course, one is forced to have them cold...such a travesty.

😂

I'd X-Ray sausages before eating them if I could

Don't worry, they do that in the factory (yes, really) and anything with bits of bone, cartilage etc is rejected.

I wouldn't have expected food that has been opened but in date to have gone off anyway. It might be a bit dried out but not actually off. Check your fridge temperature if food is going off before the expiry date.

We left milk, ham and bacon open for about 8 or 9 days while we were on holiday and it was fine when we came back. The 'use within 2 days of opening' is just bullshit to get people to throw away perfectly good food and buy more.