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Original poster

To eat an M&S ready meal curry box that's 10 days out of date?

76 replies

52andblue · 15/05/2021 19:13

I thought I'd put it in the freezer.
It's lurking at the back of the fridge.
I'm hungry.
I'm 8miles from the nearest shop (no deliveroo etc around here)

It's a bad idea, yes?
(it's chicken curry, potato and spinach curry, rice, all sep pots)

OP posts:
HoldontoOneMoreDay · 15/05/2021 19:25

I'm lax as fuck but actually the one thing I never risk is rice.

DariaMorgendorffer · 15/05/2021 19:27

I wouldn't

Foghead · 15/05/2021 19:27

The worst food poisoning I ever had was from M&S crab pate. I thought I’d treat myself as dh was away for the week. I got so sick that my lovely neighbour fed my kids for 3 days as I couldn’t manage.

doadeer · 15/05/2021 19:28

No way 🤢

HotSauceCommittee · 15/05/2021 19:28

I think you are messing with us, but please don't, my friend. The rice alone will make you very sick.
Please go and have some marmite on toast.

SchrodingersImmigrant · 15/05/2021 19:28

I am usually the loudest "dates are an indicator and safety for manufacturer so you can't sue them after, not a rule" but even I wouldn't.

Notaroadrunner · 15/05/2021 19:32

Not a chance I'd eat chicken 10 days past it's use by date. Incidentally, how big is your fridge that you havent noticed it for over 10 days?

Original poster
52andblue · 15/05/2021 19:33

@SmidgenofaPigeon

If you didn’t notice it at the back of the fridge then presumably there’s other food in there unless you are blind Hmm
I've actually been a bit unwell so fridge rotation (normally spot on) got overlooked. I thought i'd frozen it the day I got it & just 're-discovered'.

I was considering chucking the rice, smelling the chicken (but spicy sauce might mask gone off smell?) and risking the pot/spinach thing

You are all correct - thanks. I'm not normally this daft.
I had my 2nd C19 jab last night and feel foul.
I think it's affected my brain!

I HATE wasting food but it would be stupid to become ill right now.

OP posts:
shinynewapple21 · 15/05/2021 19:44

You need to ask? Really?

shinynewapple21 · 15/05/2021 19:47

Just read your update re your Covid jab - even more important to be careful! Also if (when) you become unwell, how would you k ow exactly what was down to the curry and what was down to vaccine reaction

Original poster
52andblue · 15/05/2021 19:50

@shinynewapple21

You need to ask? Really?
Yep. Like I say, not firing on all cylinders. (tho clearly I can type and fart around here!)

Good point about vaccine reaction. Flips sake, I'm an idiot.

It's in the bin (gets coat and slinks off in shame)
Thanks all x

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Sexnotgender · 15/05/2021 19:50

Good lord no. It’s making me feel a little sick thinking about 10 day out of date chicken 🤮

toffeebutterpopcorn · 15/05/2021 19:52

I might take a punt if it was something vegan... but chicken? That’s asking for trouble... sorry, I’d be crying if I found old curry in the back of the fridge!

SchrodingersImmigrant · 15/05/2021 20:11

That's really bad luck about the second jab reaction. Good luck so you get better soon

JesusInTheCabbageVan · 15/05/2021 20:11

This isn't just the galloping shits. It's the M&S galloping shits. Grin

Samanabanana · 15/05/2021 20:15

I eat most out of date things but there's no way I'd eat that. Best of British to you if you do decide to throw caution to the wind though Grin

sweeneytoddsrazor · 15/05/2021 21:44

I had my 2nd C19 jab last night and feel foul.

And if you eat 10 day old chicken you will feel fowl. Grin

TheKeatingFive · 15/05/2021 21:49

I normally laugh my head off at the risk aversion on these kind of threads, but even I wouldn’t do that.

TheKeatingFive · 15/05/2021 21:50

Perhaps as a compromise I’d eat everything bar the chicken

ChocOrange1 · 15/05/2021 21:53

I'm very lax on dates, but I wouldn't eat chicken 10 days out of date. I might risk the vegetable curry if there wasn't anything else available, but would probably cook separate rice because rice can be really bad.

MrsClatterbuck · 15/05/2021 22:31

@osbertthesyrianhamster

I'm pretty lax but no.
Same here
Summersun2020 · 15/05/2021 22:41

Glad you chucked it op. Hope you feel better and hope you managed to find something nice for your tea Flowers

CorvusPurpureus · 15/05/2021 22:43

Yeah, I wouldn't risk that one!

Having said that, when I was a student one of our gang found a chicken sandwich in the top box on his motorbike. He had forgotten about it over a week previously. Hot summer. Having come back from a convivial evening in the pub, he realised he was out of fags & went out to rummage hopefully in the bike box, coming back with this disgusting sandwich alongside a packet of stale rolling baccy & some rizlas.

The plastic packaging was...sort of blown out of shape? Presumably with gases given off by the festering chicken.

He ate it. We were all begging him not to (mostly because we shared a bathroom with him).

& he was absolutely bloody fine Envy.

But yeah, I'd be skipping the 'not just any campylobacter...this is M&S campylobacter!' option there.

queenofthenorthwest · 15/05/2021 23:11

Don't you will probably get food poisoning.

It's not worth it.

Motnight · 16/05/2021 10:15

Hope you are feeling better, Op