Would you take a jar of salsa out of the bin?

[Fridayfundays]

Clearing the cupboard before and found a half jar of salsa that we’ve had for around a week, so I thought it may be off (wasn’t but I chucked it anyway)
Have now realised that I want a plate of nachos to myself later when Dh does bedtime (we alternate) as have cheese, sour cream, guacamole etc…but no salsa.
Salsa is essential, isn’t it 🤷🏻‍♀️
Would you take a jar of salsa that you’ve thrown away out of the bin or is that gross?
The jar is obviously fastened and so far no other crap thrown in with it, but it just feels 🤮 but I really need salsa on nachos 🙈🤣
would it be unreasonable to take them out, would you?

If it was off, why on earth would you put a jar in the bin? I mean, rather than throwing out the salsa, and then washing and recycling the jar?

But yes, I'd take it out of the bin and eat it.

In theory it sounds fine, in reality no I would not eat anything I had thrown in a bin ( irrelevant whether the bin was cleaned, empty, etc). It's a mindset. It's also a hilarious Seinfeld episode.

I don't have an indoor (kitchen) bin!

I have one in the living room for tissues and stuff (well, general "living room" rubbish iyswim!) a bathroom bin, a food waste bin that gets emptied into my neighbours' compost bin, and my green wheelie bin for general waste.

So kitchen waste goes in a bio bag and straight into the wheelie bin.

(I'd have emptied and recycled the glass jar though 🤔😂)

Why wouldn’t it already be emptied, washed out and put in the recycling bin? Such that there is no half eaten salsa to rescue

Clearly you don’t care about how you dispose of waste

Don't be rooting in the bin please!
You'll need to add jalapeños, a touch of lime and loads of people put coriander along with the tomatoes, onion and garlic.

Me, it's meant to be kept in the fridge once opened.

@Fridayfundays I'd be more concerned at it sitting around at room temp for a week, it should be in the fridge once opened,

if you need sneaky nachos that bad while DH is putting the kids to bed, go to the shop to get salsa that won't make you unwell!

I'd use coriander, & spring onions in preference to onions

I also couldn't get past someone just hoofing a full glass jar in general waste.

Do you mean your wheelie bin?

Yes! I explained ⬆️⬆️⬆️

Another stuck on the fact you threw a whole jar in the bin. Round here everything is recycled and you only get 1 black bag so you use it wisely!
To answer the question, yes use it! We just ate the same - not out of the bin though...

@luxxlisbon It was opened

I just couldn’t do it, so back in it went 😬

I've now been probably just as disgusting and eating copious amounts of sour cream off my fingers 🙈dipping them in gone messy…now I feel ashamed, gross and guilty 😂

With regards to people saying about recycling, ashamed to say we don’t do that with jars etc where we are (we should) and didn’t even think about that, it’s not part of daily routine where I am, it all goes in the same kitchen bin 🤷🏻‍♀️

*Got messy

With regards to people saying about recycling, ashamed to say we don’t do that with jars etc where we are (we should) and didn’t even think about that, it’s not part of daily routine where I am, it all goes in the same kitchen bin

Where are you? The 90s?

Even in the 90s we recycled glass, surely?

A week is borderline for in the fridge, surely? If it’s open. I would not eat something that had been open and not in the fridge for a week.

@SheWoreYellow Hence the bin! It looked fine tbf…but couldn’t do it

@Oysterbabe 😂It is crazy when I think about it and when I return to the U.K. and see the difference

@ShinyMe Nah..I was a teenager living at home, can’t remember recycling

This thread was meant to be about the minging salsa jar in the bin, not recycling 🙈

I'm 50, and I remember taking bottles to the bottle bank with my granny as a child in the very early 80s, so recycling glass has definitely been common since at least the 90s.

@ShinyMe Yes, I remember being a young child, taking pop bottles back to the corner shop with my grandad…I meant more the separate bins for everything etc, I can’t personally remember doing that in the 90’s

My salsa recipe is;
5 good-qualityTomatoes (obviously, but cherry tomatoes are VERY fiddly)!
1/2 a Red onion
Garlic Clove
Coriander or Basil (I've no preference)
Lemon Juice (tablespoon ish, to taste)
Salt and Pepper
'Lazy' chilli (1 teaspoon)or chilli flakes/powder to taste.

Cook 3 whole tomatoes for about 20 mins-half hr, in the oven 180 degrees
Chop up the onion and remaining tomatoes, remove seeds/goop from the latter. (Chop as small as you can manage)

When tomatoes are cooked throw in a food processor with garlic clove, herb, salt/pepper, chilli and lemon juice. Blend until liquified.

Transfer chopped mixture into a bowl and pour on the liquid tomatoes. Season to taste. :)

Yes in a jar, I’d rinse the jar, open and enjoy nachos!

I wouldn’t scrape salsa off the bin liner tho 😆

In what way is it gross if the salsa itself is untouched?