Cheese pasty debate

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I left a cheese pasty out the fridge (shop bought, in a packet) for 8 hours yesterday after I bought it and then DP fridged it when he got home.

Now we're debating that I think it needs thrown out because it's been sat at room temperature for an entire day and DP thinks I'm absolutely ridiculous considering it's not meat and it's in a packet.

I need opinions and I actually hope AIBU because I'm really hungry for it.

I wouldn't be concerned about eating it unless it had meat in it.

I’d eat it

I would eat it.

It would 100% get eaten in this house. Food frequently gets left out for 24 hrs ( plus ) at a time, nobody has ever been ill.

I would eat it

Yes it will be fine. Nothing risky in it

I’d eat it. It’s cold at minute and it’s not a risky food. Heat it thoroughly.

I think you are being OTT. It's cheese, it definitely won't kill you.

Yeah, I'd heat it and not worry.

I would eat it. OH would throw it, he is anal about things and its not healthy

There is too much food waste in this country. The whole point of a pasty or a pie is that its filling is encased and kept safe by its pastry. Years ago pasties in a shop and pies were not in chiller cabinets.

Absolutely fine to eat the pasty.

Not absolutely fine to use fridge as a verb.

It depends on how hot your house is. I can't afford an upset stomach, so in my house were it's cold, yes, in my DD'S house, which is always too hot, no.

@MasterBeth refrigerated? 😂

Fine to eat. Think about it this way. You arrive at a party at 12pm. The children's platter had cheese sandwiches. Party goes on for hours. 8pm, kids settle down for movie, bed. Parents offered sandwiches. Even cured meat is ok.

"Put it in the fridge". :)

It's fine to eat. Think how many hours the French leave cheese out of the fridge so that it is served at room temperature. And pastry is fine at room temp. Think about fruit cake and mince pies, all kept at room temp, even in the shops.

I'm just amazed it's lasted this long. Eat it.

A shop bought pasty will have enough preservatives to withstand much worse than a few hours on a kitchen worktop, so unless you keep your house at sub-Saharan temperatures it’ll be fine.

And you do know you can use your actual senses of sight, smell and taste to tell if something is off, don’t you?! If it’s mouldy, sweaty, smells bad, looks bad or the packaging is blown up, then bin it, but otherwise why wouldn’t you just eat it? It amazes me how little common sense and trust in themselves people have when it comes to stuff like this.

I would eat it even if it did have meat in it, let alone when it's just cheese

And I agree with @MasterBeth I have never heard anyone say they have fridged something

As a completely random aside, pasties never have enough filling in them and cheese pasties are never cheesy enough.

Definitely fine to eat.

Absolutely fine to eat

It'll be fine!

Completely fine, it’s just cheese and it’s cold atm anyway so unless your heating is on high 24/7 then it will have been relatively cool.

Cheese is milk’s attempt at immortality. And anyway, whenever I buy cheese from the wanky cheese monger they tell me to remove it from the fridge at least twelve hours ahead of serving it for a cheese board. And people leave butter out on the countertop for a week or more. The high fat content (and in the case of cheese, the ripening process) helps prevent cheese and butter from spoiling.