So today for lunch I was scavenging around in the fridge looking for something to eat and I came across half a baked potato, left over from dinner the other night when the first half was enough and the second half too much.
"Tasty!" I thought, and pulled it off the shelf and popped it in the microwave.
While I was waiting for it to nuke, I got a package of shredded cheese out of that same fridge, and then happily remembered one of those little packets of Oscar Mayer bacon bits that was in the cupboard. A cheese and bacon potato (accompanied by a number of sliced jalapeno peppers, of course) sounded like a perfect lunch.
When the microwave timer dinged, I took out the potato and threw some shredded cheese and the bacon bits on it, added my hot peppers and a little salt and popped the top on a Diet Coke. It was really, really good.
Until I finished.
Getting up from the table, I picked up the packet of bacon bits, preparatory to putting them back in the cabinet. In doing so, my eye happened to fall on a sentence in red letters printed on the little zip-seal bag: BEST IF EATEN WITHIN FOURTEEN DAYS AFTER OPENING.
Oh dear, I thought. I know those things have been in there for at least three months. Maybe longer. I can't even remember when I bought them.
Which is when my eyes fell on the sentence directly below that one:
REFRIGERATE AFTER OPENING.
All of a sudden, my baked potato didn't seem so tasty. I've been waiting all afternoon with a sense of impending doom for the throwing up to start, but so far so good. Unless they make their way through my digestive tract and instead of throwy-uppy, I....
Oh, it just doesn't bear thinking about. Is it too late to get my stomach pumped?
Didn't you ever read Little House on the Prairie? They didn't refrigerate their salt pork. And they didn't die...much. I think those warnings are just the OM lawyers CingTAes.
ReplyDeleteAre you still alive? Lol on the bacon bits...sometimes these things happen. Potato lunch sounds good.
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