Ice, Ice, Baby

[billroper]

A few weeks ago, I found a package of eleven year old Usinger cooked bratwurst in the freezer. We decided to eat some much newer hot dogs instead and disposed of the bratwurst.

Inspired by this find, I set out to remove various items of questionable food from the freezer. These included:

Ice-ridden frozen bagels that must have been well over a year old.

Eighteen month old snickerdoodles.

Another package of eleven year old Usinger cooked bratwurst.

Two five year old packages of fresh Jewel bratwurst.

A five year old roast.

Two mummified sausages.

Hamburger patties that were two or three years old.

I also found some very old Frango mints. I kept those. They may still be good.

The freezer is much emptier now...

Comments

[mia-mcdavid.livejournal.com]

How many of your readers will get your quote, I wonder?

[rono-60103.livejournal.com]

Back around 2002 when we moved from Wheaton to Bartlett, the chest freezer got relocated to a back corner of the new garage. It had been partially full of food when moved (as it had during its 3 moves within Palatine and its move from Palatine to Wheaton (but not during its move from Palatine to San Diego or from San Diego to Palatine - but probably during its move from one end of a complex in San Diego to the other).

But being in the back corner, it was hard to get to. Tara didn't remember that there was any food in there, and I kind of forgot too. So there it sat for 2 or 3 years (or more) before I finally just hauled it to the curb. (At that point, the trash contractor for Bartlett would pick up just about anything set on the curb - in San Diego I'd probably have to take a dead freezer to a proper disposal place). Fortunately, I don't think much in it had thawed by the time it was picked up.

We again have a freezer in the garage - but this one is just outside the door, and cannot have anything much older than 1 year old in it - since we bought it last May.

(It has also become one of the places where pre-prepared food made by San Diego's caterer to the fen is placed between preparation and the convention. There are some drawbacks to having fannish friends who live somewhat close - at least as long as she retrieves the goodies and doesn't leave them for us to "dispose of")

[qnofhrt.livejournal.com]

I really need to delve into our freezer (which is actually not ours but is on semi-permanent loan) out in the garage. I cleaned out the kitchen freezer (which is far smaller and doesn't have electronics piled in front of it) over Memorial Day.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

You obviously like buying bratwurst more than you like eating bratwurst.

K.

[billroper]

Well, it was more a case of out of sight, out of mind... :)