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MeAndTheBoys
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Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 4210
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 19, 2006 - 5:05 pm: | 
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So I bought a big old hunk of packaged ("sell by" date of July 15), farm-raised salmon about a 5 days or a week ago and threw it in the fridge, still in the package. Then promptly forgot about it.
Do you think it's still O.K. to eat. If it were just me eating it, I might be brave, but I'm thinking of marinating it and serving it to a friend tomorrow night. |
Soparents
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Username: Soparents
Post Number: 2209
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 19, 2006 - 5:08 pm: |
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How good a friend??? |
MeAndTheBoys
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 4211
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 19, 2006 - 5:14 pm: |
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You're a silly magoo! Would you eat it?  |
LilLB
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Username: Lillb
Post Number: 2099
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 19, 2006 - 5:15 pm: |
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I'd have to vote "No" on that one... |
Soparents
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Username: Soparents
Post Number: 2210
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 19, 2006 - 5:24 pm: |
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Nope, feed some of it to the cat first....
Seriously, I would probably ditch it - I know it said "Sell by" and you've kept it in the fridge the whole time, but normally I won't let fish go a day beyond a sell by date.
Shame though, salmon is nice. |
Virtual It Girl
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 4798
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 19, 2006 - 5:25 pm: |
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My "gut" instinct is to toss it (that is, before you eat it). OTOH, if you open the pkg and it doesn't smell fishy it's probably ok. Unless I make it that day I just about always freeze fish (or buy it frozen). |
MeAndTheBoys
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 4213
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 19, 2006 - 5:30 pm: |
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Yeah, I had meant to cut it up in to several good size portions before I froze it but, like I said, I forgot all about it.
Crap!
I know, maybe I'll leave it out for the family of racoons we have living in the area up here. Saw them in the "front yard" the other evening. Mama and four babies following along. It was the cutest damn thing! |
michelezembow
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Username: Michelezembow
Post Number: 232
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, July 20, 2006 - 12:12 am: |
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I'd give the salmon the smell test, Me. You'll know if you shouldn't eat it.
I would advise against feeding the raccoons. Lots of local folks have lots of trouble with raccoons raiding their garbage cans...they can get pretty big and sometimes become quite aggressive (and of course, a small percentage carries rabies). Problem is, feeding them really encourages their seeking out human food/trash.
Yes, they certainly are cute...and I definitely don't mean to lecture...but I know one woman who was bitten by a raccoon a few years ago and another family who had to have rabies shots after a minor encounter/small scratch. |
Scott
Citizen
Username: Selnychef
Post Number: 90
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, July 20, 2006 - 9:15 am: |
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when in doubt, throw it out |
MeAndTheBoys
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 4218
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Friday, July 21, 2006 - 2:32 pm: |
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Michele, I am currently deep in the woods, on a lake in Pennsylvania, where there are hundreds of acres of woods for the racoons to roam, and easy access to all manner of food sources, including many small lakes and little tributaries leading to the big lake, where they can probably get fresh fish. They have NEVER bothered with our garbage (although we bungee it shut anyway) because they have so many other food sources.
Last week we had a mama and four babies in our front yard, and haven't seen them since.
We do, however, have a "pet" female deer who we leave apples out for, who generally visits us most evenings. Again, plenty of natural food sources for all, but she was visiting us anyway, so I thought I'd leave her a little treat. Now she heads straight for the stump where I put the apples.
Obviously, were I in Maplewood, I would not be encouraging any of these critters!
Oh, and I threw the fish away. |
greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 8549
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, July 21, 2006 - 2:39 pm: |
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In the lake? |
MeAndTheBoys
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 4220
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Friday, July 21, 2006 - 2:47 pm: |
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In the garbage. Most of the time dead fish wash up on the shore and can get pretty stinky (and then, of course, the dog thinks it smells so great he's got to roll in it).
Didn't think I needed to contribute to the problem! |
MeAndTheBoys
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 4221
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Friday, July 21, 2006 - 2:51 pm: |
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Then again, if I had a pet vulture, I suppose I could have fed it to him. Haven't been able to lure on of those in yet, though. |
greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 8555
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, July 21, 2006 - 4:23 pm: |
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Too bad. I just figured a burial at sea would be most appropriate.  |
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