Miscellaneous: Today, I cleaned out the fridge for my mother. I didn't throw...

By AngrySon - 29/09/2011 01:12 - United States

Today, I cleaned out the fridge for my mother. I didn't throw out a single thing that was less than a month past its expiration. Instead of thanks, she complained about everything that I threw away being still good, including a tub of butter that had been expired for two years. FML

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By wearyconsumer - 23/12/2016 05:29

Today, I threw out all the food in the freezer that my mom had been keeping since 2013. When she found out, she said, "frozen food doesn't go bad." FML

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By uncleaning - 22/07/2009 23:03 - United States

Today, after I cleaned out the fridge of things that expired months ago, my roommate got angry and insisted upon pulling all the moldy dairy products out of the garbage and putting them back because "they weren't mine and I shouldn't throw out other people's food." FML

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By Anonymous - 19/12/2013 22:49 - Australia - Kensington

Today, my mother decided to inform me that she doesn't believe canned food can have an expiry date and that the food is still okay to eat years after the 'supposed' expiry date. She's probably been cooking my dinner with expired food for over 17 years. FML

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Some things last a long time

By Jay - 02/08/2024 14:00 - United States - Strykersville

Today, my mom decided to clean out my freezer. She freaked out over a box of unbelievably expensive King crab legs that expired over five years ago. My PTSD kicked in and I explained that I got them for a special occasion three days before my girlfriend was diagnosed with lung cancer. I never got that special occasion. I hate me. FML

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Long term commitment

By Jules - 27/11/2020 07:56 - Germany

Today, while tidying up my grandmother's fridge, I got to play expiration-date-bingo. The winner was some type of concentrated apple sauce supposed to be used for salad dressings. It expired in 1986. FML

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By WTF - 09/06/2012 13:54 - Australia - Adelaide

Today, I saw my mom changing the expiry date on milk. She genuinely thought this would make the milk sour later. FML

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By Anonymous - 14/02/2015 19:02 - United States - Lemont

Today, my mom's obsession with cleanliness hit a new low when she bitched at me for having trash in my trash can. FML

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By stillsick - 02/03/2011 00:11 - Canada

Today, surprisingly, my roommate made a nice meal. Within an hour, I started throwing up. When I confronted her, she confessed that she'd used long expired ingredients, including meat, because she didn't want the garbage men to think she's "the type that wastes food." FML

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By soupduped - 06/12/2009 03:37 - United States

Today, I opened up a can of tomato soup I'd taken from my parents' house recently. After eating the whole can, I started feeling a little off, so I checked the expiration date. It expired 12 years ago. FML

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Poisoning

By anon - 07/11/2012 23:28 - United States

Today, I threw up after drinking a smoothie my mother made me. She then called me "ungrateful" and "immature" for not liking what she spent a long time making for me. I later found out that not only did she use expired yogurt, it was also a mango smoothie, which I'm allergic to. FML

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StoryOfTheYear 14

Thursday 29 September 2011 9:03

If it moves, kill it. If it's not moving it's fine to eat.

Freeze_fml 16

Thursday 29 September 2011 9:11

Should have allowed nature's way of showing her she's wrong.

Comments

spec2662 0

Friday 30 September 2011 6:12

Your mom is a hoarder and should seek help.

killmefornothing 0

Friday 30 September 2011 6:46

My mother is exactly the same way. A few weeks ago I pulled out a jar of peanut butter that expired in may of 2008. I almost barfed at the exp date.

Vii6 3

Friday 30 September 2011 7:37

I Think you may need to get her help...

little_monster21 0

Friday 30 September 2011 7:54

sounds like a case for the show Hoarders! :P

cherieblossom 5

Friday 30 September 2011 17:14

Hoarder alert!

FMLsOhilarious 6

Friday 30 September 2011 23:55

Your mother sounds like a hoarder. And butter that's two years old? That's disgusting...

allenye818 2

Sunday 2 October 2011 8:22

89 her pantry has always been stuffed full & this bottle had made its way to the back where it managed to stay hidden, the expiration on it was like 1993 or something... I almost felt bad throwing it away, it had survived so long

milansarpal 0

Thursday 13 October 2011 22:45

butter never goes bad so she was right to yell at you

stabbed1ntheback 0

Thursday 20 October 2011 0:05

Next time leave the bad stuff and take the good stuff with you.

happychicka 0

Friday 21 October 2011 4:46

That's disgusting... Just sayin

kath2222 3

Tuesday 25 October 2011 23:10

That exact story is my own. I kindly, with nothing but charitable thoughts (and personal safety) cleaned out my mother fridge and I got yelled at and told never to do it again. I swear I didn't throw anything away that wasn't practically frozen to the back of the fridge. ungrateful.