Health: Today, my workplace often leaves out "expired" food from the...

By XxmegaronixX - 25/06/2016 04:55 - United States - Fond Du Lac

Today, my workplace often leaves out "expired" food from the café that our department coincides with, as it is wasteful to throw away perfectly fine cuisine. I soon discovered that the inside of a seemingly normal looking cupcake was actually filled with mold when I took a large mouthful of it. FML

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Today, I ate what was supposed to be a delicious mini powdered donut. The first one tasted funny, so I pulled out another one and realized that the powdered sugar was now in fact powdered hairy mold. Then I looked at the package and realized it was over a year and a half old. FML

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By Professional_Ars - 18/10/2018 12:00

Today, my coworker brought chocolate muffins to work for everyone. This would have been really nice if they hadn't tasted like rotten blueberry muffins spray-painted brown. I reflexively gagged after taking a bite and coughed up a brown mush in front of her. FML

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By drymouth - 17/06/2016 23:51 - United States - Berkeley

Today, my boss brought us some small cakes from a recent trip to China. I opened mine and noticed a little foil packet wrapped with the cake, so I thought it was a powdered topping. I had a couple of bites before my coworker told me it was actually a desiccant to keep the cakes fresh. FML

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By Anonymous - 07/12/2010 03:42 - United States

Today, I brought a cupcake to school for my friend's birthday. After taking one bite, she exclaimed that it was the worst thing she had ever tasted and that we should sue the store that I bought it from. I baked it myself. FML

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By Anonymous - 06/05/2020 23:00

Today, I decided to have some bagels. It was only after I ate them that I looked at the cream cheese and discovered that it expired 3 years ago. FML

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By VibeCheck - 10/03/2020 07:57

Today, I woke up hungover and went to the kitchen for some food. I saw what I thought was a blueberry muffin. Halfway through eating it, I realized I couldn’t taste any blueberries, so I tried another one. I then remembered my dad telling me to throw out any old food we had. It was mould. FML

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By Anonymous - 25/11/2018 12:00

Today, I was celebrating my birthday when my friend gave me chocolate as a gift. I wasn't suspecting anything and ate about half of it before I noticed something strange. It turned out there were some kind of worms living in it and the chocolate was about a year after the expiration date. I got sick. FML

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By Labelme - 02/01/2010 08:26 - United States

Today, I learned that instead of discarding expired products at my work, we change the label to make them 'expire' later. FML

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Cbnotme 20

Saturday 25 June 2016 20:43

Not completely sure about this, but I'm pretty damn sure that's not ok. You should bring this up to the people in charge. Then again if it is well labeled that it's expired food, and your choice to eat it or not, you kindof deserve it.

BlueBaronBitch 22

Saturday 25 June 2016 20:45

Uh yeah, I'm at least like 3% sure that's a health risk, might wanna bring that up to the health dept. or something..

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moondoglou420 17

Sunday 26 June 2016 1:32

There is a difference between food that is expired and food not fit for human consumption. You should bring this to the attention of the management. If they are keeping food that long before giving it away they should probably be throwing it out instead.

Lalala579121 27

Sunday 26 June 2016 4:52

If it still looked fine from the outside I'd imagine they just left it out. And since it's just trash food from the cafe I doubt they have any system to monitor how long each thing has been there.

TheyCallMeDamien 17

Sunday 26 June 2016 4:23

Never play Russian roulette with your health.

xo_rilee 13

Sunday 26 June 2016 5:59

Nearly threw up after reading this. I'm so sorry, OP

BloodyElegant 18

Sunday 26 June 2016 8:33

This EXACT same thing happened to me about a year and a half ago at the coffee shop I worked at in WI!! We always get left the 'expired' food if we want it, and we have special cupcakes from a local baker that's pretty famous (for the area) for her cupcakes. I haven't been able to eat one since! I feel your pain!

CrazedSanity 17

Sunday 26 June 2016 11:03

I'm honestly physically nauseous right now.

epicgamer 18

Sunday 26 June 2016 18:58

This is actually a huge problem with most major places where food of any kind is served. The employees are usually told by their managers several techniques to make the food look fresh when its past the best before date. Its a horrible, horrible thing. For all you know your local bakery, deli, or supermarket has been serving you expired food for a long time now.