What's the oldest thing in your fridge?

[Zombie]

Cleaning my fridge yesterday - new year, new... food - was shocked to discover, lurking at the back, something dated May 2003.

 

Obviously it was made well before that date - so it could be older than someone reading this thread
So what was this mouldering - possibly biohazardous - food item?
A bottle of spicy HP Sauce

Don't remember how it got in there. But I've known about it a long time. Kind of reassuring to know it was there whenever I wanted some.

 

Thing is, when I took it to the window for closer scrutiny it just looks like... er, HP Sauce. And it still moves around
Now it's possible that the ingredients are toxic to all life forms - which is good news, 'cos that means it's still safe to eat

So what's the oldest thing in your fridge?
 

 

 

[TetRefine]

Well, not in my fridge but I remember back in my Cub Scout days we used to do a food drive right before Thanksgiving. In 2002, I remember finding something dated for expiration in 1991. I wish I could remember what is was, some kind of food that took a while to expire in the first place, so it was probably from the mid-80s. 

[Kitt]

LOL  I think its the box of baking soda put in to absorb odors, but I haven't done my new years cleanout yet. Let you know tomorrow afternoon - its how i plan on spending the "stuck inside" time of this coming snowstorm.

[paya]

Oohhhh my grandma had jams and fruit conserves that were well over 30 years old when we found them! I remember a tin of "party fruit mix" that was older than my father back then, I think the date of production was 1953 and we were in mid 1990s... 

 

But of course, that was not in the fridge but in a larder/storage room.

Edited January 2, 2014 by paya

[Aditus]

I found a tube with Harissa sauce, I believe from 2001, I have it from my mom. It's still good because heh, what lifeform could exist in this? I won't try it though, but I tell people I used it for the food I made sometimes... if I want to have leftovers.

[Suvitar]

There´s this bottle of lemon juice....last time I used it was to clean something and make it smell better, and that was some years ago. Must say I was surprised to see it should have been used before 2005, didn´t realise it was that old   

[Daddydavek]

I have a bottle of chardonnay from 1961 in my fridge and it's wonderful! Of course it was a very select brand and cost a few hundred dollars....

Edited January 2, 2014 by Daddydavek

[Slytherin]

I was gonna make home made pizza a few months ago and wanted some pineapple on it and I knew i had a preserve tin with it.. Too bad it exspired in 2002.. No pineapple on my pizza that day

[A.J.]

I'm not eating at any of your houses.

[Toast]

Usually it's me reaching for something to eat.

[JamesSavik]

brown mustard from 2009

[Uziel]

Nothing in my fridge is even a year old. The oldest is probably a few months and it's a bottle of beer I bought for my uncle.

[Ron]

The oldest thing in my fridge is a container of rendered duck fat. It will be good for months to come.

[Sasha Distan]

harrissa paste, opened last year.

 

sauces like HP, if kept in jars and uncontaminated by other foods, basically don't go off. put it this way - all the ingredients which go into lee and perrins (Worcestershire sauce people) have all already been fermented for at least a year if not more and then the paste has to be left before the sauce is edible. anything with honey, sugar or vinegar as a main ingredient is good for years way after the sell by.

[Mann Ramblings]

My partner likes to keep the fridge constantly packed, so I know there are things in there that get lost for an embarrassingly long time.  If you ask me, I'll deny everything.

 

I'm a little scared to check the back corners to see what's there sometimes.   He can do the clean out.

[blake_logan]

I was gonna say that I recently found yogurt that expired in 2011, but then I remembered the two blocks of cheddar cheese that I bought in the UK sometime before the 2001 hoof & mouth outbreak.  I kind of afraid to open it now, so it keeps getting pushed to the back of the fridge.

[joann414]

A cabbage that hubby asked me to buy a couple of months ago.  He never cooked it, and then bought a new one for the New Year.  I put the old on in the lower crisper tray, and it is now frozen.  Just waiting for him to ask about it.

[Bumblebee]

Our old fridge died a few months ago, so there's nothing really old in our new fridge.. But when we where cleaning out the old one there was a jar of Mayo that expired in 2011 that we where still using without a problem cause no one checked when it went off.

[Thorn Wilde]

I have absolutely no idea. But Magpie's parents have a bottle of Tabasco from the early 90s.

[wildone]

Christmas day I got an emergency text from my sister 'Do you have any Cranberry Jelly or Sauce for turkey dinner tonight? I forgot to buy it and there is no stores open today'. My reply 'Yep, found a can in the cupboard, I'll bring it with me'.

 

So get to her house and give her the can, she flips it over to the end that can be cut and notices it expired on May 10, 2010.

 

Needless to say it was a Cranberryless Turkey dinner this year

[Celethiel]

hmm well there are those now dehydrated Strawberries.... or that milk.... or it could be those condiments are are pretty old... (note: I won't be eating any of the above)

[mickey1952]

I have a bottle of ketchup in the back of the fridge that's well over a year old. I bought a new bottle a couple of weeks ago, and for some inexplicable reason I shoved the old bottle to the back instead of chucking it. I hope I was just distracted that day and that I wasn't just too damned lazy to get rid of it.

 

(In case you're wondering, the old bottle is still there. I guess I really am la...I-I-I mean distracted.)

Edited January 3, 2014 by mickey1952

[Kitt]

Well the cleanout is done - and yes the baking soda was the oldest thing in there. Now its the newest.  There was one bottle of salad dressing that expired "last year" but only at the end of December.

[rustle]

That would be Dave.

[Bill W]

Seeing my fridge is only a few months old, the oldest thing in it is the guy opening the door and reaching his arm inside.