Attention Will you eat a food item if the seal is slightly open?

[Vannie]

Or do you throw it out or return it and get your money back?

 

[LeicsDom]

It depends what the food item is.
Some stuff I wouldn't worry about

 

[me203]

It depends on the item--what it is and where it comes from. And maybe, I suppose, how adventurous I am feeling at the moment.

 

[EJMichaels]

Almost always return it, but I've kept some shelf-stable items. For online orders, they usually give a refund/replacement without actually having me send it back.

 

[unloadonme]

It depends what the food item is.

It depends on the item--what it is and where it comes from.

Thirded.

 

[MusicMan321]

I'd probably throw it out

 

[nycguydowntown]

Probably not-I’m a germaphobe & would start thinking about a gross person opening it -and lose my appetite

 

[Peloso]

Hell no.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I throw it out.

Usually, I spot open packages at the market and turn them in to a stock clerk or at the checkout.

Bought a choclolate hazenut spread in Denver one time at an Ikea, a knock-off brand. Got home to Albuquerque and opened it, and some asshole had opened it, swiped a single finger in it, and reclosed it.

He was the wanker, but I was the tosser.

 

[NotHardUp1]

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[rareboy]

Not if it is cabbage that isn't supposed to be sauerkraut.

shelf life you know

 

[eddielee]

If it's been opened, even slightly, I don't eat or use it.

 

[Reischfleger]

If it's been opened, even slightly, I don't eat or use it.

Same here, no way I will eat, wear or use anything that is even slightly open.

 

[Vannie]

I ate a pint of Magnum Double Salted Caramel with milk chocolate. The foil top was open.

Good bye world.

 

[Rickrock]

Usually I would throw it out, but depending what it was and how I felt, there is a little chance that I might eat it.

 

[TickTockMan]

Depends on my mood.

 

[ChristianGianni]

After cleaning up both ends of the patients we've had through the ER over the holidays with various cases of food poisoning, NO I wouldn't, I'd toss it.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I ate a pint of Magnum Double Salted Caramel with milk chocolate. The foil top was open.

Good bye world.

I don't think coated candies are considered perishable. Of course, they are if they get wet or are handled, but your description sounds more like the adhesive simply didn't hold. On a "dry good" like chocolates, that doesn't sound as dubious.

If the lid foil were torn open, then I'd still have tossed them, as there are too many potential sabotage scenarios.

BTW, was this a purchase, or a gift. Is there simply teh possibility the giver was regifting something she didn't want?

 

[Vannie]

I don't think coated candies are considered perishable. Of course, they are if they get wet or are handled, but your description sounds more like the adhesive simply didn't hold. On a "dry good" like chocolates, that doesn't sound as dubious.

If the lid foil were torn open, then I'd still have tossed them, as there are too many potential sabotage scenarios.

BTW, was this a purchase, or a gift. Is there simply teh possibility the giver was regifting something she didn't want?

My mistake. I should have been more clear. Magnum Double Salted Caramel is a pint of ice cream. Caramel ice cream with chocolate shavings and a Belgium chocolate top.

It has squeeze mark's on the plastic container. Squeeze here to break up the chocolate inside. Usually has a very good foil lid seal inside that is crazy glued down. This particular pint the foil seal was half way off.

I'm still alive and well this morning.

Sorry to disappoint some of you.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I don't think once you've smelled the chocolate, you have any choice.

Free will is an illusion.