# Adventures in grocery shopping **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 28, 2015, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-in-grocery-shopping/721081 "2015-05-28T23:14:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-in-grocery-shopping/721081/21 "2015-05-29T16:46:39Z")
The thread has kind of morphed into forgotten food nightmares, but mine is a little different. Years ago I smelled the death smell. I tracked it to a cupboard. I found a can of cat food covered in maggots. Apparently, it had a hole in it (I didn’t investigate it too thoroughly). I threw out everything in that cupboard. God, I haven’t thought about that in years. Thanks for the memory. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-in-grocery-shopping/721081/22 "2015-05-29T16:51:18Z")
This is why I refrigerate my potatoes, and don’t transport groceries in the trunk either. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-in-grocery-shopping/721081/23 "2015-05-29T19:08:49Z")
My Mom has 2 vehicles. one being her dailiy drver and one being a pickup for occasional use. I went over to borrow the truck one day last summer. AsI opened the driver door a rancid smell hit me full lin the face and literally made me step back 2-3 paces. Turns out Mom had decided on a whim to drive the truck to the grocery store. A package of fresh fis somehow fell under the seat and didn’t get taken in. By the time I opened the door it had been in the truck for 3-4 days in the hot Georgia sun. Cleanup was easy, as it was still in the wrapping paaper but I had to keep the windows down for a week to clear out the smell. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-in-grocery-shopping/721081/24 "2015-05-29T20:12:52Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Thanks! Good to have a bottle around for future delights. The baking soda seems to be helping. > > I remember an incident when I was in college back in the dark ages. We were all sitting around during the Thanksgiving break when we heard a loud BANG! We went out in the hallway and somebody said “It came from that room”, a room whose occupant had gone home for the holiday. Somebody got the RA to come up, and when he opened the door we all started gagging. Turns out, the guy had a real jones for chocolate milk and had filled a mason jar with the stuff at the cafeteria, stuck it up on a shelf behind some books and forgot about it. Why he thought it didn’t need refrigeration is anyone’s guess, but the gas buildup and explosion when it fermented made a hell of a stinky mess. As a former RA, I’d probably have just locked that room right back up and let that idiot deal with his own nasty chocolate milk splatters. (and bill his dumb-ass for whatever stains/problems there were at the end of the year) ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-in-grocery-shopping/721081/25 "2015-05-29T20:19:51Z")
Another milk story. I had put a jug of milk on the back floormat of my 2-seat car and unknown to me, some had spilled. Fast-forward a week or 2 later in the hot summer sun and my car smelled really bad! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-in-grocery-shopping/721081/26 "2015-05-29T20:20:48Z")
> [@bump](#): > > As a former RA, I’d probably have just locked that room right back up and let that idiot deal with his own nasty chocolate milk splatters. That’s exactly what happened. We all stood around and waited for him to open the door. Back when I was a young teen and didn’t know any better, I wrapped up an opened tin of sardines in foil and stuck it in my bottom dresser drawer. When I finally remembered them and thought “Ooh, a snack!”, and unwrapped them, it was a sight that is the stuff of nightmares. I quickly schlepped them out the back door to the garbage bin before my mother caught a whiff. Good lesson, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adventures-in-grocery-shopping/721081.md?page=1)