We’ve got a jar of salsa in the fridge. Damn if anyone can remember who opened it and when. I remember it sitting there for at least 6 weeks now, maybe longer. My personality is to say screw it, and throw it out. But I’m hungry for some chips & salsa, and I’m too tired (awright, lazy:rolleyes:)to go buy another jar right now. It smells ok. I don’t see any mold. It tastes ok. Is there any rule of thumb on this stuff? I figure the acid in the tomatoes will fight off food poisoning for a while. But how long?
Dude! Just eat it. I’m sure it’s good. Only six weeks? If it’s even mildly potent stuff, it’ll still be good.
Take pictures if anything bad happens.
–Tim
Just eat it. I just finished eating hot sauce that was probably in the fridge for 2 months. No ill effects yet.
Ha ha.
I just remembered when it was opened. We bought it in a store when we were on vacation in Minnesota on Thursday, May 24th. We opened it in the hotel. Why my wife packed it to bring home I don’t know. So it’s not quite 2 months old.
It taste ok. But there is so much crud under the lid.
The crud is just dried stuff. I always eat salsa and stuff like that as long as it’s not past the expiration date. My rule of thumb is that if I just ate something by mistake that I think has gone bad I chase it down with a vitamin C pill. That acid has gotta kill some germs.
The most powerful acid you could comfortably look for to kill those germs is your stomach gastric juice.If you still get food poisoning,then only battery acid will work.