I bought some vacuum-packed salami at a farmer’s market on 4/28. I didn’t put it in the refrigerator when I got home because the lady who was selling it didn’t have it refrigerated; it was just sitting out on a table. Plus, you usually don’t have to refrigerate vacuum-packed pepperoni.
Today (5/3), I opened the salami and made a sandwich with it. It was a really good sandwich; it tasted a little “different”, but in a good way; in fact, it was the best salami I’ve ever eaten.
After polishing off my sammich, I got to thinking, and I went back to the refrigerator to check the package. There, in small but distinct letters at the bottom of the package, were the words KEEP REFRIGERATED. Into the trash went the remaining salami. Beads of sweat immediately appeared on my forehead.
So, I’m opening the wagering. Background: I have a “nervous stomach”, but I haven’t actually thrown up since 1979. Will I puke, get explosive diarrhea and searing abdominal cramps, or somehow escape without injury?
“Sandwich Of Death” sounds like a Jack Chick tract.
Description: Mama Cass thought that rock n’ roll and free love was a good way to spend her life. But when she has a run-in with a ham sandwich she discovers that only Jesus is groovy.
Oh, pooh, MarxBoy. Mama Cass didn’t really die by choking on a ham sandwich. Jeez, don’t you watch Behind the Music? Unless, of course, you know that and it’s all a joke, in which case: Good one!
Oh, and City Gent, congratulations on cheating death.
sounds like somebody is getting in touch with his inner caveman. and one of the benefits of eating spoiled meat, provided it doesn’t kill you, is that you build up some awesome antibodies. I bet if you did this once a week for say a year, you could sell your refridgerator and save on the electric bill.
Salami, being a cured meat, pretty much keeps for awhile without refrigeration, especially if vac-packed. It’s after you open it that it should go in the fridge. Otherwise, in a couple weeks it might get moldy, but even then it probably wouldn’t kill you, except by cancer from eating too much nitrites.
Ya gotta remember that sausages were invented as a means of preserving meats; that they’re yummy was only a side benefit. By all means get some more!
May I join you on a brush with death? Eating pitta bread I thought the taste and texture were way off, but being hungry and stupid in equal amounts I waited until I had chewed it well and swallowed it before checking what remained only to find the other side cover in mould.
mmmmmm… mould…
