# Today's Iron Stomach Lunch Challenge: **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 30, 2011, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-iron-stomach-lunch-challenge/598172 "2011-09-30T16:58:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-iron-stomach-lunch-challenge/598172/1 "2011-09-30T16:58:35Z")
See how good our freezer is. I’m having the sausage/pepper/onion left over from my birthday. In February. Of 2010. I let it defrost overnight, and so far it’s passed every sniff test and it looks perfectly fine. It’s in the microwave now, so we’ll see how it looks/smells once it’s heated. Reports to follow. I hope. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-iron-stomach-lunch-challenge/598172/2 "2011-09-30T17:04:51Z")
Heated up…smells really good. I figured the peppers would be the least likely to kill me, so I tried one of them first. Surprisingly crisp. Took a nibble of sausage, which tasted fine, but I’m going to let it sit for a minute to make sure it stays down. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-iron-stomach-lunch-challenge/598172/3 "2011-09-30T17:18:17Z")
If the freezer is cold enough the food may taste bad and lose it’s texture, but no harm will come to you. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-iron-stomach-lunch-challenge/598172/4 "2011-09-30T17:22:55Z")
What a lightweight. I ate 7 year old ranch dressing once. That had been stored in an uncooled RV in the deep south the whole time. Well, actually just a bit before I realized it was more yellow than the white its supposed to be and didn’t taste right and I checked the date on it. My SO was actually stupid enough to keep on eating. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-iron-stomach-lunch-challenge/598172/5 "2011-09-30T17:30:43Z")
Hah! I found a beer in my trunk from a golf trip _last summer_, that was past its expiration date! Chilled up just fine and went down smoothly. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-iron-stomach-lunch-challenge/598172/6 "2011-09-30T17:57:13Z")
Done, and it’s had about an hour or so to take hold in my gut…no problems to report. A damn fine bowl of SPO, I gotta say. Good freezer, it would seems. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-iron-stomach-lunch-challenge/598172/7 "2011-09-30T17:57:32Z")
Amateurs. When we got a new deep-freezer a couple of years ago, while cleaning out the old one we found a 15-year-old whole chicken. Thought “What the hell,” thawed it, cut away the worst freezer-burned parts, and made an edible soup out of it, making jokes about serving sweetie’s picky niece food that was older than she was. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-iron-stomach-lunch-challenge/598172/8 "2011-10-01T12:01:18Z")
2010? That barely qualifies! I just ate some 2009 pierogis, and didn’t even give it a second thought! And most of the stuff in mom’s freezer is older than that! The winner was the 20-year-old chicken breasts she unearthed and ate. Dried out and tough, but didn’t give her even a second’s trouble. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-iron-stomach-lunch-challenge/598172/9 "2011-10-01T12:09:04Z")
[Prehistoric:It’s whats for dinner.](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2725/prehistoric-its-whats-for-dinner) > [@](#): > > One of the best-documented accounts of a prehistoric meal comes at the end of Frozen Fauna of the Mammoth Steppe (1990), by Alaska zoology professor Dale Guthrie. After successfully unearthing and preserving “Blue Babe,” a 36,000-year-old steppe bison found near Fairbanks in 1979, Guthrie’s team celebrates by simmering some leftover flesh from Babe’s neck "in a pot of stock and vegetables.