How Long Before That Chicken Will Kill Me?
Posted by ListenToLeon on
November 17, 2005
For real, I need to know?
I’m about to eat some baked chicken for lunch that has been in the refrigerator since Sunday. It’s Thursday now…so I know I’m living dangerously by consuming these leftovers. It was fully cooked, so I am not worried about the usual chicken fears that come from sominella poisoning. I am more worried about going through the same thing my old roommate and co-worker Kham went through a few years ago. Let me get into this story, but first, I want to go on the record and say that my boy K is NOT an idiot. He just does things sometimes that make you just shake your head and wonder why.
Back when we were roommates in SE DC, K had some chicken breasts in the freezer which he moved to the refrigerator in order to thaw out. Instead of cooking them that day, he left them in there for days. So after about a week of seeing that chicken package in the refrigerator, I told him that I was going to throw it out. So he yells out “NOOOO! Don’t throw out my chicken. I want that!”
So I decided to just leave the package alone, and let the chicken stay there until it started to stink. That way, I’d HAVE to throw it out and he would not be able to try and say that I owe him a pack of chicken breasts.
About two weeks after the day K put the chicken in the refrigerator to thaw out, my boy E and I walked in my place and went to the kitchen to get some beer. Who do we see in the kitchen cooking chicken on the Foreman Grill? Yep. Young K was grilling the hell out of that 2 week old pack of chicken breasts. I said to him “You better not eat that damn shit!” K insisted that it was fine, saying “There’s nothing wrong with it. Look! It looks fine!”
So he eats the chicken to the disgust of me and E. Then he gets a beer and joins us over at the table as we planned what type of partying and women chasing we were going to do that weekend.
The next day at work, I ran into K in the hallway, and he was sweating PROFUSELY. I mean, his bald head was dripping with sweat. It looked like a car winshield in the rain. Since it was nowhere near hot in the office, I asked him “Are you alright?”
He had the nerve to say “I feel sick man…I think I ate something bad.”
I was like “HELL YEAH YOU ATE SOMETHING BAD! I told you to leave that damn chicken alone!”
So K left work, and I stayed until 5:30. When I got home, I see this fool on the couch in his draws curled up in the fetal position, still sweatting like Patrick Ewing at the free throw line.He told me that he threw up on the way out the building, and also felt sick during his 5 minute drive back from the Dr’s office after work. I asked him what did the Dr. say, and he said “The Dr. said I shouldn’t have eaten that chicken.”
I just shook my head and went upstairs. The next day when I was leaving for work, K was in the same place, still in the fetal position, but this time he wasn’t sweating as much. He was alright by the next day, but he learned a valuable lesson the hard way. To this day, we still make fun of him for eating that two week old chicken.
So yeah…Let me know if eating thes leftovers could be bad for me. I don’t want to make the same mistake Kham did and end up the butt of jokes, too.
26 Responses to “How Long Before That Chicken Will Kill Me?”
if it’s fully cooked, i see no problem with eating it. i don’t think leftovers get bad until it’s about a week out. if you tried to eat last sunday’s chicken next sunday, i’d say don’t do it. as it is, you should be aiight.
By nikki on Nov 17, 2005
you may just have a case of the bubble guts, but that never hurt anyone.
By SomeOne on Nov 17, 2005
Thanks @ Nikki
@ Chclt, YES IT DID HURT SOMEONE! I’m at work! I can’t be stinking up the public bathroom…hiding my feet in the stalls so no one recognizes my shoes and shit…That’s not cool at all LOL.
By Hustleman on Nov 17, 2005
Laughed out loud at the Patrick Ewing at the freethrow line reference, NYer that I am…
By Anonymous on Nov 17, 2005
I agree with what Nikki said. I think you have about a week to eat leftovers. However, I NEVER eat leftovers. Call me high maintenance, but I just can’t stomach leftovers unless it’s some type of pasta or meat I made personally. Oh, and I can’t do the public restroom thing, either. We have pretty clean bathrooms at work and I don’t even like going in there because of what OTHERS do. LOL. Let us know if the chicken got to ya…
By Miss Rei on Nov 17, 2005
i agree with chclt…
this is why you gotta have a “designated shit spot”. find a bathroom on a floor with the least amount of traffic. that way, if it comes down to having the bubble guts, you got someplace to drop the load without folks coming in and wondering what crawled up into your ass and died.
By nikki on Nov 17, 2005
damn that why must we hide and hold are head down in shame cause we have to take a shit, its very natural…..ps i hate going in the rest rooms at work toooo, but when nature calls, a girl gosta do what a girl gosta do, i know im not the only one still rocking the hover approach….*blushes*
By SomeOne on Nov 17, 2005
Ms. Rei, I agree w/ you. I don’t do the public restrooms, never did…Probably got a messed up bladder, because I will hold myself forever.
Anyway, Hustleman, its fully cooked, go ahead throw some hotsauce on it and go to town…
Its better to eat it sooner than later. (boy i sound greedy)
By divyne on Nov 17, 2005
@ Miss Rei, I tore that chicken up, and so far, so good…
@ Chclt, I was saying I’d lay low, only because I don’t want everybody to be like “Leon’s blowing up the bathroom. It’s HIS fault you can’t go in there” LOL
By Hustleman on Nov 17, 2005
“I can’t be stinking up the public bathroom…hiding my feet in the stalls so no one recognizes my shoes and shit…”
LMBAO!!
By Hi My Name is....??? on Nov 17, 2005
doc:
i’ve experienced both your roommate and your dilemma. i ended up throwing the chicken away that wasn’t cooked, because my roommate sufficiently scared me (it was about 5 days out the freezer). in your case, i ate the chicken cuz i cooked it myself.
on a side note (well, 1 of 2), NEVER EVER eat old eggs. i don’t eat eggs, so they have a tendency to stay in my fridge a long time. i use them to make salmon patties. well, it was a few months since the last time i made some, and i really wanted some but my car was in the shop so i went with the eggs in the fridge. them salmon patties tasted SSOO good, but man they did me SSSOO (an extra S and O) wrong. i was hurt for like 3 days straight man. i missed hella football because i just took a book in the bathroom and stayed all day. i ready “the odyssey” and other long books that i’m lying about, but will make the story funnier.
esmoore
By Anonymous on Nov 17, 2005
LMFAOOOO……so no one sees my shoes and shit.
I thought i was the only one who did that!!!
By YOUNG BUCK!!! on Nov 17, 2005
My boyfriend will eat something thats been in the fridge for the longest time. However, he won’t even try Lasagna. It really baffles me. I don’t thank you realize how funny this post was…lol!
By Georgiapeach on Nov 17, 2005
Bruh… you might need to get some charcoal tablets from GNC or somethin’ to coat cha stomach cuz bad chicken can do a number on ya
By G. Mo on Nov 17, 2005
thanks for stopping by my spot, leon! yeah, i’m a fan of the INS, for real. my Blogroll is randomized, but if you refresh enough, you’ll see a link there. I love how y’all write in there - hilarious ish!
okay, i’ll go back and read your whole post now ^_^
By mai on Nov 17, 2005
The chicken should be ok!! But one thing that I can tell you i dont eat anyone left over chinese. I ate some 2 day old chinese food and that shit had me shakin like i had a cause of parkinsoN disease. I was so sick I think that I literally didnt blink all day !!!!
But you should be ok eating that chicken :)
By RAVEN on Nov 17, 2005
you left a post on my blog over a year ago.
i noticed it only now.
but, i don’t post much anymore, so you needn’t both respond.
By Thomas Sanchez on Nov 17, 2005
I am STILL dying reading the “hiding my feet so no one recognizes my shoes” comment. You’re a mess! But do you want to know what’s really funny? Anytime I use the bathroom, I ALWAYS look over at the person’s shoes in the next stall over. AND I REMEMBER THEM SHITS, TOO! I remember them even more when I hear crazy ass noises coming out of the stall and when I see those shoes walking up and down the hall an hour later. LOL!
I’m glad the chicken didn’t do you wrong…for now…=c)
By Miss Rei on Nov 17, 2005
FIRST OF ALL IT BLOWS MY MIND HOW WE CAN HAVE SO MUCH CONVERSATION ABOUT SOME DAGGONE CHICKEN!! (THAT’S BLACK FOLX FOR YOU..HAHA)
ANYWAY ALL OF YALL ARE SO CRAZY. BUT WHAT RAVEN SAID JUST PROVES MY POINT ABOUT CHINESE FOOD. I KEEP TELLIN’ PEOPLE TO LEAVE THAT STUFF ALONE BUT THEY DON’T LISTEN!! BUT ONE BY ONE THEY WILL LEARN. I REMEMBER MY DAUGHTER LEARNED THE HARD WAY
SO SICK I LITERALLY DIDN’T BLINK ALL DAY!!!! THAT IS HYSTERICAL!!!!
By TrinaBeingTrina on Nov 18, 2005
Yalll some fools, and yes leon i know you just protecting your good name…i notice shoes too, lol…i can always tell when someones talking a ish, they flush the toliet five times before leaving the dtall trying to disguish the stinch, my only thing is that they gettin they booty all wet with that nasty toliet water, eeeeewwwww
By SomeOne on Nov 18, 2005
Not only do I pay attention to the shoes, I listen for the sound of water to make sure they wash their hands afterwards. You’d be surprised by how many nasty so-and-so’s will be in the restroom grunting and straining one minute then walk straight out of the bathroom RIGHT PAST the sinks the next. Those are the same people who’ll be in your office in your face wanting to touch everything…LOL
By Hypmommy on Nov 18, 2005
i think you are fine to eat the chicken. but who cares about the public bathroom. everyone poops
By The infamous Jen on Nov 18, 2005
Hi,
I found your blog by way of someone who told another blogger to stay away from your blog…lol. I have really enjoyed your site…immensely! Your yahoo music station is all that and a bag of chips, and i’m actually here for the second time so I can listen to it now that my lunch is over. Your taste in music ROCKS!
I got sick once from eating potato salad so I know what your friend suffered. Poor thing. I bet he won’t do that again.
I’m from Denver/Aurora btw… ;-)
By Positively Cheryl on Nov 18, 2005
LOL…well now he knows
By Honey-Libra on Nov 18, 2005
“When in doubt, throw it out!” Words to live by!
Your friend’s chicken story reminds me of my mushroom story, I was trying to be a gourmet cook, always cooking with fresh herbs and whatnot, so one day I saw a tv cook cooking with fresh mushrooms, which is something I never tried because I always used the canned ones, so I bought some and nobody told me that fresh mushrooms are a DELICACY and you’re supposed to cook them within’ two days or less…try a WHOLE week, and there I was preparing my CHICKEN BREAST (sound familiar!) and once the mushrooms cooked down there were really not that many so my greedy @$$ only put the mushrooms on MY chicken, later I kept feelin’ like something was stuck in my throat and my chest, and I started to sweat like hell! Buy the end of the night I had thrown up for 9 whole hours and had passed the hell out in the middle of it(yuk!)My 4 year old at the time knew my mom’s number and 911, and I had to be rushed to the e/r to get my stomach pumped but fortunately there was nothing left in there so they flushed out my system and sent me home with some stomach medicine, and some lozenges for my throat because all the vomiting, bruised my voicebox, a sister couldn’t talk for three weeks! So tell your friend, I feel his pain! Man it was years before I could look at fresh mushrooms without getting the beegees! And becaue I was greedy as hell with the mushrooms, NOBODY else who ate the chicken got sick! Ain’t that a blimp!
By Mikah! on Nov 18, 2005
When I put frozen chicken in fridge to thaw out, I will not eat it past 2 days due to previous experience —- it’s not worth saving the money, believe me!!!!
Another thing that must be kept properly: GREENS. A friend of mine was catering a wedding and cooked several large pots of greens a day ahead of time and didn’t put in fridge (found out later). Let’s just say me and the Tidy Bowl Man we’re on first name basis for days!!!!
Only leftovers worth eating after 2nd day: spaghetti, chili, casseroles.
Happy eating!!!!
By girlie68girl on Nov 18, 2005