No, not me, although I am old! But today I am thinking of something else. While emptying out the refrigerator the other day, I ran into a can of Red Bull which I knew had been in there a long time. I don’t drink Red Bull or any of those energy drinks. It’s a reminder of my sister. She drinks Red Bull morning, noon, and night. A couple of years ago, the two of us went on a cruise as part of our high school reunion. We graduated different years but from the same high school, in the same decade (the 70’s). One of my classmates had started a Facebook group with the intention of setting up a reunion for all the classes that graduated in the 1970’s. So the cruise was a culmination of that project, although the Facebook group lives on today and is very active. So on this cruise trip, it was required that I drive from Portland in Oregon to San Jose in California to get my sister then we drove together to San Pedro to catch the cruise ship which took us to Catalina then Ensenada, Baja California, then back to San Pedro. On that trip, I bought her Red Bull several times. When I ran into a store to get a Diet Coke for me, I would grab her Red Bull. One of those cans stayed in the car. It ended up coming home to Portland with me. Then when I drove back to San Jose a few months later, I took it to her but it never made it out of the car. In the end, the Red Bull can has made the drive from the San Francisco Bay Area to Portland and back about five times. Finally, it has stayed in the fridge the rest of the time, waiting for my sister to come visit or someone else that might want to drink it. However, the other night, I realized it was time to throw it out when I remembered that I bought the can in November of 2011! So bye bye Red Bull, it was nice not drining you!
So now I ask, what’s the oldest thing in your refrigerator? Go on, go look. I’ll wait!
Oh the worst is when I find vegetables that have turned to moldy mush and I can barely tell what it started out as. 🙂
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…a bottle of Dave’s Insanity Hot Sauce!
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I wonder if it gets hotter as it ages? You’ll have to give it a try and let me know!
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Since becoming an empty nester, I enjoy shopping every two weeks, thus reducing the chance of forgetting food items in my refrigerator.
Now years ago, I held on to a can of beer, so long, I was afraid to pour it down the drain. LOL!
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That reminds me. I do have old beer. My son and daughter are beer aficionados so when they visited some time ago, they bought different beers here that they couldn’t get where they live. They didn’t drink all of them and didn’t take them so they are still here. I hate to dump them. I hate to open them and try them because they don’t always choose beer that I would like. So they sit here. In fact, I think a couple of them are older than that can of Red Bull!
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Corin, as I read this I was laughing aloud.
Hey, hand write them a letter asking them what to do with the old or outdated beer. I bet they will respond with either a text message or email. LOL!
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