Eating Sausage Egg McMuffin left out for 24 hours - Calgarypuck Forums - The Unofficial Calgary Flames Fan Community

Hack&Lube · 01-21-2009, 09:45 AM

In the great spirit of the CP tradition of eating old or expired food...

I left a Sausage Egg McMuffin on my desk at work yesterday morning. I came back today to find it still there. I took a few bites out of it yesterday but most of it is still there. Should I eat it? I'm quite hungry.

I'm pretty sure the sausage and english muffin and even the cheese is perfectly fine. They are so heavily salted, no bacteria could possibly grow in there. How about the egg though? Will cooked egg protein last for awhile without refridgeration?

BlackArcher101 · 01-21-2009, 09:47 AM

Just zap it for a bit and it'll be fine. That thing won't even go moldy if left out.

fredr123 · 01-21-2009, 09:47 AM

What's the matter with you people? Either eat your food or put it in the fridge. Not that hard. Sheesh.

Back on topic, I wouldn't eat it if I was in your situation though. I've seen how the cleaning people "clean" our office and I don't trust anything that's been left out unattended while they are around.

Deelow · 01-21-2009, 09:50 AM

eat it

troutman · 01-21-2009, 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by fredr123

What's the matter with you people? Either eat your food or put it in the fridge. Not that hard. Sheesh.

Back on topic, I wouldn't eat it if I was in your situation though. I've seen how the cleaning people "clean" our office and I don't trust anything that's been left out unattended while they are around.

Europeans seem especially adverse to putting food in the fridge. It stays on the counter for days. Aeneas and I remarked on this by coining the term GERMany.

Prototype · 01-21-2009, 09:52 AM

I'd love to see CP open up an Expired Food subforum. That would be awesome.

Eat it. I used to work at Dairy Queen, and I'd bring home food... leave it overnight in my room, and zap it in the afternoon the next day. As long as the bun hasn't gone rock hard, should be fine.

Tron_fdc · 01-21-2009, 09:53 AM

Dude, there are 2 things that would survive a nuclear war. Cockroaches, and anything made at Mcdonalds.

Eat it, with the amount of preservatives in those tasty little morsels you'll be fine.

GreenTeaFrapp · 01-21-2009, 09:55 AM

If there's no expiry date it should be fine because only foods with them can expire.

Puddy27 · 01-21-2009, 09:56 AM

I asked my wife who is a public health inspector and she said she wouldn't eat it. She did say there were many factors involved though so there is no definite answer. Pretty much the worst thing that can happen is you'll spend the day on the throne...if you have the bathroom reader it may not be that bad of an ordeal lol.

Deelow · 01-21-2009, 10:00 AM

I just ate two eggs that had a Jan 12 expiry date. Will keep you posted.

Ford Prefect · 01-21-2009, 10:01 AM

No worries. There's no real food in those anyway.

On the spoiled food topic, I heard Richard Harris tell a story once about a multi-day bender he and Gregory Peck were once on. They went home to one of their places to grab a bite at one point and the only thing they found in the fridge was a rather green tray of pork chops. Not wanting to take any chances they threw them in the back alley garbage can and headed for a diner. When they returned there was a dead dog laying beside the overturned garbage can.

llama64 · 01-21-2009, 10:17 AM

Prepared food that is still edible 24 hours later in room temperature is NOT food. Seriously... are you all a bunch of dorm room dwellers? Orange milk, stale McMuffins... what's next? Dry 10 year old Ichiban?

CP needs to learn how to eat it seems.

/goes back to eating potato chips for breakfast.

Locke · 01-21-2009, 10:29 AM

Oh yeah, its fine.

Prototype · 01-21-2009, 10:31 AM

People need to treat these threads like Eklund threads. If you're not interested in what stale item is being eaten, and the result, don't come in.

Daradon · 01-21-2009, 10:32 AM

As I'm not sure McDonalds counts as food, I'm pretty sure it can't expire.

Slop some ketchup on there to take away the dryness and let the party begin.

burn_this_city · 01-21-2009, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by llama64

Prepared food that is still edible 24 hours later in room temperature is NOT food. Seriously... are you all a bunch of dorm room dwellers? Orange milk, stale McMuffins... what's next? Dry 10 year old Ichiban?

CP needs to learn how to eat it seems.

/goes back to eating potato chips for breakfast.

Is there something wrong with Sun Chips for breakfast??

I love these threads. McDonalds doesnt expire, it just shrivels up. A misting bottle and a microwave will return it to "fresh".

Incinerator · 01-21-2009, 10:47 AM

My body has a hard time dealing with fresh McMuffins, nevermind 24 hour old ones...I haven't had a McMuffin in a year...

CaptainCrunch · 01-21-2009, 10:53 AM

Thats why, if you have a hankerin for a good hobo butchering you should hang out at the back dumpster next to Micky D's. Those guys know that Macdonalds food doesn't go bad for several days so they congregate there like its a fine buffet.

Or a last meal.

stang · 01-21-2009, 10:57 AM

I read about a Health instructor who bought a McDonalds cheeseburger 6 years ago, and still has it. It hasnt molded or anything like that. She uses it to show her people the crap they put in it cant be good for you.

So one day should still be good.

Flamesguy_SJ · 01-21-2009, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by troutman

Europeans seem especially adverse to putting food in the fridge. It stays on the counter for days. Aeneas and I remarked on this by coining the term GERMany.

"It's like carrying out things in doggy bags: we can't do it in Europe. We just can't. Europeans come over and you just can't. Because sometimes someone has one bite of a thing. "Ahh, can you bag that?" And we go, "What? Ugh! You're going to eat that later? Ugh! You're going to take it home? Ugh! It's just easier to say, "Could you just throw that somewhere...against a wall.""

--Eddie Izzard, "Circle"