Potato salad at summer picnics is always VERY suspect. I try to stick to burgers or dog w/ mustard and maybe pickles. No mayo. And chips. For desert (assuming we ran out of meat) I want one of those orange sherbet / vanilla icecream with a splintery wooden tool to eat it.
The picnic was ruined because of ants – because there was only one spot left and it was on the ground instead of a table? And the ants kept them from setting up in poison ivy – because they wanted to set up in a bush? And the potato salad started to smell – because they had no place to picnic but took the food out anyway and left it in the sun? And it was the girl who decided how long they were going to sit there, without setting up but with all the food out? I’m completely lost on this one.
At a function on a hot summer day, 6 months pregnant. Hormone heightened senses, I warned everyone not to eat the shellfish. My kids and I were the only ones who didn’t get sick and unlike my ex husband, I didn’t gloat over his suffering. .
Whatever are you putting into your potato salad that it spoils so fast? I can’t imagine that happening, for sure my potato salad is always gone before It can go bad.
Apparently, the DDD, the Doomdday Department of Dietetics, has succeeded in convincing everyone that food spoils the minute it’s out of refrigeration or heat, and that food in a refrigerator is bad as soon as the power goes out. It’s so much easier than actually THINKING. I’m not a salmonella or listeria proponent, but can we PLEASE THINK about what we do?
diazch408 about 2 months ago
What a optimistic kid!
Concretionist about 2 months ago
Potato salad at summer picnics is always VERY suspect. I try to stick to burgers or dog w/ mustard and maybe pickles. No mayo. And chips. For desert (assuming we ran out of meat) I want one of those orange sherbet / vanilla icecream with a splintery wooden tool to eat it.
sbenton7684 about 2 months ago
Picky picky picky… I must have pickles too…
sandpiper about 2 months ago
In this heat, everything starts smelling earlier.
Ceeg22 Premium Member about 2 months ago
If it was already starting to smell, it was probably bad before you left the house
Richard S Russell Premium Member about 2 months ago
“How can I tell if this potato salad is bad?”
“Easy. Eat some and see if you’re throwing up half an hour later.”
allegro about 2 months ago
Potato salad is a picnic must. Ice is cheap, widely available and highly portable. A lid to keep the flies at bay.
See how easy that was?
Cactus-Pete about 2 months ago
The picnic was ruined because of ants – because there was only one spot left and it was on the ground instead of a table? And the ants kept them from setting up in poison ivy – because they wanted to set up in a bush? And the potato salad started to smell – because they had no place to picnic but took the food out anyway and left it in the sun? And it was the girl who decided how long they were going to sit there, without setting up but with all the food out? I’m completely lost on this one.
tammyspeakslife Premium Member about 2 months ago
At a function on a hot summer day, 6 months pregnant. Hormone heightened senses, I warned everyone not to eat the shellfish. My kids and I were the only ones who didn’t get sick and unlike my ex husband, I didn’t gloat over his suffering. .
unfair.de about 2 months ago
Whatever are you putting into your potato salad that it spoils so fast? I can’t imagine that happening, for sure my potato salad is always gone before It can go bad.
dogday Premium Member about 2 months ago
Apparently, the DDD, the Doomdday Department of Dietetics, has succeeded in convincing everyone that food spoils the minute it’s out of refrigeration or heat, and that food in a refrigerator is bad as soon as the power goes out. It’s so much easier than actually THINKING. I’m not a salmonella or listeria proponent, but can we PLEASE THINK about what we do?