Just opened this. Worst smell ever

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chickenuggetttt@reddit

I’m Mexican and my bf got me one of these to feel more “at home” when i first visited him in the UK lol. Literally smells like cat food and looks like pate. Yuck.

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Frankiegoodfella@reddit

You buy crap, you eat crap, your going to smell like,,,,wait for it… CRAP !!!

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winelover08816@reddit

Surprised the can didn’t bulge out. There are few smells as horrifying as decaying beans.

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GreenZebra23@reddit

I've thankfully never smelled that, but rotten potatoes are the foulest thing I've ever smelled. It's weird that some of the blandest foods smell the gnarliest when they go bad

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I had some potatoes I forgot about up in a cupboard and by the time I realized what was up, they were literally turning to liquid. I didn't really smell anything until I made the foolish attempt to pick them up and was blasted by one of the roulette sickening smells of my life.

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TheMrsH1124@reddit

And the liquid goes everywhere. Urgh

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BogeyLowenstein@reddit

I forgot some under my sink for about a year and when we were moving out, I found them. The eyes were like three feet high. They were liquid. We had a bit of woods in the back of the house, so I figure I’d dump them out there, they were in a bucket (must have gotten them from my Grandpas house). On the way out of the house, I tripped over the back door frame and the stink wafted right up in my face. I dropped the goo, potato eyes flailing all about, and promptly barfed all over the back cement pad.

I had to hose the cement down for a good half hour with dish soap to get the stank of the potatoes and my puke out of the backyard :(

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TwinkleTubs@reddit

I had some do this on a throw rug, I had to toss it out.

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Several_Razzmatazz51@reddit

You left potatoes on a throw rug for so long that they liquified? 😂

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TwinkleTubs@reddit

Yes. I'm not proud. I just didn't see them lol

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drsmith48170@reddit

Hope you don’t drive on roads that have people on them

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TwinkleTubs@reddit

Oh no I don't drive. I can, I don't.

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tigm2161130@reddit

You didn’t see them? Were they hidden?

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TwinkleTubs@reddit

No I kept walking by and going "oh potatoes " next day, repeat, until the potatoes became the background. And before you say how long between cleanings? To long, I'm better now, thank you. Also humid, no ac, single wide. No smell until "oh shit potatoes" after a month of the above. I picked them up, said nope, tried not to vomit, and tossed the whole thing out. Learned a lesson. 😁

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SupernaturalPumpkin@reddit

Do you have pets? I dropped a couple strawberries once, thought I got them all and found the cat playing with one about three days later. He hides things and pulls it out at a later date! 😭

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Lowlife_Of_The_Party@reddit

One of ours does this with tiny pieces of trash, like candy wrappers & such. Her favorite toy is the cork of a champagne bottle from like 2 NYE back

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tfoust10@reddit (OP)

Lol

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TequieroVerde@reddit

Potato adventures are fascinating.

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ShitThatFucksWithMe@reddit

When I was in highschool a survivor of the uss Indianapolis (ship carried the bombs for Nagasaki or Hiroshima Nicholas Cage is in a movie about it) talked about surving eating rotten potatoes while stranded at sea after it sank. Really cool story

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TKG_Actual@reddit

I think that's because potatoes are full of starch which breaks down into sugar which the bacteria that dissolve potatoes go nuts for. Worst part is when a seemingly firm potato has a undetected soft spot full of rot with just enough pressure behind the paper-thin skin to make you not notice and you accidentally jab a finger into it and it squirts on the nearest surface.

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EWSflash@reddit

Rotten beans and potatoes are about neck in neck in the stench race, along with onions

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Roboticpoultry@reddit

Rotting tomatoes are god awful too

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Cel_Drow@reddit

Victor Bout (the inspiration behind the main character in the movie Lord of War) used to smuggle weapons in containers full of old potatoes, used the smell as a deterrent to extended searches by INTERPOL etc

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Miles_Everhart@reddit

Yeah, bad beans smell like the nastiest dookie you’ve ever taken, but rotten potatoes straight up smell like a corpse rotting inside a duffel bag in a car trunk in July

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InfiniteBoxworks@reddit

I work in a food warehouse and the couple of times I grabbed a bag of potatoes just for the bad ones to explode in my hand will haunt me to my grave... I had to dispose of a pallet of turkeys that sat forgotten and rotting in a trailer for three weeks and my body didn't react as viscerally to the smell.

Honorable mention to cucumbers and the like. Rancid piss.

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Jacktheforkie@reddit

I worked in a produce warehouse, colleague got showered with rotten melons, I could smell him from 40 feet away outside

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Limp_Leg7129@reddit

i once forgot about a container of cut up watermelon in the back of the fridge. it turned into a terribly stinky and slimy soup and i nearly threw up dumping it into a bag to throw out. gagging and tears. it was absolutely foul. i think i would projectile vomit if i got showered with rotten melon.

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tfoust10@reddit (OP)

How does one get showered with rotten melons? That sounds like a nightmare

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Jacktheforkie@reddit

Pallet toppled over the high bay and he was on a forklift below, everyone was laughing cuz he was an asshole

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quakenash@reddit

My experience of working in produce at a grocery store is that decaying watermelon is the worst. Potatoes are second place for sure

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Batpipes521@reddit

I had a glass jar full of old broccoli bust like a grenade when I tried to throw it away. Fucking terrible smell.

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princessfret@reddit

I was faced with this yesterday - smelled like a long-dead animal. I couldn’t believe such an innocuous vegetable could smell so incredibly foul

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Throwaway26667-@reddit

I got a potato in my cupboard that’s been there for a month and a bit now. Its starting to sprout eyes. Maybe I should use it before I too am cursed with the wretched smell of rotting potatoes😅

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Cake_And_Pi@reddit

You could always bury it.

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ScroochDown@reddit

I've heard that rotting watermelon is horrifying.

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SpotCreepy4570@reddit

It can actually kill you.

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2PlasticLobsters@reddit

Yes, that's a horrible smell. We were greeted by that after returning froma vacation once.

The other irony is that freshly dug potatoes have one of the most wonderful smells. Driving through Idaho once, we came across some sort of depot where the local farmers dropped off truckloads of harvest. The scent was heavenly.

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8bitrevolt@reddit

So long as you don't drive by Amalgamated Sugar on I84 you can keep the memory of Idaho smelling nice. Beet sugar processing is the worst smell I ever done smelt.

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anaserre@reddit

In northern Michigan as a kid I went to a cherry processing plant where they make maraschino cherries. I will never eat one . The smell was horrendous.

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Dr_Bitterness@reddit

Lived in Meridian, can confirm. The stench of a sugar beet refinery is incredibly nasty!

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the_beeve@reddit

In college I worked at an apartment complex for rent. They tried to make me clean out refrigerators full of potatoes that had been locked into units where the electricity had been off for months- Texas heat of 100 degrees. The potatoes had turned to black goo.

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GreenZebra23@reddit

UGH. I've only smelled one or two bad ones at once and it made me retch

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Pokemon_Trainer_May@reddit

You guys are lucky that foods are the worst smell you've smelled.

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GreenZebra23@reddit

Do I want to know?

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Jacktheforkie@reddit

Try honeydew melon, those fuckers had me heaving, taters don’t have anything on melon

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Honestbabe2021@reddit

Ha was juuuust gonna add rotting taters. It’s way worse than I ever thought old potatoes could smell!

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gh0stmilk_@reddit

and onions. i wouldn't wish rotten onions on almost anyone

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abcdthc@reddit

Well it’s not that food that smells bad it’s whatever bacteria eats it.

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vermiciousknidlet@reddit

Agree with the person below about potatoes, omg. Also tofu is really bad, considering it tastes and smells like absolutely nothing on its own (when it's still fresh!)

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pilsnerd11@reddit

I bit into a rancid nut from a tub of Kirkland nut mix. That fucking sucked.

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Bulletmanz9@reddit

No lie I accidentally left the juice of canned pinto beans on the counter for 3 days and almost called the cops cause I thought my neighbor went full Jeffery Dahmer

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ExactlyThreeOpossums@reddit

Deep freezer full of moose meat at my old house in the shed that’s breaker went out 2 summers ago. Perfectly air tight, I opened it and have not been the same since

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dividezero@reddit

Cooler full of shrimp we forgot to clean out after a boil. Summer on the gulf. Had to been at least a week but less than a month. Poor wasted shrimps😭

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tfoust10@reddit (OP)

First time for me. It is not supposed to expire for another year. Wonder how this happened

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noodle-face@reddit

More than likely air got into it. used to work in a grocery store and canned anything were the worst items imaginable when they spoiled. Cat food was the fuckin worst. So many maggots.

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tfoust10@reddit (OP)

Oh gross. Cat food is already smelly. I cant imagine how it could get worse

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ScroochDown@reddit

We got a delivery of canned cat food from Target once. I just set the box down because we didn't need them immediately and the cats would NOT leave it alone. That should have tipped me off, but they're cats and they're idiots for boxes no matter what's in them.

When I finally did open it, the smell hit me and then I had to figure out WHICH box it was and how many cans were impacted.

The best part was when I complained to Target because they'd clearly sent me a damaged box, at first they told me to take the box to the store for a replacement. I was like "you want me to take a box full of rotten cat food and MAGGOTS to the store and give it to customer service?" She changed her mind when I pointed that out.

And yeah, the smell was absolutely horrid.

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tfoust10@reddit (OP)

I would have completely brought that in and have been maliciously compliant

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ScroochDown@reddit

It was tempting, but whoever would have been at the counter definitely didn't deserve to have to deal with that. 🤣 Plus there's no way I wanted that stench in my car either.

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anaserre@reddit

I worked at a dollar general warehouse checking inbound inventory into the system ..yea..the canned pet food is nasty . Maggots everywhere.

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Chaveazie@reddit

Burnt beans maybe on that list??

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czaritamotherofguns@reddit

Well I WAS going to have bean burritos for dinner, but now I can smell this picture in my head.

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enotsj84@reddit

Um yeah there is mold in it it probably had a dent in the can ...

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BlackHandKUR@reddit

Was the can bloated?

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zugarrette@reddit

I eat a lot of canned shit but refried beans are one of the few I've thrown out. never again!

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dart51984@reddit

Well? How did it taste?

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Weird_Yam6398@reddit

Beans, beans, the musical fruit

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dr_strange-love@reddit

Fill syringes with it and sell discount botox

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kai333@reddit

You will have to eyeball nanograms worth of botulinum toxin, so make sure you're careful to not put any fingerprints on anything you sell and destroy all records after the fact.

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tfoust10@reddit (OP)

Well, you are a Dr. So, I guess i should trust you

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dr_strange-love@reddit

You can trust me. I went to Hollywood Upstairs Medical College.

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ElegantCoach4066@reddit

Hi Dr Nick!

Remember me? It's Mr. McGreg

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dr_strange-love@reddit

Well, if it isn't my old friend Mr. McGreg, with a leg for an arm and an arm for a leg!

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ElegantCoach4066@reddit

I feel like my skeleton is trying to jump out of my body, what treatment do.you suggest?

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dr_strange-love@reddit

Our one chance is "transdental electromicide."

I'll need a golf cart motor with a 1,000-volt capacimator, stat!

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ElegantCoach4066@reddit

I see you know your judo well

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dr_strange-love@reddit

Laudanum and brandy

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tfoust10@reddit (OP)

I dont know what you need but I know how much it will cost!

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tfoust10@reddit (OP)

Sounds legit

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DevelopmentHot333@reddit

this the type of shit to make u not even finish dinner. u just go sit on the couch mad asf

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tfoust10@reddit (OP)

This is what happened

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ChickenandWhiskey@reddit

Limited edition "Very Old El Paso"

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Advanced-Offer641@reddit

Ewwwww canned beans

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Creative-Area-6385@reddit

Most people open a can of whoop ass, this is just a can of ass

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PossibleSquare@reddit

If you think the beans smell bad, just wait for the farts.

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RudyRayRay@reddit

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Magpie2205@reddit

Mmmmm, botulism.

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tfoust10@reddit (OP)

Imagine the first person who thought maybe there's a future in injecting this into people

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Magpie2205@reddit

Joke is on us, I guess 😅

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GreenZebra23@reddit

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Any-Vermicelli3537@reddit

When this happens, do you have to be careful disposing of it? Can you pour it down the drain with the disposal? What if you cut your finger on the can?

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NiteWatcher14@reddit

Only way to see if it is truly safe is to eat it

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Commercial-Star-291@reddit

it smells a lot worse after you eat it.

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Quiet-Wing5230@reddit

Pussy

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BALLrash666@reddit

Your fault for not checking

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tfoust10@reddit (OP)

Checking what? It was not expired

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BALLrash666@reddit

Dents n shit. Not always about expiration

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Zealousideal-Dot2161@reddit

That's Old El Paso

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TheCreamPieMassacre@reddit

A man was rotting in the apartment above the restaurant I worked at. That was one of the worst smells. Apparently he puddled by the time he was discovered.

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Sue_Law_1984@reddit

Worse than a bag of jerky? I love jerky, but I habe to hold my breath when I first open bag.

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onamonapizza@reddit

Thanks for reminding me I probably need to clean out my pantry.

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BadReputation2611@reddit

Just buy the canned pinto beans and toss them in a bowl with a colander to seperate the juice, fry the beans in oil, once they’re wrinkly through in the juice, mash the beans and season, then stir while scraping the bottom of the pan continuously until it reaches the consistently you want, then you’re done. takes like 10 minutes to do a single can and it’s a thousand times better than any refried beans from a can

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tfoust10@reddit (OP)

I will give that a try

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Consistent-Menu-6629@reddit

Looks kinda like Pseudomonas

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tfoust10@reddit (OP)

I am tempted to culture it

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reddituser403@reddit

Sittin here in Queens, eatin refried beans

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PlumpyCat@reddit

Mmmmm botulism

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JBONE31@reddit

Lucky!!! You just got FREE BOTOX! Now you don’t have to pay those pesky doctors.

/s

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Timely-Cry-8366@reddit

These are pretty good when they haven’t expired lol.

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highfiveselfoh@reddit

Yeah I just had a southwest flavored version it was really good. I can’t remember specifically if it was El Paso but it made me realize canned beans are very handy and delicious and nutritious. (I diluted with water to lower the sodium)

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tfoust10@reddit (OP)

Technically this does not expire for over another year

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DruidOfAutumn@reddit

*If the seal remains in tact and it was canned properly, sure. But those are definitely expired despite the date saying otherwise.

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tfoust10@reddit (OP)

True

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BerttMacklinnFBI@reddit

If it's in expiration and has no visible damage to the can please report this to the manufacturer.

Low acid canned foods are heavily regulated and making them aware of an issue will help ensure it doesn't happen again.

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tfoust10@reddit (OP)

I went to do that but it was so much paperwork that I stopped

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BerttMacklinnFBI@reddit

I'd call their number it's probably faster.

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Succ-MY-Scythe@reddit

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YungEricSparrow@reddit

If it was 1985, those bean would start moving

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axron12@reddit

“Worst smell ever”

Proceeds to leave the can open while taking a picture 😅

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Xamineh@reddit

Mexican surmstromming.

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No_Shelter5892@reddit

Nailed it 😂

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TopFun694@reddit

Same here !!!! Today made it as a zip for chips .BADDDDDD decision

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LukaIncic@reddit

looks spoiled to me

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xipetotec1313@reddit

That's rotten bro. It doesn't really count as stupid food

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eligoscreps@reddit

Thought this shit was pork brains in gravy for a sec

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My-Cats-Are-Derps@reddit

Several years ago I bought a new fridge. About 6 months, give or take, into owning this lovely new and clean fridge, a foul nasty terrible smell formed and permeated my sanity all night. I cleaned EVERYTHING - removed every glass shelf and crisper drawer, cleaned with lysol wipes followed by dawn and a rinse. Nothing helped.

.....until I started opening the leftover containers and found the foulest, stinkiest container of leftover refried beans from ONLY SATAN KNOWS WHEN OMG. I have a saved text screen grab between myself and my mom where I walked through all my steps and her wise words of "It's ALWAYS the beans" 🤣

All that to say, I can smell your pain 🤣

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tfoust10@reddit (OP)

I feel validated

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tfoust10@reddit (OP)

I just got the Picasso award in this sub. Not sure how I feel about it

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RepairmanJackX@reddit

After you start trying proper brands and home-made, Old El Paso tastes like garbage.

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DJ_Muskrat@reddit

Damn it, I just had dental surgery and this is one of the only things I enjoy eating. I bought a can earlier and now I’m anxious lol

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tfoust10@reddit (OP)

I may have saved your life.

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LookAtTheHat@reddit

Maybe like Swedish surströmming, smells worse than it tastes. What did it tast like?

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Necessary_Milk_5124@reddit

Just FYI, if anyone’s interested. Homemade refried beans are very easy in a crockpot. And taste so much better.

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Appropriate-Sun834@reddit

Bc it’s expired or just bad regardless of date. It shouldn’t look or smell like that

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tfoust10@reddit (OP)

It expires in 2027. I am not sure what happened to this.

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possumsonly@reddit

Is the can dented close to the seal on the top or side?

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tfoust10@reddit (OP)

Not that I can see.

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RadarSmith@reddit

You got the cylinder of forbidden danger.

Probably some small perforation that's too small to see but still compromised the seal. I've seen that on a can of black beans before; the can seemed fine and I couldn't find any damage, but it. was already equalized with outside air pressure before I opened it and it was also...stinky.

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Appropriate-Sun834@reddit

Well it’s bad. Hope you didn’t eat it

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tfoust10@reddit (OP)

I couldn't if I tried. The smell is so bad

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Appropriate-Sun834@reddit

I figured as much lol. I put left over black beans in my fridge after using half a can and in just 3 short days I couldn’t figure out the smell from my fridge it was fucking terrible. I finally thought to check the beans and sure enough… may be top 5 worst smells on earth

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