Weirdest thing in the pantry...

[fireheart]

So tonight I was doing a raid on my boyfriends pantry (he still lives with parents ). I go to pull out a box of cereal to show his dad just how much cereal he has left and we find THIS:



Yeah. that's a potato.

With roots growing out of it.

Yes we took photos of it. Now it's sitting in the kitchen to show my boyfriend. And it looks like a mutated chicken foot.

[lordlundar]

Gotcha beat. My folks got some potatoes from a friend of theirs in early October.

At the end of March they finally finished them off.

The roots were roughly a foot long and near the end it was impossible to just get out one potato. You wound up pulling out the rest of the bucket in the process.

[Seshat]

We plant them if they get to that stage. Then usually promptly forget about them and never do get a harvest.

[fireheart]

This potato was in the pantry and had been hiding in the dark.

[MoonCat]

My sister occasionally will take a sweet potato and root it in water, and let it become a nice big leafy plant. Just because.

[Aethian]

Mooncat, my Grandma use to do the same thing in the winter just to give their place some greenery.

[bhskittykatt]

We very recently pulled out an onion out of the fridge that was growing green stalks. It was next to the leftover ham from Christmas. Yeah...we're really bad about cleaning out the fridge. I don't even want to think about what could be lurking in the darker recesses of the pantries...

[dalesys]

We very recently pulled out an onion out of the fridge that was growing green stalks...

Is cauliflower supposed to be pink?

[Kittish]

Is cauliflower supposed to be pink?

Um.... no. Be very, very careful if your cauliflower has turned pink. It's about to enter its mobile stage, and can be dangerous if startled.

I think the weirdest thing in my pantry right now is... um... the 7 (and counting) year old can of evaporated milk? I can't quite bring myself to just toss it, but none of my recipes call for evaporated milk.

[Food Lady]

I have canned seitan. It smells like cat food. It looks like cat food. Don't look at me like that. My mom bought it for me.

[EricKei]

Well, I would have had some of my own, but I moved a few months ago, so anything lurking in the deep, dark corners of the pantry, plotting global domination, is now my ex-roomie's problem Had to clean out the fridge to actually move, so same goes, there. I used to have some impressive stuff in there. Word has it that some of it could have killed off half of the Western hemisphere and driven the rest sterile and insane, had I not properly disposed of it.