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Scientists: What is the thing in your brain that tells you to keep eating when something obviously tastes off? Is that some sort of an evolutionary trick your mind plays in order to maximize the nourishment it receives, regardless of after-effects?

On on a somewhat related note, I just ate something seriously rancid. A lot of it.

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[tummies]

What! I've never heard of this. Though I have eaten two-day-old mozzarrella balls that definitely tasted fizzy/unfresh, and I ate about five of them before I finally felt grossed out.

I'm so sorry you feel nauseated :( What did you eat?

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Hummus. Five-month-old hummus. For some reason, I was under the impression that hummus doesn't go bad. I think I thought it was like mustard, or soy sauce, or other things I use as condiments and keep in my fridge for years at a time. But it does. And when it does, it smells like a raging yeast infection.

Excuse me, I'm going to go into my dark place now.

[theswirtproject]

oh no! I would have thought hummus was okay for years, too. actually, I think we may have had a conversation about this recently.

I definitely ate a whole bowl full of cereal with spoiled milk the other day. NOT WISE. I felt ill for like 6 hours. Luckily, I have a stomach of steel, so aside from the nausea, my body didn't retaliate too much.

[aflockofmollies]

i once ate a bowl of oatmeal that tasted really really off -- i was about to throw out all my frozen blueberries (from last year), but then i realized that it was the milk. nasters.

hummus goes bad. it's made of chick peas, guys!

limes, though. they never go bad. neither does half-and-half.

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I feel heartened to know that apparently we are all morons when it comes to eating expired food.

Maybe some sort of a training course should have been required for Wellesley graduation...