EWWWW! How old is the mayonaise in YOUR refrigerator?.....mercury

I was talking to my mom last week. She was sick. So was her husband. They had been up all night running to the potty.

She kept saying, "It must have been the salmon I cooked for dinner. I wish I could just throw up."

My brother had stayed the night at her house and had dinner with them. He was fine.

I asked her what else she and Al had shared, meal wise, during the day. She gives me the day's menu and I notice that there are a couple of things with mayonaise on the list so I asked her, "How old was the mayonaise that you used?"

"I don't know," she replies. "It smelled good. It tasted good."

"But mom.... what is the expiration date?"

"I don't know. I've never in my whole life thrown out mayonaise. It was fine. It wasn't the mayo!"

She then procedeeds to tell me about the jar of mayo that she had found in the fridge (and eaten!) that had expired over a year before. Same comment, "It smelled fine, looked fine and tasted good."

Now we all know what mayo is made of... right? Raw eggs and oil. So I asked her this: "If you were to crack a few eggs into a bowl... would you eat them after you found them in your refridgerator a year later?"

"Of course not!" she says.

"Why not?" I asked.

"Because they wouldn't look right after that long."

"Okay, let's assume that they look fine and smell fine. Would you eat them?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"Because that's gross! They would make me sick!"

"Exactly, Mom, but it's essentially what your doing eating old mayo. They put expiration dates on packages for a reason.... No wonder you're sick!"

"It's not that... it's gotta be the salmon."

Gotta love those depression-era penny-pinchers! :o)

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