It’s happened to all of us. Your parents get older, you get older, you go to visit home, look through the pantry, and you find some truly inexplicable stuff. I’m talking about something completely inedible. Something that doesn’t even resemble what it’s supposed to be. Something that might kill a small Victorian child.
Here are some of the wildest things people have found in their parents’ and grandparents’ homes:
1.
Finely aged Miracle Whip from 1997:
2.
A special goth-edition bottle of ketchup from the ’90s:
3.
Shake ‘N Bake prominently featuring Aaron Carter:
4.
Whole mushrooms from 1983:
5.
Peanut butter from 1983:
6.
A once in a lifetime box of Cheerios:
7.
Canned peaches aged to perfection from 1976:
8.
A juice box featuring the Backstreet Boys official fan hotline:
9.
A jar of mayonnaise from 24 years ago:
10.
A sandwich from the Coolidge administration:
11.
Perfectly good baby food from 1994:
12.
A bag of caramel that’s simply taunting you with how delicious it looks:
13.
Almond extract from the ’70s that seems to have evaporated:
14.
The world’s oldest can of Slim Fast:
15.
A big bag of Lays from 1994:
16.
A literal bottle of arsenic:
17.
A casual tray of meat from 1999:
18.
A box of Tide from the ’60s:
20.
A roll of toilet paper from the literal 1940s:
22.
A bottle of Orbitz that has seen much, much better days:
23.
Twinkies just in time for the new millennium:
24.
Pop-tarts containing a free movie rental:
25.
A literal bottle of cocaine:
26.
A box of 50 year old condoms:
27.
A can of NEW COKE tucked away in the vegetable drawer:
28.
A box of Barbie breakfast:
29.
Egg nog old enough that Gerald Ford himself could have sipped it:
30.
Some suspiciously good looking glass Gatorades:
31.
Crackers older than your parents:
32.
And something called “chocolate coated POISON:”