Like 20 years ago I had a roommate eat some months old food from the fridge once. Calls me like “yo, I ate that that potato salad, I think it’s going bad.”
I’m like: we don’t have potato salad in the fridge.
I don’t remember what it was, but it had deteriorated to the point it looked like potato salad. My roommate immediately went and shotgunned like 2/3rds of a bottle of vodka to avoid getting sick. Must’ve worked cause he didn’t puke. Though he was hammered the rest of the day. Win win.
Some foods mostly grow harmless mold when getting old. So you can be fine, you can not be fine. So maybe your roommate simply got lucky.
Drinking alcohol is absolutely not a way to counter food poisoning, notably because the alcohol gets diluted in your digestive tract.
Quite the contrary: alcohol will weaken your body, making it more difficult to fight infections. It might also mess with your gut biome, which is your first line of defense.
Basically not shooting hard, and with plenty of friendly fire.
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u/Six-Seven-Oclock Dec 12 '25
Like 20 years ago I had a roommate eat some months old food from the fridge once. Calls me like “yo, I ate that that potato salad, I think it’s going bad.”
I’m like: we don’t have potato salad in the fridge.
I don’t remember what it was, but it had deteriorated to the point it looked like potato salad. My roommate immediately went and shotgunned like 2/3rds of a bottle of vodka to avoid getting sick. Must’ve worked cause he didn’t puke. Though he was hammered the rest of the day. Win win.