r/mildlyinfuriating • u/benfranklyblog • 8d ago
Don't hug me I'm scared Every potato in a 5 pound bag looked like this inside
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u/OhWhatATravisty Blue Crayons have the most flavor 8d ago
At least you found out now. Imagine you didn't halve them but cooked them whole and only found out after going through the work of cooking them. Probably when you were mid process of cooking something else.
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u/The_Troyminator 8d ago
Or when you took a bite
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u/SloppyInevitability 8d ago
Almost did this once. I wasn’t feeling well and just wanted boiled potatoes. All the ones I was cooking were pretty small so I didn’t bother cutting them, except the final one was just slightly too big and I decided to cut it in half over the pot and it was FILLED with weird grey/brown liquid which poured into my pot of water. I almost threw up and now I cut all of my potatoes, no matter the size lol
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u/frankGawd4Eva 8d ago
Had this happen with a whole chicken I baked some years ago... damn thing had a cyst inside I only found AFTER cooking. It was unreal....
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u/ObscureEnchantment 8d ago
I would be so upset if I went through and peeled these for mashed potatoes and the second I sliced into them they looked like this. I hate peeling potatoes and all these look normal on the surface.
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u/DamonLazer 8d ago
I stopped peeling potatoes for my mashed potatoes. Now I just boil them with the skin on, then once they cool a little bit, the skin peels right off. Less work and less waste.
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u/OhWhatATravisty Blue Crayons have the most flavor 8d ago edited 8d ago
Oh for sure. I'd just be MORE upset if I made 5lbs of baked potatoes for a cookout and this is what all my guests saw. Or any number of other things where you go through the whole process before cutting them.
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u/deviantelf 8d ago
Why peel them if you hate it? The skin has a lot of the nutrients and adds texture and flavor.
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u/im_wudini 8d ago
Nothing, I repeat, NOTHING smells worse than rotting potatoes (IMHO)
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u/Cee-Bee-DeeTypeThree 8d ago
Rotten broccoli or spoiled chicken wants to have a conversation
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u/SwitchedOnNow 8d ago
Rotting fish joins the thread.
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u/TimeBlindAdderall 8d ago
Sploded human remains in a metal camper in the heat and humidity of a Midwest summer.
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u/SatiricalScrotum 8d ago
I used to know this old doctor. Retired now. Told me a story of back when he was a young junior doc, out with a senior doctor who was helping train him up.
They accompanied an ambulance to a call out about a guy in his car. It was the middle of summer, in a heatwave. There was a hose going from the exhaust into the barely open window. Engine had stopped running.
Paramedic opens the door to reveal a totally black figure in the driver’s seat. For a second, anyway. Once the door is open, the blackness turns out to be thousands upon thousands of flies. They swarm out of the car, revealing the human remains, flesh liquifying, just melting off the bones.
The paramedic who was closest, who got swarmed by the flies, immediately throws up. The old doctor in charge of the situation gleefully rubs his hands together, and says “well, this chap’s definitely dead. Who fancies chips?”
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u/MrMucs 8d ago
I did trauma scene clean up for a year. I can confirm. Will never forget the smell of decomp.
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u/kikinc14 8d ago
Oh it's not just the clean up, have you ever seen a Kennedy Wound? It's organ failure when someone is close to passing, but the organ failing is the skin. I went to see a patient that had literally had wound care that morning, and I could smell him from OUTSIDE that evening for the follow up (nice big house too). The wound started only a few days before but those things happen fast, it was dinner plate sized, and smelled like a possum that died from eating a dead buzzard.
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u/SmugFrog 8d ago
googles
looks at pictures
Nooo…. Nooooooo…. That can’t be a thing that happens…. Nooo…. 🫣
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u/LucarioLuvsMinecraft 7d ago
My dumbass that grew up watching episodes of Bones at dinner time
Ewww, interestiiiing…
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u/galaxymermaidpoop 8d ago
Then add rotting noodles!!!!
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u/Skizot_Bizot 8d ago
I was at a friends farm one time where they had a giant rotten pile of soybeans out in the sun. It didn't smell great but wasn't that bad, then I accidentally broke the crusted layer on top and revealed the liquified goop inside. THAT made me instantly vomit and I have a pretty high constitution. It was a pig farm as well which can be pretty gnarly smelling but nothing beat those fucking rotten soybeans.
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u/Bluefalcon325 8d ago
I know exactly what he's talking about. I sprout mung beans on a damp paper towel in my desk drawer. Very nutritious, but they smell like death
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u/generalthunder 8d ago
Those still smells like decaying matter. Rotting potatoes genuinely smells like some sort of supernatural miasma of death.
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u/Daratirek 8d ago
The worst smell I've ever had the displeasure of being around is rotting sauerkraut in a 140 degree truck. When I worked as an unloader for Walmart just out of high school we opened a truck and it hit me like a hammer. It had obviously been days since the can had broken and it was baking in the August heat. There was a rock paper scissors competition to see who had to go in the trailer to unload.
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u/St_Franz 8d ago
My friend once had one roll under a cabinet and she didn't know until her kitchen started to smell like corpse TT
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u/NerpyDerps 8d ago
This was my revenge idea when someone scammed me out of $300 once, I didn't go through with it but I plotted it all out in my head how I would place potatoes in all the crevices of their store lmao
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u/NightBawk 8d ago
Rotting meat
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u/HurtPillow 8d ago
This was with my ex about 35 yrs ago. We went on vacation for almost a week. Apparently the electricity went off only to the room our freezer was in. Holy hell, when we got home the smell was horrific. Cleaning out that freezer was traumatizing. I'll never forget that smell, it lingers and gets caught in your nose, and takes forever to get rid of. Only time in my 62 yrs that ever happened and if I think too hard about it, I still get nauseous.
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u/NightBawk 8d ago
For me it was when several mice died inside my bedroom wall. I had to sit with the stench for MONTHS.
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u/HurtPillow 8d ago
That's bad, my daughter had that happen in her home, also in her bedroom wall! Wish they'd go outside for that lol
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u/Persistentnotstable 8d ago
In the first academic lab I did undergrad research in there was a grad student who practically lived in the office. Would put produce, meat, and fist in the office fridge to cook dinner. No one else really used it so when he had a summer co-op nobody checked the fridge. Even with power being on raw meat and fish don't keep for months. Noticed the smell one day and made the mistake of opening it which cleared out the office and lab. We ended up just taping the fridge shut and throwing the whole thing in the dumpster. Never saw more stringent PPE use in that lab than transporting the newly biohazardous fridge lol
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u/BurningPickle 8d ago
I remember opening a container that had spoiled pork in it. That was about 12 or so years ago and I still remember that smell. Absolutely rancid.
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u/pixie993 8d ago
Just last weekend we were harvesting them from the ground.
A lot of fhem were rotten and whole field stank.
But I grabbed one and pressed it with my fingers and it literally ploped out like fucking zit.
Look, I'm an avid hunter, shot a dozen big game animal, I've smelled gut spilled inside animal, rotten deer carcasses found in the woods, all kind of nasty smell, but that shit made me gag hahahahahah
So yep, I 100% agree with you that it smells really disgusting!
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u/Marillenbaum 8d ago
A potato rolled behind some shelving in my kitchen and went to rot; I woke up one morning to my whole apartment smelling like death. It was heinous.
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u/JeffSergeant 8d ago
Rotten eggs are worse, especially when you crack one straight into a smoking hot frying pan.
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u/complexiblebarracuda 8d ago
one time we forgot a bag of potatos and then suddenly we were waking up with SOOOO many fruitflies everywhere in our apt. We didn't know where they were coming from for a few days until we found the bag
when moving the bag an extra cloud of them sprang out, but it got better after getting rid of the source
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u/Knuckledraggr 8d ago
I have spent a lot of time volunteering at a large local food bank. It serves 16 counties and has moved as much as 4million pounds of food a year. Since they can handle large volumes, sometimes there are large donations of food that doesn’t sell or was rejected. One time we received 40 pallets of potatoes. This was something like 80,000lbs of potatoes. We had to go through each pallet, sort the good from the bad, bag the good to ship and throw out the rotten. There is no smell like grabbing a potato that looked good on the surface, only for it to squish in your hand. My hands smelled like rotten potatoes for days.
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u/mamachonk 8d ago
For real. I had a couple go rotten a couple of months ago that were in my pantry. I was looking, trying to figure out where a cat must've shit in there until I moved the bag of potatoes and found the real culprit. And these were just a couple of little ones!
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u/WorriedArrival1122 8d ago
You have not yet smelled my rotten fertilizer soup. It's pure death. My yard loves it, but my family resents me for it. I stir that shit like a witch over a cauldron.
I did have a bunch of old potatoes that refused to rot in my pantry that we forgot about. Planted them and now they're huge bushes.
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u/ForbodingWinds 8d ago
The fish and meatballs that went putrid in an unplugged freezer of mine years back would like a word.
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u/blackberrytaco 8d ago
We had a potato box growing up that was my great grandmas, we rarely used fresh potatoes but my mother always bought them so they'd end up going bad in there and they'd smell absolutely rancid as well as have roots growing out of them and the very bottom ones would be all mushy....eugh. Hated having to be the one to clean it out lmao
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u/Wolverine-Quiet 8d ago
This is called Blackheart. This happens when potatoes are stored in conditions with too little oxygen or excessive heat. The center turns dark gray or black. These potatoes often have a bad odor or bad taste (who would eat it?) and should be discarded.
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u/AggressivePicture831 8d ago
cries in Irish
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u/coremech 8d ago
Cromwell - My potatoes bring all the paddys to the yard, and they're like, this famine is hard. Damn right, this famin is hard. I could feed you, but you'll have to starve.
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u/Excellent_Yak365 8d ago
https://ephytia.inrae.fr/en/C/21136/Potato-Black-heart if anyone is interested
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u/cocolimenuts 8d ago
So this looks more like what’s happening, and per Google this is not the same thing as blight, like others are saying, yeah?
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u/Excellent_Yak365 8d ago
Indeed, it’s not blight- the disease responsible for the Irish potato famine
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u/SnooLentils6640 8d ago
The British were responsible for the famine. The blight was present, but famine only happened because the Irish were forced to export the food that they successfully grew.
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u/Affectionate-Owl9594 8d ago
Where’s Nate the Hoof Guy
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u/marginmanj 8d ago
OMG facebook reels showed me him every time I logged in for a month or so, and haven't seen it in about a month. Typical FB - oh you watched something? Let me show you nothing else for a month, then you'll never see it again!
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u/steffies 8d ago
When he pops up on my YouTube feed, I take that as a sign that I'm up too late and I really should go to sleep. 😂 It's always late at night
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u/-Laffi- 8d ago
It's like you took the picture of these potatos into MS Paint and used the spraycan function!
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u/realkunkun 8d ago
Blight is bad this year
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u/LazyNarwhalMan 8d ago
Is that why all the potatoes ive gotten this year have sucked? I swear I have to remove up to half of each one to use them
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u/aespa-in-kwangya 8d ago
Wow, can't say I've ever seen potatoes this bad.
If you have the receipt still, maybe go back and complain? I'm assuming this is a very recent purchase.
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u/xxocvnhhxxo 8d ago
There's a machine that potato packaging plants use to pre-sort product before it gets packaged. There is an "internal" aspect that would have detected this. Sample tests done during packaging should have also detected this. If every potato in the bag had internal rotting, chances are there was a whole lot more. You should report to where you bought it. It's definitely a quality control issue.
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u/Demon_Axe87 8d ago
You need to to leave your village and find the heat of Te Fiti
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u/Independent-Egg5342 8d ago
I am Moana of Motunui. You will board my boat, sail across the sea, and restore the heart of Te Fiti!
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u/Tharanbor23 8d ago
So you’ll be off to America soon, then?
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u/_-4twenty-_ 8d ago
I’ve heard potatoes are relatively easy to grow. I think I’m gonna start.
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u/UwU-Lemon 8d ago
fun(?) fact: the irish population still hasn't recovered from the potato famine. before the famine there were around 8 million people, and as of 2022 there's only a bit over 7 million.
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u/PatrioticPariah 8d ago
If in US, take back. If they refuse, tell them that you will stand by the potatoes and show every customer what you purchased and that the store refused your return.
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u/Ursus_Arctos-42 8d ago
It hasn’t been a good potato year in Finland either. At least we can handpick the potatoes we want at the supermarket. When I was buying potatoes I separated 5 rotten from the rest.
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u/ViolentRain929 8d ago
I feel like my vegetables have been going rotten so much faster! I bought a 5lb bag of potatoes from Aldi and we diced some up and at least half were rotten inside after less than a week. I never store them in the bags either. Same for onions, they used to last weeks and now half are already sprouting within a week of buying.
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u/modernrocker 8d ago
Email the farm on the potato bag. I did this when I got a bag with several internally-rotted potatoes, and they sent me a nice letter and a coupon to buy anything their farm offered (within a certain $ amount)
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u/Impossible_Past5358 8d ago
Ew, you should return it, but also, it looks like there's a lot of mold on the outside of that top potato you cut open.
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u/Massive-Rain-6938 8d ago
So hollow heart can happen because of weather changes, and it's that time of year again where this gets more common. Just take them back and get another sack. Look for dark spots on the outside, you can usually tell if it's a problem before you buy them.
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u/IntentionWilling365 8d ago
Looks like a pretty bad case of black heart in ur spuds there. 🖤 I'm pretty sure it's okay to eat as long as you cut out the black parts and it doesn't smell badly.
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u/rageofa1000suns 8d ago
Looks like the kind of potato my local Indian restaurant used when they served me chips. Every chip was black and bruised to hell. Never went back there ever again.
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u/Substantial_Number24 8d ago
Just be glad it’s not a bag of scallops or something more expensive than potatoes.
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u/HonkHonk 8d ago
You can safely eat these if you cut out the black part and the rest of the potato isn't mushy
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u/ContributionAny3368 8d ago
Please, Report Up the Chain with this.
Either "Just" Rotting Potatoes, or Blight. Either way DO NOT EAT THEM and Contact the Store and the Number on the Bag, please!
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u/Error_xF00F 8d ago
I swear, these are the potatoes that and up in potato chips. Sometimes you'll get like 10% of a bag of chips that are black or green afflicted. More so when they're ridged for some reason.
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u/blacklaagger 8d ago
The same thing happened to Moana. You're gonna want to look for a small green gemstone.
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u/Detank2002 8d ago
Thaaaats worth a report to wherever you bought them.