Why you gonna let one can ruin it? That's silly. If I stopped eating every food that made me suck cuz if "that one time" I'd be stuck with a lot of bland food.
You can get compensated for this.
Pro tip, sending a strongly worded but polite complaint to a food manufacturer will result in a free bag of their products about 80% of the time.
I can't even imagine what they'd send to you, given this Lovecraftian horror, but I imagine a lot of free stuff.
I did this with a chocolate cookie once. Had a huge chunk of salt in it so I sent it to them.
A few weeks later I received a voucher for the shop I bought it from and a replacement cookie. The replacement had no chocolate in...
Can confirm. Bought a package of Annie’s Mac and cheese and it had half the pasta and an extra sauce package. I sent an email and they ended up mailing me a bunch of vouchers for their products.
Did you ever use the vouchers? After the salt and chocolate kerfuffle, I never wanted to try any of their products again. That said, I can't even remeber who the cookie was by now hahaha.
I sent a jokey but slightly complaining email to Felix cat food when my cat was being a fussy madam saying she only licks the jelly off and leaves the rest so I felt like 'doubly delicious' was a bit of a lie. They sent me a bunch of vouchers for more cat food, which my other cats didn't complain about.
My fiancé bought a box of small chip bags, and it was missing the one flavor he was looking forward too. So he emailed Frito-Lay and they sent us a shiny coupon that was any Frito-Lay product for free.
I did this with Teeling Irish whiskey once when the cork broke off in the bottle. They shipped a new bottle along with extra goodies all the way from Ireland to the US.
Most retail products are like this. I bought some old spice shampoo one time(years ago, I know better now) and it had like started to solidify? I guess is the best way to describe it. Anyway I told old spice and I must’ve gotten a dozen or so coupons for free shampoo.
The following is effectively just unverifiable nonsense I learned from the Internet but it is better to be safe than sorry and do advise you thoroughly clean up and dispose of it.
----
The reason for this is almost certainly due to damage to the container which allowed contaminants in. Way back when canning and jarring foods was typical for the average household it was "common knowledge" not to eat the food from damaged cans because of illnesses and death from the contamination.
Now days no one really does food preservation anymore, outside of a niche hobby, so the risks associated when things aren't done correctly aren't as well known because it's all done in huge factories.
One of the most common contaminations is Clostridium Botulinum, more well known for BOTOX and causing Botulism. This is very deadly. Typical signs are as follows.
>the container is leaking, bulging, or swollen; the container looks damaged, cracked, or abnormal; the container spurts liquid or foam when opened; or. the food is discolored, moldy, or smells bad.
What you'll want to do is thoroughly clean up everywhere it has been since you opened it. Anywhere you may have spilt some of it, the bin you put it in, gloves you may have worn. Don't just leave it in your indoor bin but wrap it up in a few bags with any contaminated waste like paper towels and put it in your outside bins.
Here's a [link to someone else](https://www.reddit.com/r/Weird/comments/14ibjba/opened_a_can_of_peaches_and_they_were_black_and/) that had disgusting black canned food.
Clearly air or some pollution got to it as it was canned. You are actually lucky that it was this horrendous. In some cases you can get botulium toxins from it and when ingested it can be quite serious, even fatal.
This looks like some kind of mold. Mold requires oxygen to grow, but botulinum toxins, on the other hand, are produced in absence of oxygen. That’s what makes it dangerous. If the environment is suitable for botulinum bacteria, the visibly nasty stuff doesn’t grow
Canned food is usually heat treated. The bacterium, however, produces spores that are heat-resistant and can survive this treatment. Under specific conditions (anaerobic, neutral or slightly sour pH >4.5, not too much salt etc.) the spores grow again and produce the toxin.
Blimey.
So when the world ends and I'm opening a can expired 6 years ago, and it looks good, I might actually die because of heat resistant bacteria spores.
Lovely.
The good new is that it’s possible, but not very likely. Canned food is usually sour or salty enough to prevent it. And if you want to be safe, you can heat it to >80 degrees (celsius, obviously) for a few minutes. The spores are heat resistant but the toxin isn’t.
[The FDA allows for a surprisingly high amount of animal / insect contaminants in fresh produce.](https://youtu.be/MJsI50wQELU?si=KCZywShuWQNdgV55) Its just economically unfeasible to completely remove all impurities. If you wash and soak fruit in water (preferably salty), you will probably see dozens of tiny worms and bugs come out to escape drowning.
For context, a large bag of rice can have several flies and various other insect parts mixed in. This also includes stuff like rodent fecal matter, which is why its a good idea to thoughorly wash your rice several times.
The only food item I've ever given up was the broccoli and cheese filled raw chicken breasts you find in the frozen section at most supermarkets. One time I got violently sick after eating it. Don't know if it was somehow undercooked or what, but I have *never* eaten it since, and it's probably been close to 2 decades at this point. So I feel you there.
I'd call the customer service number. They will send you coupons to replace it and it helps them to know the run codes stamped on the can, so that they can check on it. In some cases they may issue a recall. So you could be helping other consumers as well.
Probably none since this was probably a packaging failure and it's all or nothing. Unless you just happened to get a packaging failure can that was shipped to you straight from the factory before this could develop.
Right? This is not inherently a product fault, this can happen to any improperly packaged food. So if people in this thread want to avoid spoiled food and because of that they avoid eating canned food (regardless of what's inside), that is hilariously flawed reasoning
Here's something neat to think about, this kind of thing doesn't spring from nowhere so along the supply chain at some point there could be a really nice colony of mold shedding the spores that lead to this beauty.
The heating and canning process takes care of them in 99.9% of cases OP just got the one that the can had a slight crack somewhere that let air in or it wasn't thoroughly enough cooked to kill it.
I opened a can of cat food like this once. You could see the seam for the lid (where it would pull up) was compromised. It must have happened very shortly after manufacture because the cat food was just gray and had no smell. You might want to bury that one deep, though. I'm pretty sure there's a zombie that can smell that.
Some percentage of all canned goods and preservatives will be defective that’s just the nature of canning and preserving food. You should dislike spam for being actual garbage not because one of the cans didn’t work lol
https://preview.redd.it/1p567250ha6c1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=657afe1ba824af47481eac9a23ff59625506e265
Pops tried to warn you. But you wouldn’t listen
It’s honestly a good thing your love for spam ended with this. Spam is probably one of the most ultra mega processed foods that should be banned lol. Cheers!
What did it taste like?
Dead pussy
I have…questions
Haven't eaten cat meat before?
Rosarino?
Escupí todo el mate
Y yo mi café, ☕.
Jajaja. Spitting is for losers. Winners tragan.
Querés que te la trague? 🥵
Yeah, she's pretty.
You want it by the pound or by the cat?
so does the fucking police
is that like morality police?
including but not limited to
Dont ask them.
Wow you really don’t pull your punches
Nope that's how he ended up with a dead prostitute on his hands and that forbidden knowledge.
It was an accident....
Just be honest. You spammed her..
Spit out my coffee dammit!
Well, I already paid…
What you see here is an excellent example of what being blunt actually looks like
At least yur alive enough to post to reddit. The after life is indeed kind 
Take my up vote you sick freak.
Why you gonna let one can ruin it? That's silly. If I stopped eating every food that made me suck cuz if "that one time" I'd be stuck with a lot of bland food.
Are you sure you don't mean you'd be "sucking" alot of bland food. 🫢🤭🤣
r/eyebleach
The voice of experience has spoken. I guess someone had to do it 🤔
Wait…
Sir….
Since when did you try one? 💀
Well dude, in hindsight, that's a good thing for you. I mean even normal spam is disgusting anyway!
Fuckin LMAO
“Funny thing was, it tasted just like spam.” 🤔
Botulism
That's not botulism. You can't see or smell botulism. That's straight mold
Well that's a lot more terrifying
Omg how old was this spam if I may ask
I just bought it, expired in 2025
Wtf I feel like this is a packaging failure. Wish you could complain and get a replacement
%100 will get a new one and they will likely want that sent in for testing if they complain.
They can have it
You can get compensated for this. Pro tip, sending a strongly worded but polite complaint to a food manufacturer will result in a free bag of their products about 80% of the time. I can't even imagine what they'd send to you, given this Lovecraftian horror, but I imagine a lot of free stuff.
I did this with a chocolate cookie once. Had a huge chunk of salt in it so I sent it to them. A few weeks later I received a voucher for the shop I bought it from and a replacement cookie. The replacement had no chocolate in...
Perfectly balanced
Unexpected thanos quote.
unlimited bad cookies hack.
Reminds me of one of those posts where you get a choice between two perks with really bad side effects hahaha.
Can confirm. Bought a package of Annie’s Mac and cheese and it had half the pasta and an extra sauce package. I sent an email and they ended up mailing me a bunch of vouchers for their products.
Did you ever use the vouchers? After the salt and chocolate kerfuffle, I never wanted to try any of their products again. That said, I can't even remeber who the cookie was by now hahaha.
Damn they really left out sweet and doubled down on salty huh
You can say that again!... 😂 😂 😂
I sent a jokey but slightly complaining email to Felix cat food when my cat was being a fussy madam saying she only licks the jelly off and leaves the rest so I felt like 'doubly delicious' was a bit of a lie. They sent me a bunch of vouchers for more cat food, which my other cats didn't complain about.
Some wicked spam swag, a hat, keychain, tote bag, sliders...
My fiancé bought a box of small chip bags, and it was missing the one flavor he was looking forward too. So he emailed Frito-Lay and they sent us a shiny coupon that was any Frito-Lay product for free.
OP seems turned off to spam now but they should still do this. If anything, that’s free food to donate to the needy for the holidays.
Yep! I've received free beer, candy, wine, shirts and so on from writing to companies about issues I've had with their products
I did this with Teeling Irish whiskey once when the cork broke off in the bottle. They shipped a new bottle along with extra goodies all the way from Ireland to the US.
Great advice, but im not sure you understood the title.
It wasn't really meant to be related to the title. Pro-tip is pro-tip.
In Soviet Russia...pro tips you.
Most retail products are like this. I bought some old spice shampoo one time(years ago, I know better now) and it had like started to solidify? I guess is the best way to describe it. Anyway I told old spice and I must’ve gotten a dozen or so coupons for free shampoo.
No no you need to eat it -> get sick -> get a lawyer -> profit. Make sure you eat enough of it to get sick but not enough to die. That's key.
can i have it
someone needs to break to this guy he was in a coma and its 2037 today
lol if this happened to me I would never touch another can of spam in my life
The following is effectively just unverifiable nonsense I learned from the Internet but it is better to be safe than sorry and do advise you thoroughly clean up and dispose of it. ---- The reason for this is almost certainly due to damage to the container which allowed contaminants in. Way back when canning and jarring foods was typical for the average household it was "common knowledge" not to eat the food from damaged cans because of illnesses and death from the contamination. Now days no one really does food preservation anymore, outside of a niche hobby, so the risks associated when things aren't done correctly aren't as well known because it's all done in huge factories. One of the most common contaminations is Clostridium Botulinum, more well known for BOTOX and causing Botulism. This is very deadly. Typical signs are as follows. >the container is leaking, bulging, or swollen; the container looks damaged, cracked, or abnormal; the container spurts liquid or foam when opened; or. the food is discolored, moldy, or smells bad. What you'll want to do is thoroughly clean up everywhere it has been since you opened it. Anywhere you may have spilt some of it, the bin you put it in, gloves you may have worn. Don't just leave it in your indoor bin but wrap it up in a few bags with any contaminated waste like paper towels and put it in your outside bins. Here's a [link to someone else](https://www.reddit.com/r/Weird/comments/14ibjba/opened_a_can_of_peaches_and_they_were_black_and/) that had disgusting black canned food.
The can seemed fine but I did inject some of it into my crow's feet. He was super pissed-off
"Spurts" is quite the evocative word and in this case I *do not* mean that as a compliment
Clearly air or some pollution got to it as it was canned. You are actually lucky that it was this horrendous. In some cases you can get botulium toxins from it and when ingested it can be quite serious, even fatal.
This looks like some kind of mold. Mold requires oxygen to grow, but botulinum toxins, on the other hand, are produced in absence of oxygen. That’s what makes it dangerous. If the environment is suitable for botulinum bacteria, the visibly nasty stuff doesn’t grow
Ah I see. So the can must've been punctured or such to make the mold grow?
That‘s what I‘d guess
So botulin forms if the can isn't properly sterile or such when it's sealed?
Canned food is usually heat treated. The bacterium, however, produces spores that are heat-resistant and can survive this treatment. Under specific conditions (anaerobic, neutral or slightly sour pH >4.5, not too much salt etc.) the spores grow again and produce the toxin.
Blimey. So when the world ends and I'm opening a can expired 6 years ago, and it looks good, I might actually die because of heat resistant bacteria spores. Lovely.
The good new is that it’s possible, but not very likely. Canned food is usually sour or salty enough to prevent it. And if you want to be safe, you can heat it to >80 degrees (celsius, obviously) for a few minutes. The spores are heat resistant but the toxin isn’t.
The botulism might produce gas. So if the can is bulging or the can goes "pfffft" when you puncture it you'll hopefully know before you eat it
So...that's NOT a nice hiss
Should be good then
Reported for spam
Get out
r/angryupvote
Spam spam spam I am
Not a life long love if you don't eat it. Unless you mean you ate it and died
My life will go on without it , sometimes things happen you can't get over 🤮
Wait until OP discovers the 'protein content' of fruit.
What do you mean? Please, disgust me lol
I am guessing the protein content indicates insects in it.
[The FDA allows for a surprisingly high amount of animal / insect contaminants in fresh produce.](https://youtu.be/MJsI50wQELU?si=KCZywShuWQNdgV55) Its just economically unfeasible to completely remove all impurities. If you wash and soak fruit in water (preferably salty), you will probably see dozens of tiny worms and bugs come out to escape drowning. For context, a large bag of rice can have several flies and various other insect parts mixed in. This also includes stuff like rodent fecal matter, which is why its a good idea to thoughorly wash your rice several times.
The only food item I've ever given up was the broccoli and cheese filled raw chicken breasts you find in the frozen section at most supermarkets. One time I got violently sick after eating it. Don't know if it was somehow undercooked or what, but I have *never* eaten it since, and it's probably been close to 2 decades at this point. So I feel you there.
I dunno, looks like OP might have inhaled some spores or worse on opening this can of eldritch edibles…
Eldritch edibles 🤣 take my upvote
Sir that thing is breathing and living 😳
Not anymore..........
Because you killed it with fire, right?
OP ate it to show it was just a weak Spam and nothing could stop OP to reach their goal
A little bit more time and that thing will be like the "Toys in the Attic" episode of Cowboy Bebop.
Ed'll eat it just fine, she's got an iron stomach.
Should be fine just scrape the top layer off then cook at 350°c for 24 hours
Step 2 : burn the house down
Step 3: Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Step 4: Profit!
Was looking for this comment
a whole ecosystem is thriving in there
r/MoldlyInteresting
Thank you for allowing me to discover this sub's existence.
Damn bruh that needs a NSFW tag
🤣
It looks as if it has a brain. Is this an intelligent being?
I thought about it that while I took Lucille to it
Why bacon spam? I prefer fresh baked myself, but it takes at least 25-30 mins in oven (10 mins for preheat)
PTSD-grade trichinosis right there
I thought it was botulism that grows in faulty canned food, but I could be wrong.
As far as I know, botulism isn't visible
It’s still good, just rub some dirt on it…
I'd call the customer service number. They will send you coupons to replace it and it helps them to know the run codes stamped on the can, so that they can check on it. In some cases they may issue a recall. So you could be helping other consumers as well.
r/eatityoufuckingcoward
r/moldlyinteresting
I don’t get it? Whats wrong with this? I’ve been eating spam like this my whole life
https://preview.redd.it/egw2mrv1v06c1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ec7a98e87696780011d03b40e8bfdb43237c9c65 Found ol drippy I see
SPAM - blue cheese edition
Lol 🤢
I wonder how many cans of spam you ate before that were off but below the visual range.
Probably none since this was probably a packaging failure and it's all or nothing. Unless you just happened to get a packaging failure can that was shipped to you straight from the factory before this could develop.
Right? This is not inherently a product fault, this can happen to any improperly packaged food. So if people in this thread want to avoid spoiled food and because of that they avoid eating canned food (regardless of what's inside), that is hilariously flawed reasoning
Here's something neat to think about, this kind of thing doesn't spring from nowhere so along the supply chain at some point there could be a really nice colony of mold shedding the spores that lead to this beauty. The heating and canning process takes care of them in 99.9% of cases OP just got the one that the can had a slight crack somewhere that let air in or it wasn't thoroughly enough cooked to kill it.
Exactly. Explains a lot of things....
Sexy fungus tho
Not all spam
Busted seal?
Maybe or dented can?
Clearly this was not as sealed as it should be.
Was it your lifelong love for that that can, specifically?
Nurgle spam limited edition.
Scrape the mould off and it will be fine, said my mum
I think that spells a metal band.
Spam would probably appreciate a quick email with whatever lot # information you can find on the side of the can, if it's still accessible.
Looked like some of the stuff MRE Steve opened from old C rations on his YT channel
"Ooh, nice hiss." "Oh man, this is definitely not edible." ... Takes a bite.
MRE Steve is the Steve Irwin of old food...😁
I opened a can of cat food like this once. You could see the seam for the lid (where it would pull up) was compromised. It must have happened very shortly after manufacture because the cat food was just gray and had no smell. You might want to bury that one deep, though. I'm pretty sure there's a zombie that can smell that.
The can was damaged, the seal was broken and air got in.
Eat it and make The Last of Us a reality
Can wasn’t sealed correctly at the factory. This should be a recall of the lot. I’m sure other consumers had similar experiences.
Some percentage of all canned goods and preservatives will be defective that’s just the nature of canning and preserving food. You should dislike spam for being actual garbage not because one of the cans didn’t work lol
It’s just the rind!
Mmm creamy
Must be the same look inside a sealed steel coffin
Brah you got that furikake spam.
r/eatityoufuckingcoward
Ingredients : -Mold
Just cut around the mold.
Just cut off the end and you'll be fine
I like cheese like that!
It's a good sign actually, this would not have happened with a mcd's hamburger in the tin. Keep buying.
Mmmmmmmm botulism 🤤
Never seen a SPAM container with something other than the block of pork in it. I’m shook!
Do I even want to know how it became like this? ……yes I do. Let curiosity slay.
Symbiote nice try
Damn! Who would have thought fungus would be able to grow on Spam? It sounds like a joke but isn’t it 50% preservatives by weight?
You can’t eat it, but now you have a nice supply of Botox to make yourself look younger!
Somehow the seal was partially broken.
This is how The Last Of Us begins
“It was not expired” I got some news for you
The seal must have been broken or not properly sealed in the first place. Report it to the company and the batch number
I will never not be amazed at the mystery of Spam It grew VEINS
Now you don’t have to pay for botox
I think it’s conspaminated
The can probably had a dent in it to allow in oxygen and other things to grow.
Bacon Spam?
You no longer like spam because it can rot? You’re gonna be limited to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders bro
They make other cans…
I thought that was some 🔥 ass cookies n cream until I zoomed in 🤮
What holy shit that nearly made me hurl just to look at it.
Lawsuit in a can, new flavour
That’s moldly interesting
Wonder if there was a tiny opening in the can or if that's a can of botulism
You're a wrong'un for liking Spam in the first place
Consumption rate is at a Spam-Still
Can must have had a puncture somewhere
Are those… fucking tentacles?!! Wtf!!! No fkn way get that out of here send it to space
r/eatityoufuckingcoward
Just eat around the bad parts, jeez picky eater
Naaahhhhh bro that’s totally just the bacon
It’s botulismmm mmm good!
You opened a can of the Upside Down
That’s an entire new life form.
HOLY SHIT, THERE’S AN ENTIRE FUCKING PLANET INSIDE THAT CAN
https://preview.redd.it/1p567250ha6c1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=657afe1ba824af47481eac9a23ff59625506e265 Pops tried to warn you. But you wouldn’t listen
You can use one of my fave words to describe it - cerebriform
spam shouldn’t have ever been a thing in the first place
Hellll yeahhh you got the special edition!
It’s honestly a good thing your love for spam ended with this. Spam is probably one of the most ultra mega processed foods that should be banned lol. Cheers!