This jar of exploding mayonnaise serves as a reminder why one should pay attention to the “sell-by” dates on the sides of packages. Submitter Doug writes:
Yesterday my mother went to open a new jar of Stop and Shop light mayonnaise. After she unscrewed the cap the contents started bubbling out from under the seal. She removed the seal and the result is what you see here. We took it back to the store, where they apologized and replaced it with the non-exploding kind.
You can see in the picture that the jar is six months past its sell-by date. UPDATE: Oops, we’re stupid, that’s the year 2008. Damn, there’s no reason for this mayo to go unless maybe that’s a misprint. Why would it explode, though? Bacteria get inside and cause a gaseous buildup? We’re betting heavy on “compromised seal.” Full-size pics inside…
OMG MAYO GO BOOM!
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Kinda looks like “Great Stuff” expanding foam. New marketing campaign for Stop and Shop focused at the construction worker “Our Light Mayonayse used to help fill your stomach, and that large gaping hole between the wall and that window you just installed”. Now if they could only find a way to package it in a spray can like Redi-whip.
thats just nasty. I was planning on “taking care of myself” after doing the gawker roundup, but I’m having some serious second thoughts.
screw it. I’ll just shower and watch TV
it wouldn’t be bad if it was a container of marshmallow fluff – yum! mayo is gross though.
@Ryuuie:
Well, I’d like to re-claim the term.
Damn it, now I’m hungry.
*goes to the kitchen*
i had a ketchup bottle that did this one time. maybe it is bad that i ate from it? this was like 8 years ago, but the ketchup was fine… probably some kind of air bubble / air pressure buildup.
Once in a restaurant, my friend sitting next to me had ketchup explode in his face as he was opening it. The ketchup had obviously fermented and smelled strongly of alcohol. I often see waiters combining half-full ketchup bottles, so they always have a full one to give to customers. My guess is this bottle had been re-used for far too long.
Looks like there’s gas bubbles inside the jar, which suggests fermentation (the bad kind). Either that, or someone at the factory thought “sodium bicarbonate” was Latin for salt.
My boyfriend’s stepfather has a can of apricot juice in his pantry that is about to explode at the seams. I keep insisting that it belongs in the trash and probably infested with botulism, but he won’t listen.