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20-Year-Old Dies From 'Fried Rice Syndrome' After Eating Leftover Pasta (www.iheart.com)

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The bacteria is best known for causing a type of food poisoning called "Fried Rice Syndrome," since rice is sometimes cooked and left to cool at room temperature for a few hours. During that time, the bacteria can contaminate it and grow. B. cereus is especially dangerous because it produces a toxin in rice and other starchy foods that is heat resistant and may not die when the food it infects is cooked.

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Unfortunately, that was the case for a 20-year-old student, who passed away after eating five-day-old pasta.

His story was described in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology a few years back, but has since resurfaced due to some YouTube videos and Reddit posts. According to article, every Sunday the student would make his meals for the entire week so he wouldn't need to deal with making it on the weekdays. One Sunday, he cooked up some spaghetti, then put it in Tupperware containers so that days later, he could just add some sauce to it, reheat it and enjoy it.

However, he didn't store the pasta in the fridge, rather he left it out on the counter. After five days of the food sitting out at room temperature, he heated some up and ate it. While he noticed an odd taste to the food, he figured it was just due to the new tomato sauce he added to it.

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[–] grasshopper_mouse 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

5 days??? Yikes. I feel uncomfortable if I leave food out for an hour just to let it cool down. I'll admit I've done some stupid stuff with leaving food out in my younger years (pizza left in the box on the counter for 2-3 days; one time while deployed to Iraq I stupidly thought the floor of our trailer would remain cool enough to keep an open can of chip dip fresh -- Newsflash: It did not), but 5 days??

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've have food out frequently for like half a day / overnight but 5 days sounds absolutely insane to me. I don't even want to know how the noodles must've looked like, probably already smelled at that point too. Makes me queasy just thinking about eating that...

[–] grasshopper_mouse 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Right!? On the one hand I feel like this guy was a dumb-dumb, but on the other hand, maybe he was never taught proper food safety, or maybe this was his first time living alone and cooking for himself and he just didn't know any better. Sad way to die either way.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

I'm a stupid person and honestly I believed that if you microwaved anything long enough, it'll kill the bad germs. it made sense: radio waves === kill zone.

Then a microbiologist explained to me that you're just killing the living organisms, not the toxic waste they leave behind which is still on the food. I was in my 30s when I learned that.

I can only imagine what other weird shit people believe because nobody ever said anything and they just put 2+2 together.

[–] Brekky -1 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Honest question. What do you do with pizza if you still have leftovers on day 3+? I feel odd putting bread in the fridge.

[–] NABDad 10 points 2 months ago

I can't remember the last time leftover pizza was still around in my house after 24 hours, but any pizza not eaten in goes into the fridge as soon as everyone is done eating.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What do you do with pizza if you still have leftovers on day 3+?

You use it as a Frisbee outside.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

If I had leftover pizza and I knew I wasn't going to get to eating it within 3 days, it's going in the freezer.

[–] grff 4 points 2 months ago

For pizza I feel gross if I don't put it in the fridge at least an hour after receiving it, then reheat in oven or eat cold. It's not just bread it's sauce and dairy and whatever meat or toppings are on it..

[–] grasshopper_mouse 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would freeze it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Frezza

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

pizza

3 days old

😲

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Pizza never survived the morning of the second day for me.