"… the contents [may] have mutated into something alive & malevolent."

April 24, 2020 2:10 PM

Ever wondered what the contents of a twenty-five-year-old can of Spider-Man pasta look like?
posted by Johnny Wallflower (26 comments total)

Nope. Haven't.
posted by bz at 2:31 PM on April 24, 2020 [11 favorites]

Now i wanna see a 25 year-old can of pasta that wasn't corroded.

For science.
posted by wabbittwax at 2:40 PM on April 24, 2020 [6 favorites]

Still better than Spider-Man 3.
posted by Fizz at 2:43 PM on April 24, 2020 [10 favorites]

Fizz, does this can have an awesome sequence where Emo-Peter does a dance number? I think not.
posted by brundlefly at 2:49 PM on April 24, 2020 [9 favorites]

Much as I hate linking to Twitter threads, you could have just linked to the Twitter thread.

It's what Gwen Stacy would have wanted.
posted by GenjiandProust at 2:59 PM on April 24, 2020 [1 favorite]

Twitter thread from Dinosaur Dracula (previously).
posted by filthy light thief at 3:11 PM on April 24, 2020 [2 favorites]

Steve1989MREInfo has opened older. And while they're in better shape visually, they're no less inedible.
posted by Pruitt-Igoe at 3:13 PM on April 24, 2020 [3 favorites]

Wabbittwax, New England Wildlife has you covered.
posted by Countess Elena at 3:14 PM on April 24, 2020

From the title I thought this might have been a Potus45 thread.
posted by mhoye at 3:14 PM on April 24, 2020 [8 favorites]

you could have just linked to the Twitter thread

And provoke whining? No thank you.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 3:56 PM on April 24, 2020 [2 favorites]

I hate 50 plus year old lemon drops from a can that was in a FEMA shelter once. Which is wholly out of character for me, usually I throw food out 2 milliseconds after best by date.
posted by BrotherCaine at 4:05 PM on April 24, 2020

The New England Wildlife guy needs to understand cross-contamination before he goes putting things in peitri jars.

Fascinating though.
posted by Windopaene at 4:38 PM on April 24, 2020

Quite recently, a grocery near me was selling packages of Space Jam-themed gum, which came in little brown plastic boxes molded in the shape of Michael Jordan's head. Just, like, selling at the checkout counter, for a buck.
posted by the_blizz at 4:38 PM on April 24, 2020 [3 favorites]

And provoke whining? No thank you.

You would just let Gwen die, wouldn’t you, Johnny Goblinflower?
posted by GenjiandProust at 4:50 PM on April 24, 2020 [1 favorite]

I just wanna say that I love dinosaur Dracula so much and I love that he is still doing the same shit on the internet for like 20 years.
posted by capnsue at 5:08 PM on April 24, 2020 [3 favorites]

While I was reading this and looking at the pictures (why did I do that?), unbeknownst to me my face morphed into this one.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 6:12 PM on April 24, 2020

25 years, huh? So the eighties.

(Sees back of can with optima font, does arithmetic)

Fuck I’m old
posted by condour75 at 6:27 PM on April 24, 2020 [13 favorites]

I would totally eat that if this comment gets 1,995 favorites.
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 6:53 PM on April 24, 2020 [4 favorites]

And if you're curious, here's an entire channel devoted to a guy opening and trying a lot of old food. Some of it is really old. Like bad mom joke old.

Clicky McClickerson
posted by ZaneJ. at 7:10 PM on April 24, 2020

This was probably Ask post 20 years ago and half of the replies said "Hell, I eat 25 year old spiderman pasta all the time".
posted by srboisvert at 7:35 PM on April 24, 2020 [2 favorites]

+50 for the Jordy Verrill reference! Also I have memories of eating pasta which looked super similar to that... artifact.
posted by grumpybear69 at 8:22 PM on April 24, 2020

With or without meatballs?
posted by dr_dank at 9:42 PM on April 24, 2020

One of the beauties of video is you can watch people do the kind of things you'd never do yourself safe in the knowledge you won't smell whatever 25 year-old Spiderman pasta smells like.
posted by tommasz at 8:16 AM on April 25, 2020 [1 favorite]

Ashens eating crazy stuff again. Includes jolly old pasta.
posted by StephenB at 10:51 AM on April 25, 2020

I want to thank you all for sending me down this rabbithole of the "eating old food" influencers on youtube.

And as a collector, it really eats me to see them opening up these cans with a can opener. It is cool to see how well the various cans, and contents, survive though.
posted by Windopaene at 11:29 AM on April 25, 2020

There is a show on the misnamed "History Channel' called "Eating History" where two guys eat all kinds of old food, Ewwwww. But they do warn you not to do this at home,
posted by mermayd at 12:16 PM on April 25, 2020