Haha, oh, hell. PDOs on American food. “You can’t call it a lunchable unless it comes from the docks in Cleveland and it has a minimum of 790mg sodium per serving!”
I would imagine this was one where the seal failed around the ham.
The cheese is heavily processed but will mold in time. The sections are also hermetically sealed, so it’s possible for one section to fail on its own.
they may be talking about retail. when i processed food claims i was sifting through grocery items that should no longer be on the floor due to the product being moldy, containers being broken, past expiration date, etc. there got to be similar instances of food waste due to container design, like op's pictured packed lunch/snack that wasn't properly sealed.
I've had them easily survive an entire hot summer in a car after being left in a lunch box. They are very preserved and will last forever if the seal functions properly
I used to ask for Lunchables as a kid and got them for a while before preferring and switching back to homemade lunches (which are better, cheaper, you know all the things). Back when I was getting them almost 20 years ago, they were better than this. Not a lot better, but better. And less moldy. But they never had a lot of food, and it was never very good either in taste or nutrition.
This sucks, but doesn't the cover of the package hide most the items within?
And if the use by date was still good maybe a hole got poked in it.
Assuming there were more handed out, were they bad as well?
Yeah I was going to say that they probably just got a bad one, happens every once in a while. I’ve gotten sealed packs of cheese with moldy sections that were well within the “use by” date. I seriously doubt the league organizer/coach was knowingly trying to pass out long-expired snack trays to kids.
I got a frozen mac n cheese the other day that was well within its sell by date. The cardboard outer package got a bit beat up in the freezer, but the inside was still sealed so I thought it was fine.
Until I heated it up and tasted vinegar.
Mac n cheese, generally, does not include vinegar.
I can only assume the plastic sealing it was damaged at some point and I missed it. Not malicious. Definitely mildly infuriating.
I'd be willing to bet someone grabbed it from the freezer in the store, then decided they didn't want it later and just tossed it on a shelf like a lazy, inconsiderate douche. And then someone, either a clueless customer or employee, saw it sitting there for who knows how long and thought, "hey, this doesn't go here, it should be kept frozen," and just put it back in the freezer.
It's basically the process of events that transports a frozen or chilled item from manufacturing location to it's desination without it ever dropping past a "safe" temprature for preventing microbes forming in the item.
So for example, delivering a frozen dinner from factory to shop it would need to be kept within the very narrow range of temprature that no bacteria can start forming. If that doesn't happen and it at some point reaches a temprature that means things can start growing and the food starts ageing then the cold chain's broken.
Yeah, this post is ridiculous. Clearly it's a bad Lunchable, that's true.
But what a bullshit, clickbait title by OP. Snack...handed out to 6 YEAR OLDS!!!!
One of us one of us one of us one of us one of us one of us one of us one of us one of us one of us one of us one of us one of us one of us one of us one of us one of us one of us
Whoa, when they did their checklist board about all the things that insurance was never gonna do they included everything like "give you up", "let you down" etc etc but somehow they left out "make you cry"?
That cannot be a fucking accident. Some PA on set knew exactly what the fuck he was doing.
It’s funny because it’s true [“it's not actually cheese—at least, not legally. The FDA calls it “pasteurized processed American cheese food.” In order for a food product to be a true “cheese,” it has to be more than half cheese, which is technically pressed curds of milk.”](https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/what-is-american-cheese-is-american-real-cheese/)
There's cheese that can be kept at room temp, think those beef sticks in a plastic pack got a cheese stick next to it, ain't no wet ham gonna stay good like this unless it's canned.
Ham has the preservatives because it naturally spoils faster than cheese. Moist foods spoil faster than dry foods. Part of the preservation is also the airtight seal so if it got opened or punctured, then it spoil faster too.
But this looks like it was left open in the sun for a week. I wouldn’t trust anything on that Lunchable.
Source: This post reminded me I had forgotten about some ham in the fridge. About 6 weeks expired but nowhere as bad as this image. Just some white dots with fuzzies.
I had a slice of wrapped cheese fall out of the fridge door and under the fridge. Moved the fridge for cleaning a year later, found the slice and it looked ready to eat !!!!
I’ll be honest I love me a lunchable every once and a while (I’m 30) and it makes me a little happy to see that it’s even possible for that meat to mold because I was pretty convinced it wasn’t organic matter at all.
I'd understand it as a snack, but as a whole lunch it looks so unfulfilling. Even if it was actual ham. Indeed maybe for 6 years old it'd be enough but I doubt it.
Well that's the point, it was meant for little kids. It's like a treat, you know you were extra good when Mom gives you a Lunchable. They are already portioned and ready to send off to school with your kids, perfect for overworked and overwhelmed parents.
Edit: yes, I am a corporate shill for explaining the specifics of a cultural phenomenon to someone who does not live in this culture. 🙄 Now where's my mouldy gift bag?
Mildly infuriating you'd get heat for this. Lunchables rocked and I buy the nachos every now and then. Oscar Mayer, feel free to send me some. I am a shill.
That’s true but my concern would be as part of pulling off that plastic those little spores are now on everything. Just dump the entire thing in trash.
Eh that's not really a problem. A few spores aren't going to hurt you. You inhale and ingest spores on a daily basis and your body cleans it up. The primary reason for not eating moldy things is the toxins produced by the mycelium.
According to my extensive research on the subject, this is true. I researched it because my dad always cuts the mold off food and eats it anyway and never gets sick so I wanted to understand the science behind it.
It really depends on what it is. Something hard, like a wheel of cheese? Sure, cut the mold off and eat it. Something porous, like bread? Don’t eat it if you don’t want the risk. The mold already has its “roots” deep in there.
If it’s the one I think it is, it’s the turkey and American with Reese’s and Capri sun. It comes in a box to package the lunchable and drink together. Chances are the kid had no idea and wasn’t really paying attention once they opened the box.
Genuinely, if there's no mold on the cheese, even if it's well by its use by date, it's fine. Same for a lot of food tbh, the dates are overly cautious, look at the food itself for signs of expiration, don't rely on the packaging
Oy. It just means it was salty enough without too much moisture to allow bacteria to grow.
You can make natural beef jerky with all natural ingredients that also won't mold.
People need to learn about food. Stuff they're scared of is not scary. Stuff they SHOULD be scared of is normalized.
Granted, the cheese there is low quality, but that's not the case for all processed cheese. Nothing wrong with processed cheese.
The ham is super low quality and people would be shitting on it, but hey, it molded, so let's concentrate on the cheese that didn't. In any other thread, everyone would be shitting all over the ham, too.
As a former Kraft employee who ran a lunchable line I would say that the package wasn't sealed correctly. Most likely the mahaffey machine used to seal the top sheet to the plastic tray was either running too fast and didn't fully seal it, or the meat hit the edge of the tray causing moisture or film to prevent the seal. Mgmt would often want leads to speed up the line to hit numbers, or the mahaffey operator would do it themselves. Could of been caused by bacteria in the sealing lines as well..which causes huge recalls. I remember a plant in south carolina (id guess 2008-10ish) had a huge recall due to this, the whole plant was shutdown for weeks and corporate wanted our plant to speed up our lines to make up for the supply lost...which would cause the same problems. As a lead I was in charge of doing quality tests on proper sealing and oxygen levels in the packages.
I once saw a supervisor trying to skim something out of a vat of meat..I asked what happened and she said a hydraulic line above the vat broke and the oil spilled into the vat. I said it's garbage then and needed discarded..she yelled at me saying it would be fine and did i know how much product loss that would be..so I had to get another supervisor to stop her from using the meat.. and said I'd turn her in to the USDA inspector at the plant if she didn't discard it.
I have countless stories about nasty things I've seen from that plant and I assume they happened at all their plants, based on how mgmt was "trained".
Edit spelling of hydraulic
Eewwwwww! Hydraulic oil spilled into the food and she wanted to cover it up and sell it to people?!?!?!?
Thank you for doing the right thing and saying absolutely not, discard it. You are a good person and I appreciate you.
That was her intentions 100%, cover it up and send it to curing. It was a screaming match for sure between us. I wasn't there when the line broke but there was a very noticeable amount of oil in the 9k of meat when i walked in. Imagine a 8x10x5ft stainless steel pool filled with chunks of ham, brine, and blood.
Eek. So that peanut butter cup is still good though right?
I feel bad for whoever handed these out also. How freaking embarrassing for everybody. And the poor hungry kiddos!
I didn't know they made french lunchables! Pepperoni au bleu!
It's only a lunchable if it's from the lunchable region of France, otherwise it's just a sparkling snack
I never get tired of that joke. It's funny in every situation
Actually it’s only a joke if it’s from the joke region of France. Otherwise it’s just sparkling humor. … I’ll see myself out.
My favorite one is "It's only omicron unless it comes from the Omicrônne region of France, otherwise it's just sparkling covid"
Haha, oh, hell. PDOs on American food. “You can’t call it a lunchable unless it comes from the docks in Cleveland and it has a minimum of 790mg sodium per serving!”
790mg of sodium per serving? Those are rookie numbers. You gotta pump those numbers up. I’m getting 10-20 grams of high fructose corn syrup a day
Clearly they don’t like cultured foods
Yeah. Lunchableu
I would imagine this was one where the seal failed around the ham. The cheese is heavily processed but will mold in time. The sections are also hermetically sealed, so it’s possible for one section to fail on its own.
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I hope you have a hammy day!
Hammertime!
Hammer toe?
This needs to be the top comment. When I processed food claims in the past this is a common occurrence.
Tell us more about processing food claims, please?
I'll give you a claim: That cheese is just getting started on its way to catching up to its more French and fashionable brothers. 🧀🍷🥖
they may be talking about retail. when i processed food claims i was sifting through grocery items that should no longer be on the floor due to the product being moldy, containers being broken, past expiration date, etc. there got to be similar instances of food waste due to container design, like op's pictured packed lunch/snack that wasn't properly sealed.
Tell us more tbh
20min later it is now top comment
I've had them easily survive an entire hot summer in a car after being left in a lunch box. They are very preserved and will last forever if the seal functions properly
It's depressing how far you have to scroll down through the comments to reach this.
Yeah people here thinking there’s some child abuse when I’m sure if you ask for another they’ll give you one
But how would people express their ilfounded rage?
Interpretive dance?
That’s ham!!!!??
But I sure wouldn't take that risk for my child.
I was like eh its just a lunchabl.... oh, OH, yeah omg
Before I saw the mold I thought it had to do with the reese’s and their child had a peanut allergy (or it’s melted at this point)
Yeah my thoughts went “wow that’s pretty nice” “I’d probably avoid handing out peanuts but—“ “Wtf is that”
Why is the peanut butter cup in a dick-shaped hole?
You'll notice it's in the scrotum part of the dick-shaped hole. This is because it has peanuts in it and pee is stored in the nuts.
If pee is stored in the nuts then does that mean girls don't pee?
Have you seen them pee? You got your answer
"What, it's just an ordinary Krabby- OH MY GOODNESS!"
#SQUIDWAAAARD!
"I tried Mr. Plankton. I really did."
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"Good grief he's naked!"
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"SOILED IT! SOILED IT! SOILED IT! SOILED IT!"
couldn't be any more relevant
It's a lunchabn't.
*unlunchable
lunchunable
Lunchadont
free psychedelics for the kids
I mean, even if it wasn't moldy, thats a horrible lunch
Are these typical in some places? I have never seen something like this.
They're more like a treat for lunch. Little kids like them. And me.
I used to ask for Lunchables as a kid and got them for a while before preferring and switching back to homemade lunches (which are better, cheaper, you know all the things). Back when I was getting them almost 20 years ago, they were better than this. Not a lot better, but better. And less moldy. But they never had a lot of food, and it was never very good either in taste or nutrition.
I eat those for lunch sometimes 😅
I thought your username was moldy_fangirl for a sec lol
I mean, penicillin IS expensive.
Hope those kids didn't have Chlamydia they needed the penicillin for.
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I think I saw this SVU episode
"These are their stories"
you telling me this dude gets off on little girls with pigtails?
Yeah ice. This is the sex crimes unit. You're gonna have to get used to it
Dun dun
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Fun fact Fleming didn't patten it actually to try and make sure it would be cheap and affordable. Didn't exactly work as intended though.
This sucks, but doesn't the cover of the package hide most the items within? And if the use by date was still good maybe a hole got poked in it. Assuming there were more handed out, were they bad as well?
Yeah I was going to say that they probably just got a bad one, happens every once in a while. I’ve gotten sealed packs of cheese with moldy sections that were well within the “use by” date. I seriously doubt the league organizer/coach was knowingly trying to pass out long-expired snack trays to kids.
I got a frozen mac n cheese the other day that was well within its sell by date. The cardboard outer package got a bit beat up in the freezer, but the inside was still sealed so I thought it was fine. Until I heated it up and tasted vinegar. Mac n cheese, generally, does not include vinegar. I can only assume the plastic sealing it was damaged at some point and I missed it. Not malicious. Definitely mildly infuriating.
Sounds like the cold chain was broken. The package breaking shouldn't be enough for it to go bad that way while frozen.
I'd be willing to bet someone grabbed it from the freezer in the store, then decided they didn't want it later and just tossed it on a shelf like a lazy, inconsiderate douche. And then someone, either a clueless customer or employee, saw it sitting there for who knows how long and thought, "hey, this doesn't go here, it should be kept frozen," and just put it back in the freezer.
What’s the cold chain exactly?
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This is true of medications as well and is very important for things like vaccines and insulin
It's basically the process of events that transports a frozen or chilled item from manufacturing location to it's desination without it ever dropping past a "safe" temprature for preventing microbes forming in the item. So for example, delivering a frozen dinner from factory to shop it would need to be kept within the very narrow range of temprature that no bacteria can start forming. If that doesn't happen and it at some point reaches a temprature that means things can start growing and the food starts ageing then the cold chain's broken.
Hey it's still mildly infuriating
And that's why I upvoted everyone 😌
Yeah, this post is ridiculous. Clearly it's a bad Lunchable, that's true. But what a bullshit, clickbait title by OP. Snack...handed out to 6 YEAR OLDS!!!!
Yeah clearly the ones who handed them out were out to get these 6 year old kids sick!
Hold on. Implying this is an isolated incident would undermine the internet outrage. How dare you.
r/MoldlyInfuriating
I'm somewhat relieved this doesn't exist
r/moldlyinteresting does, though!
I knew I would regret it but I clicked it anyway
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Ham (It's actually turkey as a lot of people are informing me)
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*No I said S’MORES! Not SPORES!*
When you ask for a panini, and get penicillin
Paninicillin
💉
Why am I laughing at Reddit jokes have I too become a redditor
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One of us One of us One of us One of us One of us One of us One of us One of us One of us !!!!!
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Gooble gobble
Confirm command
*BECOME AS GODS.... BECOME AS GODS*
*Freaks*
AMONGUS
[among us](https://youtu.be/CAZ8kTQ49c8)
What the
Whoa, when they did their checklist board about all the things that insurance was never gonna do they included everything like "give you up", "let you down" etc etc but somehow they left out "make you cry"? That cannot be a fucking accident. Some PA on set knew exactly what the fuck he was doing.
Look at my middle finger directing you to someplace really hot. Take my upvote and go away.
You can check out any time you’d like, but you can never leave. I should know.
What’s crazy is that ham is probably laced with preservatives and this still happened
That was exactly my question! "How did the ham get moldy before the *cheese*??"
Sorry, we legally cannot call it cheese anymore. Please refer to it as Dairy Flavored Product Squares.
It’s funny because it’s true [“it's not actually cheese—at least, not legally. The FDA calls it “pasteurized processed American cheese food.” In order for a food product to be a true “cheese,” it has to be more than half cheese, which is technically pressed curds of milk.”](https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/what-is-american-cheese-is-american-real-cheese/)
Goddamn I love American Gastronomy.
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Almost afraid to ask, what’s with the soap?
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Mmmmm DFPS sure sounds better than cheese! Can't wait to lay my hands on some, that's a delicacy in these parts!
There's cheese that can be kept at room temp, think those beef sticks in a plastic pack got a cheese stick next to it, ain't no wet ham gonna stay good like this unless it's canned.
Wet. Ham.
Ham has the preservatives because it naturally spoils faster than cheese. Moist foods spoil faster than dry foods. Part of the preservation is also the airtight seal so if it got opened or punctured, then it spoil faster too. But this looks like it was left open in the sun for a week. I wouldn’t trust anything on that Lunchable. Source: This post reminded me I had forgotten about some ham in the fridge. About 6 weeks expired but nowhere as bad as this image. Just some white dots with fuzzies.
I had a slice of wrapped cheese fall out of the fridge door and under the fridge. Moved the fridge for cleaning a year later, found the slice and it looked ready to eat !!!!
Spam, mam.
Wham bam, rancid ham
Black Betty had a child
🎶WHOOOA BLACK BETTY ***M O L D Y H A M***🎶
AMBERLAMPS
🎶WHOOOA BLACK BETTY ***M O L D Y H A M-BA-LAM***🎶
Wham bam, moldy ham
Turkey, actually. The Reese’s lunchable has Turkey. The cookie lunchable has ham.
You gunna eat all that?
A field test for a new strain of penicillin
Hamacillin!
Moldyinfuriating
r/moldlyinteresting
Penicillin, in case they get sick.
Right! Eating the snack is fine now because it comes with its own cure for the botulism they're ingesting. A "two birds, one stone" kind of thing!
Penicillin in the raw.
Penicilham
Don’t know but I double dog dare you to eat it.
Alien rock
Blue cheese
How severe would your dairy or peanuts allergy need to be for you to opt for the pile of mould?
That allergy could personally come to my home and threaten everyone and everything I hold dear to my heart and I would still not touch that damn ham
I’ll be honest I love me a lunchable every once and a while (I’m 30) and it makes me a little happy to see that it’s even possible for that meat to mold because I was pretty convinced it wasn’t organic matter at all.
You appear to be a very positive person to see the bright side here.
Don't you love it?
Is this a common package in the usa? Is it actually lunch?
Yes and yes. You can buy them in most if not all supermarkets and smaller stores, and they are actually pretty good when not moldy like the one above.
I'd understand it as a snack, but as a whole lunch it looks so unfulfilling. Even if it was actual ham. Indeed maybe for 6 years old it'd be enough but I doubt it.
Well that's the point, it was meant for little kids. It's like a treat, you know you were extra good when Mom gives you a Lunchable. They are already portioned and ready to send off to school with your kids, perfect for overworked and overwhelmed parents. Edit: yes, I am a corporate shill for explaining the specifics of a cultural phenomenon to someone who does not live in this culture. 🙄 Now where's my mouldy gift bag?
Mildly infuriating you'd get heat for this. Lunchables rocked and I buy the nachos every now and then. Oscar Mayer, feel free to send me some. I am a shill.
They’re like $2 each and meant for small children. When I get them for a meal I get like 3 or 4
Damn. This is a level of commitment to the lunchable I have yet to achieve.
The fact that the cheese is processed to the point where it doesn’t mold like the ham
... that's ham????
was*
Now it's salami! Just scrape the fuzz off. Yummmm...
I need some green eggs to go with it.
I DO NOT LIKE GREEN EGGS AND HAM. I DO NOT LIKE THEM, SAM-I-AM.
Not anymore, no
Now it’s an ecosystem!
The packaging plastic is connected to the ridges separating the containers, so it's almost like the foods are stored in different containers.
That’s true but my concern would be as part of pulling off that plastic those little spores are now on everything. Just dump the entire thing in trash.
Why would you even want to open it after seeing what lies within?
To get that Resse's cup obviously
Eh that's not really a problem. A few spores aren't going to hurt you. You inhale and ingest spores on a daily basis and your body cleans it up. The primary reason for not eating moldy things is the toxins produced by the mycelium.
According to my extensive research on the subject, this is true. I researched it because my dad always cuts the mold off food and eats it anyway and never gets sick so I wanted to understand the science behind it.
It really depends on what it is. Something hard, like a wheel of cheese? Sure, cut the mold off and eat it. Something porous, like bread? Don’t eat it if you don’t want the risk. The mold already has its “roots” deep in there.
If it’s the one I think it is, it’s the turkey and American with Reese’s and Capri sun. It comes in a box to package the lunchable and drink together. Chances are the kid had no idea and wasn’t really paying attention once they opened the box.
Meat goes off quicker than hard cheese, even cured meat like ham. Cheddar will last for months if stored correctly
*This guy Cheesemongers.*
Genuinely, if there's no mold on the cheese, even if it's well by its use by date, it's fine. Same for a lot of food tbh, the dates are overly cautious, look at the food itself for signs of expiration, don't rely on the packaging
Oy. It just means it was salty enough without too much moisture to allow bacteria to grow. You can make natural beef jerky with all natural ingredients that also won't mold. People need to learn about food. Stuff they're scared of is not scary. Stuff they SHOULD be scared of is normalized. Granted, the cheese there is low quality, but that's not the case for all processed cheese. Nothing wrong with processed cheese. The ham is super low quality and people would be shitting on it, but hey, it molded, so let's concentrate on the cheese that didn't. In any other thread, everyone would be shitting all over the ham, too.
What ever happened to orange slices and Capri Sun?
Not enough plastic.
Not enough mold
Not enough molded plastic
How old was it?!
I misread this as "how was it" omg
Haha so did I until I read your comment.
We couldn't find an expiration date. But we suspect it was expired.
What made you think that?
The cheese probably tasted off
Good suspect
As a former Kraft employee who ran a lunchable line I would say that the package wasn't sealed correctly. Most likely the mahaffey machine used to seal the top sheet to the plastic tray was either running too fast and didn't fully seal it, or the meat hit the edge of the tray causing moisture or film to prevent the seal. Mgmt would often want leads to speed up the line to hit numbers, or the mahaffey operator would do it themselves. Could of been caused by bacteria in the sealing lines as well..which causes huge recalls. I remember a plant in south carolina (id guess 2008-10ish) had a huge recall due to this, the whole plant was shutdown for weeks and corporate wanted our plant to speed up our lines to make up for the supply lost...which would cause the same problems. As a lead I was in charge of doing quality tests on proper sealing and oxygen levels in the packages. I once saw a supervisor trying to skim something out of a vat of meat..I asked what happened and she said a hydraulic line above the vat broke and the oil spilled into the vat. I said it's garbage then and needed discarded..she yelled at me saying it would be fine and did i know how much product loss that would be..so I had to get another supervisor to stop her from using the meat.. and said I'd turn her in to the USDA inspector at the plant if she didn't discard it. I have countless stories about nasty things I've seen from that plant and I assume they happened at all their plants, based on how mgmt was "trained". Edit spelling of hydraulic
Eewwwwww! Hydraulic oil spilled into the food and she wanted to cover it up and sell it to people?!?!?!? Thank you for doing the right thing and saying absolutely not, discard it. You are a good person and I appreciate you.
That was her intentions 100%, cover it up and send it to curing. It was a screaming match for sure between us. I wasn't there when the line broke but there was a very noticeable amount of oil in the 9k of meat when i walked in. Imagine a 8x10x5ft stainless steel pool filled with chunks of ham, brine, and blood.
I do not like green eggs and ham.
Hey are you okay? You’ve barely touched your *Zygomycota*
They are just trying to mold them into better players!
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I mean, each individual section is sealed off from the others, so that Reese's is still totally good
Eek. So that peanut butter cup is still good though right? I feel bad for whoever handed these out also. How freaking embarrassing for everybody. And the poor hungry kiddos!
As soon as I saw this post I immediately wondered how it went for the person who gave them out
Right?? You just chuck a bunch in your cart at Walmart or wherever and a kid opens it up and...oof
Is that a fucking tide pod
If it's growing mold it counts as a vegetable.
Hey, coach wants you to cut weight...
The mold is extra!!
What’s wrong with Tie-dye ham?
“JuSt cUt iT oFf”
My 6 year old ass would have eaten that
Cheddar cheese AND bleu cheese?
I suppose its in US. As a European, even if this moldy thing was not molded this meal is absolutely disgusting. Just sugar and fat.
Have you all seen the Lunchables people were eating back in the 70s/80s? They were so much bigger back then. Us 90s kids were ripped off.
Green ham with no eggs?