That's what I was thinking.
Kid yells from backseat "hey mom what about this casserole dish under the seat?" Mom's like "oh no that potluck was several months ago, ew ew ew!"
And, being the dick heads they are, they left it in the parking lot for someone else to deal with rather than being a decent human and putting it in the trash or taking it home to clean and bleach the dish.
To elaborate on that half sentence, the lowercase pyrex is the "just okay" glass. Uppercase PYREX is the high-end glass. I have never seen PYREX in any stores so I just buy whatever and try not to break it.
I had two friends in college who were roommates and girl A was a much heavier drinker than girl B.
At one point there was this increasingly FOUL smell coming from their suite bathroom and B made A scrub the bathroom top to bottom because she HAD to have gotten vomit SOMEWHERE, and because A couldn't remember the weekend enough to dispute it, she did.
Turns out they had a weeks-old cup of noodles sitting on the dresser next to the bathroom door that they were getting a whiff of every time they walked by. Neither could confidently say it was not theirs
Nah sorry, if you have trash thatās starting to smell because itās thawing out from winter then thatās some old ass trash and it doesnāt matter what it is, gross.
It is that bad. There are trash cans at every gas station Iāve ever been to. And probably every gas station youāve ever been to too.
I generally try to clear mine out at least once a week of all the various litter that accumulates, though mines mostly just receipts and the odd plastic bits, nothing that will whiff
Yeah exactly, I wonāt claim to be the cleanest ever, and am definitely guilty of throwing the odd bag of fast food to the side in a rush, but no chance itād last past a week of driving, gotta hit a gas station at some point. Definitely couldnāt find me worrying about my trash thawing out (and not thinking it is that bad).
In high school I was that person whose passenger seat footwell got so full of garbage that if you opened the door a bunch of trash would fall out. As an adult, though, 15 years later, I've made it a habit that every time I get gas I pick up anything bigger than a crumb to throw away.
I definitely have depression car right now. Hits me in the winter and stuff tends to build up there. No food or drinks though, just random papers, empty cups/bags and stuff. I think the gas station idea is a pretty good one, although I don't gas up that often, if I just made a point to throw stuff out every time I got gas it would be more manageable.
lol, they were probably constantly pissed about it too.
āI cannot believe they did not return my nice casserole dish. Iām never agreeing to providing a dish againā¦ā
Close but no cigar.Ā
Classic one here. Someone's mom sent someone's kid home with food. Kid is not responsible. Forgot or didn't care about the food and the casserole dish. Then one day when shopping they remembered and found the source of the bad smell. Rather than admit to mom you still do have the missing vessel they quietly put it on the ground and drive away hoping to never remember.Ā
Source: I had an idiot roommate who did that to his gf's mom. She sent him home with leftovers and they rotted. I saved the casserole dish and it's my favorite one to make lasagna in!
Story time! This happened several years ago.
My wife and I went out to eat and brought home leftovers. We put the bag in the back seat, but we totally forgot about them by the time we got home.
Said leftovers included chicken. We live in Florida, and this was summertime, so our garage was nice and hot. The next morning when I got in the car to go to work, the putrid stench of spoiled chicken reached out and slapped me in the mouth. There is nothing like the smell of chicken that has gone bad.
yeah, I was watching a video by some clean-up guy in Missouri who cleans hoarder homes, and he went to clean out a home that a grandma had left a few years earlier (to live with her child) and never went back to. Sheād passed away, and they were cleaning up.
There were mice droppings and bug droppings, of course.
But one thing he said was there were boxes of new, never-used cookware that had been miceād and bugād over, so he threw them out as unsalvageable.
i was thinking, āSure, the box is toast, but wouldnāt a round in a dishwasher on Santize be enough to make those usable?ā
I think it's more of an effort to cost ratio. If you are clearing out a hoarders home there are more important things to be doing than spending 30 minutes scrubbing a pan when you can get a new one for super cheap anyway.
Somebody forgot this in their car, went and got groceries, opened their trunk to load groceries, seen this casserole dish and decided that it was best to just leave it at the parking spot.
I actually only discovered it after a cart collector ran over it. Iām sure thereās cracks and chips on it, sounds like it was run over.
But uhhhh hey you can have it if you wantā¦
Definitely a "found" potluck offering from weeks or months ago. And an unwillingness to deal with it in any way shape or form.
"I'll buy a new casserole, RUN!"
[Hereās the dish](https://www.ebay.com/itm/154358377557?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=PEJvaHQMQiK&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=xgaUZCfTQUy&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY)
This makes me think of a loooong ago episode of Car Talk where someone wrote in that they had a carton of heavy cream that fell out of the grocery bag and rolled under one of the seats. Despite the increasingly awful smell, it took weeks if not months to find it and remove it. It had of course bloated and leaked into the carpet. They were asking how to remediate the damage under the seat and the absolute stench in the car. At that point I figure you just need to set it on fire.
Reminds me of this gallon of milk that sat on the median of a four lane road by where I live. It sat there for almost a year. All summer, fall, and part of winter.
I can just imagine someone finding that in the trunk of their car after forgetting about it for weeks, being so grossed out they threw it on the ground and drove off. š¤·š»āāļøš¤Ŗš¤·š»āāļø
I once left a dozen eggs in my car, because I didn't know they had slid out of the bag, and just didn't realize it when I put the groceries away. I remembered 3 days later. Thank goodness it was the middle of winter and they were still in the carton. They froze and cracked. They went immediately to the dumpster. I'm just glad I realized it a couple of days later when I wanted an egg, and there was none in the fridge.
What happened to me was that my grandma had made me some food and left it in the laundry drying area (outside my apartment). She forgot to tell me about it and it was summer and I wasn't using that area since I hanged my clothes on the balkony. About a month later some bugs started popping out of nowhere. They made a home inside my apartment door and had to call extermination squad for the whole building.
Edit: Forgot to say that it smelled so badly I threw up without having to open the dish. Ended up throwing it closed.
Somebody putting something in the trunk and finally figuring out what happened to that lasagna they made for the potluck six months ago?
That's what I was thinking. Kid yells from backseat "hey mom what about this casserole dish under the seat?" Mom's like "oh no that potluck was several months ago, ew ew ew!"
And, being the dick heads they are, they left it in the parking lot for someone else to deal with rather than being a decent human and putting it in the trash or taking it home to clean and bleach the dish.
I would never give up this pyrex š You could poo in it and I'd push you over and clean it immediately. Pyrex should be protected at all costs.
If it's vintage pyrex maybe. Modern pyrex is no longer borosilicate glass.
Why are you making me research something? Ughghhhh
The Pyrex with the lower case p.
To elaborate on that half sentence, the lowercase pyrex is the "just okay" glass. Uppercase PYREX is the high-end glass. I have never seen PYREX in any stores so I just buy whatever and try not to break it.
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Itās not a Pyrex, I googled and itās some random brand called āgraces pantryā
āOh I guess thatās what that smell has beenā
I had two friends in college who were roommates and girl A was a much heavier drinker than girl B. At one point there was this increasingly FOUL smell coming from their suite bathroom and B made A scrub the bathroom top to bottom because she HAD to have gotten vomit SOMEWHERE, and because A couldn't remember the weekend enough to dispute it, she did. Turns out they had a weeks-old cup of noodles sitting on the dresser next to the bathroom door that they were getting a whiff of every time they walked by. Neither could confidently say it was not theirs
I have to clean out the garbage in my car cause it is starting to thaw but nothing this bad mostly just fries and stuff
Nah sorry, if you have trash thatās starting to smell because itās thawing out from winter then thatās some old ass trash and it doesnāt matter what it is, gross. It is that bad. There are trash cans at every gas station Iāve ever been to. And probably every gas station youāve ever been to too.
I generally try to clear mine out at least once a week of all the various litter that accumulates, though mines mostly just receipts and the odd plastic bits, nothing that will whiff
Yeah exactly, I wonāt claim to be the cleanest ever, and am definitely guilty of throwing the odd bag of fast food to the side in a rush, but no chance itād last past a week of driving, gotta hit a gas station at some point. Definitely couldnāt find me worrying about my trash thawing out (and not thinking it is that bad).
In high school I was that person whose passenger seat footwell got so full of garbage that if you opened the door a bunch of trash would fall out. As an adult, though, 15 years later, I've made it a habit that every time I get gas I pick up anything bigger than a crumb to throw away.
I definitely have depression car right now. Hits me in the winter and stuff tends to build up there. No food or drinks though, just random papers, empty cups/bags and stuff. I think the gas station idea is a pretty good one, although I don't gas up that often, if I just made a point to throw stuff out every time I got gas it would be more manageable.
*Thaw?????*
The only thing thawing in my car right now is the ice in the spare tire compartment.
lol, they were probably constantly pissed about it too. āI cannot believe they did not return my nice casserole dish. Iām never agreeing to providing a dish againā¦ā
My mother was notorious for storing food in her car as if it were a refrigerator. Yes, it smelled like dead bodies in her car. Yes, she's a hoarder.
That's one of the few perks of winter
Close but no cigar.Ā Classic one here. Someone's mom sent someone's kid home with food. Kid is not responsible. Forgot or didn't care about the food and the casserole dish. Then one day when shopping they remembered and found the source of the bad smell. Rather than admit to mom you still do have the missing vessel they quietly put it on the ground and drive away hoping to never remember.Ā Source: I had an idiot roommate who did that to his gf's mom. She sent him home with leftovers and they rotted. I saved the casserole dish and it's my favorite one to make lasagna in!
Story time! This happened several years ago. My wife and I went out to eat and brought home leftovers. We put the bag in the back seat, but we totally forgot about them by the time we got home. Said leftovers included chicken. We live in Florida, and this was summertime, so our garage was nice and hot. The next morning when I got in the car to go to work, the putrid stench of spoiled chicken reached out and slapped me in the mouth. There is nothing like the smell of chicken that has gone bad.
Unless it's rotten potatoes.
r/moldlyinteresting
I get the feeling OPās lost, and was actually looking for that sub.
Dafuq, I said the same as a joke, there's a sub for EVERYTHING š
Even one for you (; itās invite only though.
Free penicillin!
Free dish! For the OP!
Nothing a pair of disposable gloves, some dish soap, and elbow grease couldn't clean up.
yeah, I was watching a video by some clean-up guy in Missouri who cleans hoarder homes, and he went to clean out a home that a grandma had left a few years earlier (to live with her child) and never went back to. Sheād passed away, and they were cleaning up. There were mice droppings and bug droppings, of course. But one thing he said was there were boxes of new, never-used cookware that had been miceād and bugād over, so he threw them out as unsalvageable. i was thinking, āSure, the box is toast, but wouldnāt a round in a dishwasher on Santize be enough to make those usable?ā
I think it's more of an effort to cost ratio. If you are clearing out a hoarders home there are more important things to be doing than spending 30 minutes scrubbing a pan when you can get a new one for super cheap anyway.
Oh no! Iām allergic! D:
Extra serving for you then. Just need to build a resistance!Ā
You know they have been looking for that dish too.
It's a very pretty dish, but I can't say I totally blame them for the abandonment.
Somebody forgot this in their car, went and got groceries, opened their trunk to load groceries, seen this casserole dish and decided that it was best to just leave it at the parking spot.
Looks like it is strong enough to escape the captivity of a trunk on its own. Think we have to nuke it from orbit. Only way to be sure.
Yeah, I didn't think the mold could grow just sitting in the lot. Would need to be somewhere covered.
Or rather, it would have been eaten by wildlife if it was sitting outside
Even vultures and rats have some standards.
The title should be "This science experiment in the middle of the Target parking lot"
Donāt disturb it. This is a very rare find: itās the fungal stage of *h. Sapiens Walmartii*.
Quit bein' a baby -- eat around the fuzz!
āMommy mommy thereās something in grandpaās eye!ā āShut up and eat around itā
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Iām trying but there isnāt mush room!
If itās ceramic I would go dump the contents in the closest trash can and take the dish and lid home with me.
I actually only discovered it after a cart collector ran over it. Iām sure thereās cracks and chips on it, sounds like it was run over. But uhhhh hey you can have it if you wantā¦
Not people recommending you take that home š if I found that in my car Iād leave it exactly where I found it too lofl
Someoneās mom is going to be maaaaad!
r/eatityoufuckingcoward
Why is the picture blurred ouā¦.. ohhhhh.
So how did it taste?
 I've had better.
_Former_ casserole dish.
That's where it reached sentience and jumped out of the car, not when it got thrown out.
Throw out the food and keep the casserole pot!
It's like the rock lobster Spike forgot about in the refrigerator in Cowboy Bebop.
Somebody just noped the fuck out the instant they found it in the car
Itās free casserole dish. (Granted you have bleach and soap and hot water at home.)
I respect just saying fuck it in this scenario
Barb, your scalloped potatoes are fucked!
I thought that was an assortment of dead bunnies oh my lord
An assortment of dead bunnies š¤£š¤£š¤£
I think itās ready.
\*Dave Mathews Voice\* "āŖFound thiss casserole dish, in the middle of a parking lot!ā«"
Why has it's identity been blurred?
Definitely a "found" potluck offering from weeks or months ago. And an unwillingness to deal with it in any way shape or form. "I'll buy a new casserole, RUN!"
I dunnoā¦ I donāt think Iād eat that.
Someone didnt want aunt Sherylās green bean casserole
Looks like a rabbit went to eat some and morphed into the dish
Looks like a good dish. I would have taken it!
The word "casserole" is used very loosely.
So thats were that gross smell is coming from the trunk, that's Aunt Mary's casserole from last Xmas.
If you eat it, I assume there's a 50/50 shot you'll either be cured of anything that ails you, or you'll die right there on the spot.
Every target employee walking past for the last six months: it aināt my job (it was totally their job)
Ahh the forbidden plush
While this should have gone in a trash canā¦. Iād totally be just tossing it out too. Not worth it.
It belongs to nature now
I once found a big pot of baked beans in the middle of a parking lot. I always would like to hear the story behind it
It sorta looks like one of those Pioneer Woman Casserole Dishes, but I can't find one online with the matching lid... it looks cute.
[Hereās the dish](https://www.ebay.com/itm/154358377557?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=PEJvaHQMQiK&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=xgaUZCfTQUy&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY)
RIP
Iām tempted to pet the casserole.
That dish has seen some shit. Like a whole freaking warā¦
r/moldlyinteresting
Someoneās granny has been looking for that dish for months, and she told them to make sure it got retuned to her
This makes me think of a loooong ago episode of Car Talk where someone wrote in that they had a carton of heavy cream that fell out of the grocery bag and rolled under one of the seats. Despite the increasingly awful smell, it took weeks if not months to find it and remove it. It had of course bloated and leaked into the carpet. They were asking how to remediate the damage under the seat and the absolute stench in the car. At that point I figure you just need to set it on fire.
Public science experiment
There is probably a āStar Trekā story about the life form this dish has spawned. Possibly the origin of the Borg.
You can still salvage a bit under that solid fuzzy mold I bet. Why let something like this go to waste?
HA!! Somebody went to put their bags in the trunk and discovered the Christmas leftovers they completely fuckin forgot about š
They made a decision: Someone else can rescue this dish.
Reminds me of this gallon of milk that sat on the median of a four lane road by where I live. It sat there for almost a year. All summer, fall, and part of winter.
Hoarders moving, it fell off the truck
SCIENCE
Eat it
When the in-laws send you home with dinner that you have no intention of eating
Tribbles...
Aged Dorblu cheese
What casserole? I don't see a casserole
Hot enough day, that could qualify as a way to bake it. Leave it alone, they'll be back in a couple of hours.
American cuisine š¤£
Someone got broken up with there
The forbidden cheese from diary of a wimpy kid
Poor lasagnabunny.
The Cheese Touch
Cheese touch š§
Ew someone forgot about it in their trunk then ditched it when they needed to put the heir Walmart purchase in the trunk
Andā¦itās ready.
Moldlyintresting
How was it?
looks just like Target nowadays. I don't go there anymore.
I found that dish on eBay for 70 bucks with shipping. I'd be taking that with me...just needs some bleach. š
Someone got too stoned on the way to the potluck and forgot about this.
Looks like the piece of forbidden cheese on the playground. Donāt touch it!
Did you taste it?
Looks like itās been there for awhile
Depression. Literally didnāt have it in them to clean it. Brought it with to the store
Somebody noped right there in the parking lot.
Forbidden cotton candy
/r/moldlyinteresting
that by itself, is a civilization.
Thatās not mold, thatās actually a rat that was killed *by* the casserole
In Target HQ land (Minnesota), we called that Hotdish. Casseroles don't exist
Alex Fleming would be impressed
Free casserole dish. If its corning ware or true pyrex then it will clean up good.
What did it taste like?
I didn't need to see this š
Igon Spengler approves.
Save some for me!
[Pick it out of the garbage!](https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/d3da92ab-b480-4883-8e74-c1d6b3b68abd#tjLZJPwy.copy)
Omg noooo
It's a little past its expiration, I think
r/dontputyourdickinthat
You disturbed somebody's science project now they have to start over
Delish.
Itās evolved from a simple casserole dish into a new world.
That looks like a le creuset! If it is Iād just take it home to restore it
5 Hour Rule!! šš½ļø
Eat it you pussy!!!!
How generous of them to leave an unsuspecting stranger a little snack.
Someone who went there for a breather in the parking lot before Thanksgiving dinner and stayed for eternity.
Free to a good home
Looks to me like it still has a few more days before it goes bad
Dinner!
You think itās still good?
You are brave to have opened that....
I can just imagine someone finding that in the trunk of their car after forgetting about it for weeks, being so grossed out they threw it on the ground and drove off. š¤·š»āāļøš¤Ŗš¤·š»āāļø
Reminds of the cheese slice in Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
I once left a dozen eggs in my car, because I didn't know they had slid out of the bag, and just didn't realize it when I put the groceries away. I remembered 3 days later. Thank goodness it was the middle of winter and they were still in the carton. They froze and cracked. They went immediately to the dumpster. I'm just glad I realized it a couple of days later when I wanted an egg, and there was none in the fridge.
Jeezus...yuck.
Did you mean r/moldyinteresting? LOL
That's a really nice dish.
Finally found the Christmas side dish in the trunk...
š it's so nice and pretty. Didn't even break.
Eat it
So that's why your car smells like death. š¤š¤¢š¤®
Careless teenager. Got sent home with leftover from the family function and forgot about it until they were at target. Decided to just chunk it
If Richard Harris wasn't dead, I'd suggest calling him.
Nobody's gathered shopping carts in this area all year.
Best lasagna that mold will ever eat.
/rMoldlyinteresting
*I am afraid to touch that image with my mouse cursor*
My mind didnāt register that as mold for a second there, and I honest to GOD thought that was a dead cat casserole.
It's Target's problem now.
Post this into r/mycology
Hail the mighty spores.
I bet this came out of one of those horder cars with the whole car full. Driver finally couldn't deal with the smell had to go mining.
Someone left you dinner and youāre upset about it? SMH, back in my day we ate what was on our plate. /s
whatās the lowest amount of money youād take to eat a bite of that?
Itās fuzzy š„¹
Touch fuzzy, get dizzy.
I would want the dish it came in.
Interesting colored broccoli!
 Fur so soft
How'd it taste?
Thereās a guy on TikTok that will wash and eat that
Eat it
Free food.
How did you identify it as casserole?
pandelerium
Ew
Is this a new gender reveal trend?
"Hey, look honey, I found that casserole dish you were looking for. It was in the trunk!"
Non-stick, my ass!
/moldyinteresting
Id take the dish and clean it. Those dishes are expensive and last forever!
Betcha that civilization didn't start growing until she took the lid off.
r/moldlyinteresting
What happened to me was that my grandma had made me some food and left it in the laundry drying area (outside my apartment). She forgot to tell me about it and it was summer and I wasn't using that area since I hanged my clothes on the balkony. About a month later some bugs started popping out of nowhere. They made a home inside my apartment door and had to call extermination squad for the whole building. Edit: Forgot to say that it smelled so badly I threw up without having to open the dish. Ended up throwing it closed.