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  • 16 Year Old Can of Soup Found in EPA fridge.

    The Environmental Protection Agency spends billions cleaning up hazardous waste sites each year, but this week it discovered a potential bio-hazard brewing in its own backyard. Inside one of the refrigerators in its Chicago headquarters, the agency discovered a 16-year old-can of Campbell's soup.
    The find was revealed in an email from EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy sent to workers in the Midwest returning to work Thursday from a furlough imposed by the government shutdown.
    Tucked away among fitness center announcements and a reminder to remove "out of office" messages activated during the shutdown was a notice about the eyebrow-raising item.
    "...[O]f necessity, the refrigerators were emptied of all perishable foodstuffs last week," read the email, first published by The Washington Post. A copy of it was reviewed by NBC News. "The oldest food found? A can of Campbell’s soup dated 1997! So, please remember it is everyone’s responsibility to keep the refrigerators clean."
    The status of the contents of the can are left to the reader's imagination.
    Ironic.

  • #2
    Originally posted by Lanie View Post
    It would be unless you've actually worked with or had lunch with EPA people. There isn't a scrap of humor (ironic or otherwise) among those people. They probably didn't have anybody junior enough on board to clean out the office fridge and they no doubt spent the fridge-cleaning contractor funds on office furniture and exotic conference travel.
    "Alexa, slaughter the fatted calf."

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    • #3
      Isn't it still good since it was canned...
      Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live...
      Robert Southwell, S.J.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by phillygirl View Post
        Isn't it still good since it was canned...
        It probably is, really. It might lose some color or texture but unless the can has been breached, it's probably still okay.
        "Alexa, slaughter the fatted calf."

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Gingersnap View Post
          It probably is, really. It might lose some color or texture but unless the can has been breached, it's probably still okay.
          That's what I figured...so when are y'all coming over for dinner?
          Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live...
          Robert Southwell, S.J.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by phillygirl View Post
            That's what I figured...so when are y'all coming over for dinner?
            To Ecuador or to the EPA offices in the Darth Vader building in Denver (seriously, everyone calls it that)?
            "Alexa, slaughter the fatted calf."

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Gingersnap View Post
              To Ecuador or to the EPA offices in the Darth Vader building in Denver (seriously, everyone calls it that)?
              Either place...we're having Campbell's soup...
              Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live...
              Robert Southwell, S.J.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by phillygirl View Post
                Either place...we're having Campbell's soup...
                I'm not traveling to either of those places for canned soup. Does it have cocaine or Adderall in it? Even if it did, it still doesn't sound like a good idea.
                "Alexa, slaughter the fatted calf."

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Gingersnap View Post
                  I'm not traveling to either of those places for canned soup. Does it have cocaine or Adderall in it? Even if it did, it still doesn't sound like a good idea.
                  So that's nixes Ginger and her + 1. Looks like I can start working on the B list...

                  Frosty, do you have any plans for dinner next week?
                  Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live...
                  Robert Southwell, S.J.

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                  • #10
                    Hmmmm. I am not coming to dinner.

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                    • #11
                      I'll stop by, just to say hello.

                      I have other engagements but will be courteous.

                      And, no, I'm not bringing the usual bottle of mad dog 2020
                      Robert Francis O'Rourke, Democrat, White guy, spent ~78 million to defeat, Ted Cruz, Republican immigrant Dark guy …
                      and lost …
                      But the Republicans are racist.

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