This little doozy was taken to work by myself, author of this here blog, with the intention of consuming it sometime in December 2009.
However, over that period I was in charge of editing a very large handbook and hence desk was covered in paper from Christmas onwards and thence through the entire winter. Desk became known as the sinkhole.
Banana pictured above was discovered underneath a pile of draft chapters sometime in March 2010, possibly as I prepared to do a little tidy up in preparation for my week off to go on my Arvon course.
It was perfectly preserved! Not rotted, as one would have expected, but fully dehydrated by the over used but obviously effective heating system at my office, during what was possibly the coldest winter in Britain for many decades.
It also explains why I drink around 4 litres of water a day at the office!
Pictured banana could not be reached for comment as it was disposed of immediately after posing for a few snapshots (on very poor camera phone).
Author this here blog is still mortified but intrigued by the incident some eight months later!
What is the worst thing you've ever left somewhere/under something for months on end, only to find it somewhat.....um....disfigured?!
Well, if we're discounting the yoghurt that I found yesterday that my flatmate had concealed at the back for the fridge, open, since August (yuck, yuck, yuck), then it has to be the interesting effect that accidentally leaving some shopping in a carrier bag on an underfloor heated floor for several weeks will have on your vegetables (that you didn't realise were there) .... it's kind of the OPPOSITE of dehydration - more total total liquefaction. Ewwwwwwwwwwww.
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ReplyDeleteMy sister once told me about a friend of hers who just NEVER unpacked her grocery shopping and once she had bought a whole heap of meat on special and just left it in the kitchen all night....in the middle of summer.... :P
My banana is pretty tame by comparison! heh heh
Years ago we were at the foodcourt at Chaddie and one of the shops had a chocolate wheel thing you could spin if you bought food. My sister won a carrot and she kept it for years. Literally. It went black and kept shrinking but it was like 5 years old!!!!
ReplyDeleteI have had a few slimy carrots in my time, where they started going black at the bottom! Eww! I think that was when I wasn't cooking at home very much! heh heh
ReplyDeletehahahahahaha oh my - that is the sadest little banana I have ever seen!!!
ReplyDeleteSo, so random but amusing.
ReplyDeleteDid you shamefully throw it away immediately or did you share with any of your coworkers?!
CJ, I did show it to my colleagues :) They did their best not to appear horrified!!
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