Month-Old Leftovers Of Doubtful Edibility Placed Back In Fridge

He will, in fact, not eat the pasty, and it will eventually grow mold, giving him no choice but to bin it.

Majdal Shams, August 1 – A foil-wrapped piece of meat-filled flake-dough returned Monday to the place it has occupied for the last five weeks between the egg cartons and the left-side wall of the middle shelf, following an inspection that revealed the item not to smell or have any visible mold growing on it, but not what the person inspecting it wants right now or, in all honesty, expects to want again, but the lack of decay fails to justify its disposal, a ritual that has occurred several times since June and that observers expect to recur at least twice until the food attains a convincing state of rot, at which point it will move to the trash or be set outside for the stray cats.

Khalad Mansour, 50, told reporters that he put the homemade pasty back into the fridge this evening because while dinner was not quite sufficient to sate him, the chopped-meat-with-fried-onions dish has sat untouched for too long to remain appetizing. Nevertheless, he confessed, he cannot in good conscience throw it away because that would be a waste of perfectly good food, and don’t you know there are hungry people in the world?

“Fana made some good majadra,” he recalled, referring to his wife’s rice-and-lentil concoction. “That girl can cook. I’m not even a fan of lentils, and I ate every last bit. But I didn’t have lunch today. I need a little more food. The pasty looks fine. It’s just not doing it for me right now. Or last week under similar circumstances, or the week before. I prepared the onions and meat weeks ago. Had them with some hummus, and put the rest of it in some flake dough. It was delicious fresh out of the oven. I figured I could take some to work the next day, but forgot. It sat there for a week or two until I considered having some again, but didn’t really feel like it. And here we are.” Mansour either neglected or refuse to acknowledge out loud that he will, in fact, not eat the pasty, and it will eventually grow mold, giving him no choice but to bin it.

Related episodes took place over the last two years in Mansour’s refrigerator with numerous leftover dishes, including beef stew, shawarma, pasta with tomato-cream sauce, salmon teriyaki, olive pizza, lasagna, spaghetti Bolognese, French onion soup, and, on six occasions, a deli sandwich.

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