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20-Year-Old Dies From 'Fried Rice Syndrome' After Eating Leftover Pasta (www.iheart.com)

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The bacteria is best known for causing a type of food poisoning called "Fried Rice Syndrome," since rice is sometimes cooked and left to cool at room temperature for a few hours. During that time, the bacteria can contaminate it and grow. B. cereus is especially dangerous because it produces a toxin in rice and other starchy foods that is heat resistant and may not die when the food it infects is cooked.

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Unfortunately, that was the case for a 20-year-old student, who passed away after eating five-day-old pasta.

His story was described in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology a few years back, but has since resurfaced due to some YouTube videos and Reddit posts. According to article, every Sunday the student would make his meals for the entire week so he wouldn't need to deal with making it on the weekdays. One Sunday, he cooked up some spaghetti, then put it in Tupperware containers so that days later, he could just add some sauce to it, reheat it and enjoy it.

However, he didn't store the pasta in the fridge, rather he left it out on the counter. After five days of the food sitting out at room temperature, he heated some up and ate it. While he noticed an odd taste to the food, he figured it was just due to the new tomato sauce he added to it.

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[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Honestly 5 days out on the counter was asking for trouble - that long is tempting fate even when stored properly in the fridge

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah, cooked pasta? Two days tops, and I personally wouldn’t touch it after one. And why not refrigerate it? Did they not own one, because I can’t see any other logical explanation to not do this.

[–] DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Two days on pasta? I give 5-7 in the fridge, and six months if I freeze it. Maybe a little less if its a dairy based sauce like alfredo

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago

Yeah, like I said, tops. I wouldn't eat it personally, but I don’t think you’ll die.

[–] JordanZ@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

From just the post I was going to say college student with a crappy mini fridge that couldn’t possibly hold a weeks worth of meals. The article had more info and said his parents found him after he didn’t get up for class though. So seems like he was still living at home. No reason to not refrigerate it and how did his parents not notice what he was doing? Seems like somebody around should have had more common sense than this.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Huh, i always thought that pasta and rice are some of the safer things to store a week in the fridge.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago

I mean there's caution and there's what is fine to do normally. I've noticed that especially online people heavily lean towards caution, some don't even reheat rise because dangerous.

I think something like five days is fine and just be sensible about it, look, smell, if seems good, taste, if good, should be just fine.

Dumbasses who just leave pasta in room temperature for five days and then eat it are what scare people in being really cautious and the reason some stricter recommendations are made.