My dad bought canned frozen lobster and left it in the fridge for a week or longer. The instructions said keep frozen, thaw in fridge, consume within 2 days of thawing. Since it’d been in the fridge for over a week, I threw it out. My dad is upset with me and says it would’ve been fine.
edit: I think I got the timeline wrong, I think it was in the fridge for around 6 days
Nah I would’ve thrown it out too, I don’t mess around with food warnings especially when it comes to canned and raw foods
Info: are you a child living at home? Or an adult visiting your parents house?
And are your father in general able to take care of himself or is he old, and needs help?
YTA. Those are suggestions. Your dad could have opened and determined if it had gone bad. If you didn’t trust it then you could have just not eaten it.
It’s a flow chart
Is it yours/did you pay for it?
If no, did you ask to throw it away?
If no
YTA
YTA… Are you trying to be helpful by cleaning up the fridge, or just playing food police and throwing away expired food as some kind of annoying superhero to protect your dad?
Unless it was starting to smell or otherwise affect you, it’s not really your job to enforce food safety issues for your dad.
You can always just check if there’s something unusual. It kinda sounds like this was unopened, in which case you definitely should have given your dad a chance to open it and see for himself.
Soft YTA, next time ask. If the food isn’t yours you have to ask, even id you think you know the answer.
YTA. Not your food, not your right to throw it away without confirming.
You should at the very least offer to replace it.
Why would canned lobster need to be frozen? Or why would frozen lobster be sealed in a can? I don’t understand. Is this a real thing?
Thank you for asking. I had the same questions. I thought that frozen cans explode in the freezer.
I understand the concept of canning lobster – but not freezing said canned lobster.
Just verified it is a real product. Sogel is a popular brand. Why I couldn’t answer. The price seems pretty steep compared to just frozen lobster.
was thinking the same thing, but apparently frozen canned lobster does exist. [https://www.reddit.com/r/lobster/comments/1ldkyv2/why\_is\_canned\_lobster\_meat\_sold\_frozen/](https://www.reddit.com/r/lobster/comments/1ldkyv2/why_is_canned_lobster_meat_sold_frozen/)
Soft YTA. I understand your concern about the food, but your dad bought it. You could have asked him first and brought up the storage instructions before throwing it out. This would’ve been different if the food was very obviously rotten, but at the end of the day he might not have been upset if you communicated with him first.
You don’t get to make decisions for other people unless they’re incapacitated mentally or physically. YTA. Replace it.