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LOL, I throw my meat (wrapped) on the hood of the pickup and let it cook in the summer sun for a couple of hours. Always astonishes me at what people deem unsafe. Some y'all would starve to death within 2-weeks if teleported to the middle ages.
My wife wraps the dinner leftovers, leaves it on the table, we eat it for lunch, or sometimes dinner the next day. And here come the rebuttals:
YOU WILL DIE!
We haven't had a single tummy ache.
YOU WILL DIE!
Lived like this our whole lives, into middle age. No tummy aches.
YOU WILL DIE EVENTUALLY!
Got me there.
Most of y'all would be horrified at how we lived Hurricane Ivan. Buddy brought a 5g bucket of meat over. No electricity, no refrigeration. We cooked everything to hell and back, ate the seafood that evening, munched on the beef and chicken for 3 days after.
I suspect everyone took a health or food prep class and decided any meat left under 140°F for X minutes instantly and magically turns to poison. Now I'm going to go all anti-vaxer: I hAve aN ImmUnE SySTem!
Yeah, the health and safety standards are for a commercial kitchen, and are wildly conservative. I'd follow those standards if I was serving food for someone else. But, I'd also take the "expired" leftovers home and eat for a few more days.
The people who throw away leftovers after a day or two (or refuse to eat leftovers) are insane. They’re the same ones who won’t drink a bottle of water after its “expiration date”. Smell the thing. If it’s gross, get rid of it. Otherwise, it’s fine. I mean damn, people.
The bottled water expiration date is not exactly because the water will go bad, instead it's the bottle itself. After some time, the plastic starts to break down and leech into the water. Storing the bottles somewhere cool and dark will slow that process down though.
That being said, if the seal isn't broken, it's not going to make you sick even if it's well past the expiration date.
To be fair, we don't really know the health hazards of microplastics yet, so I wouldn't want to become a case study in extreme exposure...
Old bottled water also tastes terrible, so I wouldn't drink it even if I were going to deny any danger. lol