Thank the mold for saving your life, could have had botulism too
Comments saying contact the manufacturer, the state health services…
Or chill, remove the mold, smell, taste, if everything seems good eat it. Inform the store.I’ve googled it just to be sure, and it’s safe.
*not a doctor
Actually this can be risky. Mold might be cut from hard foods because it usually doesn’t penetrate too deep, if not too overgrown. Soft foods tend to have “tendrils” all over that are often not visible to the naked eye.
That’s what you get with berries concentrate (a supply-chain thing) and sugar.
But not so with self-made jam. Mold hates acidic environments. The jam rather dries out than getting moldy.
The lice hate the powdered sugar.
Not true. My mom’s jams get moldy all the time. Maybe not all jams are acidic enough.
My moms jams do get moldy though.
What jam is it? My dad is a farmer and mom makes all kinds of jam, never saw mold there the last 30 years.
All sorts really. She’s a farmer also. She gives me a lot and I tend to forget them in the fridge. I can tell you plum jam has mold.
She adds little sugar, maybe that’s a reason.
Maybe your dad properly sterilizes his jars.
I know she pasteurizes some foods and sterilizes others, don’t know which for jams
If unopened before this is a sterilisation issue. If opened before, it may be because of dew water from chilling
I was told by a food research lab you could scoop off the top layer (oxygenated) and consume the rest of jams and sauces.
I’m not sure I believe them. They were growing large quantities of insects in a smelly, dank room for protein.
This is true, but I wouldn’t do it when the jam is very liquid. And if your jam starts to mold fast, it means it doesn’t contain extra chemicals to keep it good as well as much less sugar. So it’s better if it molds faster. Just keep it in the fridge and eat it fast. Many store bought factory jams can stay good for over a year after being opened. Imagine what it takes to keep it from molding.
No chemicals are necessary, home made jam can last for ages too. More sugar is better, for the jam, as a preservative. Not for oneself but like just eat less jam
So you’re saying you like jam without any chemicals?
Is your favourite flavour vacuum, neutron star, or black hole?
I make figs jam without sugar. It’s much healthier but won’t last that long. Tastes amazing!
I’ve done this with jam without issues for may years, my parents taught me. It’s fine.
Unless it’s really old, just return it.
I just got it yesterday, so I’ll try.
With that untouched surface, you might be able to get a replacement if you still have the receipt. Depends on the store and if you’re polite about it. (You could probably do it by being rude, but I’d hate you.)
Just adding that I’m a current large supermarket employee, and customers who treat us like human beings are so incredibly rare that, when I come across one, I will go up against the gods themselves to get you what you want.
Damn, average person is pretty shit.
You could probably get a replacement even if the jar is completely empty. I used to work customer service in a grocery store. One time a guy returned an empty wine bottle. I gave him a full refund. Why? Because the company steals from their employees every single day. I’m just evening the playing field a bit. Just don’t be an asshole, and you’ll probably get what you want.
Yup yup yup. Former service employee. You yell in my face and complain to my boss, I’ll give you the bare minimum of what you’ll consider as “what you want” for you to shut the hell up. Come up and level with me, treat me like a person that you are asking for help, I’m gonna do literally everything I can to get you what you’re asking for and more.
Hmm, i dunno, when people start yelling at me suddenly everything techy stops functioning oddly. Its not my fault the conputer mysteriously rebooted. I also cant be blamed that the wifi is down, so we only accept cash. But also I cant accept $100 bills. Also in order to accept any denomination above a 5 i have to use a counterfeit pen. Oh no! Our pen is gone, oof. Oh dang, you dont have 75$ in ones? Thats a real shame, mate. Also due to an issue with our security system were closing early today, in about 30 seconds.
Someone called in to corporate to falsely complain about me, so the next time they came in i told them they were banned. They complained to corporate about that too, so when corporate came to check on us. They proceeded to offer us a free rug cleaning service, but other than that had nothing to say. Im not sure if its just my current job or what, but I have a startling amount of power to completely shut down peoples ability to utilize my store. So be nice to workers, you never know how difficult they can make things for you. Also yknow just dont be a dick
I went to Tesco (a large (perhaps too large ((brackets)) grocery retailer in the UK) a while back with some raspberries that hadn’t even lasted until I got home before going mouldy.
Literally, all I wanted to do was show the customer service desk lass the issue, show them my receipt, get a replacement, and fuck off to make the interaction as easy as possible for them.
An honest appraisal of what the problem was; some witty banter; and a general understanding of the “don’t be a dickhead” principle to frontline staff meant that she kept hold of me for ten minutes, noted down details and times and whatnot, and it ended up with a £10 apology gift card in the post - which in turn purchased a rather nice bottle of wine.
Where I’m going with this: I cannot fathom how people cannot be polite about issues like this. I’ve never understood how being a wanker to someone whose job it is to sort issues out somehow nets you a better end result. Perhaps the best advice I’m going to give my kids is to spend six months or a year of their teenage starts to their careers in an inbound call centre in a field they’re interested in - yes the job can grind you down and yes the pay sucks, but the basic life skills and soft people skills it teaches you is fucking invaluable.
tl;dr: solid advice, ask nicely, don’t be a twat, and you’ll probably end up with a net result better than you started.
“Ask nicely and don’t be a twat” sounds like an awesome t-shirt.
I’ve never understood how being a wanker to someone whose job it is to sort issues out somehow nets you a better end result.
I saw a guy yell at an airport employee who kept telling him that she couldn’t legally let him on the plane because the cabin door was already shut. He kept at it until a supervisor showed up, contacted the pilot, and let him in. I get where the guy was coming from (because he loudly proclaimed that he was missing a connecting flight through no fault of his own) but it was still weird to see him get something by being angry which he probably couldn’t have gotten by being nice.
I’m unlucky enough to be in junior management… and that sounds to me like the manager or supervisor has the breaking strength of a melted fucking KitKat.
Sure, they’ve made a problem go away, but they’ve emboldened the arsehole to pull this stunt in the future, and it has done untold damage to the self esteem and mental health of the poor airport spud who was doing their job just fine.
From a personal perspective: if I was a passenger on that plane and we were delayed because some arsepiece threw a hissy fit at the gate, I’d be fuming that the airline caved too.
It’s gash. Fuck that guy, but fuck that supervisor too. They literally had the grounds to fuck that guy right off and enjoy every second of it, but they buckled and became part of the problem.
I’m most surprised an airport allowed that behavior!
He could have politely asked for the supervisor to start vs being a belligerent asshole until one showed up. Alternate take though, if he was nice and asked for a supervisor to start and the person told him no and they wouldn’t get a supervisor - well that’s when you have to actually be the asshole and make enough of a scene one shows up.
That’s like … Very unlikely though, most people will get you their higher up person if it’s necessary to help and you’re being nice.
I hate when you have to be the jerk to get what you need but sometimes you just have to.
Yeah 100%
I bought chicken salad, ate some, and realized that there was no chicken in it and returned it.
“Your chicken salad is just ‘salad’.”
They apologized and refunded it.
My partner got a chicken salad from a local co-op we love, but into a chicken piece, and it was pink and shiny on the inside. They brought it back and showed a clerk who was MORTIFIED. My partner wasn’t mad or anything, just a little worried about getting sick (which didn’t happen, thankfully!) and the co-op immediately took all of their chicken salad packs and threw them away. We didn’t even ask for a refund but we got a refund anyway.
Sounds like they know how to keep customers. Seeing that would make me trust them a lot more
Or avoid lawsuits.
Call the manufacturer – if it’s commercially produced, there’s usually a number on the jar somewhere. I’ve done that when I bought cereal that had a badly sealed bag inside and got sent coupons worth more than the cost of the item for taking the trouble to report it.
Normally I wouldn’t bother on something that is pretty cheap, but if one failed to seal, they really need to sample the batch and see if a recall is necessary. Botulism is no joke.
I got one of those once, I contacted the grocery and manufacturer with the receipt. Grocery store promptly replaced it, while the manufacturer sent me a box full of random goodies and an apology letter
My grandfather complained to a company about broken pretzels in his pretzel bag and they sent him a case of pretzels and not one was broken.
Some stores will even double your money back.
If its in date you should probably report it to health and safety.
It was bought yesterday, and the jar was fully sealed.
ya I’d definitely report it to your local health authority. I’m not sure how it works at all but as I mentioned in another comment they can ID what it is and follow up (eg is this a one-off or is there a whole batch that is contaminated?).
Do you happen to have the forms required?
no but they can ID what it is, investigate the root cause and monitor this sort of thing.
a wave hit the ship
Extra protein.
Extra protein.
That’s disgusting.
You should always scrape the visible part off, and keep going until there are no more visible spots. Try not to skim too much of course.
You’ll still get all the extra protein from the mycelia but without the green fruiting bodies. 🤮
Did you test the button on the lid before opening? I’d wager it was not properly sealed.
It was properly sealed. The button was down, and it made the satisfying pop when I opened it.
any sign that was opened before?
No. The little button thing was down.
well there’s the mold
Yeah, that’s not very typical. I’d like to make that point.
the lid fell off
Is that unusual?
Well, I was thinking more about the other ones.
there’s a minimum crew requirement
Oh, one, I suppose.
good point.
Might have had one of those pop up buttons to show the seal is broken. Ideally a stocker would see it, or the customer when selecting it, but I wonder how many people look that closely.
I do, also every person I know. It always pop loudly when you open it.
Please stop opening people to hear them pop.
But I just can’t stop.
You must be a pop star!
they are my soda pop or something
🎶 My little soda pop!
Scoop it out and go on with your day. I’d only toss it if it tastes or smells funky, even a bit. Just tossed a jar of salsa after skimming spots of mold off the top for months, exactly as yours. Not because it was unsafe to eat, it just sucked as salsa and I felt it was getting more and more untrustworthy. Jam is going to be somewhat like honey, too much sugar for anything bad to get a deep hold.
Anyway, none y’all are going to survive another worldwide depression. “Er mer gerd! THROW IT!” Your great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents are laughing at you. I’ll be in the woods out back, eating live minnows and fighting the deer over acorns.
This is the most sane answer, why does it have 50% downvotes??
People can’t figure risk any longer. It’s a big world! We can’t fault anyone for not understanding it.
I grew up with home made jam from my Nan when she was still here, & then my mum. Mould on the top of a jar of jam that had already been open a while was fairly common back then. You’d just scoop it off & go about your day.
However this is shop bought jam, & as long as it was recently purchased, or even if it was sealed & within date but not recently purchased I’d still complain to the shop or manufacturer, as I’d expect better from commercially made produce.
Yes! I might complain and return it, but it’s not the death hazard these comments make it out to be. :)
I’ll add on that with some more info:
Milt does not really like sugar. Not as a medium to grow in. So, anything high sugar you can, in fact just scoop it out. But, be aware, the mycelium of molt is toxic. So, anything where molt can grow through, like bread or a European Salsa (we don’t have that much sugar in them) throw it out . And if it grows back: THROW IT OUT.
I’m learning! Define “milt”. New one on me.
depending on the gelatin used that could make you go blind, lose your hearing, and then kill you.
I could step out to check my mailbox and get smeared by an inattentive driver. In all seriousness, I’m more afraid of slipping in my shower and breaking my neck. Instant death or living out my life having a nurse dig shit out of my ass? (My niece did that for a living.) Not too worried about a little mold in my jam.
Some y’all’s “risk vs. reward” mechanisms are utterly broken. Can’t blame ya! We didn’t evolve to calculate risk in the modern world.
tl;dr: Take risks. Life is not worth living in fear, not worth calculating infinitesimal odds.
risk: go blind or death
reward: eat…store bought jam on burnt toast…
not sure if we have the fucked up risk vs reward here champ.
it’s all fun and games for some people until you go fucking blind permanently.
Risk: .0001% chance a bad thing happens.
We’re not talking about your cousin’s sketchy moonshine here.
Are you afraid to get out of bed? Falling 2.5’ imparts more energy to your body than getting shot with a .45ACP bullet.
Seriously, how does one navigate the world calculating every bad thing that could occur? Scooping a speck of mold out of my jam doesn’t move the needle on my risk meter. I cannot live in a “zero risk” world.
Walked a 2-mile round trip to the store today, orders of magnitude more risky than flicking a bit of mold out my jam. And BTW, I have “emphysema light”, doctor’s words. I’m not exactly a tough guy.
How will you react when faced with real risk? I’ve saved my own life twice, arguably three times. Will you curl into a ball? “NOAWW! The jam might blind me!”
Having some science education, I choose not to live in fear.
what is it with you people. you make figures up in your head and spit them out like facts.
you are so sure of yourselves that you’re willing to take a risk for a pointless reward.
I bet you’re the kind of guy with tattoos all up and down your greasy arms to show how “tuff” you are. you probably drive a shitty dodge ram with a hemi in it and “roll coal on the libtards” with truck nuts on it.
I’m almost positive you refused to wear a mask during covid just because you “ain’t scared of no covid”.
I have risked my life jellyroll. I didn’t risk my life for something stupid or for myself. I risked my life to save my family in a house fire. I risked my life to pull a person out of a burning car. I risked my life to stop a shit ass pitbull from attacking some kid.
that’s what a reward is you walnut. a risk taken that is equal to the reward.
go act tough somewhere else while you suck down methanol you moldy jelly bitch.
