I cleaned out the fridge and tossed my roommate’s marinade
Editors' DilemmaOctober 28, 2026· Be the first to vote
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My side
In our apartment, nobody cleans the fridge. So I do it, every Sunday night. My rule is simple: anything sitting there without a lid or a label goes in the trash. That Sunday, I found a bowl full of chicken in a mystery sauce, with nothing on it. I threw it out. It was my roommate’s marinade: he’d been making his grandma’s recipe for two days for a dinner with friends. He was crushed. He says I should have asked. I think a bowl with no lid and no label is an abandoned bowl.
Their side
My roommate explains that his grandma’s recipe needs to marinate for forty-eight hours, and that he’d told everyone in the roommates’ group chat. According to him, I made up my lid rule on my own, and nobody ever agreed to it. He thinks whoever cleans out the fridge should at least send a text before throwing away an entire dish.
So, who's wrong?
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