Revolting abandoned food in your heap

[Guest Breadvan72]

I was going to say revolting food that you see in your shite, but that sounds too medicinal and a bit German.

 

What long forgotten foodstuffs have you found in your car, and where was it?

 

Yesterday I found a 97,000 year old sausage roll underneath the (boot mounted) battery of a 1981 Lotus.  I was going to take a photo of this comestible but I forgot, but at least that saves you from having to chunder your morning Shreddies up.    It had actually aged quite well, so must have been a Ginster's chemicals R us special offer.

 

Confession:  I have been known to eat vintage peanuts found under the driver's seat while groping for my dropped phone that I was using to text vendetta knob selfies to all my exes while nailing it up the M11.

[Taff]

nothing in the X yet but the MGF has a seemingly endless supply of mint imperials under the drivers seat. It's saving me a fortune, I can tell you

[purplebargeken]

Mummified chip that I couldn't find for quite some time. You could have used it as a nail.

[Andrew353w]

A milk chocolate Bounty bar, which had suffered several (many!) years of searing heat and freezing cold while concealed under some maps in the door pocket of a Peugeot 309 I bought several years ago. It was SO old it was one with the cardboard tray underneath it! 

 

I didn't eat it, but will confess here (safe zone "ON") that I opened the packet & took a look; cold molten lava was the best description I could come up with! (safe zone "OFF")

[oldcars]

When i was valeting the newly bought santa fe that the dealer had "Wet vac'd all the carpets, its like new mate" i found half a macdonalds burger down the side of the seat. Looks like it had been there a while, but still looked like a burger oddly. Must be the 100%* meat content.........

[Slappy]

10 year old Roast Chicken flavour Walkers crisp packet in a cubby hole that had passed through 2 subsequent owners and a dealer

[danthecapriman]

I found some half eaten chocolate chip cookies and crumbs down the back seat of my old Volvo 740 and some whole ones under the front seats. They'd gone very pale in colour and were rock solid, even throwing them at the ground outside the car didn't break them! No idea how old they were but looked like they'd been there some time.

[beko1987]

Not my heap but my stepdad had to swap his low mileage company car with a 100k engineers car for the last few months of the lease as engineers have a lwoer mileage limit than directors etc blah blah

 

Anyway, the swap happened and I gave it a good clean for him. It had been a family car, and behind the middle and rear seats I found:

 

Mcdonalds, hula hoops, those millions sweet things and lots of sugar

Toys

school letters

£8 in change

some undisclosed crash damage whilst I was claying and waxing it (popped most of it back together but it was mentioned officially so stepdad didnt get the bollocking, taking pics of yourself cleaning cars does have its upsides!)

and lots of tools which stepdad recognised from the standard issue kit they had. Apprently the bollocking filtered down to the ex owner accordingly.

 

4 months later when I gave it it's end of lease wash to save stepdad a bollocking for a dirty car I found even more sugar that vibrated down from somewhere. It also had a habit (60 plate derv zafira) of emptying the header tank of coolant for no apparent reason. Maybe it didnt like doing 116k in 4 years?

[UltraWomble]

A milk chocolate Bounty bar,

It was SO old it was one with the cardboard tray underneath it! 

I didnt relise they dont come with them any more.

[barefoot]

My T2 is full of food - all of it long life and ready for the inevitable zombie invasion, but I try to remember to replace it all with new every couple of years.

Apart from a couple of tinned Steak & Kidney puddings which I put in there when I first bought it back in (the year of our Lord) 1996.

I will celebrate my retirement with these in another few years.

[anonymous user]

From a few years ago, I didn't find it but my German Shepherd did; the remains of a mystery meat pie in a tin-foil tray from under the rear seat of my Discovery. I only found out about it when Lucy (the dog) was whingeing so I stopped to let her out and she threw it up at the side of the road. I think she had inhaled it as it came back up mostly still in the wrapping and foil tray.

[Ghosty]

You folks will love* Ashens:

 

[Shep Shepherd]

Ashens is brilliant! His failed toy violin review has me in stitches every time I watch it

 

I've not found any horrid food remains in any of my cars thus far, but not long after I bought The Volvo, I removed about two dozen Callard & Bowser toffee wrappers from under its driver's seat

[captain_70s]

I left a bag of Werthers Originals in the glovebox of the 1300 and then locked it away in the garage for 8 months and forgot about them, they went oddly soft...

[EssDeeWon]

There is a dried up packet of Wrigley's chewing gum in the arm rest compartment of the 75, either Wilko's or PBK's I imagine.

 

Want em back boys? Thought not.

[fordperv]

Not mine but I took the seats out of mrs fp's mums car to clean and shampoo the seats and carpet, I found old crisps with fluff on under the seat

[Uncle Jimmy]

No food in any of my vehicles but I dropped an unlit cigar in my Skoda about 2 years ago; I'm sure it's under the seat somewhere, it really bugs me.

[RayMK]

I cleared the Stellar's glovebox of the accumulated junk prior to its recent MOT.  I found two opened and largely emptied pots of ground pepper which had disappeared after buying smoked salmon sandwiches about five years ago.  Blowing the spilt pepper out of the emptied glovebox and off the various documents and boxes of points, condensers and rotor arms was not a good idea.

[Bobthebeard]

On taking ownership of a 1996 Mondeo in 2005 I found an ancient Ginsters pasty with a nibbled wrapper and a dead mouse in the rear footwell. I believe Ginsters changed the recipe for the 2006> pasty years. Not sure if that was connected.

[purplebargeken]

Probably Bens as I don't use chewie

 

Any money found is mine however. 

[Pillock]

Years ago, when I had my 1303 Beete, I went to Bug Jam and queued from about five miles away. The Ginsters folks were there giving away mini pasties to people in the queue so I grabbed a load and stashed them in the car - the only space being behind the drivers seat.

 

Slightly fewer years ago, when scrapping the car, I took the drivers seat out and found some pasties. Those of you with an aircooled mind will know that under the seat is the hottest place, it's where the heat exchangers fire straight into. Two years those had been there, getting heated and cooled every day. They looked like little furry green brains.

[motormatt]

No food but I did find a half packet of Rothmans once. I knew they were old because they didn't have all the "smoking will make your willy floppy" warnings on the box.

[motormatt]

No food but I did find a half packet of Rothmans once. I knew they were old because they didn't have all the "smoking will make your willy floppy" warnings on the box.

[Guest Breadvan72]

No food but I did find a half packet of Rothmans once. I knew they were old because they didn't have all the "smoking will make your willy floppy" warnings on the box.

 

In the olden days boxes of fags used to say on the side:  "Smoking is cool and will help you score hot chicks", as certified by HM Chief Doctor.

[Guest Breadvan72]

10 year old Roast Chicken flavour Walkers crisp packet in a cubby hole that had passed through 2 subsequent owners and a dealer

 

 

Walkers would want that for their musem and would probably give you 85p for it.