I really need to stop eating things that I know are just not...good anymore. I'm not picky about the expiration date on my food. I know some people that will throw away milk on it's expiration date, no matter if it's still okay or not. I will drink it until it doesn't pass the smell test. And even then, even if it doesn't smell quite "right" I'll still pour it on my cereal until it tastes bad.

I tried the same thing with butter today. I'm big on the English muffins for my mid-morning snack, and I keep a small Tupperware bowl of butter in my desk drawer for that purpose. Butter keeps for a long time a room temperature, but obviously not that long. This morning when I toasted my muffin, I scraped out the mold (just because there's mold on the outside doesn't necessarily mean the inside's gone bad), and spread the rest on my muffin.

Gross. I managed two bites before I had to throw the ruined muffin in the trash. Bad butter is really bad. What can I say? I am my father's daughter.