I left breakfast sausage on a counter for 24 hrs

[liontamer]

Is is still safe to eat it? On one hand my windows were open so the apartment was cold on the other hand I don't want to die. What do you guys think?

[GirlinContempt]

1. hells no

don't eat that

[GirlinContempt]

6. Botulism

Most common in low acid foods canned improperly at home. The presence of these bacteria or their poisons is sometimes signaled by clear liquids turned milky, cracked jars, loose or dented lids, swollen or dented cans, or an "off" odor. Recently, botulism has also been associated with low oxygen cooked foods (i.e. foil wrapped; vacuum packaged) which have been held at room temperatures for long periods of time.
Symptoms (after eating): Onset: 4-72 hours; nervous system disturbances such as double vision, droopy eyelids, trouble speaking, swallowing, breathing. Untreated botulism can be fatal. If you or a family member have botulism symptoms, get medical help immediately. Then call health authorities.

[toey]

10. so the OP could bottle this, inject it in the forehead to reduce wrinkles

Sounds like a winner

[BigMcLargehuge]

2. throw it away

[MrScorpio]

3. Toss it

You sausage abuser, you

[Shell Beau]

4. Eeewww! Why even take the chance? Throw it away!

[Maddy McCall]

5. That is just gross.

But, yeah, go ahead and eat it. :puke:

[Richardo]

7. Crucial question: uncooked or cooked?

If 1) throw out, if 2) re-nuke and eat.

:9 Mmmmmmm 24-hour-kitchen-counter-sausage.....

[Midlodemocrat]

8. When in doubt, throw it out.

An adage to live by.

[DS1]

9. If it was already cooked, I'd just nuke the ever living shit out of it

and slather it in mustard. But then, I'm poor, and I'm not as quick to throw food out as some others.

[GirlinContempt]

11. I'm poor too, but the way I look at it

I could throw out $5 worth of meat, or I could get food poisoning and miss $100 worth of wages

[atomic-fly]

12. Toss that sausage...make a dog happy!

[dr.strangelove]

13. I would not touch it

If there was pork or beef in it, it is probably bad. If it was a veggie sausage, you are probably okay. Be careful.

[Magrittes Pipe]

14. Have you ever gone to eat a pork sausage...

...and found it's got hairs growing all over it?

[Loonman]

15. Put it in your underwear

For safekeeping.

[tatertop]

17. that would make a fun and festive Christmas gift

[Kenroy]

16. I'll give you

a dollar to eat it.

[skygazer]

18. Toss it

It almost certainly wasn't cold enough. Beleive me, it's cheaper to buy more breakfast sausage than to go through the agony of food poisoning.

[Lisa]

19. I made that mistake with a carton of milk, last month

I thought that boiling it and adding cocoa would be okay, but I was wrong. I was quite ill afterwards, and ended up spending a few hours at the hospital, very late that night, as a precaution.

Throw away the sausages -- it's not worth the potential hassle. (I used to have a pet turkey vulture, and that's the only creature I would feed them to, since they're used to bad meat!)

Even if the sausages were cooked, I don't think they'd be safe (and nuking/cooking them again wouldn't guarantee you would be okay -- microwaves can "miss spots"). In the past, I have eaten re-cooked chicken stew, etc., that had been left out overnight ... and didn't suffer ill effects (just so you know I have "been there" in terms of being low on funds and am not an overly-cautious person). But I was damned lucky. Won't do it again, knowing what I know now.