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"Felice" > wrote:

> "Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
> ...
> >I bought a one-pound can of crab meat at TJ on Thursday. On the side it
> > said "Do not freeze." What'll happen if, say, hypothetically kind of,
> > maybe put it outside where it's, uh, colder than, say, your average
> > somebody's deep freeze and maybe somebody could hear it sounding kind
> > of, you know, "slushy" in the can? If somebody eats it, are they doomed
> > to die? What if it's warmed up some so it's not, uh, slushy-sounding
> > but more like it's supposed to sound -- kind of liquidy-like?
> >
> > Is there a reason for the admonition to not freeze it other than
> > expansion of the liquid and the likelihood of making the can bulge?
> > Talk to me! I had a plan for that crab that didn't involve this week!

>
> No freezing. BAD! If it's canned why do you have to eat it this week?


I hope I don't. I want to know why it says "Do not freeze" and if
anything bad will happen if it, say, accidentally sort of did get sort
of frozen. Yer not readin' between the lines here, Fleece! I left the
frickin' can in the garage too long and it got kind of slushy sounding.

Or is
> it the packaged, but not canned, fresh stuff? If it's fresh, change your
> plans and eat it, fer cryin' out loud!
> Fleece


I've already got changed plans!!
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