The story of pork chops that were doomed from the beginning

Tonight I finally got around to making the pork chops I was suppose to make the other day for dinner. Instead of running to the store to purchase the chipotle peppers that I forgot John convinced me to use this this asian BBQ sauce that he said his family use to use all the time growing up.

I have never saw this previous to moving in with John nor have I ever had it before. But since I didn't have the ingredients to make the asian or the maple chipotle pork chops this will have to be the next best thing or so I thought....

So let me rewind the story a little starting on Saturday when we were at the Meat House picking up meat for dinner this week. We purchased chicken, steak and these pork chops, walking out to the car John noticed a little bit of a funky smell coming from the pork chops but we continued on to Trader Joe's. When we got back in the car the pork chops were just plain rank! Awful, like rotten eggs. So we drove back and asked them to exchange them for new ones which they gladly did and threw in an extra.

Fast forward again to tonight, I pull out the pork chops and they still smelled fine so then came the BBQ sauce. At first I couldn't open the lid, I ran it under hot water no luck, I hit it up side down on the floor still no luck, under hot water again nope! When I finally got the lid off I had the jar tipped and there went the sauce all over the kitchen towel, the counter and me (I almost turned in the towel at this point). As I was spreading the sauce over the pork chops I noticed that the sauce had formed a congealed ball in the middle of the jar. That's weird I thought but hey I never used this before so maybe it was suppose to be like that? Into the oven they went at 350.

yup asparagus again, this will change when we get our CSA

They finished cooking and we sat down to eat and John decided he wanted a little more sauce for his rice, so he opens the jar and he too notices the congealed ball in the middle.
He's says "Michele did you use this sauce on the pork chops". I gave him the look like do I even need to reply to this? (obviously look a the color of this sauce it's not a natural color) He then proceeds to tell me to look at the date on the jar, first glance I think oh it's not that expired. Then he tells me to look again at the year.

Yup, that's 2010 your reading in case your forgetting it is now 2012. 2 years!! Looking at the ingredients it only contains fermented soybean and fructose syrup so it couldn't be that bad right?

I learned an important lesson tonight never use jars of things John had laying around or at least look at the expiration date!

Update: we never got sick from this thank god!