Who knew canned anchovies could go bad?!! [View all]

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It's been months since my husband and I had pizza. Since we're going out of town Friday and had used up our leftovers I decided that tonight would be a good pizza night. I had the crusts ready with sauce and cheese. I'd found a container of my husband's favorite pizza toppings in the freezer that needed to be used and got out one of the two cans of anchovies in the pantry for my pizza.

I opened the can a little and dripped the oil all over my pizza before pulling the top off completely to get the anchovies out. A little oil kind splushed out, but anchovy cans do that. The kicker was that the fish fillets did not look right - they were all shrunken and not the right color. We checked the can still in the pantry - it was bulging badly. I smelled the can - but how do you tell if anchovies have gone off?

Rather than take a chance on the anchovies being bad, I threw out my pizza and the unopened can of anchovies.

At least I had a salad for dinner and that was certainly healthier for me. But I am still craving an anchovy pizza...