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A LOOK AT STORAGE SIBERIA JOIN US A CHILLING TOUR.


The Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph's solicitation asking readers to submit their most disgusting fridge or freezer leftovers netted the following:

Melba Robinson submitted a fish that her daughter caught in 1965.

It was slightly eaten by her cat, dried, shriveled shriv·el  
intr. & tr.v. shriv·eled or shriv·elled, shriv·el·ing or shriv·el·ling, shriv·els
1. To become or make shrunken and wrinkled, often by drying:
, eyeless and toothless. The microscopic analysis by Jim Mattoon, director of the biotechnology center at the University of Colorado University of Colorado may refer to:
  • University of Colorado at Boulder (flagship campus)
  • University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
  • University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center
  • University of Colorado system
 at Colorado Springs, found it covered with a bunch of bacteria, most of the coccus coccus

Spherical bacterium. Many species have characteristic arrangements that are useful in identification. Pairs of cocci are called diplococci; rows or chains, streptococci (see streptococcus); grapelike clusters, staphylococci (see
 type. He also found that it stank up the lab.

Suzie Hubbs submitted ancient sourdough starter that had turned brown and bubbly. It was covered with mold that turned white and glistened in a petri dish.

Richard Behl submitted an old stew covered with green slime. A microscopic analysis found yeast, mold and multiple forms of bacteria, round spores, flakes of mycelial mat and a large capsular cap·su·lar  
adj.
Of, relating to, or resembling a capsule.

Adj. 1. capsular - resembling a capsule; "the capsular ligament is a sac surrounding the articular cavity of a freely movable joint and attached to the bones"
 mass.

The lucky readers won Rubbermaid storage containers.
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Title Annotation:L.A. LIFE
Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Jan 17, 1996
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