This walked out from under my couch. I think it may be alive. Beware folks. It starts off innocently enough at first - a waffle left lying on the bookshelf, fries on the floor of your car, a rotten banana peel in a sock drawer, a slice of pizza in your son's safe, a moldy sandwich in your son's bed, spoiled chocolate milk in that same son's backpack. But soon you start finding stuff under the couch, on the ceiling fan, hiding in your bed, sleeping in the washing machine, marching across the tv. In no time your house is invaded with moldy, rotten food.
Any guesses as to it is was? The first person to guess correctly will win two Anita Renfroe DVDs: It's Probably Just my Thyroid, and William Tell Momisms, compliments of Luvs. I'll announce the winner on Thursday, September 4th.
I'm guessing partially eaten plum with pit intact.
ReplyDeleteThat is a tough one! I've never looked at moldy food so close in my life. I really have no idea but since it has pink parts I'm going to go with a piece of watermelon.
ReplyDeleteI can't even fathom what that was in it's previous life. Ick! My son found an old sippy cup yesterday and was drinking the "contents". The black strongly resembles this thing here.
ReplyDeleteMy guess is a grape. I want to say raisin, but I'm guessing it entered your house as a grape.
ReplyDeleteI believe it is a piece of steak.
ReplyDeleteTotally a strawberry or fruit core.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to guess a peach or something similar, barely eaten so there's a lot left to get moldy.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise, I'd have said dracula's heart was left under the couch too long.
It's a strawberry!
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing either a peach or plum pit
ReplyDeleteI think it's a raisin. Well...it was a raisin!
ReplyDeleteLooks like a strawberry, I hope. Jennifer
ReplyDeleteA wad of bubble gum. I think my collection of chewing gum looked like that when I was a child : )
ReplyDeleteMy guess is a strawberry!
ReplyDeleteis it a pepper?
ReplyDeleteA strawberry?
ReplyDeleteStrawberry maybe? Its gross whatever it is! LOL! Did it grow legs yet?
ReplyDeleteIs it smaller than a breadbox? Is that a mouth? It is so hard when you don't know what size it is. It could be a grape or a prune.
ReplyDeleteFound my way here by way of Rick, who left a comment on my blog. Not sure where Rick comes from but I will be checking out his blog more since finding stuff like this through him. Love your blog so far!
It's a strawberry! Right!?!
ReplyDeleteA moldy strawberry? At first glance it looked like a dog bone, but I think a strawberry?
ReplyDeleteCristina
It's a strawberry!!
ReplyDeleteI'm going to guess that it was a strawberry.
ReplyDeleteA jelly donut?
ReplyDeletea scary object formerly known as a plum??
ReplyDeleteIt looks like some kind of fruit not sure what kind.Was thinkin a strawberry but that might look too big.but i could be wrong it looks like alot of different things that i can not think of the name.. Colleen C
ReplyDeleteEEEEW! Is it a strawberry????
ReplyDeleteKelly T. from Justin
It's a strawberry?? With a bite out of it? (Hopefully when it was fresh, not walking on it's own!).
ReplyDeleteA delicious piece of gum!
ReplyDeleteLooks like a molded strawberry to me:)
ReplyDeleteStrawberry!
ReplyDeleteI am going to guess a p-nut butter and jelly sandwich???? (becasue of the red color). Even if it is not right...I was the first to guess
ReplyDeleteStrawberry?
ReplyDeleteBTW, whatever it is - it looks disgusting. I'm so sorry you had to find that.
A strawberry?
ReplyDeletePart of a donut?....
ReplyDeleteIs it a strawberry?
ReplyDeleteIs it a piece of hotdog?
ReplyDeleteBTW I love your blog!
I say it looks like a strawberry...
ReplyDeleteIt just had to be a yummy, juicy strawberry!
ReplyDeleteThat looks really disgusting!! I think it may be a strawberry. Can't wait to find out what it is.
ReplyDeleteIT'S AN ORANGE!
ReplyDeletesteak
ReplyDeleteIt's a strawberry!
ReplyDeleteIt looks like a plum.
ReplyDeleteI think it's a Peach Pit
ReplyDeleteThat looks like a rotten strawberry to me...
ReplyDeleteA moldy strawberry?
ReplyDeleteit's a strawberry!
ReplyDeletestrawberry?
ReplyDeleteEwww....that is so gross. I am going to say a strawberry?
ReplyDeleteJacqui F.
I'm afraid to ask... It looks like a dead bird...
ReplyDeleteFirst off I love these! My mom used to find the yuckest stuff in my brothers bags lol.... so far my kids have no left me any surprises! I am guessing a Hot Dog...
ReplyDeletelooks like a strawberry
ReplyDeleteGrant's Mommy
I am going to guess a strawberry!!!!!
ReplyDeleteNow I must go and lose my lunch!
I believe that this is or was a strawberry! Thanks for all the wonderful stories...you make me smile and appreciate having only 2 rug rats!
ReplyDeleteThat certainly is a scary sight! I'd have to guess a blob of chewing gum (Bubble Yum?) or perhaps a chewed-but-not-swallowed glob of Fruit Rollup.
ReplyDeleteBelieve it or not, my HUSBAND is a bigger culprit than my children at abandoning food.
This looks oddly familiar. I'm going to guess that it is a peice of watermelon the innocent children of your life have left for you to discover as their latest scientific experiment.
ReplyDeleteIs it, I mean, was it at one time a strawberry?
ReplyDeleteIt looks like it was red at one time. I will guess a dog treat. It kinda looks like meat.
ReplyDeleteI was just cleaning under my couch this morning too! First day of school and all... you know. Part of a mom wants to just go through the whole house and just start cleansing it of everything (that is, if they are all off to school).
Naw, I'll just clean when I have to. It's better that a mom knows just enough, but not too much!
Is it a moldy, rotting strawberry?
ReplyDeleteKaren B.
It looks like a massive moldy strawberry to me...EWW!!
ReplyDeleteMy guess is that it is part of a piece of chicken.
ReplyDeleteI can tell you that if you enlarge this to be the size of the screen it is VERY GROSS!!!!
I wouldn't have dared touch that thing to figure out what it was, but by chance, a hotdog?
ReplyDeleteMy first thought was a strawberry.
ReplyDeleteI'm going with a strawberry with a bite taken out.
ReplyDeleteOMG that is so disgusting, I'm so glad this is happening to you before it happens to me, it's a reminder for me to clean under the beds and couches more often!! :)
ReplyDeleteOk, so my husband thinks it's some kind of meat, my first thought was fruit, strawberry perhaps. But as he said, fruit would have more grey fuzz on it. So we're going with meat! COngrats to the winner!
It's a strawberry!
ReplyDeleteStrawberry? :)
ReplyDeleteMy guess is a raspberry!
ReplyDeleteHot dog?
ReplyDeletestrawberry?
ReplyDeleteI don't want to look at that nasty thing long enough to guess!
ReplyDeleteIt looks like a strawberry.
ReplyDeleteA partially eaten plum? That would be my guess, but I can't look at it for very long, it burns my eyes.
ReplyDeleteA strawberry.
ReplyDeleteEww! LOL A strawberry?
ReplyDeleteA strawberry?
ReplyDeleteBecky
Something out of my oldest son's bedroom...but since you are not his mom, I'll guess a bell pepper...
ReplyDeleteCould it be a very nasty piece of hotdog?
ReplyDeleteit's a turd.
ReplyDeleteIt's a strawberry.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like a strawberry to me.
ReplyDeleteyuck-o-rama!! Man, that is nasty! I'm going to say that it is an extremely moldy strawberry. bleh!!
ReplyDeleteCome on over to my blog! I'm having a giveaway too. No nasty moldy stuff to look at though, sorry.
long time reader, first time commenting. that looks to be a moldy strawberry.
ReplyDeleteStrawberry?
ReplyDeletemy guess is a fruit rollup
ReplyDeleteBritny G
I know this may result in PETA writing me to complain, but it looks like a decomposed Rottweiler puppy head. Gross!
ReplyDeleteIt looks like a strawberry!
ReplyDeleteis it a strawberry??
ReplyDeleteI am guessing it was a strawberry??? Maybe?
ReplyDeleteI'm going to have to guess plum. Maybe some dog slobber on it? :)
ReplyDeleteMy guess is it's a strawberry
ReplyDeleteMy guess to the moldy food is a half eaten apple?!?
ReplyDeleteLorene
Perry, KS
Watermelon?
ReplyDeleteIt looks like gum, but maybe its a peach?
ReplyDeleteA strawberry?
ReplyDeleteUmmm, a blog of alien poo?? or maybe a red pepper...??
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing that it's part of a strawberry.
ReplyDeleteStrawberry??!!
ReplyDeleteOk, my guess is fruit, prob a strawberry from the pic I can see.
ReplyDelete(BTW, I am a long-time lurker)
Tiffany
It's a berry of some sort. ANd it's freakin' disgusting. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting
Hi, Yuck umm is it a plum?
ReplyDeleteIs it (or was it) a strawberry?
ReplyDeleteI don't even WANT to know the answer to this one.
ReplyDeleteA strawberry!
ReplyDeleteMy guess is a dog bone.
ReplyDeleteIts a Ham Bone or an apple.
ReplyDeleteOh, my goodness! Is it a strawberry?
ReplyDeleteIt must be a half eaten nectarine. Yummy.
ReplyDeleteWhy, it's a strawberry, of course. A couple shades dark than the ones in my fridge right now
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing strawberry, but I've seen the bad side of so many foods and been mistaken about the ones in your pictures almost every time...
ReplyDeleteMy guess is it's a half eaten plum...
ReplyDeleteGreat blog I love reading :)
A rotting strawberry
ReplyDeleteA piece of hotdog or strawberry??
ReplyDeleteIs it a strawberry?
ReplyDeleteThat sure looks like a strawberry gone very, very bad.
ReplyDeleteA peach? I looks like it absolutely has to be some kind of fruit to be so "fleshy" looking. I have a very strong stomach...I can't handle staring at it. If you can't handle puke I'm not sure how you cleaned this up.
ReplyDeleteIt actually looks like a rotten giant's tooth, but my 2nd, more logical guess would be broccoli???
ReplyDeleteA strawberry???!!!
ReplyDeleteIs it a raspberry? It looks hairy and bumpy. Although anything that came out from under my couch would have hair.
ReplyDeleteI will guess strawberry - with logs of mold!
ReplyDeleteA raspberry?
ReplyDeletebased on years of experience -- my official guess is part of a dog bone (though, I don't know if you have a dog) -- also, could be some sort of rotten fruit, but I'm sticking with dog bone for the official guess.
ReplyDeleteHoly yuck!! Perhaps it was a strawberry at some point in time?
ReplyDeleteA bitten off chunk of hotdog or sausage can't tell which.
ReplyDeleteDid you run for cover and scream like a little girl when you saw that? I know I would have
Melissa
Strawberry.
ReplyDeleteA Strawberry or an apple
ReplyDeleteHi Dawn!
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing it's a small piece of berry or cherry pie or tart with a tiny bit of white icing and lots of black mold.
As the mother of two little food hoarders and connoisseur of all things moldy I would have to take a stab that this here fine specimen used to be a grape.
ReplyDeleteThat looks horribly like a day-old chick that's had its head ripped off! Yuck!!! OK, I have a lot off poultry and that quote about "Nature, red in tooth and claw" applies to birds too - I've seen some messy sights so obviously my perspective is skewed, and I am sure this odd object is something far less gruesome!
ReplyDeleteIs it watermelon?? :)
ReplyDeletestrawberry remains LOL
ReplyDeleteKim - Yorba Linda, CA
A Strawberry?
ReplyDeletestrawberry?
ReplyDeleteIs it an apple?
ReplyDeleteLooks like a molded strawberry! That soon will eat you!
ReplyDeleteA strawberry? LOL
ReplyDeleteajkatz74@gmail.com
I guess a strawberry!!
ReplyDeleteJenn
It looks pretty scarey but my best guess would be a Nectarine, (does spelling count)...
ReplyDeleteABC gum?
ReplyDeleteLooks like a plum. Maybe?
ReplyDeleteThat's *really* nasty.
ReplyDeleteUh... a peach??? No no.. an APPLE. Yeah.
Wait no, it's a trick question! It's one of Austin's school projects, right? Not even moldy food!
Uhm. Plum. Final answer.
a peach or a fruit snack?
ReplyDeleteWatermelon?
ReplyDeleteGuava?
Tomato?
It's a mystery to me.
G-ross. Looks like a half-eaten plum to me. Ew.
ReplyDeleteKatina
Looks like a Tomato.
ReplyDeleteWas it a peach at one time?
ReplyDeleteLori
That has GOT to be a partially eaten plum -- or maybe a plutot since they look so much alike. Never seen one looking this good myself, mind you ;)
ReplyDeleteeew...that's super nasty. I was gonna say it looks like a wad of gum, but I didn't realize gum got moldy and furry. LOL.....
ReplyDeleteNot to be nasty, but to me, it looks like a dead baby bird. blech.
Is it a strawberry?
ReplyDelete~Paula
butterfly.school@yahoo.com
I believe it was at one time a strawberry.
ReplyDeleteA portion of someone's colon or a strawberry.
ReplyDeleteI say it was an apple core. Hubby thinks it was a strawberry.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a strawberry to me. Yikes!
ReplyDeleteare you serious?! that used to be edible!!! my guess is a cherry. egad though.
ReplyDeleteIs it a Strawberry? I had some of those growing in the back of my fridge this summer.
ReplyDeleteHi, Dawn!
ReplyDeleteThank you, thank you, thank you again for your lovely voice of humor and sanity! I am your regular reader, even though I am not married and do not have kids; but your up beat personality is very, very appealing. As for my guess, it is/was a piece of watermelon.
All my best,
Barb
A Strawberry??
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing a half eaten peach(although it looks a bit like a alien cornish game hen.......)
ReplyDeleteBillie Jean
Was it a strawberry?
ReplyDeleteEwww, ummmm....a raisin?
ReplyDeleteEmily from the STL!
Looks like a partial eaten strawberry.
ReplyDeleteWAS it a chocolate-covered strawberry? No matter what it used to be, I think it can now be Clay's next "speriment"!!
ReplyDeleteDonna in PA :)
Oh my gosh. Is that a Strawberry or a Raspberry? Yummy! I hope you wore gloves.
ReplyDeleteit looks like watermelon to me
ReplyDeleteIs it gum?
ReplyDeleteOMG! Is that a tooth on the lower right amongst the rabies foam? I haven't got a clue what that could be, but it totally creeps me out!
ReplyDeleteToo easy - moldy, half-eaten peach (or maybe nectarine - can't tell, because the mold is fuzzy).
ReplyDeleteA Grape?
ReplyDeleteWatermelon?
ReplyDeleteIt looks like a strawberry
ReplyDeletea dead craisin
ReplyDeletea piece of watermelon OR a fruit snack. Alison in UT.
ReplyDeleteI think it is a fruit roll up.
ReplyDeleteIs it a strawberry?
ReplyDeleteA Strawberry?
ReplyDeleteEveryone seems to think it's a strawberry, but I was thinking it was a jelly donut at some point in its life.
ReplyDeleteA VERY dead peach.
ReplyDeleteOR a rabid tribble.
A strawberry though I'm not the first to say so
ReplyDeleteA half-masticated Jolly Rancher, "red" flavor.
ReplyDeleteUmmm, a plum pit. My dsons used to do that-stealth disposal- under the couches. EWW. And that included anything from leftover food to dishes to clothing to school work to..
ReplyDeleteBTW Dawn, as a mom to 3 I can relate-and I love your blog, it is funny, sad, sweet, comedic, reminiscent, interesting-the whole nine yards! :) Helen in Salinas, CA
I'm going to go with "red grape". This is really fun, btw. :)
ReplyDeleteLisa M.
My first thought was a strawberry, but apon further examination I think it is/was a Rasberry.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a raspberry.
ReplyDeleteOh this is easy. It's a 'speriment.
ReplyDeleteI think it's a hotdog too!!
ReplyDeleteGrody!!!
I know I am not the first person to guess, but I wanted to post my guess just the same. I think it is a strawberry because of the seeds and the pinkish hue.
ReplyDeleteOk, I was going to say a decapitated hamster head. Gross, I know...but that's what it looks like to me. And I was eating something. WAS being the operative word there.
ReplyDeleteMy GOD Dawn, it looks like part of someone's anatomy! You'd better do a body part check! Or maybe Malibu Ken's head?
ReplyDeleteDefinitely a rasberry! I think.....
ReplyDeleteCourtney corntea@cox.net
It's a strawberry. I love Anita Renfroe! i'm pretty sure I'm not the first to guess strawberry though. Love your blog!
ReplyDeleteMy 11 yr old daughter thought it was a dog's head. I don't have a clue what it is but it's gross!!
ReplyDeleteI say an apple. BTDT after a summer w/ a backpack in the basement.
ReplyDeleteMy guess is a strawberry. But where did it get the black furry hat?
ReplyDeleteIts got to be a strawberry
ReplyDeleteI'm going to guess tomato. I'm a mom of four and I love your stories.
ReplyDeleteIs it one of the "mystery" berries that your husband and children were eating on that 4th of July camping trip??
ReplyDeleteIt's pretty nasty.
mmm mold covered strawberry, my fav!
ReplyDeleteGum doesn't get moldy, does it? These gum guesses...am i missing something?
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm going to guess that it was a strawberry, but since at least one hundred people already guess that before I did, I probably won't win. But I love you anyway, Dawn, so I figured I'd play your little game anyway. :) I hope you're having a great day!
ReplyDeleteI'm going to say chewing gum.
ReplyDeleteI'm with others...strawberry.
ReplyDeleteI do think you need to put a warning on this one. I was scrolling down the page to get it set up for me to read and glanced at the picture and got a little gaggy. Gross!