->That's my story. And what's the real lesson? ''Don't leave things in the fridge.''
-->-- '''Spike Spiegel''', ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', "Toys in the Attic"

-> What is it? If it's a temporal multiplexer I've got to warn you, last time we had one in here Mo had to beat the fridge contents to death with a cricket bat -- she was most annoyed --
-->-- '''Bob Howard''', ''[[Literature/TheLaundryFiles The Fuller Memorandum]]''

->'''Jon:''' I wonder if I should clean out the refrigerator.\\
'''Garfield:''' The bacon is grazing on the lettuce and [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1985/03/02 he asks if the refrigerator needs cleaning]].
-->-- ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}''

->Do you know what happens to half-eaten German sausages when you leave them out for 3 million years?...Your sausages, Dave, now cover 7/8 of the earth's surface.
-->-- '''Holly''', ''Series/RedDwarf''

->''Once, you bought a pork pie. You left it overnight because you weren't very hungry. You left it for a week because you were busy. You left it for a month because you're lazy. You left it for a year because you were scared. You're fighting The Thing from the Back of Your Fridge.''
-->-- A RandomEncounter from VideoGame/ImprobableIsland

->'''Doc:''' Aw, you big baby, it's not that bad. Heck, this won-ton is still good...\\
'''Roger:''' 'Not bad?!' The egg salad's grown ''mandibles!''
-->-- ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard''

->'''Mandy:''' What are you doing?\\
'''Fox:''' ''[holding a sword and glaring over the top of a shield]'' The dishes.
-->-- ''Webcomic/{{Curtailed}}''

->[[BadBlackBarf Oil-black]] [[MysticalPlague dream stuff]]. [[BodyHorror Modified flesh]]. [[FesteringFungus Neon mushrooms]]. Reminds me of my fridge.
-->-- '''Kirsten Geary,''' ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

->[[SpotTheThread Was this really his fridge?]] Where was the curdling milk struggling out of the top of its carton? Where was the strange smell that sent his stomach on a loop-de-loop and was impossible to track down? Where was his spare pair of trainers? He usually kept them in the ice compartment to cool down. There was nothing in the ice compartment except a varied selection of delicious-sounding ice-creams, and, for the first time in history, some ice. What was ice doing in the ice-making compartment of Lister's fridge? And where was that indefinable green mush in the salad tray? The one that resulted from decaying vegetables blending together so it was impossible to tell where the lettuces ended and the cabbages began.
-->-- ''Literature/RedDwarf: Better Than Life''

->In the very back of most refrigerators is a bottle that's been there 5 years, possibly longer. You no longer know what is floating in its murky depths of yuck, and you'd never eat it, but it stays there. Brooding. Mutating. Waiting.
-->-- '''Creator/StephenKing''', [[https://twitter.com/stephenking/status/1403782880451600391?s=21 Twitter]]

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