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The slow biological coup where microbes vote your food out of office.
means The process by which food rots, decays, or goes bad until it's no longer safe or pleasant to eat.
from From spoil, via Old French espoillier and Latin spoliare, to strip or plunder — originally what victors did to the defeated, now what bacteria do to your leftovers.
Hidden hungerRoughly a third of all food spoils before eating.
Cold logicRefrigeration slows microbes but never truly stops them.
Not always dangerSpoiled differs from unsafe; smell warns, doesn't always poison.