hit by a school bus...a short one none the less

so, i opened a can of soup today. i will not tell you which brand, but i will tell you that there was an extra surprise in there. no, not a little green army man that you would find in the cracker jack box, but a big, fuzzy, cuddly, green-ish/blue-ish piece of mold. now, i thought i was safe from mold with canned food because no air could get in, therefore, leaving no way to produce the fun fuzzy mold. but, i guess i stand corrrected. now, i was pretty bitter about finding this friend in my soup because i had a hankering for clam chowder. but, i had to break down and do what i hate, which is throw food away. i thought, "oh, a little pennicillin never hurt anybody," and i plucked the mold out of the soup. but after thinking long and hard, i refered back to what my mother said. she cans food a lot, and if one doesn't seal right, bad bacteria can get into the jar, and if opened and eaten, you could become very sick. so, i went with my gut feeling and threw the chowder away and kicked myself in the ass because starving children in ethiopia would've eaten the soup anyway. they take baths in sewage rivers, and i am grossed out by a little mold. i am such a sissy.