Cause Of Death Cited As Steak

Back in early December, I bought four steaks for our annual UCLA-USC football game tailgate. Only three got cooked and eaten. I left the other in an ice chest for the duration of the game, then the subsequent ride home through horrific Pasadena traffic.

It was a friend's ice chest, so the steak wound up in his freezer after God knows how many hours outside. Two nights later I retrieved it from him. By now the marinade, mostly olive oil and salt with some vinegar, had compounded into a white, sticky solid, and was clinging to the sides of the plastic tupperware. Horrified at the sight, I stuck it back into my freezer, where it lay forgotten for eons...

Until a few days ago, when I came back from a trip and found a devastating lack of food in the fridge. So I defrosted that steak, cooked it today, and had the best, juiciest steak that I've ever made for myself (although meat was a little tough, probably from all the freezing).

Still no signs of death, but if it comes, you'll know what did it.