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Obligatory- refrigerators don't keep your food THAT cold and bacteria can start growing on it generally in just 4 hours if it isn't opened. So unless you know the exact time it died, or you know the internal temperature when you open it, then better to play it safe than risk getting sick
People have survived millions of years without refrigerators. Most products don't get bad in a few hours just because they're kept at 8° instead of 6°. Granted, there's some stuff you want to be careful with, like raw poultry and minced meat, but neither the pasteurized milk nor the cured sausage will go bad in just a few hours, even at room temperature. Even if they would, you'd usually see, smell and taste it.
If it was as bad as you say, millions of pupils would die each summer from food poisoning because of the sandwich they carry unrefrigerated with them the whole morning until the lunch break. The temperature in an average teenagers backpack is much higher than that in a refrigerator that has been off for a few hours.
Lol an ultra-processed sandwich (that's the bread, cheese, and meat) in a lunchbox for a few hours, hopefully with an ice pack, is leagues different from eating iffy chicken from a box that may or may not have been warmer for half the night.
No one's saying you'll definitely die from it, but you're risking salmonella. I doubt anyone who's suffered through it doesn't regret saving those few bucks... "When in doubt, throw it out."
The sourdough bread, the butter, the cottage cheese or the meatloaf that my sandwiches consisted of weren't "ultra-processed". Neither was the boiled egg, the cut up fruits or vegetables or the homemade yoghurt. And of cause I didn't have an ice pack in my lunch box. I know nobody who had one.
I don't know what you have in your fridge, but I bet you 90% of the contents of 90% of the American fridges are more processed than what an average German school kid has in its lunchbox. So just throw out the 10% that aren't and feast on the remaining 90%.