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This is the only correct answer.
My dad became a strong advocate for this after a particularly nasty dose of food poisoning.
"But it's too hard to get out of the bottle!!!"
"You know what wasn't hard to get out? The two days of explosive diarrhoea! I'll take shaking the bottle a bit, thank you."
How do you get the shits from sauce? I've never put it in the fridge, and I'm a boomer. I'd say the cause of your bottom explosion may be related to some other cause.
Food goes bad?
Tomato sauce isn't food. It's flavoured sugar syrup at best.
Not myself, the old man. Strange that it affected the three people who used tomato sauce but not the two people who didn't, tomato sauce vs chilli sauce being the only difference in their meals.
So tell me, let's hypothetically say you strongly suspect that tomato sauce which had gone bad turned your ass into an IED for two days. Would it really stress you to put the bottle, the one that says refrigerate after opening, in the fridge?
Hell I have a cousin that can't bring himself to eat garlic bread, and an ex who can't eat chicken for the exact same reason.
If anything the old man just made a small tweak to how he stores it and kept throwing it on his meat pies, showing some real gastrointestinal fortitude.
Anything is possible?
We had a ketchup bottle with black packaging (because it was spicy and seemingly needed fancy packaging)
As it was getting empty, I dismounted the whole cap and found everything inside covered in mold
Since then I'm a bit cautious, when it comes to sauce bottles
That might explain it then.
And it was even stored in the fridge...