My family had a fridge in the basement where we stored extra food. It failed when we were on vacation. It had a bunch of trout my dad had caught, stored in plastic grocery bags. It smelled as bad as you could imagine, and my dad made us clean it because he wanted to try to have it repaired.

The freezer was warm, the defrost cycle still happened even though it wasn’t cooling., They were partly liquefied, falling apart. Really nasty.