"best before date"

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(Must by milk tomorrow!)

Vector to the totality = finding a trout in a fed-ex package five years too late

And I have 20+ year old spices that I bought to cook something that I never used since, but I guess the worst that can happen from that is stale food.

i wz just talking to mum on the phone and she said that yesterday dad asked for a piece of cake, and she said there isn't any

but then she remembered aunt penny had sent us a cake for xmas: which we had all larfed abt at the time as even still in the parcel it felt like the densest heaviest cake ever baked by ppl not born on jupiter

anyway mum got the tin out of the larder and tipped the cake out, and cut a slice and took it up to dad — warning him that it might be a bit stale, as it wz from xmas (but fruitcakes do keep well, and v.heavy surely means v.moist...)

so dad took a bite and declared it inedible (which is quite severe: he wz at school during WW2 and will eat anything!!)

when mum came back into the kitchen she saw a 'best before" date on the bottom of the cake tin: 1990!!

top present aunt penny!!

And, erm... never mind.

I can top all of you. When I cleaned out the dirt queen's kitchen, I found, like spices that had expired in 1987. Do you have any idea how long it takes spices to go off? So you can surely IMAGINE how old and nasty these things were. If you thought spices didn't go bad, well, let me tell you they get mouldy and yucky like everything else.

There was ketchup that expired in 1996 that was still in her "in use" pile. GAH!

I can't think of one conceivable instance in which this would happen any time soon, Tracer. I imagine you can get another canned water before then (!? canned water?!).

We were always finding mystery objects in my mom's fridge, things that got "hidden" in the back and you'd pull out and there was no way of telling what it formerly was before getting covered by mould and nasty. We'd try to guess but we never could. We'd usually end up throwing out the whole container with it, the tupperware. I'd tell her, there's no reason to have this much food, what are you stocking up for that you can forget that you have something so disgusting in there for god knows how long? I've still not gotten a good explanation as to why she needs to much food in her house. I think it has to do with preparing for the tilt of the axis, which is obviously coming very, very soon, like Tracer's water shortage. Maybe it had to do with mad cow disease, I can't keep track of which ridiculous thing is her new obsession.

I just found a tin of 'mackerel fillets in spicy tomato sauce' with a best before date of Dec 2003.

To eat or not?

Probably fine - the acidity of the spicy tomato sauce should give it a long shelf life.

i wouldn't eat those before a date

roffle. unless she likes to reenact two girls one spoon type of situation.

i feel extremely guilty: I didn't realize the milk we gave my eldest daughther had expired a month ago. :-(((((((((((((((((((((

Not tonight, but I'm going to try them sometime. The tin looks fine and I can't imagine that an extra 5 years will have done the wee fishies any damage given that they're all sealed up in the can.

What's the worst that can happen? They swim away.

That or botulism, yes

(check the tin for any bulging or denting or any other artifacts of gas-pressure stuff going on)

(Also don't eat it)

Didn't stop them in Battlefield Earth and that was a lot longer than 5 years.

i wouldn't eat those before a date

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ha!

Government to scrap ‘best before’ dates in new labelling revolution

Good. I'm sick of having to throw perfectly good food away because my partner is completely neurotic.

So instead of "best before", products will have "use before" dates, but the dates themselves will probably be the same?

I don't know - I thought use by dates were calculated to be later than best before ones.

i think they're saying keep 'use-by', which has health implications, but junk best-before. so anything currently with a best-before date won't have any date at all.

I don't know - I thought use by dates were calculated to be later than best before ones.

Err.. sooner, I meant.

Anyway, yes, I think ledge is right about the plan. Best-before dates are currently applied to foods with long shelf-life that don't go bad, just a bit crappy. Except eggs.

http://www.eatwell.gov.uk/foodlabels/labellingterms/bestbefore/

There's something a bit desperate about the FSA's website being calle "eatwell".

do acidophilus tablets stay "alive" 2 years beyond the expiration date? i need to know

I still have the mackerel fillets, best before Dec 2003. Never did eat them. Yet.

'Evian' is almost an anagram for 'naiive',which is what we are for buying bottled French tap water.

best before 1987

ruskoline

Currently eating a very tasty packet of dried "Berry Mix" with a best before date of 20/09/07.

I'm a bit of a hoarder.

I've still got the Mackerel fillets, of course.

I can go either way. If it's perishable and it's past its best-before date, then I ditch it. Like dairy things, or stuff that grows hair in the fridge. Meat, stuff like that. Things that stink or grow mold or go bad, sure, they go out.

But other non-perishable stuff that stays perfectly fine for a long time? Like. I dunno. Peanut Butter. or unopened dried pasta. or...teabags. That stuff, I mean unless it has gone weird, who cares. For non-perishables those usebys are such a scam to me.

But I admit I grew up in a house where cutting the mold off cheese or scooping it off the top of the jam was pretty much de-rigeur.

i just used some silken tofu that was best before sometime in 2007

You know, this milk isn't bad now, but you should have had it back in January.

I've had a surprisingly bad run with trying to get through the collection of post-best before products in my cupboard and freezer. Nothing appalling or sickening, but plenty of unpleasant. Although they've probably become naturally saturated with damp due to the non-heating of my kitchen.

unopened jar of quince jelly from the back of the fridge - expired 12/2019

what's the verdict? It looks alright

sugar's a preservative, jelly's a preserve -- might have a furry cap on it, scrape that off it'll be fine

(eat the cap to cure pneumonia, lyme disease etc)

there is a YT genre of people opening up and tasting and smelling old food, like tins of creamed corn from the 1930's etc.

uh... listeria? that's seems like a really bad trend

it’s going viral

or bacterial i guess

Two tins of confit duck. One bbe dec 2015. The other, from the same era, no bbe, obvious dent in the tin. Chuck that one. First one should be ok? *googles botulism*

assuming "2015" is not a typo, pls throw away and do not eat

Found some lemon juice in the back of the larder that had been there a couple of years. Label said, consume within one month of opening. I was going to risk it but then noticed there was a mustard brown sediment at the bottom of the bottle, so my pancakes went unadorned.

yeah lemon juice is surprisingly perishable

assuming "2015" is not a typo, pls throw away and do not eat

the poor ducks died in vain ;_;

i know there are stories of decades old tinned meat being open and consumed but best not tempt the gods eh.

Tins of duck?!??

yes, i highly recommend it! if it's in date.

most duck from Chinese takeaways comes from a tin

anyway I'd still eat it if I opened the tin and there were no obvious signs of impending doom tbh

Today is the day I bring out the McCormick’s pumpkin pie spice (best sometime before Covid), use a teaspoon of it, and put it back to age (and improve!) until next year.

Over for dinner with Mom, went through her spices. You know it's old when it comes in a metal tin box. Particularly the mustard powder with the purple ink stamp that says 17¢.

Some of these date from at least the '70s.

Don’t ever eat from a can of cream of shrimp soup that was a movie prop from the 1950s

“cream of shrimp” - BLARGH TIL