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[Love_Is_Blonde]

511 posts already? Sheesh you guys talk a lot

 

[crazychemgirl]

 

[Diosax]

Okay. Following this mouldy cheese thing...who here panics when food approaches a week of the sell-by date, and who assumes its okay as long as it doesn't run out of the refrigerator?

I thought expiration dates were suggestions

 

[crazychemgirl]

Okay. Following this mouldy cheese thing...who here panics when food approaches a week of the sell-by date, and who assumes its okay as long as it doesn't run out of the refrigerator?

*raises hand

 

[crazychemgirl]

I thought expiration dates were suggestions

for some things.., yes

 

[Strixaluco]

Okay. Following this mouldy cheese thing...who here panics when food approaches a week of the sell-by date, and who assumes its okay as long as it doesn't run out of the refrigerator?

Here we have "last day to use" and "best before". It's indeed risky to use anything after a "last day to use" date, and those are things like meet, ready-made food etc.

But if it's best before only... then it's ok to use your own senses. Dor example dairy and bread only have best before. Also pretty much anything canned.

 

[hotoldrguy]

Here we have "last day to use" and "best before". It's indeed risky to use anything after a "last day to use" date, and those are things like meet, ready-made food etc.

But if it's best before only... then it's ok to use your own senses. Dor example dairy and bread only have best before. Also pretty much anything canned.

we have both those labels too. The best before one I do not pay much attention to. That is a sniff taste thing. Even the use by is an estimate.

 

[Strixaluco]

we have both those labels too. The best before one I do not pay much attention to. That is a sniff taste thing. Even the use by is an estimate.

With the "use by" there is not much safety marginal.

 

[Mika1215]

I don't put american cheese in my grilled cheese sandwich. Also I've only done one of those like 2 times in my life

Well, I will say, I love a grilled cheese sandwich regardless of cheese. It's what I eat when everything in the diner looks awful. Hard to fuck up! Better with other cheese, of course, but American does melt really well.

 

[Mika1215]

always loved Thomas's English Muffins. and it seems ironic you cannot get them in England se

My previous husband was British, and the whole American muffins which are often called Canadian muffins in the UK plus English muffins which are just muffins and then there are crumpets which are kinda of like a muffin and yet not at all....

 

[Mika1215]

Who here was poor enough that you cut off the mold from the block of cheese and kept eating it.

This is just because, why waste good cheese?

 

[Diosax]

Are we talking food or boy/girlfriends?

Could be either

 

[crazychemgirl]

1 more hour and I can go home!!!

 

[Mika1215]

Okay. Following this mouldy cheese thing...who here panics when food approaches a week of the sell-by date, and who assumes its okay as long as it doesn't run out of the refrigerator?

Depends on what it is.

Milk KNOWS. Milk for me turns into a solid disgusting thing the exact use-by date.

Pretty much everything else...it's a suggestion. Color, smell, feel....

But I'm wary. My mother was the hoarder daughter of Depression-era parents, and she kept food forever. Once she was actually clearing out stuff, and she phoned me:

Mom: Do you think I should throw out this bottle of Karo LIGHT corn syrup? It has turned black?
(Non-US folk: it should be transparent)

Mika: What is the expiration date?

Mom: 1975.

Mika, dying: Mommmmmm this is 2005.

Mom: Maybe I should give it to the food pantry?

 

[crazychemgirl]

Isn’t it weird that some things we can only eat/drink immediately and others we wait years or decades to enjoy?

 

[Diosax]

Depends on what it is.

Milk KNOWS. Milk for me turns into a solid disgusting thing the exact use-by date.

Pretty much everything else...it's a suggestion. Color, smell, feel....

But I'm wary. My mother was the hoarder daughter of Depression-era parents, and she kept food forever. Once she was actually clearing out stuff, and she phoned me:

Mom: Do you think I should throw out this bottle of Karo LIGHT corn syrup? It has turned black?
(Non-US folk: it should be transparent)

Mika: What is the expiration date?

Mom: 1975.

Mika, dying: Mommmmmm this is 2005.

Mom: Maybe I should give it to the food pantry?

I reacted laughing bc I can relate soo much!

One time i cleaned the pantry at home and threw something that had been expired for at least 5 yrs!

 

[Mika1215]

Crumpets are toasted over fires, using toasting forks, and eaten liberally smeared with butter and Marmite.

Last year, I came across a jar of Marmite in the back of a family member's cupboard. It was the Millennium Limited Edition, 20 years out of life, and had matured magnificently.

Yes, please....

(going off to the corner to drool)

 

[Mika1215]

I reacted laughing bc I can relate soo much!

One time i cleaned the pantry at home and threw something that had been expired for at least 5 yrs!

I'm positive that there are things in my pantry that are older than that. Mostly things like jams and jellies, that kind of thing. They'll keep for roughly forever. Gotta have something for the zombie apocalypse.

 

[Strixaluco]

Depends on what it is.

Milk KNOWS. Milk for me turns into a solid disgusting thing the exact use-by date.

Pretty much everything else...it's a suggestion. Color, smell, feel....

Even fresh meat??????

And milk doesn't even have use-by, but best-before. At least here. Even when the taste starts to slightly change, it's still good for making for example pancakes.

 

[crazychemgirl]

I reacted laughing bc I can relate soo much!

One time i cleaned the pantry at home and threw something that had been expired for at least 5 yrs!

Some things get genuinely pushed back in pantries and you end up with 5 of them cuz you keep forgetting you already had one

 

[Diosax]

Some things get genuinely pushed back in pantries and you end up with 5 of them cuz you keep forgetting you already had one

So true

 

[LaisDeMarieDeFrance]

Depends on what it is.

Milk KNOWS. Milk for me turns into a solid disgusting thing the exact use-by date.

Pretty much everything else...it's a suggestion. Color, smell, feel....

But I'm wary. My mother was the hoarder daughter of Depression-era parents, and she kept food forever. Once she was actually clearing out stuff, and she phoned me:

Mom: Do you think I should throw out this bottle of Karo LIGHT corn syrup? It has turned black?
(Non-US folk: it should be transparent)

Mika: What is the expiration date?

Mom: 1975.

Mika, dying: Mommmmmm this is 2005.

Mom: Maybe I should give it to the food pantry?

My sister's father-in-law was this way. He cooked for them one night and the Kraft Mac N Cheese was brown. Straight up brown. Sister ate it to be polite, but they checked the sell by date before they left the house. It had expired like five years before. Needless to say, she was sick as a dog that night.

 

[crazychemgirl]

I think I’m passed my best before date

 

[crazychemgirl]

 

[crazychemgirl]

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