Expiration Dates on Food

[Jedidiah]

It gets green and fuzzy.

Sour cream can last long enough to get green and fuzzy? Not in my house. If it is there I will use it.

[Sparko]

I don't think it is an expiration date. It is usually "sell by date" or "best used before" date.

[tabibito]

Source: http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Food_-_use-by_and_best-before_dates

Manufacturers usually choose a best-before date well before the time when the food would be expected to deteriorate and spoil. A conservative best-before date is designed to encourage you to eat the product while it is fresh and at its best, so you should consider best-before dates as a guide only. Frozen and canned products, in particular, tend to keep their quality for some time after the best-before date.

Within reason, provided the food looks and smells as you would expect, it should be safe to eat, even if the best-before date has passed.

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[mossrose]

I have had yogurt and milk and cream last well beyond the best before date.

I have also had those items go badly bad well before the best before date.

And I am cautious with some things. Like deli meats and stuff.

[rogue06]

I have had yogurt and milk and cream last well beyond the best before date.

I have also had those items go badly bad well before the best before date.

And I am cautious with some things. Like deli meats and stuff.

I drank some eggnog in July that was dated January 10.





Of course I froze it just after New Years Day.

[Cow Poke]

I just ate a hot dog, the bun of which was "expired" on July 22. I just tore off the end with the mold on it, and it was fine.

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[rogue06]

I just ate a hot dog, the bun of which was "expired" on July 22. I just tore off the end with the mold on it, and it was fine.

That was what my grandmother always did. Of course she raised a family during the Great Depression

[Cow Poke]

I just ate a hot dog, the bun of which was "expired" on July 22. I just tore off the end with the mold on it, and it was fine.

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[rogue06]

Did some anonymous mod just pull a CP?

The rascal

Rumor has it they did it again

[Cow Poke]

The rascal

Rumor has it they did it again

Yuh!

[QuantaFille]

When we were over visiting my grandmother (dad's side) once, my mom noticed that there was some sour cream in the fridge that had expired a year or two ago. My mom pointed this out, only to be told that it had been used in whatever we had the previous night. And that it being that old only makes it better!

Once, when my family was visiting my father's stepmother, we were served parmesan cheese that had expired something like 20 (twenty) years prior. It had formed one solid mass in the canister and we couldn't get it out, and then someone pointed out that parmesan hadn't come in cardboard canisters in quite some time and they were all plastic now. That's when we looked at the date on the bottom of the can.

[Jedidiah]

I drank some eggnog in July that was dated January 10.


Of course I froze it just after New Years Day.

I have never tried drinking frozen eggnog.

[rogue06]

I have never tried drinking frozen eggnog.

The secret is putting it in the refrigerator for a day or so to thaw out first.

[Jedidiah]

The secret is putting it in the refrigerator for a day or so to thaw out first.

That would work.