Friday, November 22, 2013

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I like to think of expiration dates on food items as more of a suggestion rather than a rule.

32 comments:

Sugar said...

Where is Skimpymist???

SugarTitz said...

my mother was always giving me other peoples perscriptions from years ago saying "they're fine". I mean 5 yrs expired. prescribed to someone else!!

VIPblonde said...

I like to think of Enty's reveals as more of a suggestion than a rule

Violet said...

A con by food manufacturers to get you to throw away perfectly good food so you have to buy more.

Sugar said...

Has anyone ever thought about what actor they would choose to portray themselves if their lives were to be made into a Lifetime movie?
I think I'd choose Aubey Plaza. She looks nothing like me but I like her sass and her fuck it attitude.

Sugar said...

sorry Skimpy. I could not resist.

JSierra said...

Everything tastes better with a little dash of mold.

Folly said...

Sugar I'd choose Betty White

Laura said...

Lol@ Sugar

Karen said...

The last time I took an expiration date as a suggestion rather than a rule I had a godawful case of food poisoning. NEVER AGAIN.

Bacon Ranch said...

I like to think salmonella is a myth.

VIPblonde said...

@Sugar On Lifetime? Then Tori Spelling, obviously ;)

Sugar said...

Excellent, Folly. She has mad range, yo!

Super F*cking Awesome Katelyn said...

@sugar, id have to go with Tori spelling too. She nailed her part in mother may I sleep with danger. That is probably the single greatest lifetime movies that all others try to emulate but fail miserably.

Kelly said...

It's mostly "sell by" rules, not expiration.

Sugar said...

Good one, VIP. I would like my husband to be played by Ewan McGregor please. And I would like my husband's penis to be played by Michael Fassbender's penis. No offense to my sweet, loving and wonderful real life husband.

Sugar said...

I guess Tori is the most popular girl at West Beverly after all!

Unknown said...

I follow expiration dates thank you very much. My mother instilled a fear in me to follow them! Anyone watch that horrifying show Extreme Cheapskates on TLC??? I dont know how "real" it is but those people are craaaazzzzy

FlirtyChick74 said...

I agree with Enty's sentiment. Also Renoblondee is right. Saw a whole report on that on the news.

Jessie said...

The worst is dairy items that expire before the Best Before date.

KellyLynn said...

I agree with Enty, Renoblondee and FlirtyChick. Sell By dates are usually set well in advance of a product going bad, so the seller can ensure the product is safe. Most items can be used well after the sell by date. If it is expiring before that time, it was probably improperly stored.

By the way, did you know some companies are quietly lowering sodium content?

OKay said...

Yep, expiration dates ARE just a suggestion. After that, foods are considered to be "past their peak of freshness". So basically, if it smells okay and there's no mold that can't be removed, go nuts.

auntliddy said...

Dereck, that is one disturbing show. What about the couple furnishing baby's room with stuff from THE DUMP????!!!!!! Sure they washed it but still, nfw!!!!!

JSierra said...

Derek my fave is the one where the family doesn't use toilet paper, they use cloth squares and the mom just washes them. Yeah, no thank you!

hothotheat said...

Sorry but no. I've had two horrific bouts of food poisoning caused by my using ingredients that were passed their use by dates.

If it's even 1 day passed, it's thrown out.

M. Brown said...

Me too since I was just in a pizza place with my kids when a staff member asked the owner, should I put this milk back (in the fridge) it was only up a couple days ago?

Count Jerkula said...

Depends on the food. You gotta be careful with condoms though. You could be a month away from the expiration date, but you keep the things in your glove box, car parked in a lot all the time, and them shits become dry and brittle, baked in the summer sun. If yer lucky you figure it out 1/2 way though and try to fish the bits out of the broad. If yer unlucky, then you gonna be a daddy.

PugsterMom said...

I toss things before expiration dates. I had food poisoning in Mexico and it was horrendous. OK... truth is I was paranoid before that incident. If it even LOOKS or SMELLS even the tiniest bit off, I toss it. I toss milk 2 days before the date regardless.

Count Jerkula said...

Old prescriptions reminds me of when I worked cleaning out houses for the antique shop. There were a couple guys who would grab any scripts they found. 2-3 year old Valiums, yeah, I'd make em gimme a couple. Some random shit with a name I never heard and it said Don't Operate a Vehicle, I'd pass.

One time dude found some shit that turned out to be an anti psychotic or something. 3 of them took the pills that night and were all fucked up. Seeing shit, fading in and out of black outs. One dude drove home and took out 2 mailboxes on his drive. He didn't know what he hit until he retraced his drive the next morning. They flushed the rest of the bottle.

Sherry said...

Pugster Mom: My nieces got sick in MX because of food they bought in the US. Remember those peanut butter bars from GA? Yup. That was it.

Smell it and if it doesn't pass the sniff test, toss it. Trim the mold off the cheese and it's still good. Foods 2-3 weeks past and already open? uh huh. Toss. I honestly don't buy a lot of prepackaged food and no dairy really so I rarely have food born illness.

Actually I eat a lot of old stuff so I think I've built up an immunity. :)

lutefisk said...

I was in Whole Foods today and all of the milk in the front row had a November 17th expiration date. Being that today is November 22nd I dug through the containers to reach one dated December 1st. Don't know how that was allowed to happen.

RowdyRodimus said...

My dog prefers slices of bread for a treat instead of real dog treats, is that weird?

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