Beat this for 'past its sell-by'

[Silver Fox]

Called in to have a brew with my dad the other day and he broke out an unopened packet of Jaffa Cakes. I tucked into the first one and thought it was a bit crunchy.

Anyway, we sat there chatting as you do, dunking our Jaffa Cakes and polished off the packet between us, only when I went to throw the box in the bin I saw they were two years out of date.

Didn't do either of us any harm.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I'll not only open it, I'll drink it too!

I'm saving it for when there's no more booze left in the world.

There's some few-thousand year old bread in the Egyptian section of the Ashmoleum museum in Oxford, I always wondered what that would be like, I'd want it toasted and spread with butter and Marmite though.

 

[vernon]

That's good, I did explain to lawrence and HovR.

The simple fact is that I actually trained at College to be a photographer (the art, the awareness of composition, the knowledge of what others had done before me, the hours spent in the darkroom and developing pictures which I thought might just pass the standard.... the awareness of other's mistakes..... the complete knowledge of what I could do with the camera within it's operational limits, the physics, the chemistry, the biology of the eye, even video for crying out loud!) it was to be my profession (but various other things got in the way), so basically, what I don't know isn't worth knowing.

Ok, satisfied now?

Annyway, moving swiftly on.....

As my granny used to say: "Self praise is no recommendation"

 

[vernon]

I'm saving it for when there's no more booze left in the world.

There's some few-thousand year old bread in the Egyptian section of the Ashmoleum museum in Oxford, I always wondered what that would be like, I'd want it toasted and spread with butter and Marmite though.

Might be a waste of good marmite.....

 

[Oldspice]

Might be a waste of good marmite.....

You say that, like it's a bad thing......ugh marmite

 

[rikki]

I read [somewhere sometime ] that portable soup from Cook's voyages could be cooked up now and be exactly the same as it was in the 18th century [i.e. truly disgusting]

 

[RaRa]

I read [somewhere sometime ] that portable soup from Cook's voyages could be cooked up now and be exactly the same as it was in the 18th century [i.e. truly disgusting]

I think i saw the same about margarine, if you buried a tub in a vacum sealed container and dug it up in 100 years you could still eat it.

 

[Maz]

It's just experience. We had a volunteer out with us this afternoon, so we were explaining stuff to her and telling her how we can often hear a single window envelope rustling in a carrier bag full of paper (we have to avoid getting the windows in the paper, they cause faults in the recycled product), or how the weight of a bag that appears to be all plastic bottles is affected by a tiny glass jamjar. The difference in sound between bottleglass and drinking glass when knocked together or broken. We just get a feel for it all.

You probably get a feel for when a new Argos catalogue or Yellow Pages has just come out, too. Those bags must be heavy.

 

[Matt1705]

You say that, like it's a bad thing......ugh marmite

My wife had a craving for marmite when pregnant with our first child. Used to eat it straight from the jar with a spoon!!

 

[Fnaar]

When my mum was preggers with me, she took thalidomide tablets for a bit, but gave them up as she was still getting morning sickness, and also told me she used to sniff Jeyes Fluid.
Anyway, back to the sell by dates.

 

[goo_mason]

My folks are a nightmare with very out-of-date milk. They buy it and only use it for guests as neither of them take milk in tea or coffee. I've been made a tea that smells rank and has lumps in it - when I check, the milk's over two weeks past its date. "Oh, the milk's OK - your Dad smelled it and it's fine!"

Dad's nose must be faulty as it reeks like three-week old roadkill left under a blazing sun.

It's no wonder Mum repeatedly has the runs - they also regularly store cooked food (usually meat) at room temp when their fridge is full. How they've managed to live this long is beyond me ;-)

 

[subaqua]

My folks are a nightmare with very out-of-date milk. They buy it and only use it for guests as neither of them take milk in tea or coffee. I've been made a tea that smells rank and has lumps in it - when I check, the milk's over two weeks past its date. "Oh, the milk's OK - your Dad smelled it and it's fine!"

Dad's nose must be faulty as it reeks like three-week old roadkill left under a blazing sun.

It's no wonder Mum repeatedly has the runs - they also regularly store cooked food (usually meat) at room temp when their fridge is full. How they've managed to live this long is beyond me ;-)

by building up a damn good immune system !!

When my mum was placed into care we went through the understair cupboard- forever after known as "ARMAGEDDON CUPBOARD" it was chock full of everything from beans to pie fillings( industrial sized tins) a huge amount was out of date by around 10 years but some outstanding items were the tin of mincemeat - dated 1981 , the tin of treacle without a date on but the tin design dates it to early 70s.

All the items were slowly used and made some really tasty meals for my dad.

 

[Melonfish]

Yes it can. Try eating elderberries.

elderberries are delicious!

unless you eat them before they're ripe, in which case they're horrible and can really turn your stomach.
eat a sloe directly off the tree and prepare to have your face turned inside out!

 

[Maz]

I saw a group of women out on a Hen night once. The bride-to-be had a chocolate willie in a box.
It gave a whole new meaning to the 'Use By' date.

 

[Arch]

You probably get a feel for when a new Argos catalogue or Yellow Pages has just come out, too. Those bags must be heavy.

The other day, someone threw out 7 Next Directories among their recycling. That was a box I struggled to pick up!