Beat this for 'past its sell-by'

[Octet]

My grandmother is terrible for sell by dates, it has since been a long running joke in the family about it.

Once, when riffling through her pantry, we found a whole bunch of out of date things ranging back to the 1980s (in 2001). Fortunately it was nothing too bad, mainly cake ingredients like food colouring, glucose, raisins etc.

It's not really surprising when you consider she put the phone in the freezer once

 

[goo_mason]

My grandmother is terrible for sell by dates, it has since been a long running joke in the family about it.

Once, when riffling through her pantry, we found a whole bunch of out of date things ranging back to the 1980s (in 2001). Fortunately it was nothing too bad, mainly cake ingredients like food colouring, glucose, raisins etc.

It's not really surprising when you consider she put the phone in the freezer once

Probably to help with the cold callers... :-)

 

[swee'pea99]

Is this your coat, sir?

 

[subaqua]

Is this your coat, sir?

nah still warm enough to not need a coat

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

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

I don't remember writing that, it must have been my spin doctor.


Anyway that wasn't self praise, I was just saying that I..... Oh hold on, I seriously don't remember writing that - I had quite a bit of Whisky last night.... What did I say??

*Goes to check*

...... Hmmm, ok.... actually it wasn't self praise, I was just explaining why I'd posted what I had in a certain ph*tography thread a few days ago.

I am not a self publicist anyway, if I say anything like I did above, then the chances are I'm just stating fact, which, indeed I was.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

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.

Thing is though, would you really WANT to??

 

[Maz]

I'm a volunteer for a charity that provides meals for homeless and destitute people. We sometimes get donations of food from supermarkets - food which is getting close to its Sell By date and would otherwise end up going in the skip. It's all good stuff, man!

 

[Arch]

I'm a volunteer for a charity that provides meals for homeless and destitute people. We sometimes get donations of food from supermarkets - food which is getting close to its Sell By date and would otherwise end up going in the skip. It's all good stuff, man!

Yes, there's some dreadful waste of stuff that's perfectly fine to eat, or whose life could be extended by freezing, or preserving in other ways. If the supermarkets were forced to give it away, rather than chuck it, a lot of people (or institutions) could eat for free, or much cheaper!

 

[ufkacbln]

I have some Elderberry wine that I made in 1984. It tastes better with age.

Your age or the wines?

You could be deluding yourself, and the wine is as awful as before - you just can't tell!

The number of taste buds decreases beginning at about age 40 to 50 in women and at 50 to 60 in men. Each remaining taste bud also begins to atrophy (lose mass).

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Here at work I just found some mayonaise sachets that went out of date in December 2003. They had gone hard.

 

[guitarpete247]

I had a bottle of Champagne that my dad had found 10 years earlier and had left in his basement. Never found out where he got it. We opened it this Summer and it was awful. But did make good bait for my slug traps. Did for dozens of the blighters.

 

[Fnaar]

I have a bottle of sake that was opened by me and a mate in 1991 (night out, got home, it was the only alc in the house). We didn't really like it, and I've left the bottle as it was ever since. No idea if sake lasts or not, and haven't (oddly for me) been tempted to open it again in the intervening 21 years.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I have a bottle of sake that was opened by me and a mate in 1991 (night out, got home, it was the only alc in the house). We didn't really like it, and I've left the bottle as it was ever since. No idea if sake lasts or not, and haven't (oddly for me) been tempted to open it again in the intervening 21 years.

I doubt it could taste any more 'off', horrid stuff!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Don't read the ''Use by...'' date, read the ''Mindestens haltbar'' on the label. They really don't say the same thing. The German is closer to ''keeps until at least....''

 

[machew]

Cleaning out my Grans house about 5yrs ago we found a drum of golden syrup, that she had bought during the sugar crisis of 1970. 30 something year later it was still good