Consume by dates on food. Strange but true...

[Speicher]

My honey also has a date, despite that never going off either.

I haven't got any crisps, but I will search diligently to prove you wrong there too....

I might be jealous if I were you.

I will join you in that diligent search for crisps.

 

[dellzeqq]

‘Scully, have you noticed something about these crisps?’

‘Mulder, do you think I keep my looks the way they are by eating crisps?’

‘Very intertextual Scully, but putting aside Dellzeqq’s crush on Gillian Anderson, take a look at this’

Scully leans over the crisps, a lock of her hair brushing Mulder’s shoulder. Not for the first time Dellzeqq wishes Mulder dead. Very dead.

‘High salt content, high fat content, no taste, what’s to notice?’

‘The sell by date’

‘5[sup]th[/sup] April 2014’

‘And look at the next one, and while you’re doing it, pass your tongue over your top lip, and pull your hair away to show the line of your cheekbone’

‘Do I have a choice?’

‘No and no, Dellzeqq’s calling the shots here, Scully’

‘13[sup]th[/sup] July 2013’

‘And this one’

‘12[sup]th[/sup] October 2013 – Mulder where is this getting us?’

‘Where it’s getting us Scully is that all these days are Saturdays’

‘Your point being...?’

‘My point being that every single UFO sighting in the vicinity of a convenience store has been on a Saturday’

‘Right. Have you noticed how my breathing has just got a little deeper, and my eyes a little wider’

‘No, but I know a man who has. The Agency thinks that the UFOs are after the takings, but I think it’s simpler – they want the out of date crisps’

‘You mean.....’

‘I’m looking for a punch line involving Cadbury’s Smash, but all the writer can think about is the colour of your hair.....’

 

[Aperitif]

^ Very good!

Here's my cell by dates - (I know, it's the pitts)

And, the 'end of June 11' is a...Thursday.

 

[Campfire]

As I'm a vegetarian, I'm always funny about meat dates, even though I don't eat it. I'd always keep to that. However, I believe that whereas lots of things smell 'off' things like ham, maybe sausage and possibly bacon, don't smell 'off' when they are.

I always keep marg, butter, yoghurt, cheese etc beyond sell by date as I don't think there's anything that can do you harm but wouldn't risk anyone else's health with meat. They could say I was trying to poison them, couldn't they?

 

[Arch]

[QUOTE 1243896"]
10. Why does sugar not have a best before date?

As solid sugar has a shelf life in excess of 18 months (the true shelf life is actually indefinite when stored under appropriate conditions) and is approved by Food Labeling regulations (1984) to not bear a best before or sell date.

From the Food Labelling Regulations. Take it up with them.
[/quote]

So, it doesn't have to have a date. You said, it doesn't have a date. But it does. Producer paranoia, I guess.

The crisps thing is interesting, and shows what nonsense a date is on crisps - assuming they are made all week, some have 6 days more life than others....

 

[Beardie]

PRINGLES IS CHEATING!! I looked on one of their tube thingies, and they have a best-before-end-of-a-particular-month system. In this case, 06/2011. And that's a Thursday.

 

[tyred]

PRINGLES IS CHEATING!! I looked on one of their tube thingies, and they have a best-before-end-of-a-particular-month system. In this case, 06/2011. And that's a Thursday.

But Pringles are not crisps. 

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I checked and the Phileas Phogg crisps end on a Saturday - I can't remember which Saturday but it was in around 80 days

 

[tyred]

I believe this is your denim jacket, M'Lord.

 

[Archie_tect]

Do any Pringles, or any crispy, potato based collection, last until their sell by date?

 

[benb]

[good stuff]

Haha. I like the cut of your jib.

 

[GM]

Do any Pringles, or any crispy, potato based collection, last until their sell by date?

Not in our house, a couple of days if we're lucky. Even Mrs TGM like a few crisps with her G&T when she gets in from work in the evening.

 

[Fab Foodie]

^ Very good!

Here's my cell by dates - (I know, it's the pitts)

And, the 'end of June 11' is a...Thursday.

That's in poor taste 'teef

 

[theclaud]

‘Scully, have you noticed something about these crisps?’

‘Mulder, do you think I keep my looks the way they are by eating crisps?’

‘Very intertextual Scully, but putting aside Dellzeqq’s crush on Gillian Anderson, take a look at this’

Scully leans over the crisps, a lock of her hair brushing Mulder’s shoulder. Not for the first time Dellzeqq wishes Mulder dead. Very dead.

‘High salt content, high fat content, no taste, what’s to notice?’

‘The sell by date’

‘5[sup]th[/sup] April 2014’

‘And look at the next one, and while you’re doing it, pass your tongue over your top lip, and pull your hair away to show the line of your cheekbone’

‘Do I have a choice?’

‘No and no, Dellzeqq’s calling the shots here, Scully’

‘13[sup]th[/sup] July 2013’

‘And this one’

‘12[sup]th[/sup] October 2013 – Mulder where is this getting us?’

‘Where it’s getting us Scully is that all these days are Saturdays’

‘Your point being...?’

‘My point being that every single UFO sighting in the vicinity of a convenience store has been on a Saturday’

‘Right. Have you noticed how my breathing has just got a little deeper, and my eyes a little wider’

‘No, but I know a man who has. The Agency thinks that the UFOs are after the takings, but I think it’s simpler – they want the out of date crisps’

‘You mean.....’

‘I’m looking for a punch line involving Cadbury’s Smash, but all the writer can think about is the colour of your hair.....’

^ Very good!

Here's my cell by dates - (I know, it's the pitts)

And, the 'end of June 11' is a...Thursday.

But talking of things past their sell-by date, there's still something missing from this thread!

 

[rusky]

We can always count on you (or Richp) to bring a thread down to that level