How do you really feel about food expiration dates

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Food expiration dates

How do you really feel about food expiration dates 32 votes

Absolutely throw it away on or before the date.
12%
Tony MUpstatemaxchumlietophatjohnny 4 votes
Close enough, give or take a week/month or so.
56%
mantisagfrostgeorge danielmuncybobaiconnwoofiepawsrooftop59maximilliancoolsaxdrselectGospelTruthNightfallcodycatalistK_MCGTIIImlistens03mn_polk_guySpatz1946 18 votes
I only look at the year.
9%
mrbigbluelightDaveHoMikey081057 3 votes
Expiration dates are for chumps.
18%
smglbrthhuggiesafterburntdaddyjtaudioluvrLostsoul123 6 votes
Knock the fur off of it and eat it anyway.
3%
pitdogg2 1 vote
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  • displayname
    displayname Posts: 1,149
    My choice isn't on the list. I look at the food. Does is still look and smell as it should? Then it's fine.

    The dates are just a guide. Sometimes totally relevant, and sometimes totally worthless.
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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    Expiration dates are for chumps.
    @displayname I should have included "smell test" but since I suffer from olfactory hallucinations I didn't think of it.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,448
    Depends on the product.... meats and dairy products are out the door, dry goods like rice and mac & cheese can be used several months beyond the date printed. Canned goods we do not buy a bunch of, but tuna and such are used before the date and veggies I will keep for a couple months after. I also wash the cans before I open them.
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  • VR3
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    Sad
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  • rooftop59
    rooftop59 Posts: 8,121
    Close enough, give or take a week/month or so.
    Everything gets smelled, examined, and tasted if dairy. Animal flesh gets thrown out the quickest, but even then it depends...
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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    Expiration dates are for chumps.
    delkal wrote: »
    This basically sums it up............

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    Wow you are like a boss! All I got is some hamburger helper from the 80's.
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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    Expiration dates are for chumps.
    I got a can of vichyssoise from the 70's too but that's for special guests.
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  • DaveHo
    DaveHo Posts: 3,536
    I only look at the year.
    Expiration dates are like speed limits, they're only a suggestion.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,448
    edited November 2019
    DaveHo wrote: »
    Expiration dates are like speed limits, they're only a suggestion.

    Tell that to the college kid who ate week-old spaghetti... oh wait you can't because he's dead from food poisoning.

    https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/student-dies-10-hours-after-eating-5dayold-spaghetti/

    Granted, he was also not very good at proper food handling, but...
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  • DaveHo
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    I only look at the year.
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    DaveHo wrote: »
    Expiration dates are like speed limits, they're only a suggestion.

    Tell that to the college kid who ate week-old spaghetti... oh wait you can't because he's dead from food poisoning.

    https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/student-dies-10-hours-after-eating-5dayold-spaghetti/

    Granted, he was also not very good at proper food handling, but...

    Wow, that's crazy. That said, as long as leftovers pass the sniff test, I'm game. My family seems to have an aversion to leftovers, so I've become the human garbage disposal of the house. Still here!
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    edited November 2019
    Close enough, give or take a week/month or so.
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    DaveHo wrote: »
    Expiration dates are like speed limits, they're only a suggestion.

    Tell that to the college kid who ate week-old spaghetti... oh wait you can't because he's dead from food poisoning.

    https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/student-dies-10-hours-after-eating-5dayold-spaghetti/

    Granted, he was also not very good at proper food handling, but...

    Who just keeps food out at room temperature for a week and keeps eating it? The "expiration dates are a suggestion" applies to the majority of us that put our food in the fridge. I mean, that's horrible, but wow that lacks all common sense.
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    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

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  • displayname
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    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    DaveHo wrote: »
    Expiration dates are like speed limits, they're only a suggestion.

    Tell that to the college kid who ate week-old spaghetti... oh wait you can't because he's dead from food poisoning.

    https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/student-dies-10-hours-after-eating-5dayold-spaghetti/

    Granted, he was also not very good at proper food handling, but...

    That's just Darwinism at work.
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,602
    Food can kill you even if it's fresh but not prepped or cleaned properly.
    As always, avoid the gas station sushi.
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  • rooftop59
    rooftop59 Posts: 8,121
    Close enough, give or take a week/month or so.
    Gas station sushi. Eew.
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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    Expiration dates are for chumps.
    Nightfall wrote: »
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    DaveHo wrote: »
    Expiration dates are like speed limits, they're only a suggestion.

    Tell that to the college kid who ate week-old spaghetti... oh wait you can't because he's dead from food poisoning.

    https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/student-dies-10-hours-after-eating-5dayold-spaghetti/

    Granted, he was also not very good at proper food handling, but...

    Who just keeps food out at room temperature for a week and keeps eating it? The "expiration dates are a suggestion" applies to the majority of us that put our food in the fridge. I mean, that's horrible, but wow that lacks all common sense.

    You know he learnt that in college
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    I always wonder when I go in the gas station at 5pm, if those breakfast sandwiches that have been in the bin all day, actually sell?
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  • boston1450
    boston1450 Posts: 7,660
    Funny you say that. I stopped at a convenience store the other day & in the warmer there was some chicken nuggets that had a time wrote on label & were 6 hours old. I do not eat chicken nuggets anyways. Needless to say I walked out empty handed.
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  • Emlyn
    Emlyn Posts: 4,535
    There are some YouTube channels where guys buy or are sent old military rations or old canned things. Saw one a few days ago with canned creamed corn from the 1930s. The can had swelled up a bit, but it still looked somewhat edible and was free from wild bacteria when he looked at it under a microscope. I don't like creamed corn anyway.
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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    Expiration dates are for chumps.
    "creamed corn" not only the most disgusting food product ever it even sounds wrong!
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  • rpf65
    rpf65 Posts: 2,127
    You have obviously forgotten about SPAM.
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  • machone767
    machone767 Posts: 7
    I us my eyes, nose and common sense.
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    Close enough, give or take a week/month or so.
    I haven't had it in years but I loved creamed corn as a kid.
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,448
    Creamed corn was awesome
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  • GospelTruth
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    Close enough, give or take a week/month or so.
    Back in high school when I worked at the local grocery store, I was always told that the dairy section had a "sell by" date which is not an expiration date. The expiration as told to me by the dairy delivery guys was 7 days after the sell by date. I would still do the smell test though on anything dairy, meat and so on. Dry goods and canned food is more or less a guideline in my opinion. Probably loses it's nutritional value over time.
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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    Expiration dates are for chumps.
    @Nightfall @nooshinjohn Ha ha ha, you guys are just trying to be gross arent yaz? Tell me y'all are just trying to be gross will yaz?
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    Close enough, give or take a week/month or so.
    No joke. I bet I still like it
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    Expiration dates are for chumps.
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  • boston1450
    boston1450 Posts: 7,660
    edited November 2019
    Nightfall wrote: »
    I haven't had it in years but I loved creamed corn as a kid.

    Me too. What's Shepards Pie without creamstyle corn ? "You got nothing bub"
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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    Expiration dates are for chumps.
    If it wasn't for people like you there would be no creamed corn. :|
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