How do you really feel about food expiration dates
afterburnt
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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%
4 votes
Close enough, give or take a week/month or so.
56%
18 votes
I only look at the year.
9%
3 votes
Expiration dates are for chumps.
18%
6 votes
Knock the fur off of it and eat it anyway.
3%
1 vote
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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.Analog: Hana ML > MoFi UltraDeck > Bob's Devices Sky 20-S > Sutherland 20/20 w/LPS
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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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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.The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD
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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...Living Room 2.2: Usher BE-718 "tiny dancers"; Dual DIY Dayton audio RSS210HF-4 Subs with Dayton SPA-250 amps; Arcam SA30; Musical Fidelity A308; Sony UBP-x1000es
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This basically sums it up............
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Expiration dates are for chumps.This basically sums it up............
Wow you are like a boss! All I got is some hamburger helper from the 80's. -
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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I only look at the year.Expiration dates are like speed limits, they're only a suggestion.
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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...The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD
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I only look at the year.nooshinjohn wrote: »
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! -
Close enough, give or take a week/month or so.nooshinjohn wrote: »
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.Post edited by Nightfall onafterburnt wrote: »They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.
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nooshinjohn wrote: »
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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Food can kill you even if it's fresh but not prepped or cleaned properly.
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Close enough, give or take a week/month or so.Gas station sushi. Eew.Living Room 2.2: Usher BE-718 "tiny dancers"; Dual DIY Dayton audio RSS210HF-4 Subs with Dayton SPA-250 amps; Arcam SA30; Musical Fidelity A308; Sony UBP-x1000es
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Expiration dates are for chumps.
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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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.Randy-Maine
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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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Expiration dates are for chumps."creamed corn" not only the most disgusting food product ever it even sounds wrong!
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You have obviously forgotten about SPAM.
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I us my eyes, nose and common sense.
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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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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.Speakers
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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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Close enough, give or take a week/month or so.No joke. I bet I still like itafterburnt wrote: »They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.
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Expiration dates are for chumps.
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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"Randy-Maine
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Expiration dates are for chumps.If it wasn't for people like you there would be no creamed corn.
