How do you really feel about food expiration dates

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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,558
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    afterburnt wrote: »
    If it wasn't for people like you there would be no creamed corn. :|

    Or candy corn. Is there even an expiration date for that?
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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
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    Expiration dates are for chumps.
    sucks2beme wrote: »
    afterburnt wrote: »
    If it wasn't for people like you there would be no creamed corn. :|

    Or candy corn. Is there even an expiration date for that?

    Candy corn is not corn nor candy it's an abomination like creamed corn.
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  • boston1450
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    Ah in that case I feel great. I bought 14 bags of these the day after halloween & 20 bags of other goodies :blush:z65tt3unlehy.jpg
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  • afterburnt
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    Expiration dates are for chumps.
    “When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing — they believe in creamed corn.” G. K. Chesterton
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  • afterburnt
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    Expiration dates are for chumps.
    boston1450 wrote: »
    Ah in that case I feel great. I bought 14 bags of these the day after halloween & 20 bags of other goodies :blush:z65tt3unlehy.jpg

    https://youtu.be/7JW133F0AK4

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  • rooftop59
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    Close enough, give or take a week/month or so.
    Best damn cornbread you ever had has creamed corn in it, but this is the ONLY form I will eat canned creamed corn in:

    https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/24209/absolute-mexican-cornbread/

    Now, homemade creamed corn is effing amazing!

    https://www.spendwithpennies.com/homemade-creamed-corn/

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  • Spatz1946
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    Close enough, give or take a week/month or so.
    I try to use commonsense. For example:

    Anything that is a three months or more past the expiration date or "Best By" date gets the heave ho.

    Liquids that have to be refrigerated don't get opened beyond the expiration or best-buy date, and those that have been opened get the heave ho after a week, regardless of the dates.

    Some dry stuff -- e.g., wheat germ, whole grain flour -- get rancid. Use them in time or lose them. Some others -- e.g., sugar -- don't expire. I confess to being a bit lax on spices. Of course, it doesn't make sense to risk a failure by using "aged" baking powder or baking soda.

    Canned good, generally, I don't trust if they have expired, and I don't risk consuming them. For example: In my youth, I had a few bouts of food poisoning from jarred tomato sauce that had been around too long. Now, I know I'm older, and I think I'm wiser.

    Meats get cooked and consumed within three days of purchase or they are history. I don't trust butcher operations, and I don't trust processed meats.

    Fish: Smell fresh fish when you buy it. If it smells like fish, then don't buy it. Fish that I buy gets cooked and eaten ASAP. If I can't cook it immediately, I store it in the coldest part of the fridge on ice for up to a day. Then, I smell it before cooking, and if it smells like fish, sayonara.

    This is just a list of a few of my "rules of thumb" off the top of my head.
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  • afterburnt
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    Expiration dates are for chumps.
    I had some 08 Hamburger Helper and it was just as good as ever.
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  • NotaSuv
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    I have a neat can of cream of mushroom soup from 1987...but its almost the shape of a basketball and I cant use my can opener on it..
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  • NotaSuv
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    since we dry age our own meat it best to get that nice "it's time to throw it away" look before consuming....
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  • mantis
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    Close enough, give or take a week/month or so.
    "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.
    That's basically our mentality. Unless it smells or taste funny.
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  • msg
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    boston1450 wrote: »
    Ah in that case I feel great. I bought 14 bags of these the day after halloween & 20 bags of other goodies :blush:
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    Looks like a bag of teeth!
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  • NotaSuv
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    The death clock is quite useful in finding out our own expiration date....
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  • NotaSuv
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    msg wrote: »
    boston1450 wrote: »
    Ah in that case I feel great. I bought 14 bags of these the day after halloween & 20 bags of other goodies :blush:
    03bpb2owrjkj.png
    Looks like a bag of teeth!

    from the WV mountains is my guess
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,049
    edited May 2020
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    Expiration dates? It's like the Pirates' code in Pirates of the Caribbean -- they're guidelines. B)

    Except for really perishable stuff (milk, meat), they're usually "Best By" dates, and they are often more geared to sell more product than to serve any health and safety related purpose. :|

    In terms of using out-of-date stuff --I could tell you stories. One of our standing jokes with old food in the house (e.g., in the freezer): "Who was President?"


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  • sucks2beme
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    My wife threw out my bottle of tabasco sauce.
    Really? it's aged for years in a barrel.
    According to the web site, it will lose flavor if left
    too long in the cupboard. But it never expires!
    I did buy a new one. what other product do you use a couple of
    drips at a time?
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  • Viking64
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    When my father was in Europe during the winter of 1944/45, my grandmother sent him some "maple cakes" from Vermont. I think they might have been like the maple candy we have today. For some reason, he never ate them and brought them back home, perhaps as some sort of memento of his time in the war. :#

    He saved them and oddly enough, I remember there being a little clear plastic thing (plastic bag/Tupperware) with something brown in it in our refrigerator (or maybe freezer) all through the 1970s that I never asked about. :o

    Finally, in the mid-80s, my parents had a power outage when they were away for a few days, and the contents of that bag/Tupperware ended up as just brown liquid, so they finally tossed it out. About 40 years and no one ever got to taste them. :'(:p
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  • afterburnt
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    Expiration dates are for chumps.
    sucks2beme wrote: »
    My wife threw out my bottle of tabasco sauce.
    Really? it's aged for years in a barrel.
    According to the web site, it will lose flavor if left
    too long in the cupboard. But it never expires!
    I did buy a new one. what other product do you use a couple of
    drips at a time?

    Couple of drips? I beat that bottle like it owes me money!
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  • audioluvr
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    Expiration dates are for chumps.
    Everyone in my house freaks out because I don't pay attention to expiration dates. Hell some of the best oxycodone I've ever had was like 8 years old. Shouldn't be any different with food right? I mean I just picked a couple of mushrooms from my yard and made some steak and mushroom fajita's. Not sure what they were but they were delicious!
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  • mhardy6647
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    Opioids improve with age, like Bordeaux.
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