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By *orethancurves OP   Woman
over a year ago

Liverpool

Following on from a thread about whats in ur cupboards.......

I wasnt feeling to well last week and decided i needed a dose of "seeing and being pampered by daddy" so off i toddled to his in my pjs. First thing he gives me is some paracetamol, his cure for everything. then when i felt like i was gonna vomit he came with this milk of magnesia stuff which as a child used to work wonders, u have to shake for it like 5 mins to mix it up..... this stuff wasnt mixing...when i asked to see it :exp 01/2002. An hour later soup gets offered.... i had the choice of 1999, 2004 or 2011. The laughing made me want to vomit more than the thought of seeing how the soup is inside the tin. Later on he pipes up with "im making a beef stew, u can take some of it home and heat it up later" yep u guessed it, the beef had a whoopsy sticker on it and was out of date by 2 days, the carrots were sprouting anither carrot from them and the oxo cube looked like it dated back 10 yrs too.

I nicely declined his offer and made my way home to where nothing is out of date and everything in my fridge is fresh.

His response to my disgust was "well when i was a kid nothing had dates on, it was pot luck when u opened a tin. We had no fridges to keep our beef in and im a fit and healthy 75yr old"

Guess i kinda see his point when he put it like that.

Anyone else think we take this expiry date thing a little too far these days???

Oh i did after a while decide to check the date on the paracetamol, was suprised to see it was only out of date by 4 months!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The old sniffing technique for me!

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By *ivnwcplCouple
over a year ago

liverpool


"Following on from a thread about whats in ur cupboards.......

I wasnt feeling to well last week and decided i needed a dose of "seeing and being pampered by daddy" so off i toddled to his in my pjs. First thing he gives me is some paracetamol, his cure for everything. then when i felt like i was gonna vomit he came with this milk of magnesia stuff which as a child used to work wonders, u have to shake for it like 5 mins to mix it up..... this stuff wasnt mixing...when i asked to see it :exp 01/2002. An hour later soup gets offered.... i had the choice of 1999, 2004 or 2011. The laughing made me want to vomit more than the thought of seeing how the soup is inside the tin. Later on he pipes up with "im making a beef stew, u can take some of it home and heat it up later" yep u guessed it, the beef had a whoopsy sticker on it and was out of date by 2 days, the carrots were sprouting anither carrot from them and the oxo cube looked like it dated back 10 yrs too.

I nicely declined his offer and made my way home to where nothing is out of date and everything in my fridge is fresh.

His response to my disgust was "well when i was a kid nothing had dates on, it was pot luck when u opened a tin. We had no fridges to keep our beef in and im a fit and healthy 75yr old"

Guess i kinda see his point when he put it like that.

Anyone else think we take this expiry date thing a little too far these days???

Oh i did after a while decide to check the date on the paracetamol, was suprised to see it was only out of date by 4 months!"

When we cleaned out the old meter cupboard we found a bottle of Phensic tablets ( pre-paracetamol )and the bottle had a cork in the top instead of a cap

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By *o new WinksMan
over a year ago

BSE

I always buy whoops and never have a prob.

Will eat things weeks out of date if they smell ok.

*note: more caution should be exercised if you have a cold*

Even slightly whiff chicken is ok if you wash and cook it properly.

Never ill from food.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

I find it amusing when you buy a bottle of cider and it says "Once opened, consume within 2 days", 2 days Lucky if it lasts 2 hours

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love how bottles of mineral water have a wonderful description of how it has been filtered through volcanic rock over thousands of years and then has best before date on the back!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I find it amusing when you buy a bottle of cider and it says "Once opened, consume within 2 days", 2 days Lucky if it lasts 2 hours "

I've the same problem with a bottle of wine. Evaporation is a bastard

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By *o new WinksMan
over a year ago

BSE


"I love how bottles of mineral water have a wonderful description of how it has been filtered through volcanic rock over thousands of years and then has best before date on the back! "

Filtered through rock isn't the same as being heated and cooled on the back of a truck in plastic bottles.

But I know what you mean.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I never look at use by dates! If it's not furry and smells ok then it gets used. Occasionally this philosophy has backfired but not enough for me to abandon it altogether.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I use the dates as a guide only the rest is down to nose eyes and common sense.

As a previous poster said we never had use by or sell by dates and when I was a kid we did not have a fridge and used to keep milk fresh by putting it in a water bucket.

Mind you we never had central heating double glazing and most of the time could not afford to light the fire anyways

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I love how bottles of mineral water have a wonderful description of how it has been filtered through volcanic rock over thousands of years and then has best before date on the back!

Filtered through rock isn't the same as being heated and cooled on the back of a truck in plastic bottles.

But I know what you mean."

If your water is on the back of your truck long enough to be heated and cooled several times then I think you're not bloody working hard enough

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Always followed them unless something is obviously OK.

This made me totally jealous I've never had that with either of my parents.

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

I've never understood the 'best before' date on soured cream.

Surely it was better before they let it go sour?

Mr ddc

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I find it amusing when you buy a bottle of cider and it says "Once opened, consume within 2 days", 2 days Lucky if it lasts 2 hours "

I find it amusing when they put a date on cider at all, what's rotten can't rot again!

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By *ty31Man
over a year ago

NW London

Fact for the day- use by dates on milk came about thru Al Capone who hated the spoiled milk he was fed as a child

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"Fact for the day- use by dates on milk came about thru Al Capone who hated the spoiled milk he was fed as a child"

If chilled properly, milk can be consumed in excess of at least 4 days past its use by date

Don't call me Scarface

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't look at the dates. I LOVE the whoops sections, my local coop on a Sunday afternoon is brilliant. I just check it smells and looks ok. Far too much food is thrown away by people who treat the dates on packets as law.

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

I pay attention to dates on food. I find it tastes better when it is in date and I've no reason to play roulette with my health. I'd rather throw 60p worth of snap away than take the chance.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm a stickler for dates on food, I can't bare to eat anything out of date.

However Pauls the opposite and buys all the bargains and will eat things well out of date, especially yogurt.

The only things I don't pay date attention to is fruit and veg I look at them and then decide

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By *orethancurves OP   Woman
over a year ago

Liverpool

Ive certainly not followed in my dads footsteps. Im very cautious about dates,mostly only on meat products tho...... fruit and veg im not, they grow in the ground or a tree at end of the day.

But bloody nearly 20yrs is dangerous id say!

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