Posted on 06/18/2019 3:55:13 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Last year, Mom’s Organic Market founder and chief executive Scott Nash did something many of us are afraid to do: He ate a cup of yogurt months after its expiration date. Then tortillas a year past their expiration date. “I mean, I ate heavy cream I think 10 weeks past date,” Nash said, “and then meat sometimes a good month past its date. It didn’t smell bad. Rinse it off, good to go.” It was all part of his year-long experiment to test the limits of food that had passed its expiration date. In the video above, we interviewed Nash about his experiment and examined where expiration dates come from and what they really mean.
It turns out that the dates on our food labels do not have much to do with food safety. In many cases, expiration dates do not indicate when the food stops being safe to eat — rather, they tell you when the manufacturer thinks that product will stop looking and tasting its best. Some foods, such as deli meats, unpasteurized milk and cheese, and prepared foods such as potato salad that you do not reheat, probably should be tossed after their use-by dates for safety reasons.
Tossing out a perfectly edible cup of yogurt every once in a while does not seem that bad. But it adds up. According to a survey by the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, and the National Consumers League, 84 percent of consumers at least occasionally throw out food because it is close to or past its package date, and over one third (37 percent) say they always or usually do so.
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Aspirin smells like vinegar when it gets old.
You got it! I always smell things because that tells me everything. When I buy meat we either eat it the next day or it gets very well wrapped & stored in the freezer.
I have eaten sour cream months past the expiration date & it is thicker & richer.
“what happens when vinegar goes “bad”?”
It grows a big nasty blob called the mother.
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Great thread!
anything with tomatoes you have to be careful....what I do if I boil the contents for minimum of 10 minutes to kill any botulism....
Put a Bay leaf in the jar
Expired tetracycline can cause a dangerous syndrome resulting in damage to the kidneys.” (Fanconi syndrome) https://www.drugs.com/tetracycline.html
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After extensive discussion w/colleagues, my vet said this is exaggerated and based on an inadequate study.
I have no pharmaceutical background, so IDK.
LOL Who would actually buy sushi from a gas station?!?!
It’s an old joke.
very large bottle of aspirin that had expired in 1987. I still use it and it still works.
It is a very large bottle and I rarely need aspirin.
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IIRC (and I’m not 100% positive), aspirin that is past due date has a vinegar-y taste/smell.
I know we’ve had that Tylenol/Oxycodone combo from past dental extractions that definitely lost their pain-killing ability.
It happens in the lettuce field when Jose’ didn’t wash his hands after his trip to the Baño.
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Not really...
JosA & JosB are paid by the piece so for years no one has EVER wasted time ... Just drop trou on the spot and keep on picking.....You can figure WE are sorta paying for 100 years worth of open sewage mixed in the soil.
At least WE grew up in the 40s and 50s and everyone figured we would eat a pound or so of dirt on a regular basis...todays clean/hygeniec/no germs world and the younguns of today can’t have someone sneeze near them without catching ‘something’...
I took expired (4 years give or take) Benadryl once and it made it hurt when I pee.
Tuna from 17 year-old MRE is more like eating what I think Alum might be like but it didn’t kill me. The other contents were similarly just OK. Tobasco sauce however is just like new.
I just went and smelled them. No vinegar smell, so I guess all is still well.
I have a pantry full of soup, canned vegetables, spam and other canned stuff that I eat periodically but sort of keep as a prepper thing.
Oddly, one cannot give away expired canned food to food banks. Those of us who buy it and eat it with no ill effects must have a different system than those who receive free stuff.
“It did have an odd texture.”
Hence the “Best by” date - and not an actual expiration date. Canned food especially. Although sometimes I’ll open up a can and just can’t get past the odd texture, color and taste sometimes and toss it out. It probably was okay - but eating canned Ravioli with a brown sauce rather than the original red makes you question every bite. “Hmm, does this taste a little off?”
I drank some Gateraid last week that was three years past the date on the bottle. Figured sugar water should still be good. Tasted fine. Although shortly afterwards for several days my bowel symptoms were way off. I have no clue if it was due to the Gateraid or not - but I threw the other 5 bottles out.
I always wait till they mark that $12 wedge of romano to $2.99
It’s been aging in a cave for 2 years!
The best short ribs I’ve ever eaten were back in college for a summer class down in Grants, New Mexico. From a gas station.
In a similar vein, it’s so wrong that congress voted to eliminate the requirement that food be labelled with country of origin.
I would’ve thought that was a fundamental requirement given the quality issues around meat and fish from some places.
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