This man ate ‘expired’ food for a year. Here’s why expiration dates are practically meaningless.

Washington Post ^ | June 17, 2019 | Daron Taylor

[gundog]

Cheese is a favorite. You aged it longer and it’s half price? OK.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Some food tells you when it’s time to go even without an expiration date. That trout in the garbage bin in the garage waiting for tomorrow’s pickup was fairly screaming “It’s time for me to GO!” last weekend.

[hanamizu]

My Japanese daughter-in-law would go shopping for sushi (this was in Yokohama) right before the stores close to get sushi at half price.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

It’s a continuous struggle to keep my bride from heaving canned goods and stuff the day after the arbitrary Use By Date.

Same here. I'll frequently open the fridge and yell "Hey, what happened to all my food? That was my dinner for tonight, tomorrow and the next day." Happens all the time. 35 years of marriage hasn't changed that one bit.

[Hot Tabasco]

I would scrape the blue mold off of a block of cheese and grate it. They are still breathing 40 years later!

Thank God for respirators........

[Mr Rogers]

“I was sick from both ends for the next 3 days.”

The key is to whistle. If it comes over submissively, go ahead and eat. If it snarls in defiance...shoot, shovel and shut up.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Salmonella contamination doesn’t happen in the grocery store. It happens in the lettuce field when Jose’ didn’t wash his hands after his trip to the Baño.

[Songcraft]

Vegans tell you to eat your mature greens regularly, so here they go...

       

[Dr. Sivana]

Well if that's the case, I guess it's safe to eat that pasta sauce from 1987.....

Nope. My mother did a serious Y2K stock up despite my telling her that wouldn't be necessary. After a few years, as she whittled down her cache of tuna fish, peanut butter and pasta sauce, the sauce got little white furries, the peanut butter turned slimy, and the tuna completely went bad.

1987 won't work. One year past might work for some stuff, but stuff eventually goes bad.

[Dr.Deth]

It’s the Venezuelan diet, minus the garbage truck.

[Political Junkie Too]

You mean we didn't send all our expired food to Punta Cana?

-PJ

[utahb52]

They’re so full of preservatives you won’t need to be embalmed.

“Heck, we used to eat C-rations well over 20 years old.”

[JohnnyP]

No, stinky.

[Tucker39]

I was 5 years old at the time, so I guess I miss-remembered the year slightly.

[yarddog]

I have a question for veterans.

As mentioned earlier I once had 12 cases of MREs. One day while I was camping in my Parents cabin, I brought one into their home and asked Daddy if he knew what it was. He just glanced at it and said “rations”.

Now he was a combat veteran of WWII but I can’t believe their rations looked like MREs. Or did they?

[freedomlover]

How would you know when buttermilk has gone bad?

[tired&retired]

“If there is no noticeable vacuum release when you open the can or jar then forget it!”

Bingo... that is a good rule.

[JohnnyP]

I keep meat in a small fridge. I try to keep it between 32° and 34°.

For ground beef, I remove it from the package, wrap it in a couple of paper towels to dry it off a bit, then into a covered glass storage container. Four days is easy.

Steaks and roasts are good for a couple weeks without freezing.

I revived a cheap rib eye I got on sale and let it go too long. The fat started to get a little slippery, a little funky, so I stuck it under cold running water and scrubbed it with a dish cleaner brush. No smell or slime when I got done. I cubed it up and fried it for fajitas. It was great.

[Flag_This]

"Now he was a combat veteran of WWII but I can’t believe their rations looked like MREs. Or did they?"

U.S. military ration cases have been marked with a black crescent logo since WWI.

[Dawgreg]

Expired sour cream is......sour?

I remember a Houston Astro from the 80’s, forgot his name but he asked how do you know when sour cream is expired?...I throw it away when that bluish fuzz shows up on it.....I mean, why before that time?