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by robertini on July 5th, 2011

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Do you eat sometimes food (like sausages) when her deadline expires?

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  • by Artful Bodger on July 5th, 2011

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    If I were a Hannibal Lecter type, I would be a little punctilious about 'her' deadline, but I think I know what you're on about.
    Expiry dates, 'use-by' dates and 'best before' dates are all marketing strategies that did not exist until I entered my 30's. Frozen meat might get a bit dry over time (ice can evaporate without going through the 'water' stage) but archaeological teams that found woolly mammoths in the Siberian Arctic tundra ate the meat without ill effects.
    Canned foods keep practically forever, as long as the can has not been breached by rust or physical damage, as do things in glass jars.
    The all-time classic, though, is table salt, and the stuff I bought last week has a use-by date of 2015. Good old sodium chloride, one of the most stable compounds known, has now got a definable useful life. It has been found in Egyptian tombs, unchanged from the time of the Pharaohs, in some cases 5,000years, and yet we are exhorted to chuck it out and get some new stuff after four or five years.
    Is this for your benefit, or do you think someone is just trying to milk that extra buck or two out of you?

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  • by Over and Out on July 5th, 2011

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    No way. Why chance getting sick? That's especially true with foods that are extremely perishable .. like sausages.

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  • by mialawrence on July 13th, 2011

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    No i don't use eatables after the date is expired.

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  • by Noony on July 5th, 2011

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    yeah, i don't really care about the expiry dates and i'm here still alive and healthy!

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  • by ctboo on July 5th, 2011

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    who is "her" naw im playing lol but i probably wouldnt eat it if the date is expired but then again i really dont look at the date lol

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