Expired Foodstuffs

"Wave Motion Gun" (slowinslowout) 09/19/2015 at 19:52 • Filed to: None

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Yeah. Not going to use any of the Lawry’s seasoned salt I found in the back of the pantry. For the record, I've been in this house since 2009, which means this thing moved with me.

lonestranger > Wave Motion Gun 09/19/2015 at 20:01

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It’s not expired, it’s past its “best before” date. Seasoning salt doesn’t expire.

Also, 2008 is nothing compared to this bottle of Bromo Seltzer I found at my Grandma’s:

Birddog > Wave Motion Gun 09/19/2015 at 20:08

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I’ll give you a Dollar to shake that on a Hot Dog and eat it.

ly2v8-Brian > lonestranger 09/19/2015 at 20:08

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I was but a wee baby when that expired.

El Rivinado > Wave Motion Gun 09/19/2015 at 20:18

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I was out of chocolate milk mix and wanted chocolate milk so I grabbed a thing of cocoa powder from the pantry. Turned out that shit was in there since 2009, my family moved into my house a year after that. It wouldn’t even dissolve, it just floated at the top of the glass like nothing and tasted nasty.

Wave Motion Gun > Birddog 09/19/2015 at 20:21

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It was pretty much a solid mass. No shaking it without a hammer.

Enginerrrrrrrrr > Wave Motion Gun 09/19/2015 at 20:26

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Yeah the FDA requires everything food-related have a best-if-used-by date. Typically arbitrary.

I’m guessing salt will be fine since it was probably under the ground for millions of years before it was put in your container ;)

Birddog > Wave Motion Gun 09/19/2015 at 20:26

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Offer stands. Man Up and chisel some off!

hgerlsthlersht > Wave Motion Gun 09/19/2015 at 20:27

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In my defense, it was cloves and so not something I’d ever actually eat...just for simmering at the holidays to make the house smell good.

SlickMcRick > ly2v8-Brian 09/19/2015 at 21:26

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I was still two months away

Wave Motion Gun > lonestranger 09/19/2015 at 21:36

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9th grade for me. You win! The pantry looks better now. Nothing more than 4 years old in there!

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Wave Motion Gun 09/19/2015 at 22:27

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A coworker found this in the fridge at work. Anyone up for some 4.5 year old mayonaise?

It stayed in the fridge after we moved offices. I bet it is still there.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Wave Motion Gun 09/19/2015 at 22:51

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Seasonings? Don’t worry about it. There’s really nothing to spoil. The worst thing that will happen is that they will absorb a bit of moisture and clump; usually that happens on the cheap stuff with their low-quality containers. I bought too many bottles at Big Lots when they were selling for $0.48/each and have put but a small dent in the collection.

Two things I noticed whilst visiting the parental units a while back. One was a bottle of Syrup of Ipecac that they’ve had since the late ‘60s. I feared that bottle then, and I’m even more fearful of it today. The other item was a bottle of 3-in-1 oil from about the same time. I’m pretty sure that it’s still usable, but better lubricants have been developed over the last half century and thus it sits on the shelf next to a bunch of grandpa’s old tools.

AddictedToM3s - Drives a GC > El Rivinado 09/19/2015 at 22:55

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So you noticed it wouldn’t dissolve....and drank it anyways?

El Rivinado > AddictedToM3s - Drives a GC 09/19/2015 at 23:30

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Hell No! I poured that shit down the drain after the first sip. I honestly thought it was a fluke at first.

dtg11 - is probably on an adventure with Clifford > lonestranger 09/20/2015 at 00:06

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That’s 9 years before any of me existed.

ly2v8-Brian > SlickMcRick 09/20/2015 at 12:01

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Coincidentally I was around for two months at that point.