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Post by Three Litre on Jun 24, 2021 19:41:15 GMT
Speaking of out of date food & flour I remember as a youngster being disturbed seeing flour mites infesting the kitchen cupboards. When you have no idea what they are & how they got there you go into a panic. I don't think my mum knew what they were at the time so everything was thrown out. My dad was a flour miller so he was good at spotting those, I remember we got an infestation at least once.
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Post by Sparky on Jun 25, 2021 6:31:27 GMT
Well during the first month of lockdown when the supermarket shelves were bare and you couldn't get flour because, like everyone else I had a sudden desire to bake bread, Mrs Nightfly swore she bought some bread flour "only a few months ago". When I found it, it was best before 2009. No, I wasn't tempted. It got thrown out together with some Ainsley Harriot cuppa soups from 2007. A guy I used to work with had a collection of un-opened chocolate bars from the 70s - Bar Six, Mint Cracknell, Old Jamaica etc. It was intentional. He was a serious collector and was able to answer one of my all time mysteries - yes, Curly Wurlies WERE bigger back in the day. Chuck a bit of curry powder in and it'd be fine. Does that work with anything 3L?
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Post by Three Litre on Jun 25, 2021 7:17:18 GMT
Chuck a bit of curry powder in and it'd be fine. Does that work with anything 3L? Er, no ....................
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jun 25, 2021 12:51:34 GMT
There are people who take use/sell by dates literally, meaning they throw things in the bin as soon as the date arrives, regardless of what the product is. My brother picked a perfectly good packet of tomatoes up the other day, saw that the date on it was that day's date & decided they were going in the bin. I think he thinks food is like Cinderella & magically becomes poisonous as soon as the use by date arrives.
The only food I can think of that has usually gone off even a day or two before the use by date is milk.
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Post by Cartman on Jun 25, 2021 16:20:40 GMT
My wife is like that with sell by dates. On the other hand, I've had stuff that's weeks out of date!
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Jun 25, 2021 16:32:32 GMT
With sell by dates, I remember picking up a pasty in one of my local convenience stores, and I admit I hadn't noticed the out of date sell by date, although the shop worker behind the counter did (only a day over) and said Sorry, can't sell that and put it in the nearby bin.
I suppose it was good of him to notice and let me know, so I chose another item. Although I suppose the shop could get into trouble for selling out of date food, but why don't they check their shelves more regularly?
I have heard of people called "Fregans" who check and ask shops or even check bins for still sealed dumped sandwiches and pastries which are only a day or two out of date and happily take them home for consumption! They were on a local news item and I think the group was trying to make a point regarding food waste. I suppose it's a good way of keeping food bills down!
I heard from someone once working at an old ladies house who was offered a can of Coca Cola in an old ring pull tin years after they stopped using them. He couldn't believe it, as the expiry date said 1976!
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Post by Sparky on Jun 26, 2021 7:14:29 GMT
Does that work with anything 3L? Er, no .................... Oh. Was gonna try it with the car.
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