Comments on: #470 - Curdled

By: Torg

Torg — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:06:52 +0000

I wish my cafeteria food was expired. At least then I would know what I was getting.

By: Shorty

Shorty — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:57:42 +0000

One time in middle school I somehow got a carton of chocolate milk that had expired 5 years earlier. I knew something was wrong when I took a sip and it tasted like fruit punch.

By: Chelsey-Wa

Chelsey-Wa — Tue, 13 May 2008 07:11:50 +0000

Nah they taste fine but they’re typically soggy as hell

By: Bacos666

Bacos666 — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:42:29 +0000

Kimchi sold in the U.S. has an expiration of ~3 years printed on it… should’nt that actually be the “manufactured on” date?

By: grtdrgn

grtdrgn — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:57:38 +0000

Several years ago, I lived in a house where we had a refrigerator in the garage as well as in the kitchen. We frequently used the garage fridge to store “overflow” foods during holidays (Thanksgiving and Christmas being the most prevalent holidays for leftovers). We also had a bad habit of not cleaning it out for months at a time.

One time, I realized the garage fridge hadn’t been cleaned since the holidays and it was now June… suffice to say, I had never known mold came in such interesting… colours. (No, I’m not British, but occasionally I affect the British spelling of words.)

I have also run across canned preserves where the seals on the jars failed and the preserves no longer lived up to their name.

By: Tuesday

Tuesday — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:49:28 +0000

Artichoke hearts can stay in the fridge at eye level for about a year, before you start to notice an odd baby-blue color on the top of the juices.

By: sukkamonsteri

sukkamonsteri — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:31:12 +0000

I don’t know how it is in other countries, but here in Finland the food has a “Best before date”, that means that the food or whatever may very well be edible even if the date has “expired”, especially if the package is unopened and was stored properly. Besides you can usually tell if the food has gone bad by looking at it or by smelling it.

By: K

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:54:31 +0000

I think the most disturbing expiration I ever encountered was a case of cola. Apparently if soda expires, you get a very, very metallic flavor - I guess the acids leech the can or something. Either way, yuck.

By: Lethal Interjection

Lethal Interjection — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:51:48 +0000

Yeah, I have some of my mom’s home-made chili sauce that dates back to the late 90s, I believe. I haven’t had it in a while, but I think it is still good.
It dates back that far as to when she made the jars of it, not when it was opened. Opened was probably a year and a half or so. If I was still living at my parent’s, I’d probably have polished it off a year and 5 months ago, but I don’t tend to use it with the stuff I make. Even though I love it.
Rumour has it she is making more this fall (she does a big batch every 7-10 years). It is great stuff, but it is soooo much better within the first year after she makes it.

By: Foxfire

Foxfire — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:28:47 +0000

Never had too much expired stuff, but I do know we have some stuff in here that’s been in the fridge since before I can remember, and I’m 21 now, lol. On a side note, expired Mountain Dew tastes like….salt…ish? kinda hard to describe, bit it’s definately off. Had stuff that was about 1 year past the “best if by” date. Needless to say, I still drank it. Heck, when you’re staffing Scout camp, and it’s the cheapest (and darn near ONLY) soda you can get, you’ll drink it.