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Would you do it?
If so, how old would you go?
Let me just break the ice and say that I have just been given some foods with dates going back to February 2014.
I have had opportunity to eat many of them and with a couple of notable exceptions, they were all perfectly palatable.
My strategy is thus:
Open it.
Look at it. Does it look like it ought to?
Smell it. Does it smell as you expect?
Then if it passes these tests, taste a little.
The ones that have failed were some crackers in a bag (rancid-smelling), some coated peanuts (also rancid) and some dried banana chips (rancid- see a theme developing here?)
Those foods with high salt or sugar content, or that were dried and in all cases having a lesser fat content, fared much better.
After all, I remember the 70's and this is what we used to do before sell-by dates anyway, wasn't it?
If so, how old would you go?
Let me just break the ice and say that I have just been given some foods with dates going back to February 2014.
I have had opportunity to eat many of them and with a couple of notable exceptions, they were all perfectly palatable.
My strategy is thus:
Open it.
Look at it. Does it look like it ought to?
Smell it. Does it smell as you expect?
Then if it passes these tests, taste a little.
The ones that have failed were some crackers in a bag (rancid-smelling), some coated peanuts (also rancid) and some dried banana chips (rancid- see a theme developing here?)
Those foods with high salt or sugar content, or that were dried and in all cases having a lesser fat content, fared much better.
After all, I remember the 70's and this is what we used to do before sell-by dates anyway, wasn't it?