This explains a lot
Eating Out Of Date Food
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Seems that eating out of date food might also affect one's ability to write sensible comments.
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May be right, but could be English is not his/her first language.
We tend to rotate our food stocks so that generally speaking most stuff is used in date . However , we are not averse to eating things out of date , as said smell etc are probably better indications than what a producer prints on something. Sell by dates are pretty much only for the shop keepers , best before dates can be largely ignored too , canned and dried food is practically immortal if stored correctly , indeed everyone should store white rice . Meat just on it's use before date should be cooked up which will prolong it for a few more days. Even gone off milk is essentially fresh cottage cheese.
As to the original question about if I would and how long out of date the first is answered and I'll put a couple of examples for the second. As I said we rotate our food but sometimes things "fall under the radar" . One such was a box of maltessers . We took them with us to the SIL's , didn't mention the date 'till she tried one. Four years past their BBD and they had lost their crunchiness morphing into a sort of chocolate covered caramel or soft toffee. SIL complained that they'd make her sick and refused to touch them but we ate them with no problem. Slightly more past it's BBD was a packet of flour we'd overlooked. We checked for mites and cooked it up into buns, a little heavier than normal but perfectly edible. It was seventeen years past the date.
Mentioning the SIL who won't touch anything even past it's BBD , she completely missed the joke when serving up a bottle of 2009 wine and I said "Eurrgh it's out of date".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/art.../is-it-safe-to-eat-food-past-its-sell-by-date
As to the original question about if I would and how long out of date the first is answered and I'll put a couple of examples for the second. As I said we rotate our food but sometimes things "fall under the radar" . One such was a box of maltessers . We took them with us to the SIL's , didn't mention the date 'till she tried one. Four years past their BBD and they had lost their crunchiness morphing into a sort of chocolate covered caramel or soft toffee. SIL complained that they'd make her sick and refused to touch them but we ate them with no problem. Slightly more past it's BBD was a packet of flour we'd overlooked. We checked for mites and cooked it up into buns, a little heavier than normal but perfectly edible. It was seventeen years past the date.
Mentioning the SIL who won't touch anything even past it's BBD , she completely missed the joke when serving up a bottle of 2009 wine and I said "Eurrgh it's out of date".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/art.../is-it-safe-to-eat-food-past-its-sell-by-date
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It does for a few days if you can't safely leave the toilet....
When you have a hooter like mine, it's a shame not to put it to good use.
Get a grown up to research it for you - i.e. the importance of smell regards food. Never know, you may learn something.
I'm always learning from you mate.
Why does anyone ever eat parmesan, then?
Or stilton?
I keep a bar of chocolate in my car in its glove box, for just in case, stuck in snow, puncture, stuck in traffic jam, so after a while it didn't get used, one day I was cleaning the car, and found this bar and got tempted to have a go at it, it had already deformed by heat in the car, so it had become one lump rather than individual tabs, so i thought I might as well eat it, and replace it with a fresh one later on, a few days later, I was really ill with IBS, that lasted nearly a month, constipated, no bowl movement for two good weeks. I had contracted botulism. I took some anti-biotics and got well. was it worth it, may be may be not, why not?
Think of those poisonous berries and wild mushrooms, that man found out should be avoided, out only after several men fell to their peril.
Think of those poisonous berries and wild mushrooms, that man found out should be avoided, out only after several men fell to their peril.
2 weeks? I bet it was good when it happened ....
How about Stinking Bishop? Smells rank but actually tastes wonderful!
Not really, it was awful, you get a feeling like you want to go but you could sit in the pan for hours and nothing poops out! and the pain stays as if you need to still go! not a very pleasant experience.
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