I was looking for something to eat today asthe cupboads were kind of bare and I found some peanut butter. I wondered how old it was so I looked for some sort of freshness date and it reads
Buy before May 2501r3 2017
2017?
This stuff lasts till 2017?!?!
I think I need to go lie down as this makes my head spin.
http://www.nursehealer.com/ShelfLife.htm
Maybe its a code or misprint, or maybe it has a ton of preservatives. What brand is it?
How about this interpretation:
May 2501r3 2017 = May 25, 2001 + some production code jazz
Sounds more likely to me.
That reminds me of a bottle of soda I opened recently. On the cap, it had this expiration date: JUL3001
I took this to mean that the soda would expire in July of 3001. Then I realized that it was meant to say JUL 30 01, but they had left out the spaces. I thought it was mildly amusing that a food item would expire in 1,000 years.
Okay, maybe you had to be there.
Peanut butter was reverse engineered from alien technology by George Washington Carver. It has a half-life of 16 years, whereupon it decays into tofu, another legume product.
I don’t trust peanut butter.
I’m not so sure about quocamole, either.
-Beeblebrox
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
And to think I was frightened by Lactaid’s mere five month shelf life…
As the Perfect Master noted in How do they get the Ms on M&Ms, not everything that looks like a straightforward expiration date is a straightforward expiration date.
Interpreting it as such can be pretty amusing, though.
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July 19, I went to store 24 to get a soda. I bought a two-liter of wild cherry pepsi. I drank about a liter of it that night. It tasted kinda nasty, but I drank it. The next day I drank about a 1/2 liter of it, at which point i noticed the expiration date. It had expired two weeks earlier, and was giving me heartburn.
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2017 could be a PLU(Price Look Up) number.
May 2501r3 2017 The underlined part is what you should look at. 2501 meaning the 25th of the month stated year 2001.
From Dr. Shabaz K. Martin on the Black History Minute
“Dr. Carver died pennyless and insane trying to play a record with a peanut.”
So I just ate some bad peanutbutter?
Yikes!
I think deodorant is made by aliens, too. It never seems to run out. How do they get all that in there? I wish everything could last as long as deodorant.
Supposedly the rations issued to the US Armed Forces have a shelf life of over 50 years.
The can of roast beef hash I have in my hand doesn’t have an expiration date.
Zebra, I have some BeechNut Stage 1 baby food which expires on February 30, 2003. We could get together and make some interesting sandwiches.
Unless you’ve had that particular jar for a long time, May 25, 2001 could be the “born on” date. (i.e. the date it was packaged)
I had a couple bottles of Frappaccino (sp?) with the same problem. The guy in the next cubicle and I were both mildly amused.
A bottle of apple juice in my fridge, on the other hand, is BEST BY MAY1202.
Wow, it’s contemporaneous with the Crusades! Call the Museum of Natural History.