I quite like the pot-luck aspect of buying stuff from the tramp’s buffet. Last time I picked up a quiche for something daft like 40p, and had it for a very pleasant evening meal. I never would have thought of buying quiche normally.
I don’t even bother looking at expiration dates, and just go by price. I’m confident that if it were too old to be safe to eat, the store wouldn’t even be offering it. That’s one of the advantages of living in a civilized society.
Sure. I’d rather see it marked down than discarded. Never had a problem with it, either.
Most of the stores I go to don’t have a bin, they just add stickers that say $1 off or $2 off. You better believe I look for those stickers.
It’s an opportunity to be snobby that was taken or she has an emotional reaction to the idea of meat going bad that keeps her from thinking about it rationally. Or she inherited the idea from her family . . . there a bunch of easy ways to back into the idea.
Angus Ribeye 3-pack for $4.99/lb a couple of weeks ago at my local grocery, how the hell do you pass that up?
I love the bargain bin.
Hell yeah! In fact, beef cuts nearing the discard date, even turning a bit grey are better than fresh. Unless you are a hoity-toity who only buys dry-aged US prime grade.
Tell your friend that the expiration dates for meat are highly arbitrary. There’s no government agency looking over the back of the meat manager’s repacking of meat that he deems safe. Often times, meat past expiration is repacked. I suppose newer supermarkets without any sort of butcher in the back might not be able to do this, but you never know.
Oh hell yeah! In fact, just today I got a NICE pot roast for a little over 4 bucks. It will feed me for several days. 
Well, this is the same friend who eschews buying clothing at Goodwill and prefers Walmart, and who won’t shop at the dollar store, claiming it’s all spoiled. Yay!! Continuing with my day old meat bargains!!
Me neither, but for a different reason. I can understand gross or questionable, but actually being creeped out by it? I just don’t understand the use of that word in this context.
I mean, surely she doesn’t get cold shivers down her spine when she walks by the case, right?
Oh no, that was my reason too!
I always check the BUY IT BEFORE IT ROTS!!! bin. I tend to freeze meat for later use anyway, so why not save a few cents?
I worked in the meat/fish department of a fairly large regional chain that’s still in business. As I recall, when the steaks and roasts were going out-of-date, they got made into hamburger, sometimes mixed with some fat from that day’s cuts/trimming. It had 2 days on the shelf, then it was sold to a dog food company, along with all the leftover fat trimmings.
That info is about 20 years old though - buying meat labeled with it’s “leanness” was just starting to be a thing, and we only had that in the butcher’s display case. It wasn’t a shady operation - it was in a high-rent neighborhood and the meat I got there was better than I see most places today.
I just bought 30 lbs of hamburger from my local Aldi. The 5.5 packages were originally $13 each, marked down to $6 because their last date of sale was today. Cut it all up into patties and froze them. I’m set for quite a while.
And yeah, I buy my pants at the Goodwill.
How much horse can you have in your beef and still call it hamburger? After a certain percentage, do they have to put the “horse” qualifier on it anywhere, or is hamburger a non-creature specific term?
Cite? And even if true, it’s delicious. If I’m eating horse, I’m eating horse. But I call bullshit.
I like that, too - we’re having something from the clearance section that I didn’t have to think of on my own!
I don’t see anything wrong with clearance food, either - you check the expiration date, you make sure you eat it/freeze it ASAP, you save money. Plus, you get a buyer’s high when you find a super deal. 
Not near the expiration date, but this evening I found two packages of what was described as “salmon ends” (mostly tails with a few inches of meat attached) at a MUCH lower price per pound than salmon steaks. I grabbed them both.
And I’m very aware that I will have to put my female kittycat in the bathroom when I eat it, because she will jump up on the table and try to eat it right off my fork.
After working in a grocery store for a few months, you might be surprised. While facing product one day, I came across yogurt and other dairy that had been expired for nearly 3 months.
Check the dates. Humans make mistakes!