# Eating canned chicken past best by date (need answer fast)

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 3, 2016, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-canned-chicken-past-best-by-date-need-answer-fast/767606 "2016-10-03T23:47:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mrdeals](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@Mrdeals](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrdeals)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2016, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-canned-chicken-past-best-by-date-need-answer-fast/767606/21 "2016-10-08T02:26:16Z")

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I own a store where i sell close to/past best by dates.

I don’t sell anything very far (more than a couple months) out of date, but i wouldn’t bat an eye at eating a can of anything that was only 9 months expired.

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**Author:** ![john\_b\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@john\_b\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/john_b_2)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2016, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-canned-chicken-past-best-by-date-need-answer-fast/767606/22 "2016-10-08T03:30:20Z")

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Aside from the blindness it sounds like you’re fine. :o

Years ago I bought a bottle of aspirin, which I seldom take, and it was a bargain, something like 250 for 99 cents. Long time ago. Anyway, even after giving away many of them and using aspirin rarely I still had the bottle seven years after the expiration date! When I was growing up my father told me that aspirin was fine so long as it didn’t smell like vinegar. If it did, throw it away. Mine didn’t. I finished the bottle, and they still worked.

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