In the early 2000s on an Army field exercise, I ate some ~20 year old MREs. The food in the pouch was fine, but the Mars bar (I was excited to try, because I hadn’t had a Mars bar in ~20 years either – I think they stopped making them in the 80s) was just powder by then.
Actually - year-old honey (or even older) is often actually more yummy - it crystallises and turns into sugar heaven.
Um, which folks, exactly?
Rather than hunt for eggs on Easter morning, we hunted for jelly beans which had been scattered about the house. The odd jelly bean invariably turned up months later and still good.
I noticed use of the plural as well.
This story has so much Wrong, I don’t know where to start!
I heard honey never goes bad.
Then why do they freeze it when storing it?
With a username like that, no wonder!
…um, FOLKS?..
Food items that don’t go bad like the unrefrigerated forms of pepperoni and cheeses are our hurricane supplies along with chocolate, apples, crackers, wine, potatoes and carrots. When the season ends, snacks! 
Well not at the same time, and it’s not like they all lived with me.
I’m just not that fortunate. 
It’s not my name in real life. My parents were much kinder to me than I am to myself.
ETA: To add something useful to the thread, my brother once wondered if the out of date sour cream he had was bad (hey, it’s sour when it’s fresh). So, he called Kroger’s food help line on the side of the package. Turns out if it doesn’t smell like death, and hasn’t turned pink; it’s still good.
For the extra little zing on insemination.
Apparently Thousand Island dressing can go for ages. I’m pretty sure it expired in 2012 (And I got it in 2013).
Brown sugar just seems to get hard, but still edible if you can break up the brick-like chunks.
Canned food will be edible indefinitely unless the can has been breached. That said, I ate some 5+ year old canned peaches once. They tasted fine, but were a bit mushy. Russian dogs ate frozen mammoth with no ill effect, said a book I owned when I was a child.
Vinegar does produce a scummy stuff called Mother of vinegar, which apparently isn’t bad for you, but once it’s developed, I throw the whole bottle out.
Normally yes, but there can be exceptions. When in doubt, throw it out.
Also, it doesn’t necessarily have to breach, if the can bulges, don’t even open it.
Only on special occasions. 
I think a bulge indicates it wasn’t properly canned to begin with.
Microwave for 1 minute.
Put a piece of bread in your brown sugar container and wait for a few hours or a day. I like putting the really small end pieces of a loaf of rye bread or other round/oval shaped loaves in. After a day I have very dry bread and very moist brown sugar.
I will use unopened yogurt or sour cream long after the date, but because I live with nasty boys I tend to flush items that were previously opened but have “aged in place”. Old yogurt or sour cream that hasn’t been spoon contaminated makes wonderful pancakes, biscuits or quickbreads.Although my son is kind of annoyed that I revealed his “chocolate cake for breakfast” amazing treat was actually me using up yogurt and an aged banana. “I don’t mind eating healthy food for breakfast but don’t make me eat chocolate cake and then tell me it is healthy!”
I once made a boxed mix “pudding cake” recipe that turned out to be a few years outdated. Although it was sealed and should have been fine, it definitely tasted stale, although it cooked up fine.