How outdated would those be? I’ve never heard of either, but assumed it was a regional thing in an area I’ve never been in.
I’m glad I’m not the only one.
I would actually worry about anybody who lived through the 1930s who didn’t do this. Or anybody who lived with anybody who lived through the 1930s.
Gemco bit it in 1986 and Fedco (Federal Employees’ Distributing Company) in 1999, assuming we’re talking Southern California.
My mother has some spices in her kitchen that are 25-30 years old. I can’t imagine that they have any potency, at all.
Bingo!
Me, too.
A few years ago my husband was looking for something spicy to add to his mother’s bland east European cooking and found a jar of seasoning from “Two Guys.” Anybody else remember that chain? It went out of existence around 1980 or so.
We moved here from California nearly three years, and we recently came across a box of Safeway brand toothpicks. Evidently, we don’t eat toothpicks very often.
I’d be afraid to go through my mother’s kitchen as she’s lived in that house for about 45 years. No telling what oddities are hiding in her cabinets and drawers.
No story, just a recommendation.
The spouse likes to keep a nice healthy stock of canned food against the possibility of the breakdown of civilization or a New England winter. We label everything with the year of purchase and rotate out the oldest stuff to the pantries and shelters during the Thanksgiving drives every year.
One gets to keep a solid pantry, one never has to eat canned food, and the Needy benefit. Works for us.
Okay. Which one of you jokers is sneaking stuff into my pantry?
I clean it out once a year and I always find stuff that’s three years out of date.
Why do I keep reading the OP title as kitten archeology ?
Hey Doug, I’m not exactly clear on what you mean here? Are you worried about those who don’t keep canned goods forever, or those who don’t occasionally cull the herd?
For what its worth, Mom was born into the Great Depression and it shows in her hoarding of food and her insistence that no edible morsel ever go in the trash. (Anything she can’t get the dog to eat, she feeds to the local wild raccoons!)
Oh, please get her to stop feeding wild animals; it is very very bad for them.
It’s true, in my experience, that those who lives through the Great Depression throw nothing out, and their children aren’t much better. Add the tendency to pull anything potentially useful whenever it’s on sale … all I can say is, Thank God for food pantries.
When my Grandpa passed away in 2008, we were going through his house. We started on the fridge, and found cans of beer in the back with pull tabs. Still cold. The kind of beer? Budweiser Light. Not Bud Light - Budweiser Light.
I still have a 6-pack of Billy Beer (from the Carter administration).
Oh, I know! But try telling her that! In her defense these raccoons regularly mount coordinated attacks on neighborhood trash cans, and nothing she leaves out for them is worse than what they scavenge up and down the street. (The creek where they live is at the end of the street, just one door down.)
In other news; I still would like clarification from Beware of Doug if he stops by. Just curious. Sorry to hijack.
You misunderstand - I am certain wild animals will not eat dangerous food - naturally dangerous, I know anti-freeze, etc. is another issue. My point is that as soon as a wild animal becomes a scavenger, it becomes a pest, like your mother’s raccoons, and its days are numbered. It will attack a child, be identified as a disease vector, or cause too many traffic accidents, and much time and money will be spent killing it, if we are lucky, or most of its species, if we follow historical patterns.
If anyone ever wants to feed a wild animal, please just give it arsenic and have done.
Yeah, I’m exaggerating; sue me. Just stop feeding wild animals.