I found that kind of amusing. I’ll probably use the package by then.
The marketplace is peppered with that kind of silliness.
Ah, if only batteries lasted as long as a salt.
I’ve had my can of Morton’s salt since I moved into my apartment in 1988. I keep thinking I’m getting close to using it up, but I never actually get to the bottom. It’s definitely lasted longer than the 15 years from now to 2028.
I have a can of black pepper that I bought when I first moved out on my own in 1984. Can you tell I don’t use much pepper? It’s still good, BTW.
Lithium primary cells do. Some cells advertise up to 20 years of shelf life.
You guys must not do much cooking.
How can salt go bad? It’s a rock.
Sage observations.
“Good” in the sense that it hasn’t turned toxic, I suppose.
Similarly, I’ve seen expiration dates on bottled water. Uh, yeah… if water expired we would’ve been in trouble a loooooooooooong long time ago.
This wasn’t some fancy water, with flavoring or anything, just plain old water.
Could be that the plastics leech harmful things into the water?
True. Unlike water, plastic is an organic compound.
My guess is that they’re addressing the fact that over time salt can absorb odors and moisture and, while it’s still salt, some of the flavor qualities sought for cooking might be compromised. Of course if the package has yet to be opened then I’d assume you keep pushing the 15 year ‘Best by’ date back until it is.
No, it isn’t, at least, not very.
That would be like saying “I have this can of coffee that I opened 20 years ago, and it’s still good. Well, it makes coffee and I don’t die when I drink it!”
Ground pepper? It wasn’t any good when you bought it, much less now.
Heh, at our family cottage in northern Quebec, which was build by my grandfather in the 1950s, there are some food items in long term storage that date to the early 1960s … we are simply too lazy to remove them. 
Things like Red River cereal, glass jars with dried beans, that sort of thing. Some may even be edible. 
About thyme someone made that joke.
And it’s probably millions of years old to begin with.
I realize that the date is used for stock rotation. I found it amusing.
It was at the local natural foods grocery, and I saw some frozen dinners that were marked down to about 80% off. THEIR expiration dates were in late July - of 2009. :eek: No, thanks.