Has anyone ever seen a really old-looking product just pop up on a supermarket shelf?
I was at the supermarket yesterday, scanning the salad dressing section, when I noticed this bottle of Kraft Creamy Italian salad dressing. It had the old-style Kraft label with the word “Kraft” repeatedly spiraling up the neck of the bottle in various shades of green on a black background. “Hmmm…” I thought, “why are they going back to this retro-label?” It was then that I noticed that the bottle was glass. I picked up the bottle. No “Nutrition Facts” on the back. This was the real deal. A practically ancient food that has somehow found its way to a 2001 supermarket shelf. I tried to look for an expiration date. It was then that I realized in horror that this product was from an era where expiration dates were only found on dairy products.
So, how old is this dressing, anyway? Mid-1980’s? 1970’s? I remember this style of label throughout my childhood. “Creamy Italian” doesn’t really seem like a '70’s flavor to me, though.
shudder 15-20 year-old salad dressing. Someone should buy it for use in a movie or something. If someone buys it, would it even show up in their computer when they scanned it? Would you get some 1980’s price? Or would it just scan as a brand-new bottle of Kraft Creamy Italian salad dressing without a thought? I think it had a bar code…
That is bad!!! 15 years old, nooooooooo???
I bought orange juice once and it had a funny taste… it was already 6 months expired… I was so mad they did not remove it from the shelves (come on, they had 6 months to do it!) so I went back to the store and got a refund. I thought they would be outraged and very sorry but, they did not give a damn, I told them they were lucky nobody got sick… I should have faked it!!!
Your bottle is fine. It’s a “grey market” bottle, intended for Mexico. There’s lots of them in border towns. They don’t require all the labels if they are brought into the country by the store owner.
Wait. You didn’t say it was bilingual, did you?
So it must be old. Maybe the mom and pop market on the next block lost its lease and unloaded the contents of its basement.
I just this month got a box of Red Hots from the company vending machine and it had a contest on it that expired two years ago. The candy was half white and crystalized. Chewed like leather, but still sweet, so I ate it all. Mmmm
The bottle was not bilingual at all. English only. I live much closer to the Canadian border than the Mexican one, anyway.
I think you may be right, dubbele–maybe they bought out some other store. All I know is that I discovered that the sugar that I bought there yesterday had solidified into one big lump. I was able to break it up with a fork, but it’s still pretty lumpy. I don’t think it’s nearly as old as that salad dressing, though!