I thought that the size issue was obvious - after all, a four ounce bottle wouldn’t have lasted 20 years after the expiration date.
Maple syrup (the real stuff) and honey are supposed to last forever.
~VOW
A guy whose property abuts ours has bee hives. He brings the hives to our horse pastures when clover is peaking, and gives us a tiny jar. He also taps his maples and a few of ours every 2-3 years and makes syrup. We get a tiny container of that as well.
I took some homemade plum jam into the office and forgot about it. I changed jobs and then went back to that company 18 months later. They’d moved office by then, but my jam was still in the fridge, and still tasty.
I was at a boarding school in Zimbabwe in 1998, when we were issued tomato sauce (aka ketchup ) with a very dark brown colour.
On further investigation, we did not notice any expiry date, but we did see the “Made in Rhodesia” mark… 18 years after independence.
We ate it.
Perfectly good label like that - you don’t use them up all at once.
Today I was out with a cousin cleaning storm debris and she found a bag of Halloween candy hidden away in a supply shed. It isn’t clear which Halloween it was from, she thought maybe “during Covid”. No expiration date on it. But thinking of this thread I picked out a tiny Kit-Kat bar. Visually it had some patches of white like recrystallized chocolate. The taste was stale but not unplesant. The aftertaste, though, was pretty darn unpleasant, with hints of ammonia among other things. I did not recommend them.
A Bosnian friend renewed their passport in 2013 and it still had Yugoslavia crossed out with Bosnia stamped underneath. Then a Russian friend renewed hers in 2015 and it still had CCCP/USSR printed on it. She was born in 91 so had never really lived in the USSR. Paper never expires!
I’ve eaten chocolate that was years old and had bloomed. It didn’t taste very good, but I didn’t get sick.
Recently I found a package of hot dogs in my refrigerator that had expired 2 months earlier. I thought about throwing them away, but I ate them anyway. Again, I didn’t get sick.
I just laughed out loud re hot dog ends/anus…
My husband is always checking dates on packaging. Last night he asked me if we had any more ranch dressing. I found a bottle in the pantry, I checked the date - 10/15/23! I immediately thought of some of you. Luckily the date was printed on the paper label wrapped around the neck of the bottle. I “accidentally” ripped it off when I opened it for him. I took a whiff, it seemed fine. He ate it and didn’t complain.
Yesterday I ate some black beans from a can that expired 2.5 years ago. No problems yet.
I have proplems from unexpired beans. Not me
personaly, but others around me.
Can you or anyone else who hoards bottles of salad dressing please elaborate, you’ve said this before and while I get the impression you’re a foodie I don’t understand this behavior? Not judging well maybe a little but What are we taking about? Bottles of Wishbone, Marzetti or Kraft in your fridge for years? How big is your fridge? And how often do you dig out the 10 yo Kraft Ranch dressing, only on special occasions?
For me it’s usually an oddball dressing purchased originally to try out. It wasn’t anything special so the bottle eventually got moved to the downstairs refrigerator (aka the beer fridge) where it was forgotten about. Or it was purchased as an ingredient in a marinade and never used.
Also I’ll go through periods where I make our dressings from scratch. Then the various balsamics and poppy seed commercial dressings are forgotten about for a while.
Ok I get it, specialty bottles for occasional use, makes sense.
I have a jar of preserves smuggled out of Costa Rica in 2018. Way past Best Buy date and unopened. Not gonna use it ever I don’t think so but I like the label and until I decide to dump it out it’s in my fridge.
The last few weeks I’ve had several cans of evaporated milk “Best by Nov 2021”. They taste fine.
Just saw this. I’ve told this story before, but what the hell - a couple of years ago we were round at our friends C and J’s place, had dinner, settled in for a few drinks, and J produced a bottle (unopened) of Haig whisky, and passed it to me to open it. I was confused, because I couldn’t figure out how the cap worked (and I’m reasonably experienced at opening whisky bottles). I eventually did manage to open it, but the peculiar cap led to a discussion about where the bottle had come from. J (in her late 70’s) concluded that she had inherited it when her father died. Later research on the cap revealed that this had only been used for a period in the 1960’s, and that the (unopened) bottle was very much a collector’s item.
And that’s how a regular bottle of Haig is by a huge distance the most expensive whisky I have ever drunk.
j.
A friend who is really into wine, and has an actual wine cellar (as opposed to a cellar where wine is kept) gave me a bottle of “good” wine, curious about wether we’d like it. He kept pushing us to open it.
I brought the bottle along to a little Italian place that was BYOB. The owner, an older Italian woman, commented on the beautiful bottle as she attempted to open it. The old cork crumbled.
She improvised and poured the wine through a coffee filter. We shared the bottle with her. It was delicious.
I later found out that the particular vintage was available to purchase for 4-500 dollars.
No. It’s mostly sugar water, and has enough sugar that pretty much the only thing that can grow in it is mold. No mold means it’s fine. A little mold means you should strain and boil it and put it into a clean container. A lot of mold can affect the flavor, but i don’t think it ever becomes unsafe.
I mean, of course it looks like an anus. So what?