Posted on 07/22/2022 11:05:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
When it doubt throw it out 🤪
It may be safe to eat but is no longer tasty.
Same reason so much kale goes in the trash.
Does it pass the smell test?
Smell and texture beats out any “by” date.
In the old days, you knew when your food went bad. The downside of irradiation is nothing I ever expected from when I briefly worked for (in a long ago life) PIRG. It’s that when food goes bad, it still looks good. Beef doesn’t turn brown; it just eventually breaks down into glowingly red, sticky, rotting cow.
JUST PUT THE KALE IN A POT FULL OF TURNIP GREENS, COLLARDS OR MUSTARD GREENS AND IT ILL BE FINE..........................
Ping!................
Government is not the solution. In fact, get the government away from anything dealing with food. Government is not a replacement for common sense or personal responsibility. Neither are businesses. It’s not rocket science eat safely, and for those that don’t then maybe a little Darwinism should be in store.
I have eaten 17 year-old MRE tuna. The taste suggests a lot of alum but it did not make me sick.
Guess I was hungry.
That tuna as in the packet longer than it was in the sea!.............................
1899-1902 British Emergency Ration Field Service Oldest MRE Beef Eaten Survival Food Review Test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZoHuMwZwTk
We put a maximum 10 year expiration date on medical products. If they are sitting in our warehouse that long it means hospitals don’t want to buy the product in the first place.
Resorbable products are a bit different. Because they are meant to go away in the body they degrade over three to five years.
Common sense can be followed here. Dry foods will probably last years. Moist or wet foods like milk and meats degrade quickly.
Here’s a new term for the day: Psychrophilic bacteria. They are present in fish and grow at cold temperatures...that means refrigerated fish don’t last long.
(I learned that in packaging engineering, hadn’t heard the term before then)
It's synical to believe that date labels are there to get you to throw it away and buy more. Probably closer to the truth though.
I have been using up frozen dinners that are up to a year out of date and haven’t noticed any difference.
Still not sure if I am going to eat the one that is two years out of date.
Local Rite Aid has rubbing alcohol with 2-year expiration date.
But their Scotch doesn’t.
They are not still tasty after being frozen.
The texture goes all weird too.
They work in baked goods but even oldest son refused to eat them as scrambled eggs. Which was a shock as that boy would eat hay if you put ketchup on it.
wheat that was found in Egyptian tombs as still able to germinate and make bread flour....................
Does it pass the smell test?
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That’s what I use. The good old olfactory sense.
I suppose it’s not foolproof and not every contaminant causes a smell, but for the most part, we are naturally sensitive to spoilage, rot, or rancidity. There are things I’ve thrown away before the sell-by date, and there are things i have consumed well after it.
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