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Morrisons to scrap 'use by' dates on milk to help reduce food waste (UK chain)
Sky News ^ | 1/9/2022 | staff

Posted on 01/09/2022 5:58:02 PM PST by fruser1

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Uh, if research shows it can be used after the date, why not just change the use-by date?

And how are those covid folks with no sense of smell going to sniff test?

The more I hear of this kind of stupidity, the more I think I should just take over and be king.

I would be a good one (I promise), though not for socialists.

1 posted on 01/09/2022 5:58:02 PM PST by fruser1
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I thought Limeys only drink beer and tea...


2 posted on 01/09/2022 5:58:53 PM PST by EEGator
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I thought Limeys only drink beer and tea...

Plus a little rum ... to go with their buggery.

3 posted on 01/09/2022 6:00:06 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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If they are a retailer, then one would think that they would encourage the waste so their customers would use more product. I’m starting to sound like an economist.


4 posted on 01/09/2022 6:02:08 PM PST by Rio
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“and will encourage customers to use a sniff test to check quality.”

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Ummm, the milk is sealed. So you encourage people to physically open the milk bottle or carton and get their noses close to the milk, which adds to contamination? Brilliant limeys s/


5 posted on 01/09/2022 6:03:44 PM PST by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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You forgot they drink lime juice. Scurvy is a nasty &$@+%.


6 posted on 01/09/2022 6:05:25 PM PST by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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I have the best sense of smell in the house, so I am the resident milk sniffer. It’s annoying.


7 posted on 01/09/2022 6:05:25 PM PST by Trillian
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I thought Limeys only drink beer and tea...

Both warm. Hard to get a good sweet ice tea or a cold beer there as I recall.

8 posted on 01/09/2022 6:05:34 PM PST by PAR35
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If you start swallowing chucks, it is time to stop.


9 posted on 01/09/2022 6:10:20 PM PST by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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SMART - now milk won’t be spoiled before you buy it anymore!


10 posted on 01/09/2022 6:13:46 PM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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“Use by” dates on milk are the only ones that are actually accurate. Learned the hard way to just dump it after that date, no bother “checking”.


11 posted on 01/09/2022 6:16:37 PM PST by ctdonath2 (Statistics don't matter when they happen to you.)
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Had to check to see if this was The Bee.


12 posted on 01/09/2022 6:18:10 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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Both warm. Hard to get a good sweet ice tea or a cold beer there as I recall.

As for beer, these days most all pubs have a chilled keg beer or two. Usually Carling Extra Cold and Stella. I have developed a taste for the cask ales kept in the cool basement.

I wouldn't think of asking for sweet iced tea unless I wanted to be considered balmy.

13 posted on 01/09/2022 6:18:32 PM PST by OSHA
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The best way to check bad milk is to put some of it in coffee in the morning. If it’s bad it will curdled up in small globs. Then you throw it out. No need to smell it.


14 posted on 01/09/2022 6:21:22 PM PST by Gaffer
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” I should just take over and be king.”

All hail King Fruser! I am your most loyal subject!


15 posted on 01/09/2022 6:23:13 PM PST by dljordan (Slouching towards Woketopia)
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When wife had COVID and lost her sniffer, I became the official milk sniffer. Don’t know what Morrisons uses, but I’ve found that the dates on milk are pretty good - when it hits the date it’s going bad.

On the other hand, dates on most foods are very conservative - stuff is still just fine weeks after the expiration. Depends a lot on how it’s kept.


16 posted on 01/09/2022 6:24:35 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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Agree


17 posted on 01/09/2022 6:25:26 PM PST by maro (MAGA!)
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After a certain amount of time, the cartons are moved to the cottage cheese section.


18 posted on 01/09/2022 6:25:52 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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I wouldn’t buy it.


19 posted on 01/09/2022 6:27:58 PM PST by Ge0ffrey
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.... Question: How are stores supposed to control and rotate their stock on the shelves if they don’t know the expiration date??? Why not use some kind of new coded system for the Merchandiser


20 posted on 01/09/2022 6:28:12 PM PST by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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