If the bread moves, you'll have an entirely different problem on your hands.Jodah said:
OT: Though it really depends what kind of food it is, if it doesn't taste, look, or smell funny, I'll probably eat it.
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OT: Though it really depends what kind of food it is, if it doesn't taste, look, or smell funny, I'll probably eat it.
to parafrase 'if in ANY doubt, chuck it.' thats my dads way of doing it, and hes a chef XD.lettucethesallad said:
but seriously, for a lot of stuff, the date on it is retarded. some things like mayonaise or stuff with way too much sugar in it are nearly indefintly keepable Xd
Sure I do! I'm eating some right now. I went dumpster diving last night and got a pretty good haul: potatoes, pulla, garlic ciabatta, whole grain bread, coffee cream, salad, apples, juice, frozen dinners, cucumbers, meat doughnuts...
My stomach is made of pretty awesome stuff so I'm not worried. Haven't gotten ill this far, and I've been doing this for a year or so.
My stomach is made of pretty awesome stuff so I'm not worried. Haven't gotten ill this far, and I've been doing this for a year or so.
Friend and i discovered three cartons of soft drink that went out of date in 07, we thought what the hell, its soft drink, its canned, it wont kill us.
The diet coke and normal coke both tasted like ass (baking soda), weirdly though the lift still tasted normal
The diet coke and normal coke both tasted like ass (baking soda), weirdly though the lift still tasted normal
Yep, for several reasons and with a few exceptions.
a) I'm a student so it saves money buying stuff the day it runs out and using it that day or the day after.
b) I've worked in a supermarket for the past four years and the amount of food we chuck out that's still good to eat is surprisingly bad. There's usually a good couple of days leeway with somethings, particularly tins and dried foods.
Saying that though, I'm picky with milk. I tend not to touch it if it's out of date, even if it's just opened.
a) I'm a student so it saves money buying stuff the day it runs out and using it that day or the day after.
b) I've worked in a supermarket for the past four years and the amount of food we chuck out that's still good to eat is surprisingly bad. There's usually a good couple of days leeway with somethings, particularly tins and dried foods.
Saying that though, I'm picky with milk. I tend not to touch it if it's out of date, even if it's just opened.
Use your eyes and your nose! You're usually able to pick the mould off of foods like bread with it being fine. Jams and honeys, just scrape it off the top and the stuff underneath is fine. At the end of the day, penicillin comes from mould. Who knows, maybe you could discover the next great medicine...
This is actually an interesting point of discussion for me, because I work in a supermarket, in the Operations section, so it's my job to clear out all the out-of-date food at closing time and chuck it in the big bins out back. We try and reduce wastage as much as possible, so usually we tend to reduce the price of items that are going out of date that day, by a small amount at first and then down to obscene prices in the last hour or so of trading each day (I've sold massive loaves of bread for 19p before, and sold three whole ducks in November for around £2 each when they originally cost over £15 - some woman took three home for the freezer, for Christmas dinner. Massive bargain for her...). However, usually, the food we chuck out is still fit for human consumption, and will be for days afterwards.
Everything that has a best before date on it can be preserved for much longer than the date. Either stick it in the freezer, or in the fridge. All of the food we chuck out each evening is still good quality and can be eaten, and indeed we often have people coming over the fence stealing the wasted food from the bins and taking it home (mainly students from my university, known as 'freegans'). Technically it's illegal for us to allow the food to be sold afterwards, or given away, and if these freegans get caught they tend to get a major bollocking from the staff member who catches them. But even so, that's only because we're doing our jobs. Really, most of us working at my place of work agree that the food should be allowed to be taken away by freegans, or should be given to the homeless, but we simply can't do it. It's completely illegal for us to do that, and we'd be liable if we did that and someone fell ill from bad food. So sadly, our hands are tied...
Regarding whether or not I'd eat out-of-date food myself, I would if it still looked alright and if it wasn't obviously bad. Most of it I'd be cooking anyway so any bacteria or whatever will die anyway, and if it's only in a few days then it should be fine. I have one egg left in the fridge that's about a month out of date, but I tend to check my eggs with the whole 'cup of water' trick to make sure they're still fit to eat, and this one egg still is even now. I have sausages and bacon in the freezer from October, and because they've been in the freezer all this time they're still good to eat. If my milk turns sour or my bread goes mouldy then of course I'll throw it away, but as long as it is still fit to eat then whatever the label says is irrelevant to me.
Everything that has a best before date on it can be preserved for much longer than the date. Either stick it in the freezer, or in the fridge. All of the food we chuck out each evening is still good quality and can be eaten, and indeed we often have people coming over the fence stealing the wasted food from the bins and taking it home (mainly students from my university, known as 'freegans'). Technically it's illegal for us to allow the food to be sold afterwards, or given away, and if these freegans get caught they tend to get a major bollocking from the staff member who catches them. But even so, that's only because we're doing our jobs. Really, most of us working at my place of work agree that the food should be allowed to be taken away by freegans, or should be given to the homeless, but we simply can't do it. It's completely illegal for us to do that, and we'd be liable if we did that and someone fell ill from bad food. So sadly, our hands are tied...
Regarding whether or not I'd eat out-of-date food myself, I would if it still looked alright and if it wasn't obviously bad. Most of it I'd be cooking anyway so any bacteria or whatever will die anyway, and if it's only in a few days then it should be fine. I have one egg left in the fridge that's about a month out of date, but I tend to check my eggs with the whole 'cup of water' trick to make sure they're still fit to eat, and this one egg still is even now. I have sausages and bacon in the freezer from October, and because they've been in the freezer all this time they're still good to eat. If my milk turns sour or my bread goes mouldy then of course I'll throw it away, but as long as it is still fit to eat then whatever the label says is irrelevant to me.
Yep, just check that it still smells and tastes alright. I read that a lot of you eat bread with mold, after picking the mold off. I would never do that since the package is still full of the mold's spores. There's essentially mold everywhere on that loaf of bread. Not getting that in my system.
You people are silly and overprivileged.
Sure, if something is a month or 2 old, it's going to be bad, but to not eat bread that is 1 day past an arbitrary date is just naive.
Sure, if something is a month or 2 old, it's going to be bad, but to not eat bread that is 1 day past an arbitrary date is just naive.
I regularly eat stuff that is years past the expiration date. Last month I finished off a can of mixed nuts that had a date of 2005 printed on it. They were totally fine. Right now there's cream cheese from 2008 in the fridge. Nothing wrong with it. I've had salad dressing that was over 7 years old and it was the same as the day it was bought. I've eaten yogurt that had mold growing on it. I used to eat raw beef by the handful. While I'm at it, I don't get flu shots or wash my hands after going to the restroom. omg Some people are just so paranoid about germs they take sanitary living too far. Who needs an immune system when you can just gobble up antibiotics every time you have a runny nose or a cough? Pff.
