If it's milk or any other fresh food I'd rather not eat it. If it's crisps or chocolate or any of that stuff it's in my mouth before you can say.. well it's fast.
Poll: Out-of-date food. Do you eat it?
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If it's in a tin then you can.
If it smells / has mould then no.
Out of Date stuff tastes alright.
If it smells / has mould then no.
Out of Date stuff tastes alright.
As long as there is no mould...
This might be a little off-topic, but who believes in the five second rule?
This might be a little off-topic, but who believes in the five second rule?
I'm a bit paranoid when it comes to use-by dates, unless it's a tin or some kind of packet in which things obviously won't go off... like, vacuum packed cheese, that might just as well have no date on it, it's immortal until you open it, then you've probably got a week when you do get around to opening it.
My dad's theory is "we didn't have use-by dates in my day and we never got food poisoning... if it smells alright and looks alright, it's alright".
My dad's theory is "we didn't have use-by dates in my day and we never got food poisoning... if it smells alright and looks alright, it's alright".
At home, yeah, always. At uni, it tends to depend on how long since the cleaner last did the floors.StarStruckStrumpets said:
I always saw those dates as more like... Guidelines really.
If it looks and smells fine, I'll eat it.
If it looks and smells fine, I'll eat it.
I'll chance it, though I am a little more aprehensive ever since I ate some houmos that was a week past it's sell by date, fizzy houmos is the stuff of night-mares.
Well, I'll eat meat thats gone off color and smells funny so I might not be the best person to ask but...
If it's a DRY product like say, pancake mix or whatever, then that shit never really seems to go bad.
Also, things like eggs I've kept and eaten a month or more past the pull date without trouble.
Cheese, assuming it's a solid cheese and NOT something like cream cheese, I generally consider to stay good for a very long time. If it has a little mold on it, then cut that part off and you're good.
If it's a DRY product like say, pancake mix or whatever, then that shit never really seems to go bad.
Also, things like eggs I've kept and eaten a month or more past the pull date without trouble.
Cheese, assuming it's a solid cheese and NOT something like cream cheese, I generally consider to stay good for a very long time. If it has a little mold on it, then cut that part off and you're good.
