In reply to Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) :
Exactly, that's dumb
In reply to Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) :
Exactly, that's dumb
Alright, I'll play. Bets on how old? God, I hope there's a date on these things. Haven't touched em, they were in a cabinet in the basement when we bought the place 10 years ago.
In reply to Brotus7 :
One looks like it's opened, which is definitely scary.
Brotus7 said:Alright, I'll play. Bets on how old? God, I hope there's a date on these things. Haven't touched em, they were in a cabinet in the basement when we bought the place 10 years ago.
I'd say 60s.
Martini mix is basically pickle brine though usually so it can last longer than you think.
I wouldn't drink it though
One is definitely opened. Sadly, couldn't find a date on them. Took a rag to the metal cap and the gold paint/coating just flaked off! I had to read past several generations of spider corpses to reach them... The lengths I'll go to for the greater good!
I remember mom went all prepper for Y2K. She bought shelves for the basement and stocked them full of food. Some of it was dried goods like beans and rice, lots of canned food, pastas, etc. She has kind of continued the tradition of keeping it stocked, but I did find plenty of stuff that expired in 2002.
The laws regarding that stuff are kinda generic and don't take many factors into consideration. Like a jar of pickles or olives has the same expiration period as a can of tuna. I find it hard to believe that canned meat should have the same expiration as a vegetable in brine.
But is has to be given an expiration date. Just like prescription drugs. Ever notice how the expiration date is a year after it's filled? That's not because the drugs are ineffective after a year, it's because after one year your prescription expires and you no longer can technically legally have it in your possession.
I watched some TV show (might have been America's Test Kitchen) where they talked about canned food and the "best by" date. That is just the date they have determined that it will still taste like the product they promised and not like the can, but it's not expired or deadly after that date. They said that as long as it's not swollen and you hear the little hiss of air rush in when you break the seal, it's good.
A few years back, my girlfriend's dog had to be put down. Do you think I let his medicine go to waste? I did not. Expired dog gout medicine is just as effective as in date human gout medicine.
Can I interest anybody in some nice stewed tomatoes?
Beer. I have a habit of buying more beer and wine than I drink. So it tends to sit in my basement for a long time. Sometimes years. Fortunately, I'm a fan of imperial stouts with a fairly high ABV and they usually age well - I have some stouts over 7 years old and they are amazing. Some of them don't, which is unfortunate. Also true for wine. Some wines age well, some don't.
I have a pantry cabinet in my basement and I went through it a few weeks ago and found a bunch of food items that were well over 10 years old.
Pantry shelves should not be more than 12" deep.
My parents have a pretty big pantry room and a bit of a Costco habit. They had a ton of old cans sitting around.
A couple years ago they had a can of pineapple and one of Mandarin oranges both explode. Threw acid-filled fruit all over the wall and side of their freezer. Such a mess.
I went over and helped clean up several years later, and it took forever. I also took home a bunch of expired cans of food to eat.
In about 2005, my dad had major heart problems that required 9 hours of surgery to fix. Doc told him low salt from then on. Brothers and I went to the family home to clean out the 3 foot deep pantry cupboards to get rid of the high salt stuff. This translated into 'Get rid of all of it'.
My dad was a strong believer in the fact that all canned food was the same except for the label and so everything came from some version of the Canned Food Warehouse. There were cans in the back of those cupboards from companies none of us had ever heard of. Many cans had no expiration dates at all. On some, the company addresses had no ZIP codes. A few had the ends of the cans swollen out a quarter of an inch - we handled those very carefully.
We moved into that house in 1969. I have no doubt that some of those cans moved with us and went from the back of one cupboard into the back of another.
Being poor and hungry for a few years WILL change your perspective on what's spoiled, expired, or simply too nasty to eat.
At a work luncheon, someone shouted, "OH, GOD, its moldy!", and tossed a giant tub of butter out. I scooped it out of the trash, hogged out the tiny speck of green and said, "looks like you've never been hungry, have you?" as I jammed in my bag as I left.
For perspective, I've chewed milk on several occasions. Lower your standards, people.
I'll err on the side of not spewing forth my bowels from both ends.
I grew up poor. My grandfather made us eat a can of expired manwich. Everyone got sick and we spent more on toiler paper than what we saved on food.
I just threw out some canned grapes from 1952 and some beets from 1974. Both came from my neighbor's house about 10 years ago. He died at 94 and his mother had canned them. I kept them as an experiment to see what would fail. The lid on the grapes finally rusted out and lost it's seal in December 2020. I threw out the beets with the grapes because I didn't think the experiment needed to continue another 20 years.
I'm finishing up a case of grapefruit radler from 2019. Still good.
The other day at work, a promo calendar from 1987 was found in a drawer. Also invitations to a product expo from the same timeframe were found.
Found some fancy salad dressing in the fridge, smelled like nail polish. It had a best-by date of 2005.
ANYway...
Oh, and as for not eating at my house, the buttermilk is for baking.
So far, no one has turned down my baking.
Cinnamon date swirl sourdough bread.
Oh man, found and dared to eat and tried all kinds of e36 m3 when cleaning out my grand parents place with brothers and cousins a couple years back. Budweiser from the 1996 olympics, birthday cake from my first birthday (born in 85), all kinds of canned food dated all over the place including 60s and 70, other random pantry items. None of it that bad and no one got sick.
Went home with some Greek red wine from at least the 80s, random liquor from the 70s and possibly earlier but tossed the foodstuffs.
Pete. (l33t FS) said:Found some fancy salad dressing in the fridge, smelled like nail polish. It had a best-by date of 2005.
ANYway...
"Let's get that out onto a tray... Nice."
That guy will eat ANYTHING. It's fascinating.
ANYWAY, my mom is notorious for keeping things way past their prime. Not too long ago (maybe about 5 years ago) I was over visiting my parents with my wife. I was hungry and felt like making a PB&J, and my mom said there was some peanut butter in the fridge (yes, she puts peanut butter in the fridge, yes I know it's strange). I'm looking around and I see a small, weird jar of Skippy. It was a glass jar. Skippy hasn't come in a glass jar in a long time. I look closely at the label, and it's a commemorative jar from the Olympics.
The 1988 Summer Olympics.
Looked like this:
The peanut butter was freaking GRAY. Like Roswell Aliens gray. And my mom, of course, said "It's fine. I had some yesterday." I opened it up and it somehow smelled fine, but yeah, I passed on that.
The racoons are having a BIG time with what has been determined not fit for human consumption at this address 
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