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re: Expiration dates on food...
Posted on 10/15/25 at 4:07 pm to jasonbr1975
Posted on 10/15/25 at 4:07 pm to jasonbr1975
If it's something i'm going to cook the shite out of, i assume i can kill pretty much anything harmful.
e.g., bacon was unopened but a week out of date. It was admittedly slightly funky. Just made it extra crispy. Survived.
e.g., bacon was unopened but a week out of date. It was admittedly slightly funky. Just made it extra crispy. Survived.
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Posted on 10/15/25 at 4:10 pm to jasonbr1975
I once ate 12 year old Skippy peanut butter. I was fine!
Posted on 10/15/25 at 4:13 pm to shotskimakesmysat
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Not sure where you are buying milk from, but we buy 2-3 gallons at a time and they all make it to the date.
I've tried all the biggies - Rouse's, Albertson's, Walmart, Winn Dixie, Aldi, even Dollar General.
Best results - ironically - have been from Walmart...Rouse's, Aldi, and Dollar General have been the worst. Kleinpeter usually keeps a little better than store brand. There was a time with Rouse's where I got like 3 half-gallons in a row that spoiled in less than 5 days.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 4:50 pm to LSUGUMBO
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shops the 50% off meat section for pretty much everything, so take that for what it's worth. It either gets cooked or vacuum sealed & frozen the day I purchase it
this is the way
Posted on 10/15/25 at 5:08 pm to jasonbr1975
My wife has made me realize they pay some young high school kid probably to label all types of food with expiration stickers. It’s all a sham/guessing game. Like you said if it passes the eye and smell test, it’s probably good.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 5:09 pm to Rex Feral
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Expiration dates are a scam by Big Grocery to get you to buy more food. If it smells ok I'll eat it.
Literally all that needs to be said
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:08 pm to Techdave
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I tend to believe expiration dates are more of a CYA for the food industry than and actual useful date.
Probably this.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:15 pm to jasonbr1975
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What is your stance?
The “expiration date” is not necessarily the date when the food is “bad”. It is mainly a date beyond which stores are allowed to sell a product, effectively know more descriptively as the “sell-by” date. Stores are required to take items off the shelves if they become “expired” or beyond the “sell-by” date. Of course, stores won’t tell you that. They would rather you come back and buy some more since the stuff that they bought there previously is now “expired”.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:27 pm to jasonbr1975
They are sell by dates. More as a legal cover for the producers and grocers than they are to indicate that the product is spoiled.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:32 pm to Boudreauboudreaugoly
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Stores are required to take items off the shelves if they become “expired” or beyond the “sell-by” date.
No they aren’t. And “expired” dates are a wholly different thing than “sell by” dates.
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Of course, stores won’t tell you tha
Why would a store tell people something you made up? The only law requirement around expiration date and removal would be with infant formula. Stores have definitely made that known.
This post was edited on 10/15/25 at 6:35 pm
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:33 pm to jasonbr1975
My wife buys the big bags of chips from Sam's, I keep them in the fridge & eat them weeks sometimes months after the expiration date. They stay fresh & crisp.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:33 pm to jasonbr1975
I love it when the supermarket uses it as an excuse to mark down steaks. Can pick up cheap ribeyes with a day or two left and throw them in the freezer.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:47 pm to jasonbr1975
Milk, dairy, raw fresh meat are only ones I follow. Meat if it’s looks and smells ok I’ll cook a couple days after date
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:51 pm to jasonbr1975
I’ll give you permission to eat anything you want. You can dumpster dive for anything you want brother. Good luck
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:53 pm to The Pirate King
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A rumor I heard is a lot of stores these days have lazy workers that are leaving the product on the loading docks for too long before refrigerating it.
Ya’ll would be amazed just how long perishables (mainly dairy) sit on the dock at well above room temp after being offloaded from the refrigerated trucks.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 7:41 pm to Topwater Trout
quote:Milk is one of those items that you don’t really need an expiration date to tell you if it’s good or not. If it’s bad you can smell and taste it immediately. And if it’s good it just tastes like milk.
Milk is the only one I usually go by
I’ve drank milk a couple days past the date because it still smells and tastes fine. And I’ve had some jugs go sour before the date.
I only use the date as a general idea of when the milk might go bad.
This post was edited on 10/15/25 at 7:42 pm
Posted on 10/15/25 at 7:59 pm to Rrrrroger
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sit on the dock at well above room temp
They also sit in the aisles at the stores when they stock the shelves overnight. So by the time we get it in our house, it may have been refrigerated and warmed up 2 to 3 times.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 8:06 pm to jasonbr1975
I have spices/herbs that expired 10 years ago that im still using 
Posted on 10/15/25 at 8:37 pm to jasonbr1975
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They also sit in the aisles at the stores when they stock the shelves overnight. So by the time we get it in our house, it may have been refrigerated and warmed up 2 to 3 times.
Yup
If there is one thing I’m picky as can be about it is dairy.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 9:12 pm to jasonbr1975
My daughter and I both treat expiration dates as though they’re inscribed on stone tablets brought down from the mount by Moses himself.
My wife on the other hand treats them as a mere suggestion. And that’s if she even bothers checking.
My wife on the other hand treats them as a mere suggestion. And that’s if she even bothers checking.
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