Best Before Dates
Discussion
R360 said:
Whats the score with best before dates, who sticks to them.
If its fresh food or meat i always stick to the dates, but with things like biscuits my thinking is if they taste and smell ok eat them
Depends solely on the food. Things like crisps, biscuits, cereals etc, the date isn't important. It's when they start going soft that I wont eat them. Chocolate is similar - it goes white but it's still edible. Things like meat and milk you gotta be more careful with, but I've had pork / ham which only started smelling about 10 days after it's date, it tasted / smelt fine before that.. Milk lasts quite long these days in fridges, I had some workmen round last friday (26th) and accidentally gave them my housemates milk that had gone off on the 9th... It didn't curdle, and they didn't complain!! (it was cravendale may I add) If its fresh food or meat i always stick to the dates, but with things like biscuits my thinking is if they taste and smell ok eat them
Edited by Riknos on Wednesday 1st December 17:46
Once went to Wales on a student trip and the hotel owner served us biscuits one year out of date.
Being geologists, and not media studies students, we had to watch the porn at night rather than cuddle a real life girl. It went on to 12 pm them he shut down for the night , Cue 12.01am when he kept getting rung up for demands of more porn and he went mental....
Somebody left their wet jeans on top of a one bar electric fire and almost burnt the place down as well.
Am I rambling and sounding like my mum in the old days? What was the question ? :lol:
Andy
Being geologists, and not media studies students, we had to watch the porn at night rather than cuddle a real life girl. It went on to 12 pm them he shut down for the night , Cue 12.01am when he kept getting rung up for demands of more porn and he went mental....
Somebody left their wet jeans on top of a one bar electric fire and almost burnt the place down as well.
Am I rambling and sounding like my mum in the old days? What was the question ? :lol:
Andy
garyhun said:
Always ignore the dates. Smell the food - that's how you know if it's "off" or not
you can't expect people to do something as sensible as this!I remember one chap on here who said he threw meat in the bin after three days in his fridge, regardless of either the use by date or what the actual condition was.
Whenever I come across a use by date fanatic I always ask them what they do if they have a piece of meat that is green and rotten but still in date - do they think it's fine? And if not, why not use your senses the other way round. Haven't received an answer to that one yet.
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