Expired food

[Jonluw]

Hiya escapists.

As I speak write I am drinking a glass of milk with a best before date of july the 5th. It's okay, but I am slightly skeptical due to a recent experience with some bad milk (I drank an entire glass, and when I got to the bottom I noticed my mouth was full of little lumps).

So, how are your tolerances towards expired food? Do you toss away food as soon as it expires, or do you tough it out if it expired recently? And if you tough it out; where do you draw the line?

Edit: On the topic of expiration dates: Meat apparently gets more tender the closer it is to its expiration date.

 

[lolmynamewastaken]

if it smells good and isn't green its still good.

 

[Free Thinker]

As soon as it's past the printed sell by date, I won't even think of eating or drinking it.

 

[SPCF]

if it smells good and isn't green its still good.

Basically what this guy said...
If I THINK it's good, it's good

 

[VicunaBlue]

With bread and veggies it doesn't matter so much, but I'd listen to the dates on meat and dairy products.

 

[lostzombies.com]

sniff test, you can tell with the vast majority of food/drink if they are off by sniffing it

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[child of lileth]

With milk, it's usually okay for me till about 3-4 days later, but I pretty much live off of milk, so I go through a gallon or 2 a week, and it never expires. lol

With food, depends on what it is. Bread I throw out a few days after, because I've had a ton of bad experiences with finding black bread. :<

 

[nick n stuff]

give it a sniff and a lick. if you like it eat it.

goes for more than just food...if you know what i mean.
i'm sorry but i had to

 

[Jonluw]

Not milk though.
Milk tastes funny when expired.

Not necessarily. You have got to be careful, or you'll end up with a mouthful of lumpy milk like I did.

 

[Seth Smith]

Oh man.

My senior year I worked as a janitor at my school. One day in the library I found this carton of milk that expired, like, the month before. It was all swollen. I thought to myself I thought, "This has potential." So I took it home with me with the intentions of getting someone to accidentally drink it. Unfortunately, the next day I opened the fridge and drank it myself, because I sometimes brought home milk from school to drink later, and I forgot about that one. Anyway, long story short I don't drink anything that is anywhere near the expiration date anymore.

And I hate milk.

 

[Free Thinker]

Oh man.

My senior year I worked as a janitor at my school. One day in the library I found this carton of milk that expired, like, the month before. It was all swollen. I thought to myself I thought, "This has potential." So I took it home with me with the intentions of getting someone to accidentally drink it. Unfortunately, the next day I opened the fridge and drank it myself, because I sometimes brought home milk from school to drink later, and I forgot about that one. Anyway, long story short I don't drink anything that is anywhere near the expiration date anymore.

And I hate milk.

I have worse. My Freshman year of high school, first day of band, someone mentions a milk from a year ago still in the drum locker. They went to check if someone threw it away. They didn't. 1 year old milk. The smell was...words cannot describe the horrors. It reminded me of the Cowboy Bebop episode with the lobster in the fridge.

 

[Sixties Spidey]

I've drank milk a couple days past the expiration... Didn't do anything. Did the same exact thing almost two months later, and got a pretty bad stomach flu. So yeah, now I prefer to check the expiration date a lot more now.

 

[Omikron009]

I'll be hesitant to eat something if it's anywhere near the expiration date.

 

[Sixties Spidey]

Not milk though.
Milk tastes funny when expired.

Not necessarily. You have got to be careful, or you'll end up with a mouthful of lumpy milk like I did.

Oh Christ. This, definitely. I had that happen to me more than once. Tastes like a mixture of yoghurt and ass.

 

[Brandon237]

Anything dry never expires, they just tell you that so that hobos have food when you throw your 2 year old packet of crisps out.

Meat, milk and dairy can GTFO thirty seconds after that expiry date is hit.

 

[mad825]

anything that develops life of its own.

in fact this reminds me of a short song by weird Al

 

[thethingthatlurks]

Hiya escapists.

As I speak write I am drinking a glass of milk with a best before date of july the 5th. It's okay, but I am slightly skeptical due to a recent experience with some bad milk (I drank an entire glass, and when I got to the bottom I noticed my mouth was full of little lumps).

So, how are your tolerances towards expired food? Do you toss away food as soon as it expires, or do you tough it out if it expired recently? And if you tough it out; where do you draw the line?

Edit: On the topic of expiration dates: Meat apparently gets more tender the closer it is to its expiration date.

YOU MADMAN! ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL YOURSELF?!!
yeah...drinking milk on its expiration date...some people jump off tall buildings, some hang themselves, some put a gun to their head, and others drink milk...

Okok, enough sarcasm. There's usually nothing wrong with milk that's a little past its expiration date, although smelling it is always a good idea, as stated above. But at least it's easy to tell with milk when it has gone bad; you'll smell it, it will taste sour, and it'll solidify if it has gone just a bit too long.
A bit of a tangent: I was at my parents' house about a month ago, and me and my brother decided to clean up the kitchen pantry. We found stuff that expired in 2005, but would still have been edible. Damn sugary stuff sealed under vacuum...

 

[Najos]

Like a lot of people, sniff and sip/taste it before diving in.

 

[Jonluw]

A bit of a tangent: I was at my parents' house about a month ago, and me and my brother decided to clean up the kitchen pantry. We found stuff that expired in 2005, but would still have been edible. Damn sugary stuff sealed under vacuum...

Ooh, I can relate. I found some pretty old stuff in my grandparents' pantry as well. Stuff with pricetags that said 1 NOK (practically nothing costs 1 NOK these days).