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20-06-2014, 09:58 PM
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Re: Best Before Dates

Originally Posted by Julie1962 ->
They have vast testing laboratories AC, where they keep products for various lengths of time in various temperatures etc. Near us they have a place where they test for all the YUM group, if you are there for any reason on a test end day they give all the food that is still good away free ! I used to clean there and came home with masses of KFC and pizza hut and taco bell stuff.
Thank you Julie, you lucky lucky girlMy husband would die for KFC skin! Bad I know
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20-06-2014, 09:59 PM
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Re: Best Before Dates

You are right, Bird.
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21-06-2014, 02:05 PM
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I was making myself an egg sandwich today when I noticed that my mayonnaise had a Best Before date of 2012. Seemed OK to me.

After my second wife left I found a jar of Vegemite with a Use By date of 15 years previously, my kids had it on their school lunches for the following year even though it had 'expired' before they were born. They survived the experience. It just shows how meaningless these dates are... I mean, Vegemite! It would still be edible in the next millennium.
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21-06-2014, 02:18 PM
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That's hilarious
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21-06-2014, 02:34 PM
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Re: Best Before Dates

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Tinned food never used to have use by dates on. Nowadays it does but I'm sure it could be used years after the date and still be OK.
I'm living proof of that!
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A few years ago - scientists down in Antarctica managed to find and dig up stores that were placed there for the Scott expedition in 1911. The food was still edible 100 years later!!!
 
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