Not quite the level of Egyptian honey, but 10 bottles of 100+ year old Mackinlay’s Scotch were found under Ernest Shackleton’s shelter in Antarctica. 3 were rescued and subsequently drunk.
They may have only been a little over 100 years old but they were Shackleton’s scotch!
https://www.seeker.com/whisky-buried-in-antarctic-ice-for-100-years-is-finally-ready-for-you--1765466963.html
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The mandate/job of the FDA isn’t to push the boundaries of what might be possible but to protect people in the US wrt food and drugs. A lot people tend to complain about the FDA, and most of them because they don’t know much about the FDA, but those people would be also the first to complain if they would be affected by issues with drugs and/or food covered by a more “generous” FDA
Thanks for the snort!
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It’s yours next time you visit Toronto. I have 2 bags.
I think so. I read something about holiday leftovers, saying FDA recommends pitching anything left in the fridge over about 4 days. I’ve had bagged turkey meat sit in the fridge 10-14 days and still fine. Ditto other dry-ish foods, and stuff like chili.
But the recommendations are like ServSafe rules - look at worst case scenario and try to avoid it.
Maybe for the guy whose fridge barely manages 43°F/6C, whereas mine is 33 to 35°F (upper shelves, lower shelves, did mapping with glasses of water).
Or outside the realm of foodstuffs, the “Curve Ahead - 35 mph” signs that most of us blissfully take at 50 mph. These speed warnings were probably set with top-heavy or antiquated vehicles in mind and don’t really relate to late-model passenger vehicles.
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That’s like the pic i saw of Himalayan Pink Salt advertised as “Over 400 Million Years Old” that had a use-by date that the buyer said was only 18 months from purchase date.
Could have been a spoof, though.
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I’ve seen that one too - when Home Goods has their shelves piled up with “fancy” salts, etc., they ALL have a “best by” date on them. I just giggle and move on.
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I wait until opened food products develop locomotion. When that container of cole slaw is now on the other side of the fridge, time to throw it out.
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I don’t know about your coleslaw, Steve, but I am pretty sure I will recognize when my potato salad has gone bad.
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Eeeeep! That will be stale as all get out. Your sense of smell will quickly tell whether it’s good or not.
I get great deals at TJ Maxx in Orleans - honey, jams, fancy salts/spice mixes, capers, pasta, olives, salsas. I don’t buy much else there, I go right for the food isle. I am careful not to buy damaged packages but “use by” dates aren’t an issue with what’s available at that store.
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That’s hilarious. Thank you.
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I love Home Goods, TJMaxx and Marshall’s food section. Hell, I love HG’s entire kitchen area. I’m going to the one in Westford, MA on Saturday to pick up European chocolates (English, Belgian, Swiss, whatever) to fill the mini gift bags for my office coworkers as I’ve done for about 8-10 years.
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My dear mother makes the best potato salad on the planet. For my 50th birthday my husband arranged a “surprise party” (which pissed me off in a major way) but was well attended, and my mother traveled from Ohio to my brother’s home in central Massachusetts and made her potato salad to bring to the event. I was gobsmacked by the surprise, didn’t eat anything but I squirreled away a Tupperware container of her potato salad so I could have it the next day. I hid it in the far recesses of the refrigerator and put camouflage around it so I knew it was safe…
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I used to keep cancelled checks in the back of my fridge. I knew they’d never get tossed🤪
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I never refrigerated paper but my Mother’s husband was a cretin and could eat his way through anything I brought into the house when I visited her. He was unapologetic and foodstuff would disappear overnight. He could not see out of his right eye - he had a prosthetic eye. I used to stash stuff I wanted to have for myself in the right bottom vegetable drawer in the far right corner and shove packages of carrots up to disguise it and that was always successful. He was an incredibly unpleasant man.
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Oh my! And I was only hiding the cheques from myself …
Ha ha ha - you’re lucky you never watched Phil shove food in his face. My mom said she married him because he made her laugh. I never understood that…
Oh my, redux.
And I love to laugh.
