Sell by dates - confession time!

[Rigger]

Ok now that we're told they don't mean a lot what's the most out of date foodstuff you've found lurking in the back of a locker ?? I recently found a can of Carlsberg dated best before 1995 and it tasted just as bad now as it would have then !!!

 

[sailorman]

Ok now that we're told they don't mean a lot what's the most out of date foodstuff you've found lurking in the back of a locker ?? I recently found a can of Carlsberg dated best before 1995 and it tasted just as bad now as it would have then !!!

carlsberg is akin to making love in a dinghy so the taste may have improved.
we has a FB pie 3 yrs out of date (only slight rusting visible )

 

[Blueboatman]

Dunno but I have two food lockers that I like to keep full to bursting' just in case' . Trouble is, being a creature of buying habit, ( frayB special offers, Tom soup in 4s ), they tend to stack up instead of being used in rotation.
So short answer, there's stuff dating back to the purchase if this and every boat!

 

[CAPTAIN FANTASTIC]

Bottle of Brandy ~1938; I will drink it one day.

 

[SlimRick]

I'm half way through a bottle of 40yr old Malt - tastes just fine

 

[Supine Being]

I still occasionally use thai chilli sauce that I keep in the fridge and that ran out of date in 2005. I reckon if any bacteria can survive all that chilli then fair play to them.

 

[Talbot]

I remember in the mid60s as an army cadet at school, we were using second world war dated ration packs when on annual camp. The tinned butter was excellent, but the processed cheese was revolting.

 

[nickd]

I still occasionally use thai chilli sauce that I keep in the fridge and that ran out of date in 2005. I reckon if any bacteria can survive all that chilli then fair play to them.

Agreed - but if some do manage to live there what are they going to do to you!

 

[Seajet]

Revised stowage procedure

Years ago when young & possibly even more foolish, a chum & I had a fair few pints ashore, then got to the boat, as we chatted it was thought a coffee would be a good idea.

Coffee was delved out of the back of the locker, and even in our state we thought it wasn't the best; hey ho, crashed out.

In the morning I looked in the coffee jar to see green mould; I'd gone straight past the recently bought stuff and found something which had been lurking at the back of the locker for years...

 

[Slow_boat]

I remember in the mid60s as an army cadet at school, we were using second world war dated ration packs when on annual camp. The tinned butter was excellent, but the processed cheese was revolting.

The possessed cheese was always revolting, even when new.

Okay on hard-tack with a bit of jam, though.

The Mars bars were always going white but tasted fine.

 

[Talulah]

Perhaps on Flares there should be a 'use by date' instead of an 'expiry date'.
That would add some fun.

Alternatively, by changing the 'expiry date' to a 'best before date' we wouldn't need to replace them so often and that would solve some of the associated problems.

 

[john_morris_uk]

When we got married 27 years ago, SWMBO's grandmother gave us a box of provisions to start our kitchen cupboard off with. In it was a bottle of gravy browning. The label fell off years ago so I have no idea what its sell by or use before date was. We still use it from time to time.

 

[haydude]

I always have lager on board for guests, which I do not drink and neither do they because they are wise enough when sailing, so it gets out of date.

I still have a bottle of wine of the two pack used to bless the boat.

It should taste like Rioca by now.

 

[Poignard]

Last weekend we unearthed 3 bottles of Carrefour UHT milk from a locker under my bunk; expiry date 22 July 2011. We are now using it, with no ill-effects.

 

[Poignard]

My son-in-law returned very late from a night out with his mates and made himself a ham sandwich using nappy liners (clean ones, I should say) that happened to be lying on the kitchen table. Just before he fell into a drunken stupor on the kitchen floor he complained to my daughter that the bread was stale.

 

[Deleted member 36384]

Lunch time Pork Pies a few days past their sell by date, stored in cool box long past its cool point. The crew were happy munching away, including me, when I noticed mould on the pie I was eating.

Being last to eat because I was serving, I noticed most had finished their pies. Not wishing to be impolite I gubbed down the last morsel of the pie and thought all for one and one for all.

Thankfully nothing happened and the heads remained spatter free.

I have eaten quite a lot of mouldy bread by mistake and there is a famous picture of me in circulation amongst my friends when I dropped a pot of 3 month old vegetable soup on stain master carpet thankfully. Gagarama time as I had to clean it up of course. I didn't eat the mouldy soup that time.

 

[Baggywrinkle]

I remember in the mid60s as an army cadet at school, we were using second world war dated ration packs when on annual camp. The tinned butter was excellent, but the processed cheese was revolting.

You didn't eat enough of them! As an army cadet we were still being fed those rat packs in the late 80s. Clearly we were expendable.

 

[prv]

The tinned butter was excellent, but the processed cheese was revolting.

Cheese Possessed? With strange crunchy bits in it?

Our cadet unit in the 90s finished up the last of the cans and moved over to the pouched rations. Mostly fine, except that we were told not to eat the cheese spread in them. Apparently whatever Logistics organisation does these things had tested a sample from that batch and found all the cheese full of some lethal bacteria.

I believe the white powdery mars bars were from a shipment destined for Iran, that was never sent due to the revolution there. The Army ended up with them instead, and took decades to use them all up.

Pete

 

[pugwash94]

The possessed cheese was always revolting, even when new.

Okay on hard-tack with a bit of jam, though.

I reckoned heaven was an Oatmeal block, slice of processed cheese, and jam washed down with tea made with condensed milk and loads of sugar. Mind you it had to be consumed in mid November when you and everyone else were cold wet and suffering from severe sense of humour failure.