I hate food expiration dates, don’t you? Who dares eat food past its expiration date? Most people wouldn’t. Naturally. But this is where it irritates me.
While Jerry Seinfeld once joked about expiration date on milk cartons (cows tell you when), here’s something else to think about.
Some packaging says, “Expiration date”. Straight forward isn’t it? You simply don’t question this one. If you do, do it at your own risk. People are going to laugh at you for eating something past its expiration date.
But other packaging say, “Best before”. Now what do you do? One day after the printed date, is it really not as good as the day prior? I mean it does not say, “Do not consume after such and such date”, rather it says, “after this date, it’s no longer in the best condition”.
So what if it’s no longer best, it’s still pretty good isn’t it?
Isn’t it?
Unrelated: I just ate a cheese sandwich with BBQ sauce apparently 20 days past “Best When Used By” date.
What?
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