Today, I learned that instead of discarding expired products at my work, we change the label to make them 'expire' later. FML
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Today, I saw my mom changing the expiry date on milk. She genuinely thought this would make the milk sour later. FML
Today, my workplace often leaves out "expired" food from the café that our department coincides with, as it is wasteful to throw away perfectly fine cuisine. I soon discovered that the inside of a seemingly normal looking cupcake was actually filled with mold when I took a large mouthful of it. FML
Today, while tidying up my grandmother's fridge, I got to play expiration-date-bingo. The winner was some type of concentrated apple sauce supposed to be used for salad dressings. It expired in 1986. FML
Today, I was eating cereal while absentmindedly reading the box. I was amused when I found it expires on my birthday. Then I realized it expired on my birthday two years ago. FML
Today, someone at work took my delicate medication out of the fridge to make room for their lunch. Now my medication has expired. FML
Today, we found out that the drinks we've had for our Christmas party at work yesterday were expired. For anything between six and eleven months. All of us drank them. FML
Today, I cleaned out the fridge for my mother. I didn't throw out a single thing that was less than a month past its expiration. Instead of thanks, she complained about everything that I threw away being still good, including a tub of butter that had been expired for two years. FML
Today, a customer called the restaurant I work at to ask if our coupons were always valid, or if they expired on the expiration date printed on them. FML
Today, I noticed a customer looking for expired products in hopes of receiving a coupon from my store. I told them to let me know if they found anything. They promptly began following me around, telling me how to do my job, only to later file a complaint saying that I was harassing them. FML
Today, I decided to have some bagels. It was only after I ate them that I looked at the cream cheese and discovered that it expired 3 years ago. FML
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Starfire22 5
Ewww! That sounds like that's illegal to do...
The_Disturbed 5
I say report them to whatever trading standards board you have in the US. That's illegal and if someone gets ill eating their food, they'll be able to sue. Big time.
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Comments (146)
hippy_lady 4
I wish I knew who you were so I could report you.
Thebearjew1991Xx 0
yes it's gross we all get that but obviously this person didn't know considering she just found out puls I know alot of groccery stores that do that especially viarta(sp?) my grandma Lives in Cali and bought meat from there that wasn't supposed to exspire for a month that had maggots in it
J_Rodriguez112 0
where do you work ? because I do not wanna be the 1 to buy something that expired in 2009
m1204 0
I hardly believe your story for the simple fact that expiration dates are stamped on the container or label to prevent tampering! A restaurant would not need to do this, as customers have no access to expiration date, although the health department would and any tampering with that would be a violation. As far as grocery stores, the write off is well worth throwing the bad stuff out. And the big question is why would they let everyone know they do this,when a call to the local health dept. is all it would take to shut it down.Nice try, you created chaos.
52fremont 0
you should TOTALLY stop talking about things you know nothing about! Restaurants do have to label food; at least fast food places do. The container of tomatoes used for salads? Labelled. The lettuce prepared to go on burgers? Labelled. I used to do this at Jack in the Box and we did change labels (on the salads!)
Kristoffer 35
FYL. That's not even close to legal.
alissanicole 0
actually this happens all the time at restaurants..I've worked at starbucks, taco bell, and burger king and they've all done this..another thing that happens a lot at fast food restaurants is they drop your food on the ground while making it but still give it to you to eat..its gross but people don't even realize it
m1204 0
Be careful in mentioning businesses by name...it could spell legal trouble!
martic835 2
And that's why I refuse to eat at fast food restaurants unless I'm really, really high and don't care.
laurabloodycasin 0
There's this wonderful thing called 'ServSafe' you follow it or get closed.
falsesanity 0
ServSafe and SafeServ follow State Health code, most franchises or chains have there own codes to follow that are much more strict. So you could relabel foods to prevent yourself from getting in trouble with the company while following your State Health code with no legal issues at all.
Ninjaface 0
Wait, the people at your work can keep things from expiring just by changing the label? That's amazing! In what other ways can you bend the spacetime continuum, because I'd like winter break to be a little longer.
deng314 0
i used to work in a grocery store and i remember stories of fresh meat department managers who would remove expired meat packages off their shelve, take them to the back and repackage the meat with new dates. They would even go as far as turning over the meat so you could not see the darkened areas. Seriously gross. Its wrong to do, but people will do shady things when the pressure is on to reduce profit losses!
bailo 0
yep i work somewhere where we do that.