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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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)
alicecooper91 0
I've read that Fresh & Easy changes expiration dates on stuff...
Twincest 11
huh, that's criminal son! 0_o
gsshfxnsca 0
That's just plain stupid. If it is a sample it should be fresh, to encourage them to buy it. "yum, stale muffins"?
dealwithlife 0
PLEASE don't tell me you work with food!!!
falsesanity 0
I work in the food industry and most these comments on here are making me laugh. Most big chains have much more strict rules on product than what you are taught in ServSafe, or deemed necessary by your State Board of Health. So for all these people screaming illegal and gross and "More Like **** your Customers Life" tell me this, if you go into a store and buy some hamburger or even lunch meats do you throw it all away at the end of the night? If you think that cow died that morning to make you lunch than you are naive. In some states the health code is still written on cheese that if it gets moldy you are only required to cut off the moldy parts and the rest is still safe to use. If this kind of stuff keeps you awake at night then it is time to quit eating fast food.
christine112 0
I work at one of the bussiest McDonalds in Australia on a major freeway... We do this every single day. One of the many reasons I am currentlly looking for a new job.
Joshtch 0
Ahh, the classic American quick-fix mentality. Sort of like the drivers who reach into their dashboard to nudge the gas dial to "full" when the tank is low.
falsesanity 0
Is it just me or is anyone else loving how this comment with the "Classic American Quick Fix Mentality" is right below the guy who works at the Australian McDonalds and says he does the same things :)
doof_fisch 2
I worked in the kitchen at a Perkins and whenever the regional manager was going to be coming, we scrambled around changing dates on the products. We were required to throw out perfectly good pies after two days. (Instead, I would sneak them out to my car and arrange to have them given to a mission need.)
flyby4702 0
ive worked in 5 restaurants, all of them sit down, casual dining. red robin, applebees (2 of these) ruby tuesdays, jose peppers and mi ranchito. ALL of them do this. not to a huge degree, because usually the food is already gone by the time the date is up, but if it is a lot of product, then the sticker just gets relabled. its happens. no one is getting sick from it, at least from the restaurants ive worked in. there is such a large safety factor built into the par dates for the food that usually you can let it still be in use up to twice the amount of time it says its good for. its not like milk.
asteroth 8
Well if they like it when it's stale, they'll freakin' love them when they're fresh. XD