Its obviously fake, first of all the can should look so old as in the paper picture that you would automatically check, and thats if your parents would actually keep a damned 12 year old can of soup. LIAR

not necessarily...it's really easy to let things like soup sit in cupboards for ages. i just found vitamins in mine that had expired in 2004....but note, i didn't take any, having seen that they are older than most kindergarteners.

I recently found something in my mother's fridge which expired 1993... obviously some parents keep food that long :/

My parents keep stuff that old. :p

yes it would have and if she didn't notice it was expired after all, what kind of soup was that that it looked normal to have such a stench and mold on it?

actually...I ate old food once...there was no mold nor was there a horrid stench it looked perfectly normal. I had food poisoning for 3 days...

it says tomato soup.

It wouldn't have mold. It's vacuum sealed.

We have a whole cupboard full of canned food. Because it's CANNED. It lasts for ages. We're overdue for a big earthquake, everyone here is supposed to have canned food and bottled water stashed somewhere just in case.

if its vacuum sealed then it wouldnt go bad... think about your comments before you post please...

it was in a can, which is air tight. mold can't get into that

4 real

My parents moved house recently, and I helped by sorting through the pantry's contents. In Melbourne, we have eight-digit phone numbers. In the pantry was a bottle so old, the company's number had only six digits. And I know all through the 80s they were seven digits, because I still remember my childhood phone numbers. So yeah, it IS possible to have stuff that old.

As for a can of soup looking twelve years old, it depends on the brand. Some here don't change their labels for many years, and home brands are often just labelled with words alone. As has been said, it couldn't go mouldy in a can, but that doesn't mean that it wouldn't have simply aged and deteriorated. OP didn't describe a drastic reaction, so it seems plausible to me.

Make a good meal.

*Numskull. No apostrophe.

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My way of saying numbskull must be upsetting?

There's an apostrophe when you leave out the B -_-

Trying to be smart failure

my mum wud never have anything in her fridge if it expired like a day ago...:|

C-C-C-Combo Breaker!

Nothing is a waste of food. Everything that is food like will remain food like to at least one type of lifeform, even Bacteria. The Earth is surprisingly efficient when it comes to organic waste.

A little hard to explain to a very traditional woman who speaks only spanish. 8 She'd rather poison us than throw bad food away. We have to make sure everything she makes us isn't going to kill us. I already had food poisoning once and I never want it again, thank you much!

WTF, Luckster, are you dating my boyfriend? Nah, just kidding, but my other mommy is a packrat too, especially with food. But all the food I eat at her house is lovely. It's more that it sits around that actually gets used.

Hhahaa sounds like my mum!

Because he didn't want to tomato juice.