Today, I opened up a can of tomato soup I'd taken from my parents' house recently. After eating the whole can, I started feeling a little off, so I checked the expiration date. It expired 12 years ago. 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, my mother decided to inform me that she doesn't believe canned food can have an expiry date and that the food is still okay to eat years after the 'supposed' expiry date. She's probably been cooking my dinner with expired food for over 17 years. 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 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
Today, a friend invited me over for dinner. She presented me with a "gourmet" homemade meal. As I started eating, I realized it tasted… off. She looked at me expectantly, so I politely ate it all. Afterwards, she told me it was a new recipe she was trying "tuna casserole" made with canned tuna… which we found out later expired in 2015. FML
Today, I found a small bottle of chocolate milk in the fridge from McDonald's. I've been living with my grandparents while going to college and figuring they'd never drink it themselves, I took a sip. It had expired two years ago. 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, 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, I threw out all the food in the freezer that my mom had been keeping since 2013. When she found out, she said, "frozen food doesn't go bad." FML
Today, I had some soup that my dad made. I took one sip and found he had put tons of hot sauce in it. I rushed to drink from a soda can sitting on the counter, only to find that my mom had used it as an ash tray the night before. I can still taste the hot sauce, and the ash. FML
Today, I really wanted something to drink. I looked in the fridge, and found some of my grandma's soy milk. I took a swig, and instead of tasting soy, I tasted something rotten. Turns out my grandma knows I drink her soy milk, so she swapped it with expired chicken broth. FML
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Top comments
auburnvans 0
Oh damn. Didn't it have a smell of some sort?
Luckster 0
Dude...the FIRST thing I check with canned food from anywhere is the expiration date. YDI for assuming everything in your parents' house is edible. We have canned/boxed food in this house from 10 years ago that my boyfriends' mom won't throw away cause "it's a waste of food", yet she won't eat it herself.
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Comments (115)
loki09 4
Who keeps canned goods for 12 years?
JajaFMLer 3
Smart people :P
bobsanction 18
YDI for stealing.
Adree 15
He took a can of soup from his parents cupboard. Watch out guys we got a bad ass over here.
Oceanborn_fml 24
Where does it say he took it without permission?
armman 4
first!
ZeGuitarist 7
You're either a really bad troll, or a really good one.
Peroxide 3
Could you taste the nostalgia?? mmmm the 90's tastes so good but leaves an awful after taste.
Luckster 0
god, it's so true too!
1337_RoXxXor 4
Thats a new record, isn't it?
magenkyo 0
if it really had expired 12 years ago you would be in no condition to post an fml
paks7 0
shouldn't the label look different? surely it has changed atleast a little in 12 years...
bluetech 12
As long as the can wasn't dented, leaking, or swollen, you'll be fine. The quality of the contents will deteriorate over a long time, but as long as the can hasn't begun to bulge or leak, it won't kill you.
mad_molly 0
Tomato soup probably keeps pretty well in a can for that long. This actually happened to me once, I found a stash of canned soup at my bf's house and yelled out if I could have some veggie soup, he said sure, I cooked it and ate it no problem but then he told me, woops, that's the old Y2k preparation stash (haha) from 10 years ago they were about to throw out after forgetting about for years. Soup tasted fine to me.
louie111887 0
when o loved on san Diego I remember my roomate had 5 yr old boxed mashed potatoes in the cupboard lol ... btw YDI