Today, I saw my mom changing the expiry date on milk. She genuinely thought this would make the milk sour 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, 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, I'm taking care of my 12-year-old daughter because my ex-wife thought she could cure our daughter's lactose intolerance by sneaking milk into her soy breakfast. The milk had expired. 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
Today, I was pouring milk into my coffee and, as it plooped into my mug, I noticed the expiration date on the jug passed two weeks ago. Nobody here drinks milk very often and I ran out of creamer, so I've been unknowingly drinking my coffee with curdled milk for the past three days. FML
Today, I discovered why the milk in my house has a funny, sweet taste. My family has been pouring the leftover milk from their cereal back into the carton. FML
Today, I learned that instead of discarding expired products at my work, we change the label to make them 'expire' later. 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 found out my mom put breast milk in my cereal until I was 7 years old. FML
Today, my roommate thought that "sour milk" would taste like sour candy. She left a jug of milk out for two days, then took a huge gulp, vomited everywhere, and dropped the jug. Now the kitchen stinks of rotten dairy. FML
Today, while my mom was out, my family agreed upon the assumption that she has a "shopping problem." I argued against it for quite a while, until she pulled up minutes later with a what seemed like a life-time supply of canned condensed milk. FML
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Top comments
Poopolicious 5
Change her birth date... She"ll age slower =}
boating_guy 33
Really? Wanting someone's mom dead is pretty harsh...
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Comments (181)
borkchop1992 15
If my store manager does it then it really must work!
SqueakyChipmunk 22
You work for Apu, don't you?
stinkystu7 0
I thought that was pretty smart if u ask me
DracoSpirita 21
Well, no one asked you.
WiderWille 11
Yeah, you should try this too. Saves you money, mate
stinkystu7 0
Haha thanks 95
MCRaddict15 15
If I were you I would go out and buy milk and explain: "When the expiry date comes closer, buy more milk. Immediately." Seriously disgusting if you ever had milk with a changed expiry date.
Dracoboxer357 36
My dad stopped by yesterday with a 4 litre jug of milk he just bought. For whatever reason, he felt we needed more milk, so, there it was. He topped up my youngest's sippy cup and I took him for a drive to Winnipeg (I live rurally close to there) and on the way back, he starts puking curdled milk all over the back of my suv. Guess who bought expired milk, right from the store? ;P Rather unpleasant smell, and my 2 yr old didn't appreciate it much either, poor guy. :p So the idea that the store sells a product with an expiration date, but doesn't accurately keep track of it, kinda grosses me out a bit. Ick.
the_enigma1019 1
Wait, that doesn't work?
Michaelsgirl04 9
and all this time you just thought you were lactose intolerant and that's why you puked when you drank milk.
zachherbert 10
152- Slow down, I'm only on chapter 7 in the book. You are ahead of me.
jvp 0
Mmmm sour milk
OneLoveOneLove 0
Mother has to do what a mother has to do
Trisha_aus 15
Oh you Aussies...hmm I'm Aussie too nvm..oh you crow eaters!
perdix 31
Milk sourness is all in your head. If you hadn't caught her, her plan would have worked. Meddling teenagers!
jimbob95 5
"and i would've gotten away with it too if it wasn't for you damned meddling kids.." anyone else think of this?
perdix 31
Yes, I did, that's why I included the Scooby Doo reference.
Sperino 4
Silly me. I always thought it was called an "expiration" date. You learn something new everyday.
punchp 4
Expiry and Expiration are interchangeable, but there are some small differences. Expiry is considered a British (or in OPs case Australian) term that American's don't use, although it is considered a legal term here. I suggest doing a little research on it. It's fun.
Il_Maestro 6
Perhaps in the OP's home country "expiry date" is the more commonly used term.
wanna_bee 8
Thank you for saying this. Expiry is why I believe this is YDI, because obviously th OP has no idea what an expiration date is so the fact that the OP's mother was changing the expiration date doesnt affect the OP.
THE_A_TEEN 28
#47, did you even read #40's comment?
2PacMakaveli 0
Well on my milk, it usually goes bad about a week or more after the expiration date, so dont be so quick to judge. Maybe she was just setting the accurate date so she knows when it ACTUALLY goes bad.
THE_A_TEEN 28
Accurate date? So basically she's setting the exact date and time the milk will expire because she's psychic, right?