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
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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 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
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 saw my mom changing the expiry date on milk. She genuinely thought this would make the milk sour 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 that my boyfriend's mom doesn't believe you can get food poisoning from food that is cooked. She gave us food that had sat out all day/night and then got angry when I said we could get sick. 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, 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, surprisingly, my roommate made a nice meal. Within an hour, I started throwing up. When I confronted her, she confessed that she'd used long expired ingredients, including meat, because she didn't want the garbage men to think she's "the type that wastes food." 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
Today, I'm worried my mother might have the early onset of senility. She started making gumbo, only to lose the plot halfway through, and then began throwing in the ingredients for chili. The result was an inedible mess, and she insisted we've had this for years. Then she tasted it, and yelled, "What the hell is this?" FML
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adrianh1090 12
You've made it this far.
Welshite 40
Canned food is good for a long time after the expiration date. Just sayin'. Manufactures print the "best by" date, but that doesn't mean it's spoiled even months later.
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Comments (126)
Kolorz 3
Technically canned food is non perishable until it is opened. with the amount of perservatives they use to can things like fruits And vegetables you could definitely eat them years after what is actually only a "best before date"
nannyRayRay 14
Ever water "expires" you will be ok
Km1490 20
Then it means she is right..
sibeso 17
Canned goods and dried food are good years after the "best by"-date. They last for-freaking-ever. It's just that the manufacturers are obliged to put some kind of date on them by law. There's a huge difference between "expiration date" and "best before". Huge. Canned goods last between 8 and 25 years depending on the amonut of meat and dairy. Your mom is probably right. Sorry, you're wrong on this one!
rsg0001 15
Canned food lasts for years after the best by date.
chera3773 2
My mother did this for years, after I finished my Master's degree my father and I had had enough of this bull so we threw out the food that expired when I was in grade school through high school, no more mystery dinners at my parent's house.
martin8337 36
And here you are still alive. Expiration dates are for the stores, which is a sell by date.
emeraldmaz 9
To be fair, canned food lasts a damn long time. It's law that any food products have a 'best by' date on them, but for many things (canned goods, pickles, fizzy, and lollies for example) they're perfectly fine for a significant period after - even years, in some cases. We once found some fizzy that was about two years past its printed date - the sugar had settled a bit at the bottom, but other than that, it was fine.
jeping1981 1
She must be right since u r still alive.
tbenson0628 14
Well if its been years of your life, guess she might be right?