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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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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)
ladybuglet 22
Maybe you should start cooking then.
Cadillac4427 8
Has no one seen the episode of Horders where the lady had the can food so long that it actually MOLDED into the carpet? And the food was old that some of it was unrecognizable. ....
purplesplatter 2
ur fat]
purplesplatter 2
yeah she is
captainObviously 15
New flash: canned food is full of sodium and preservatives. Its good for years after its date. They put a date on the can so paranoid idiots like u buy more.
captainObviously 15
You got a lot to learn about OP. Your 17, chances are your mom knows more about life then your ass. Obey ur elders!!!
RensM 22
Canned food indeed does not have an expiry date, it has a best before date. This does not mean it has expired or went off, it means the company can't guarantee the same flavour and stuff after that date. It will not kill you! (if the can is intact)
ThexVengence 21
canned food can he eaton up tp 17 ish years past it exp date. this is why people are told to stock up on them incase something happens
x24x 10
As long as the can isn't bloated, the food in it is good to eat.
Asian_lnvasion 8
Your mom is actually a smart mom since the only reason the companies put an expiration date is for people to throw out the supposivley "expired" food. The companies do this in hope to make more money and the canned food can go a few years passed the expiration date.
iateapenguin 27
I wouldn’t say that’s the only reason – if they printed an expiry date at a point at which the food was likely to actually be dangerous, and somebody got food poisoning from it, they’d get sued left right and centre. Better to be safe than sorry!
SnuWolf 15
If the can is expanded and looks like any sort of pressure could make it explode, it's gone bad. If not, it's still okay.
Arlisshsr 9
jeez...its good years after that date...go learn something...