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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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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auburnvans 0
Oh damn. Didn't it have a smell of some sort?
Ohmar 0
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
maplebaby 0
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.
bittersweets 2
I recently found something in my mother's fridge which expired 1993... obviously some parents keep food that long :/
startafire 0
My parents keep stuff that old. :p
whataloadofbull 0
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if it expired 12 years ago, it would have had mold and shit obviously this one's bull
Residence_fml 4
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?
MitsuHime 0
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...
missanthrax 0
it says tomato soup.
MoobyTheCow 2
It wouldn't have mold. It's vacuum sealed.
keilah 4
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.
brianr09 0
if its vacuum sealed then it wouldnt go bad... think about your comments before you post please...
Brettersson 0
it was in a can, which is air tight. mold can't get into that
ralf1943 0
4 real
AziraLevana 2
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.
AziraLevana 2
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.
untoldfame 3
soup is good food.
eighty_five 0
Make a good meal.
alexandraa_fml 0
Check dates on everything you num'skull!
xCrackerx 3
*Numskull. No apostrophe.
disturbedDRAGON 0
numBskull
Skull_300 0
NumbSkull
alexandraa_fml 0
My way of saying numbskull must be upsetting?
renaet 0
There's an apostrophe when you leave out the B -_-
rightonlooser 0
Trying to be smart failure
NonExistentCok 0
my mum wud never have anything in her fridge if it expired like a day ago...:|
BauerMegan 31
C-C-C-Combo Breaker!
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.
Reyo 2
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.
Luckster 0
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!
GrapefruitZoe 0
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.
Burberryhype 20
Hhahaa sounds like my mum!
null_fml 11
You should be proud of your parents; feel special. It's a rare household indeed that will keep expired goods for 12 years, but not let them get visibly dusty enough for you to realize that it might be old.
glorbnakcs 0
Well, you kind of deserved that for not checking the expiration date before eating the soup. On the other hand, FYL for having parents that keep expired crap for over a decade. Also, wouldn't the soup have looked funny if it expired 12 years ago?
fmylifeiscoool 0
Why did you chose to tomato soup?
junkusernamexyz 17
Because he didn't want to tomato juice.
PeachySweetS 0
Well, you honestly deserve it for checking the date AFTER you finished the entire can – especially when it’s out of someone else’s cupboard. But seriously, didn’t you notice a certain funny or odd look/smell/taste while you eating? ~*~PeachySweetS
ihatedads 0
FYL since no one is perfect.
eATT 0
Yeah, EVERYONE reads the experation date on everything before they eat it........... FYL OP.