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
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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 ate what was supposed to be a delicious mini powdered donut. The first one tasted funny, so I pulled out another one and realized that the powdered sugar was now in fact powdered hairy mold. Then I looked at the package and realized it was over a year and a half old. 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 was halfway through eating a what I though was a delicious sandwich, when I turned it over and saw nasty green mold on the bread. 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, my workplace often leaves out "expired" food from the café that our department coincides with, as it is wasteful to throw away perfectly fine cuisine. I soon discovered that the inside of a seemingly normal looking cupcake was actually filled with mold when I took a large mouthful of it. FML
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, 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 came back to my apartment to see that my roommate had left out bread, deli meat, and cheese on the counter, so I made myself a sandwich. When she came back, she informed me that she found bugs in the fridge and took out all the food she thought would be contaminated. FML
Today, I learned the horrifying implications of my memory not being what it used to be when I bought a tasty-looking chocolate bar, only to realize upon taking a bite that I'd bought one before and not liked it one bit. FML
Today, I was celebrating my birthday when my friend gave me chocolate as a gift. I wasn't suspecting anything and ate about half of it before I noticed something strange. It turned out there were some kind of worms living in it and the chocolate was about a year after the expiration date. I got sick. FML
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Alc627 3
It's probably fine if the package was still sealed... Dairy is pasteurized. Also there's no real regulation to the expiration dates, it's really just a best-by date. Unless it tasted funny, I'm sure you'll be okay.
TexasKitten79 6
If it tasted fine, smelled fine, and wasn't weird colors, it was fine. That stuff has so many preservatives in it.
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Alc627 3
It's probably fine if the package was still sealed... Dairy is pasteurized. Also there's no real regulation to the expiration dates, it's really just a best-by date. Unless it tasted funny, I'm sure you'll be okay.
TexasKitten79 6
If it tasted fine, smelled fine, and wasn't weird colors, it was fine. That stuff has so many preservatives in it.
bigredmonkeybutt 30
Meh. We once had 10 year old ketchup on burgers. It tasted fine, was just a bit browner than usual.
RichardPencil 32
It was probably sterile by then. All the mold, fungi and other microbes grew old and died before you ate it.
bl3ur0z3 17
How do you pull out cream cheese that's been in your fridge over 3 years and not know it's bad?
mekiswrite 21
To be fair, some grocery stores are really bad with first in, first out. Could be OP just bought it and checked the date to see when they should finish it by.
Kraths 16
I have Gatorades in my fridge that are a year and half old. Expiration dates are suggestive and as long as it doesn't taste, look, or smell funny you should be good.