I am staying with my father with my twins this weekend.
I heard the twins all excited that he was making them pancakes with syrup....then I remembered that we didn't have any syrup.
I went into the kitchen, and to my horror, my father "found" an OPENED bottle of log cabin syrup in the pantry....that had to have been 10 years old or better.
He threw a fit that "sugar doesn't spoil", and I told him under no circumstances was he giving my kids that syrup....he's 80 years old.
I found some strawberry jelly in the fridge, and warmed it up, and we used that and the kids loved it.
He even put some on his finger and said, "See! Still tastes the same!"
I told him, "you can do that to yourself, but you are not feeding my kids food that is twice their age".
My grandmother did this too... she put mayo on a ham sandwich that was out of date like 6 months prior. She kept insisting it was fine but I wouldn't eat it. Next time I went to her house, I brought a new jar and threw the other one out. Told her they had a BOGO at the store and I couldn't use 2 jars. Worked like a charm.
Anyone else noticed in the last few years that the expiration dates on foods and meds sold now are considerably shorter than stuff sold a few years back? (Like a few months as opposed to a couple of years).
Ya think they've changed the ingredients and things go bad sooner?
Huh. Wonder how much stuff gone bad me and mine consumed that was still labeled as "OK".
Or could it POSSIBLE be a sales ploy to get people to buy and replace these products more frequently?...:icon_roll
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Anyone else noticed in the last few years that the expiration dates on foods and meds sold now are considerably shorter than stuff sold a few years back? (Like a few months as opposed to a couple of years).
Ya think they've changed the ingredients and things go bad sooner?
Huh. Wonder how much stuff gone bad me and mine consumed that was still labeled as "OK".
Or could it POSSIBLE be a sales ploy to get people to buy and replace these products more frequently?...:icon_roll
I think there's also a very good possibility that the manufacturers are trying to eliminate even the remotest chance that something might go bad while still in-date. We do live in a very lawsuit-happy society these days.
I think that some people play the lottery, and others file lawsuits, both in the hopes of "hitting the jackpot."
He threw a fit that "sugar doesn't spoil", and I told him under no circumstances was he giving my kids that syrup....he's 80 years old.
I found some strawberry jelly in the fridge, and warmed it up, and we used that and the kids loved it.
He even put some on his finger and said, "See! Still tastes the same!"
I told him, "you can do that to yourself, but you are not feeding my kids food that is twice their age".
How can he be so dumb?
Not at all dumb. Ever wonder why murple surple and jelly never go bad? If hypertonic IVFs like D5NS can be enough to crenellate RBCs, then what happens to living cells if you take even more water out of a sugar solution and dunk 'em in there? I mean, make it almost solid sugar? Yup, you guessed right: when a hapless bacterium lands on jelly or syrup, it gets all the water sucked out of it almost immediately. Can't get much deader than that.
I've used really old maple syrup. It doesn't go bad. Honey doesn't go bad, either. Archaeologists have dug up 3000 year old honey in Egyptian tombs that is still good. I have also used my heavy cream and half&half when they had expired a month before (they were still perfectly good, BTW). Last time I checked I am still alive and kickin'!
I don't blame you for wanting to not give your kidlets old food - you're a momma bear, and protecting the little ones is what momma bears do! Just cut the old fella some slack.:kiss
I would just throw it away,and probably buy a new one.The other posters are right,that depression era people tend to be more "thrifty".But this reminds me of one of my elderly patients that hoards unwrapped hamburgers and cups of cottage cheese in his dresser for days.He gets mad if you try and throw them away,even if you explain to him that its unsafe to have these unrefridgerated for long periods of time.So I just throw them away when he is asleep.
I had JUST got finished arguing with him when I posted the thread.
I am sure it would have been fine for an adult, but I was concerned that something may affect the children that wouldn't affect a grown-up.
About a month ago, I was looking for some aspirin for a headache, and found a bottle that had been there forever....he said, "Aspirin has a 20-year shelf life."
I looked it up on the internet...sure enough, he was right.
As for the Vicks thing...oh yeah, he is CONVINCED that it's a cure-all...and he is starting to convice me too.
He had this spot of eczema-like rash on his elbows that was there for months...he went on this Vicks trip and sure enough, it was gone after about 2 weeks.
He had this spot of eczema-like rash on his elbows that was there for months...he went on this Vicks trip and sure enough, it was gone after about 2 weeks.
Weird, eh?
Not as weird as my husband putting toothpaste on his bumps....And no, it doesn't work.
About a month ago, I was looking for some aspirin for a headache, and found a bottle that had been there forever....he said, "Aspirin has a 20-year shelf life."
You can tell aspirin has gone bad because it smells like vinegar, right?
When my grandma died in 2000, Mom and Rosie (my sister) helped clean out her kitchen. They found a package of jello that dated to the Truman administration - I just don't have that much of the packrat gene in me...... :)
banditrn
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Wait until you have to convince some elderly person that 'Vicks' isn't the cure all for everything!