My ESE friend throws stuff out immediately after it expires. I'm like "WTF are you doing?! Give it to me. I'll eat it."
It's a rule of thumb, not a rule.
Anyone act like the ESE? This is completely bizarre to me.
Eating Expired Food
My ESE friend throws stuff out immediately after it expires. I'm like "WTF are you doing?! Give it to me. I'll eat it."
It's a rule of thumb, not a rule.
Anyone act like the ESE? This is completely bizarre to me.
EII; E6(w5)
i am flakey
It's bizarre to me too [and my ESE aunt does the same thing]. It isn't too often that food is left over after the expiration date, but if it is and it looks and smells okay, I'll taste it... if it tastes okay, it's as good as eaten in full. I've never had any problems with this method.Originally Posted by Ritella
One reason I don't worry about it is that I suspect companies bump the exp. date up at least a couple of days because if people throw the product out on the expiration date, they'll surely rush right out to buy replacements.
This is the exact opposite thing that happens with my sister (ESE) and me. She gets really pissed if I just throw stuff out because she thinks it's wasting or something.. but I am totally freaked out about eating old food. Also, if I eat something and then find out later that it has passed the expiry date I will start to feel ill, basically make up in my head that I am sick even if I was feeling fine.
EII 4w5
so/sx (?)
I won't touch anything expired when it comes to food, milk I won't drink if it's even close to it, like within 3 days...lol. I trick myself that it's bad and will kill me if I eat stuff past it's due date. Much like Christy mentioned, if I eat something and find out it's past due I may even feel ill, probably a true placebo effect... but it happens nonetheless.
my ENFj mother eats expired food, and it is absolutely disgusting. one day i actually reminded her that we are not in the "end of days" as she tends to refer to, and that eating bread that is about to go moldy is gross. but she'll totally eat things that really are about 5 minutes from growing massive spore colonies.
on the other hand if something still looked/smelled good and was a day past expiration, i doubt i'd care much.
re: antibodies - probably a good thing.
6w5 sx
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sloan - rcuei
Over the years, I have toughened my stomach as well as testing out different dates. I tend to trust the dates printed as I've physically observed that eating things past their due date the sheer majority of the time has a negative effect, and I can withstand all kinds of (fresh) junk.
The worst case was probably when I drank a pepsi out of the fridge of this one ILE. It was literally almost a decade past its expiration date. If you ever plan on drinking expired coke, do not!!!
Honestly, I do not get people who knowingly keep expired food. I find non-degrading foods very strange and unnatural, something perhaps inspired by myvaluing family.
Surtout, pas trop de zèle.
I generally plan ahead, and eat everything before the expiration date, and I don't buy excess food.
If there's lot of food, usually when my mom has given me, I just eat them in the order of expiration dates. So they won't expire.
But if all these measures have failed for some reason. I usually have thrown them away. I might nuke them twice as long, if it's only one day old.
...the human race will disappear. Other races will appear and disappear in turn. The sky will become icy and void, pierced by the feeble light of half-dead stars. Which will also disappear. Everything will disappear. And what human beings do is just as free of sense as the free motion of elementary particles. Good, evil, morality, feelings? Pure 'Victorian fictions'.
INTp
I once bought a pepsi bottle, and it had this weird yellowish-brown blob inside it. Looked bit like the fleshy part of an oyster. I probably should have gone back to the store and demand a new bottle. But I didn't bother.
...the human race will disappear. Other races will appear and disappear in turn. The sky will become icy and void, pierced by the feeble light of half-dead stars. Which will also disappear. Everything will disappear. And what human beings do is just as free of sense as the free motion of elementary particles. Good, evil, morality, feelings? Pure 'Victorian fictions'.
INTp
did you drink it? If so, what did the blob taste like?
Hi! I'm an ENFP. :-)
I first removed the blob, in the intention of drinking the pepsi, because I didn't want it to go to waste. But then decided not to in the end.
Last edited by Warlord; 01-28-2009 at 08:04 AM.
...the human race will disappear. Other races will appear and disappear in turn. The sky will become icy and void, pierced by the feeble light of half-dead stars. Which will also disappear. Everything will disappear. And what human beings do is just as free of sense as the free motion of elementary particles. Good, evil, morality, feelings? Pure 'Victorian fictions'.
INTp
Depends on what type of food it is. I don't care about expired sugar, salt, or even bread (even though usually bread isn't very tasty), or canned drinks or cereals. However, of course, I don't eat expired fish, meat, or anything that must be eaten relatively fresh.
Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit
You're best eating them while they're still alive.
I feel like this is so Ti-valuing. The manufacturers just put the expiry on things so that they can't be held liable if it's bad past that date. It doesn't mean it actually is bad.
EII; E6(w5)
i am flakey
After a few bad experiences, I just can't do it. I have to throw anything out that is use by "today's date" or later. Absolutely HAVE to throw it out. The other thing is if it is a consumable that lasts a long time (like powdered milk or something) and it's been sitting there ages and is use-by in a week or so, I'd probably throw that out too. Or anything like that that might be well within use by but has been open for more than about three months. Out it goes. Same with any jams or etc. I find open in the pantry, and not in the fridge where they belong (ugh!)....
I just...can't stand the idea of serving someone bad food. Bad enough if I eat it, but I would be mortified if I made someone else sick. But I am seriously the world's most anal-retentive cook. Every surface I'm working with has to be spotless before I even start cooking or I end up getting a bit of a complex.....ask Errant, he's seen me cook. It took me 45 minutes to clean the kitchen to an acceptable level once when he was over, lol!
The other thing is that if I'm cleaning surfaces I go over them again with hot water after I've sprayed them, in case I need to use a surface and any food "happens" to get on the bench (think kneading or something, but I use a chopping board on top of that)... I don't want anything spoiling my intentions with the flavours and emotions evoked when it comes to cooking. It has to be perfect.
...I think this has to do with the fact that not all germs are going to be visible- I did a lot of advanced biology and etc back in school and I'm well aware that levels of bacteria in certain things can be high enough to harm you without being visible. I don't like the idea of that spoiling the experience of my cooking.
Hello, my name is Bee. Pleased to meet you .
yes, you don't risk expiry dates. Never.
D-SEI9w1
This is me and my dual being scientific together
I DON'T LIKE MY BEANS FRATERNISING WITH GERMS, NO SIREE!
Hello, my name is Bee. Pleased to meet you .
i ditch it
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I test it if it's expired, but I tend to toss it altogether if it's a week or so over (for things like milk, but that's an easy one to test). I actually reflected over eating some eggs that expired back last september, but I'll need to give them the floater test before I take that leap. Things that keep forever anyway, like canned foods, I don't feel bad about eating expired at all, unless I open them up and decide otherwise.
Overall though, I don't mind germs much, I figure over the years they've just refined my antibodies into well oiled killing machines.
Moonlight will fall
Winter will end
Harvest will come
Your heart will mend
Exactly.
this is exactly how i feel about it.
I've found that the "bad dates" and the appearance of the food match up. Any time I've wanted to get an extra day out of something, it already has that ominous look of "I'm so about to be bad!" You know, like maybe extra condensation in a package, or salad that is just a little too wrinkly around the edges, etc., and so stuff is probably growing already. It is a bad way to try to save money because if it makes you sick then you waste days of work and money for the dr.
I'd rather take my risks in other, more fun ways.
Hi! I'm an ENFP. :-)
I test food if it has gone over the expiration date. Most food that I buy is fresh vegetation, so I can tell by looking, smelling, tasting, whatever. The date is just an abstraction on a label. Sometimes it's right, sometimes wrong. Occasionally, food will go bad /before/ the expiration date.
I've eaten questionably-fresh meat before and I didn't get sick.
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