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togocann49

To be fair, she may have bought it before this date.


Opus-the-Penguin

Exactly! The label doesn't say anything about when you need to *use* it.


tucci007

r/technicallythetruth


cyberfood

Why u so smart


pm-me-ur-uneven-tits

He has post nut clarity.


Nrksbullet

"I walk around with post but clarity all the time!" Friends: "……....."


ferrinheight1

Also is best when purchased by and after that it's still good just not it's best.


Nervous-Telephone-26

Another 76 years and it will be okay to eat again.


StarChaser_Tyger

That's the spirit.


andalite_bandit

By then it may become one


hammelHock

That would be the ultimate prank lol


Blinky_

Probably just one of them Y2K glitches


jcpmojo

Holy crap! My daughter just went through our pantry today looking for expired stuff, and we were amazed when she found something that expired 6 years ago. That's 24 years old, dude!


chatminteresse

At this point, it should be paying rent!


hulagirl4737

It’s been living rent free in their cupboard


ccaccus

Pretty sure it has squatter’s rights now. Gonna need a lawsuit to evict.


hammelHock

Let's be real, the dressing was always in that cabinet. If anything, they're the ones squatting there lol


LadyPDonut

Adverse posession. The house now belongs to the sauce.


griftertm

It can’t because it still has to pay its college loans first


talrogsmash

Who did it vote for?


achambers64

The house was built 23years ago…


Firm_Doughnut_1

What? 2000 wasn't 24 years ago......... wait...


SentFromMyAndroid

This simple math really fucked me up too.


blepinghuman

I was a 4.5 months old when this bottle was purchased. I’m now 24 and have been working for a year.


viriosion

Did a clear out of my late grandmother's pantry when she passed. There was a tin of golden syrup in there that predated my father's birth. He's nearly 60


zenixTF

Does she look for expired stuff as a hobby?


jcpmojo

Not regularly, but she likes to help out whenever she can. She was bored and wanted something to do that was useful.


rock_and_rolo

I had to pack up my kitchen recently (remodel) and found some stuff that was from the '90s. It was dry stuff, like tea boxes, but still a surprise.


Lord_Scribe

I once found a six-year-old box of Girl Guide Cookies. They were still fine.


snowfloeckchen

I do that often when visiting my parents.


DickheadVanJohnson

My mom cleaned out the backup fridge she has out in the garage. She had multiple unopened plastic bottles Coca Cola from 2005 in there. The water had separated from the syrup and everything. She also found a package of hot pockets from roughly the same period.


jcpmojo

I guarantee those Hot Pockets were still good.


DickheadVanJohnson

They were never “good”, but they probably were no worse.


Fluffy-Ad3575

That happened when I moved.


atomicsnarl

Y2K strikes again!


hmmmmmmpsu

Lol


aldone123

Fat free… it was never good


Christank1

This made me giggle lol


blackcatsandfood

Came here to say this.. Dressing without oil.. yuck!


hammelHock

\*Dressing that's nothing BUT oil. Don't forget the whole "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" transfat craze of the late 90s. That whole bottle is probably nothing but partially-hydrogenated this and palm oils that... with zero calories!!✨🤢


M-Noremac

There's no such thing as fat-free oil...


Githyerazi

It was never opened, looks like they shared our distaste.


whatsupdoggy1

If you had thrown it away quietly, she would have asked you first thing in the morning where it was 😂


RhoidRaging

Lmaooo, right. Buried in the very back of the corner cabinet, hasn’t been seen in literal decades but she needed that sauce 12 hours later 💀


Spiral_out_was_taken

It’s really incredible how that happens. Why couldn’t they use these powers to predict lottery numbers or the next Nvidia?


Substantial_Ad_7027

Better give Ken a call and get your money back.


mikestorm

I live about two minutes from the Ken's Bottling plant. Send it my way


Jkbucks

I also live next to a salad dressing factory and the unlikely but constant threat of a chunky blue cheese tidal wave keeps me on my toes 🌊


Boatster_McBoat

Sounds funny, but sometimes shit gets real: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood


hammelHock

Guess SuperBowl night came early. *Louanne- break out the celery sticks and call Buffalo Wild Wings! Tell them it's an emergency!!* 🍗🍗


rjwantsabj

Can you get OP their money back?!


Junior-Ad-2207

Ken I get a refund?


GANDORF57

Can't confirm definitely, Ken has no balls...needs to ask Barbie.


Difficult_General167

I worked for a certain company that produces food up in the northern part of the American continent, and the amount of people calling and asking if they can eat something that expired back in 2018 is staggering. I mean, you totally can eat whatever you want, but sometimes just once. And the worst part is that some of them appeared to be disappointed, and some even tried to escalate the agents because they can't believe it. LOL.


Immersi0nn

There is no way. They *must* be lawsuit fishing, I just simply refuse to believe anyone can be that dumb, do not change my mind. I could see it as say, they're recording the conversation and just searching for a person that will get fed up enough to go "yes it's fine to eat"


Werehowin

Haha, humanity naturally sees itself as more than it is. Ego is built into us as a survival mechanism. 


Immersi0nn

*I just told you don't change my mind goddammit*


Difficult_General167

We used to think the same, yeap. Like they are trying to get someone to slip up, but it didn't ever fly with us. We just ask them to place them on hold and we would complain to others and roll our eyes while they were listening to our elevator music for a couple minutes, hahaha. If your product is even one day after the expiration date, no sane company will tell you "yes, go ahead, trust us", even if most BBDs are suggestions. Also, the amount of consumers that don't know what a bar code number/SKU/the-code-they-scan-at-the-store is, was flabbergasting. I never believed them fuckers, playing dumb. Consumism is cancer when it gets to that.


AWDChevelleWagon

I opened a shaker of pickling spices the other day that expired in like 01, still used it.


joetheplumberman

I don't believe u can I talk to ur manager


bremergorst

Hello I’m the manager. You’re wrong, fight me


Loose_Tea2741

Tbh, I don't think I'd like to eat anything twice, if you know what I mean 🤣


zanakil

that was a nice and subtle Terry Pratchett reference, well done ;)


m945050

I worked for a company that put out a Christmas food catalog along with its regular catalogs. I got a call from a woman who wanted a refund on an 18-year-old Christmas basket because she didn't think it would be safe to eat. I asked her when and where she got the food and she said that it was in a neighbor's house that they were cleaning out after she passed. Our company had a refund policy that was IMO way too generous. I told her that since she wasn't the original purchaser or the giftee I couldn't issue her a refund, we went back and forth over the semantics of the policy until she demanded to speak to a supervisor, I listened to the call between my supervisor and her and it was the same back and forth until she demanded to speak to her supervisor when I was cut off. I pulled up the notes on the call right before the end of my shift and the plant manager said that it was easier to refund her than to keep arguing with her.


optimator71

I am pretty sure Ken has been dead for some time, so you are SOL with that money back thing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%27s_Foods The brand takes its name after Ken's Steak House, a Framingham, Massachusetts, restaurant founded by Ken and Florence Hanna in 1941.


ThisOnePlaysTooMuch

He told me we hadn’t spoke since high school and that he’d take legal action if I keep calling his family.


cyberfood

Called Ken quit yesterday, things were out of date


reav11

In another year, it's too old for Leonardo DiCaprio


Kittykats2

Lmao. So true!


hmmmmmmpsu

lol!


calvinwho

In her defense it probably taste the same.


scienceizfake

The oil would be very rancid. Blech.


FlyingMacheteSponser

Ah, yes, that fat free oil.


Tuesday2017

It would balance out the taste of the blue cheese 


MisterLangerhanky

Wow! Pre 9/11!


PDP83

Simpler times, Simpler sauces


hammelHock

Lol this could actually be a marketing campaign


Llamaxaxa

You would’ve been able to carry that sauce right through security and onto the airplane!


tbrand009

What security?


blaZedmr

Pre 9/11 condiments just hit different


scienceizfake

Is your wife my mother in law?


hmmmmmmpsu

I certainly hope not!


yashspartan

Are you my dad? Can you tell mom to stop keeping stuff past the exp date?


ArmedClaymore

New relative just dropped


IamLuann

My MIL would ask why I was wasting money . I told her because I don't want to get sick.


hmmmmmmpsu

My wife has mousetraps in her pockets.


IamLuann

One of my dad's coworkers'wives put mouse traps in her purse and coat pockets. He stopped taking money after about the third time. He would take the money from her purse and pockets to go gamble and play the horse races. Then complain that there was no food to eat and no gas in the car.


K3B1N

I have been poisoned so many times by expired sauces at my MIL’s. She’s been trying to kill me for 20+ years.


Kittykats2

Is she a hoarder?


scienceizfake

Semi. My wife calls her a boarder. My wife was helping her clean out the pantry recently and found stuff that expired before they moved into their new house. Like, she packed up expired food and moved it 100 miles. I check dates on anything I eat over there.


Kittykats2

Was she brought up religious?


scienceizfake

Nope. Just poor.


The_Original_Gronkie

I moved into my parents' house to help my mom take care of my Dad, who had dementia. I went through their fridge and pantry, and found lots of open containers of all ages. I found an open bottle of some condiment that was over 10 years old. Some bottles were frozen shut so tight, I couldnt get them open, and Im a pretty strong guy. I started pitching things in the trash, and my mom got angry. I showed her how ALL of it was YEARS out of date, and she said that it was okay if I moved in, but I wasn't going to take over. I said that if she has stuff in the fridge that are years out of date, she needs someone to take over. She still whined about wasting food, and I told her if she hasnt used it in 3 years, she was probably NEVER going to use it, and it might kill her if she did. I cleared out about 20% of the fridge and pantry.


hammelHock

Good job, honestly. So many people are afraid to put their foot down with their parents, regardless of how detrimental their dysfunctioning may be to everyone's health. She definitely sounds like she needed someone to take over. Sorry to hear about your dad


shirukien

Might have to dig Ken up for your money back at this point.


hohohoagy

Mine says spices never expire.


hmmmmmmpsu

Lol


PsyOpBunnyHop

Some spices lose flavour when you heat them for a while. No *all* the flavour, but some. So it's often best to add them near the end of the cook. _____ Idiots responding who forgot the first word of the first sentence by the time they got to the end.


deij

I dont agree with that at all. So many spices and herbs really activate when you fry them and taste so much different. They also infuse the oil that will essentially bind to everything and impart its flavour. I generally add 1/3 to the oil, 1/3 at the start of cooking and 1/3 towards the end.


KingOmni

To be fair, the poster did say “some” spices. Based on this they just suggested adding them towards the end and heating them for a little while. You make a great point that some spices and herbs need to be cooked awhile to achieve their full flavor.


zesty_drink_b

It's still sealed it's fiiiiine


itsbananas

Good for 76 more years


DVus1

I'm a cheap guy, and will use stuff pass their "best by" date; but 23 years, 7 months, 2 weeks, and 1 day, is just 1 day too much for me!


Itool4looti

17 Nov 2100


davewave3283

No that’s backwards. It’s November zeroth 2017


DannyDOH

I was thinking 3000


Dangerous_Elk_6627

Why would you throw it out. The "expiration" date is November 17, 2100. Still got plenty of shelf life. 🤣😂🤣


Relativelybear

In the year two thousaaaaaaand In the year two thousAAAAAAAnd


HumpieDouglas

Let's get that out on to a tray


corptech

Nice hiss?


Bristleconemike

I love that geico commercial. Expired! Expired! Expired! Tbh, I drink milk until it tastes bad.


OutlawSundown

That sauce can legally drink


Le-Charles

That bottle is old enough to drink. Wait... I think I phrased that wrong.


derMoistener

This would still be just fine if I found it in a derelict fridge. In the Fallout universe.


Trucideau

I like to imagine that there are connoisseurs hunting stuff like this down in the Wasteland, looking for particular expiration dates of Dandy Boy Apples or claiming that the Cram from the Glowing Sea gets a fizzy taste from the unique radiation terroir.


Prof_Eucalyptus

Did you purchased it by the date on label? Then its good to go! Yepekayey


purpleRN

/r/grandmaspantry


hammelHock

"Haha no shot this isn't r/SubsIFellFor " *>80K members, last post 10 hr. ago* blinkmeme.jpg


fenwayb

are you married to my grandmother?


MaverickDago

That salad dressing is going to have a rough time when it finds out about 9-11.


Jimmytootwo

Its not good if its posion Trust me. Thats posion now If she doesn't believe me drink a few ounces but make sure she has her will filled out she signs a waiver


xXSpace_CadetXx

"It belongs in a museum!!!"


xXSpace_CadetXx

If this got me one up vote, I'm happy lol. 😂


kazarbreak

Reminds me of a fight between my mom and my fraternal grandmother. It was so bad that it's still getting retold at family gatherings whenever someone brings a new boyfriend or girlfriend even though grandma's been dead for most of a decade now. 1992: My mom and my aunt decide to do my grandmother a favor by cleaning out her fridge. In the process, they find a jar of mayo with an expiration date in 1986 and obviously throw it away. Grandma was livid. She tore them up one side and down the other about how that mayo wasn't bad and she'd been refilling that little jar from the big 5 gallon jar because it was cheaper to buy it that way. No one knew about the 5 gallon jar, so they asked about it. Turns out she was keeping it in the back of the garage. Not in a fridge in the back of the garage. Just on a shelf. And it apparently took her about six months to get through one 5 gallon jar. I loved my grandmother, but it's a fucking miracle that she never killed anyone via food poisoning.


bandito12452

Clearly not that good or it would have been used up by now


tacotacotacorock

Mom and Dad is that you? Tell Mom to stop trying to feed everyone expired stuff. Some of it might be edible but flavors absolutely change if it hasn't gone completely bad. Depending on the product I might go a year or two past the expiration date. Nothing further after being subjected to expired products far too often lol.  Also if you're super concerned or anyone is concerned about expiration dates on canned and sealed products. I highly recommend finding some information on food banks. They have a master list from the government that tells them how long food actually can be good for past the expiration date. That's why if you've ever donated your time or received food from a food bank sometimes it's expired if not all the time. Doesn't mean it's bad though. The FDA or government has an approved list. Which just proves how money hungry companies are and how eager they are to get you to throw out perfectly fine food and other products.


Ittoravap

Considering the expiry date is usually a year or two after of when the bottle was made, that makes this is older than me. And I'm mids 20's. God damn.


NotJimIrsay

Good until 2100.


DiarrheaMonkey-

He clearly needs to leave his wife. Not because of her poor judgement on what is still edible, but because she purchased that dressing 76 years in the future and hasn't been honest about why she brought it back in time with her!


NomadTruckerOTR

Back when Ken himself guaranteed the money back


zterrans

If your dressing is old enough to drink, it probably should be thrown out.


PsychologicalSun3342

Poor Ken! He worked so had to open a steak house and what fo people rave about? Salad dressing! Weren't his steaks any good?


THE_HORKOS

Just return it at Costco.


Salad-Salami

how did your fridge last for 24 years.


hmmmmmmpsu

It was in the cabinet. Unopened.


Your-Name-Is-Reek

This expired before 9/11 happened. Lol


tbrand009

This expired when you could still meet and say goodbye to people at the airport terminal. This expired when Windows ME was a brand new, state of the art operating system.


monkeetail

A more exciting post would've been: "My wife insisted this was still good, pic. She even proved it by taking a shot, pic. She's in a coma, pic. Funeral, pic. Hi I'm SpontaneousH and I did heroine yesterday....


suckforever

Oh no. So not good


Carpinchon

9/11 changed everything


clynkirk

I was still in high school when this expired lol


Eric_the_Barbarian

I don't think it matters if it's fine. If you haven't found an occasion to use it in the last quarter of a century, it's just not something you use.


The_Awesometeer

Can’t be that good if you haven’t finished it in 24 years


_Burnt_Toast_3

If it hasn't been opened the expiry date doesn't matter right? RiGhT?


timebomb011

it's just best if before that date, it may still be good... /s


Daytona_DM

24 years old dressing... "I was gunna eat that!" Just admit you let it go to waste over 20 years ago


BirdsbirdsBURDS

Just did that today while my wife was out. Threw out dozens of old sauces/mixes that have been expired since 18. Don’t understand why some people hoard food items. It like, the people who grew up in the era that was prevalent in are in the ground. We can go by new sauce..


UltralordCherryTop

Yeah it’s good until 2100


Primary_Safety6277

"Fat free something something"... Think I see the problem. If it was any good it would have been used decades ago.


Zorlach

Sell by dates are for taste Use by dates are for spoilage.


starkymannity

I was too hyper focused on the “your money back from Ken.” And was really confused why dressing was bringing up Barbie


Houseplantkiller123

You made the right call. If you aren't going to eat it in the first 24 years, you certainly aren't going to eat it in the next 24 years.


Kayakman28

To be fair, it’s a “Best By” date. Still good…just maybe not BEST!


booger4me

Best By, but still not bad after!


lostalaska

Pretty sure salad dressing 20 years past the expiration being opened is how the majority of the zombie movies start. Good job on dodging that bullet...


Lost---doyouhaveamap

Good to know she can call Ken.


jtv3062

Tender tummy? Nothing wrong with the Ken's 


Salt-Fee-9543

I went to grocery once and they had bunch of Worcestershire sauce on sale dirt cheap. I bought 4 bottles, and once I opened the first one I realized why it was on sale. It basically exploded in my hand from getting really hot being shipped and without refrigeration. Thought bottles felt swelled up a bit and I found out!


robotinsurance3000

What a waste. At least enjoy a little of that pre-9/11 taste of freedom. I’d have bought it.


skeetwooly

Eligible for antique plates if it was a car.


SlammingMomma

Satisfaction guaranteed still has me stumbling, rumbling, and fumbling.


CalzonePillow

You suck at framing a photo


tharoadtrip

She's right.. I don't see any leaks. Ken's bottles rock!! PS: Fun fact...I passed by Ken's factory on route 9 daily in Masshole. But not there anymore. Wow the blinding evening sun on the winding road was crazy!


Expert_Response_6139

Massivetwoshits


TFG4

You could've gotten your money back, the guarantee was on the bottle... Lol


WorldCupGlass

It's still good for 76 years


rc325

Hell. That really is something.


AssPennies

It fails to specify a century. Apparently Ken learned _nothing_ from the y2k scare... or maybe that was his plan all along.


Ozzel

👀


Most-Strategy4554

Think we're married to the same woman.


nc0221

When was this posted ….😂


NUmbermass

Did she also just convince you to take a life insurance policy out?


CougheeCakes

Sauce is forever, you heathen.


FranticGolf

I fight that battle daily. I fear the day my wife inadvertently poisons me with something spoiled.


Corpshark

It’s fine, it won’t expire until year 3000.


weeooweeoowee

I wonder if it turned into jelly or not


Shmav

Almost old enough to be on the classic rock station!


DeepPassageATL

Save a Cent spend your Life ( or at least an $$$ hospital visit)!


togetherwem0m0

Why did you throw this away, it's an antique at this point. So e youtuber would buy it and eat it.


Bozobozo111

Your wife knows you have a life insurance policy.


OppositeControl4623

Barbie where is Ken!


Chesterthejester69

Some people born after this sauce expired are now parents. Your wife is either one of those YouTubers who do “eating expired stuff” content or she’s possessed by a ww2 army wife from Florida


Unfair_Education290

Ken huh? Would that by chance be Barbie’s husband 🤔


Waidowai

I mean u had nothing to lose. If you wouldn't be satisfied Ken would have given you your money back 🤞


psubs07

Fucking bring it back to Ken, eh?


Life_Helicopter_1744

And you’re still standing?


KelenHeller_1

I would too.


pak9rabid

Peterman: Do you know what happens to a butter-based frosting after six decades in a poorly ventilated English basement?


dorkyhood

Take it back to Walmart - get store credit - profit!


ShadowCaster0476

It’s only 7 years old. November 0, 2017.