Have some that expired 2/23. Seems like a waste to throw away.... what do you guys think? Anyone used any that was expired before?
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It will be fine. "Expiration dates" are a contrivance. They are never meaningful outside of fresh food (bacteria or yeast are the primary culprits here). Canned goods, for example, have an expiration date of a year or whatever, but they will probably last a thousand years (until the cans degrade).
Horse paste has no components that can be eaten by bacteria, so there is nothing to degrade it (assuming it is still in the container). There is nothing to worry about.
Depends on the canned product. Many items will last for many years but I found that canned evaporated milk was definitely not usable when I opened one I had found in the back of my stash that was a year out of date.
Fair enough. I still assert the actual "expiration date" concept is a complete contrivance. A thing is bad when it's bad. If you can't tell if it's bad or not, it's not bad. It's pretty simple.
I had some spaghetti sauce that was expired. I ate it and it tasted fine but it had a different look to it - kind of more glumpy. And yeah, I know that's not a word.
You wrote it. I understood what you were saying. That makes it a word. That is how language works.
Congratulations Mr. Webster.
Some days I feel like about 3% of my words are originals lol.
Flexibility is one of the beauties of English
I once served a very unpleasant box of macaroni and cheese to a displeased girlfriend thinking the expiration for that product doesn't really matter. I now pay more attention to expiration dates for dry goods.
Had the same experience with canned milk. Not so with powdered milk. It was still usable 3 years after the expiration date.
Yeah but did you try any
Certainly it was like pineapple jerky or rancid fruit leather.
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It depends upon the acidity of the contents. Acidic foods can eat away at the coating inside the cans.
Agreed.
They arwn't always a "contrivance". Sometimes things do really go bad.
The "expiration date" is the contrivance. I concede that things can go bad. The expiration date, in my experience, is pretty much always wrong. Sometimes it's wrong by orders of magnitude.