Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Our noses are the best indicators, but I'd always heard 10 years, back in the day. Now that I've been involved with for bank stuff, I've seen 5 years if stored at 75F, up to 10 years of stored at cooler temps.
Note: the inspection date is 3-5 years after manufacture. If you can find the 4-digit code instead, that will confirm actual manufacture (mfg) date, sort of. Together with the inspection date, you should have a good idea of the real date.
The mfg date is yddd, where y is the single-digit year- meaning you can't distinguish between 2019 and 2009 by this alone- and the ddd is the day number of the year (001 is Jan 1, 365 is Dec 31).
If you bought cases, they may have stickers that indicate relative time/temperature exposure. Inner circle darker than outer circle, don't eat it. Swollen cans, damaged seals, you know the drill. But trust your nose!