If your chicken had a "sell by Oct. 27" on it, would you use it on the 28th?

prberk

prberk

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luv said:
For the first time in my life, I'm eating it a day past it's expiration/sell-by. It's baking now.

Living on the wild side - a little nervous. (It smelled fine.)

Thanks, guys!
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Dairy is supposed to last at least 5 days after the "sell by" date, and meats at least a few days. As others have mentioned, the "sell by" date is just the last date by which the retailer can sell the item, NOT the last date that you can safely cook the item (assuming proper refrigeration). This is what I was taught when I worked at a grocery store during college, and I don't think that the rules have changed.

And if it smelled fine, that is another good sign. And of course, with chicken, fresh or not, it is really proper cooking (completely) that is the most important issue. Even freshly-slaughtered chicken can give you salmonella poisoning if it is not cooked well before eating...
 
prberk

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PUSH said:
A story about expired stuff since we are starting to share. A few years ago during a Christmas get-together, my uncle got my dad a beer, and he drank some. He said it tasted a little funny, but not bad, and he looked at the expiration date, and it was like a year old. Turns out they bought it for a camping trip the prior year. So now whenever we host the get-together, we offer the expired beer that's sitting in the fridge in our garage. :p

Oh, and my dad continued to drink the beer. :p He never got sick.
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Has anyone ever stopped to think about alcohol in the first place? I mean, who was the first person to let grape juice sit around and ferment for over a year, and decided to drink it anyay, even though it smelled and tasted very sour? And then, maybe, decided, "This is something I should drink...."

And then, maybe, how many other rotten or soured things did people try or drink which got them sick (or killed them) before (or after) they discovered alcohol?

Just always made me wonder.
 
MOXOMUMD

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PUSH said:
Well one would need to consider this question: The chicken, is it or is it not from a quest? Because I wouldn't trust the questing chickens' health after that adventure.
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I think those chickens were soaked in enough ocean salt water they were probably preserved for quite awhile. ;)
 
Tiggerish

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prberk said:
Has anyone ever stopped to think about alcohol in the first place? I mean, who was the first person to let grape juice sit around and ferment for over a year, and decided to drink it anyay, even though it smelled and tasted very sour? And then, maybe, decided, "This is something I should drink...."

And then, maybe, how many other rotten or soured things did people try or drink which got them sick (or killed them) before (or after) they discovered alcohol?

Just always made me wonder.
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I once ate a kiwi that had been sitting on my desk for several days; it was so overripe, I swear it was fermented. I had a happy rest of the afternoon. :)

And I have occasionally wondered the same thing.
 
Tiggerish

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Sans Souci said:
Siobhan, your story reminds me of visiting my MIL in England. We usually go for Christmas and she cooks a turkey. She does not keep it in the fridge for storage. She keeps it in the oven--for like 4 days and makes turkey sandwiches, turkey curry, etc. My husband eats it, too! Even when I was not a vegetarian, I would not touch it. Nobody gets sick, either. I don't know how they do it, but it seriously turns my stomach. :depressed:
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Yeah, spending my childhood overseas is probably where I got my sense of adventure with regard to food safety. :D

In England in December it might have been nearly as cool in a cold oven as it was in the fridge! (I assume she shut the oven off after the bird was cooked...)
 
prberk

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unkadug said:
Like buttermilk....how do you know when it's gone bad?
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lazyboy97o said:
Isn't it weird that something called sour cream goes bad?
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And what about yogurt? I'll bet that was once someone's high school lab experiment, and someone dared the nerd down the lab table to eat what was growing in their petri dish... and later he got revenge by growing it on his own and becoming a millionaire!

Again, really, who would have thought to eat live bacteria? Maybe they were drunk off the sour grapes they had made into wine.
 
NYwdwfan

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epcotisbest said:
True story...at a friend's house one evening about a year ago and she asked what dressing we would like with the salad. I asked if she had any thousand island. After jostling around the cabinet she handed me a bottle and it had expired 10 years ago. We had a good laugh about that one, then found some more old stuff and threw it all out. I always check dates on bottles!
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You must have been eating at my mother in law's house. Thanksgiving dinner a few years ago, all 5 bottles of salad dressing she put out were expired. And my brother in law went in the pantry and found at least 8 more expired bottles in there. Not one bottle was current.
 
Nemo14

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NYwdwfan said:
You must have been eating at my mother in law's house. Thanksgiving dinner a few years ago, all 5 bottles of salad dressing she put out were expired. And my brother in law went in the pantry and found at least 8 more expired bottles in there. Not one bottle was current.
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That sounds like my MIL. After she went into the nursing home, we cleaned out her pantry and found foods that were older than our kids. Some were even store brands from a chain that had been out of business for several years.
 
NYwdwfan

NYwdwfan

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Nemo14 said:
That sounds like my MIL. After she went into the nursing home, we cleaned out her pantry and found foods that were older than our kids. Some were even store brands from a chain that had been out of business for several years.
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Yup that sounds about right. Mine used to work in a supermarket and when things went on "Manager's Special" for 40% off she would clean out the shelf - then use her 30% off employee discount on top of that. Then feed it to us. :hungover:
 
MOXOMUMD

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Nemo14 said:
That sounds like my MIL. After she went into the nursing home, we cleaned out her pantry and found foods that were older than our kids. Some were even store brands from a chain that had been out of business for several years.
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That sounds like my mom. She called me and was excited she used a box of spaghetti noodles up. Now my mom eats out a lot since it's just her and I told her I was happy she cooked a meal at home. (Which she can do, she just prefers not to.) She telling how good the spaghetti was and she finally used the box up. At this point I ask why she's so glad to use up the spaghetti. "Well I've had that box since your dad died." My father passed away in 2003. Needless to say we went through her kitchen and disposed of the unfit food.
 
NYwdwfan

NYwdwfan

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MOXOMUMD said:
That sounds like my mom. She called me and was excited she used a box of spaghetti noodles up. Now my mom eats out a lot since it's just her and I told her I was happy she cooked a meal at home. (Which she can do, she just prefers not to.) She telling how good the spaghetti was and she finally used the box up. At this point I ask why she's so glad to use up the spaghetti. "Well I've had that box since your dad died." My father passed away in 2003. Needless to say we went through her kitchen and disposed of the unfit food.
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I don't think spaghetti goes bad...but I would imagine you found plenty of things that did!
 

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