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I've discovered some rolo yogurty dessert things in my fridge with a use by date of 17/12/05. I really like them though. I've opened one and it looks ok. Even tasted it. Mmmm! Should I? Or am I going to regret it later? Any food hygienists in the house?

Normally the best before dates are taken rather wide, don't know when you bought it though. But about two weeks for something yoghurt-related seems too long to me

You don't want to be sick on new year's eve, do you?

Eat them!
Eat them all!!

I am the world's biggest Rolo dessert fan.
I love them.
Why would they go off? Additives and E-Numbers last forever!!

I'm don't think they're yoghurt-related at all actually, Zeno. And streamline has given me the encoragement I was looking for. It only takes one idiot to say 'do it' and I'm there.

That's the spirit, Francis, no fear at all. Even not for blubbery looking substances that are starting to grow a greenish fluffy coat

...and I am always glad to be the idiot...

You ask the wrong person here. Quite recently I poured some banana powder (for making a banana milk shake) in a glass of milk. After stirring thoroughly I wondered that the colour of the shake was green. Then I checked the date: it has expired end of the 80s.

canon docre wrote:You ask the wrong person here. Quite recently I poured some banana powder (for making a banana milk shake) in a glass of milk. After stirring thoroughly I wondered that the colour of the shake was green. Then I checked the date: it has expired end of the 80s.

That's the best one I've ever heard...

You know, some people really go too far on expiry dates, I once catched a friend of mine throwing away dried herbs (you know, those in the glass jars) that had expired about a month ago

a few weeks ago we found some soup from the early 90s in our kitchen.
It looked more like mud than fresh vegetables but I’m used to that anyway

Though Z’s right. The date is taken rather wide, and more as u use for shopkeepers. After that date they aren’t aloud to sell a item but its still good.

Of course you don’t have to push your luck Francis

Well, no adverse effects yet. And as an added bonus I'll get to eat them all as Luke won't touch anything that's a minute past its use-by date.

Francis wrote: And as an added bonus I'll get to eat them all as Luke won't touch anything that's a minute past its use-by date.

A bonus indeed - I have been lucky enough to try a Rolo dessert myself and they are truly beautiful

i think i'm missing out

emilystrange wrote:i think i'm missing out

Get to the shops EM!

not in this weather... mr s has illadvisedly gone to the gym in it. silly boy.

emilystrange wrote:not in this weather... mr s has illadvisedly gone to the gym in it. silly boy.

True - I got invited to a friends later this evening but I can't face trudging up a hill in 4 inches of snow

indeed, no. definitely not.

Yoghurt is just gone off milk any way - so I hardly think a couple more weeks of yakkiness is going to do anything.


Things made from mucked about milk are just wrong on sooooooooooo many levels BLEURGH

Francis wrote:I've discovered some rolo yogurty dessert things in my fridge with a use by date of 17/12/05. I really like them though. I've opened one and it looks ok. Even tasted it. Mmmm! Should I? Or am I going to regret it later? Any food hygienists in the house?

Open it. Sniff it. If it smells ok then it's ok to eat.
If in doubt taste some. If it tastes yuck then it's gone off.

Last week I went over to a friends' and had a few beer. Afterwards I noted a before September Twentysomething date. Tasted nice....no problems afterwards....

... and anyway, if it doesn't kill you, it will only make you stronger...
to be continued?

Indeed James. And after 3x200mg Ibuprofen, 2 bottles of San Miguel. A Morrisons Tex Mex, 4 pints of Stella, 2 pints of Sam Smiths Pure Lager and a bottle of Wolfblass Cabernet Sauvignon. Who gives a fnck?

I really must give up smoking.

Ozpat wrote:Last week I went over to a friends' and had a few beer. Afterwards I noted a before September Twentysomething date. Tasted nice....no problems afterwards....

Good beer can get better over the years, like Trappist, allegedly...

Bad beer can get very bad though Reminds me I found a bottle of bear expired in 2000 a week ago in our cellar fridge (which we used for the first time in years because of Christmas)... The stink (and when I wanted to pour it into the sink, it covered me with foam )

Obviousman wrote:

Ozpat wrote:Last week I went over to a friends' and had a few beer. Afterwards I noted a before September Twentysomething date. Tasted nice....no problems afterwards....

Good beer can get better over the years, like Trappist, allegedly...

Bad beer can get very bad though Reminds me I found a bottle of bear expired in 2000 a week ago in our cellar fridge (which we used for the first time in years because of Christmas)... The stink (and when I wanted to pour it into the sink, it covered me with foam )

and the moral of that story is to drink beer not bear

lazarus corporation wrote:and the moral of that story is to drink beer not bear

how the hell can beer get expired?
Milk shake, soup, rolo yogurt dessert (whatever that may be) I can understand, but for the love of God Z how can you forget about beer?

lazarus corporation wrote:and the moral of that story is to drink beer not bear

It was early when I typed that

Anyway:

How do you drink bear, btw?

@Christophe: Don't drink beer myself, but it was one of those plastic bottles of Stella they gave away some years ago. If they didn't give it away for free no-one would have ever had it, I guess