Sell By Dates

I'm in Germany and I've just had a nice lunch of potatoes and mince with cheese on top, baked in the oven. While in the kitchen I noticed an unopened bottle of Asda brown sauce, and decided to squirt it liberally all over my lunch to improve it.

I then, out of sheer curiosity, looked at the sell by date on the sauce bottle. It was November 2011.

Am I going to die? Will be a shame if so as I've only just bought my season ticket.

 

The sauce will be fine, but the rest of the meal may kill you!!

 

It's made of vinegar and sugar. It'll out last you. If it smelt oreight and tasted oreight, it was oreight.

 

Brown sauce is a vinegar based condiment, they frequently used vinegar as a food preservative in the past. Mindst, everyone from the past is now dead.

 

So what you are saying is that all people who eat things preserved in vinegar eventually die. Feel much better now.

 

Yes - statistics support this argument; 100% of people who eat things preserved in vinegar will die.

 

I think vinegar should be banned immediately then, it's obviously lethal. Fish and chips will never be the same.

 

ASDA Brown sauce? Hmm may very well kill you. HP all the way. No substitute for quality mate.

 

Can't afford to be finicky when brown sauce is unknown in Germany and the 2011 Asda vintage was all I could find. As Jay suggested, it tasted alreight!

 

Are you flying home? Because 90% of people who die in a plane crash eat brown sauce. It's not looking good.

 

Flying home on Tuesday. I'll take the brown sauce with me and force feed all the other passengers with it. That way, I'll be in the 10% that survive if we crash. I'll have to put it in Lynx deoderant bottles to get it through security.

 

Give you 50 quid for your season ticket

 

Reasonable offer, I'll decide by mid-May next year whether to take you up on it.

 

It's the old thing with dates.

Best before just best taste before food breaks down a bit
Sell by purely for shops
Use by is the thing to watch but usually ok for couple of days unless dairy so check smell etc (eggs shouldn't float in a glass)

 

As a certain poster on here will confirm, I eat anything, any age, any condition, provided it's a) dead, b) doesn't smell, c) isn't celery and d) isn't beetroot.

I'm especially fond of half eaten curries re-heated 3 days after taking them home. Good exercise for the little anti-bodies who don't like sitting around with nowt to do.

 

And when eating the dead to survive a little splash of the old brown stuff will make them more palatable (like 3 day old pork pies)

 

I defrosted chicken on Tuesday morning, and I'm going to eat it tonight.

Is this a wise choice?

 

Gut rot report please?

 

Will let you know!

 

You'll come a cropper one day!