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This evening I found a box of brownie mix in the pantry. "Score!" right? Yeah, I know... definitely not health food, too many carbs, too much sugar, not at all what this body needs as good fuel. But it's brownies! And there's ice cream not far away.  I pointed out said box to The Lovely Girlfriend, who responded dryly with, "check the date." Some of you may remember my problem with boiled eggs recently (by the way, I didn't eat them). Well, today's discovery seems to bring the next spin of that Pantry Wheel of Fortune. I turned the box over and saw, "BEST BY 08/03/22," and said, "dangit!" After a moment of consideration, TLG responded with, "Oh, no! It just says best by that date."  I think she's got a point there... it doesn't say, "Horrible after 08/03/22."  It's a powdered mix, man. It's not as if it already has eggs, oil, or milk in it. I'm thinking we're good to go. Your thoughts? God bless America. | ||
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| Victim of Life's Circumstances  |
Lather rinse repeat. It's marketing ________________________ God spelled backwards is dog | |||
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paradox in a box |
It will contribute to insulin resistance, obesity, and high cholesterol. But it’s fine. It won’t cause any acute symptoms. These go to eleven. | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Eat that shit, dawg. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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Drill Here, Drill Now |
I've always suspected the technical folks give a x years from date of manufacturing, and then the marketing and legal folks switch it to x/2. Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
It's fine. On dry boxed food and canned goods, those dates are just suggestions. | |||
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Its fine. These are dry ingredients, go make yourself some brownies and enjoy. If this was a cake mix, the baking powder MIGHT not be as active but, I think you're good. | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
They’re fine All that mix is really is cocoa, flour, leavening etc which is pretty shelf stable | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
I’d eat it… especially with ice cream! "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
They put a date on such things because they keep a control batch from each lot. That way, if anything happens such as someone supposedly getting sick from it, they can go back to that control batch and see if the problem happened outside of the factory or inside the factory. They can't keep control batches forever because there's a limit on storage capacity so they put a date on the product and after that date or even 12 months after that date, they throw the batch out to make room and they figure all the product from that batch has been consumed already. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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| 4-H Shooting Sports Instructor  |
Makes me think of the 2 million year old Himalaya pink salt.. that expires in 5 months _______________________________ 'The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but > because he loves what is behind him.' G. K. Chesterton NRA Endowment Life member NRA Pistol instructor...and Range Safety instructor Women On Target Instructor. | |||
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I still have the mind of a teenager. At first glance I read “panty” instead of “pantry.” | |||
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| Thank you Very little  |
You also had Vanna White on your mind..... am I Right? LOL | |||
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