Nice little earner...

[Princess Pooper]

Salt House Himalayan Rock Salt Cooking Block

Salt House Himalayan Rock Salt Cooking Block seasons your food as it cooks & is ideal for grilling, searing & serving. Responsibly-sourced & presented in a gift box.

www.lakeland.co.uk

 

[Doc]

 

[Agrivator]

That really is bad luck.

But best to play safe, and dispose of it responsibly.

 

[Goweresque]

Salt cooking blocks are so 2017 darling!

 

[Gong Farmer]

I keep telling the wife to ignore 'best by' dates on cans, the whole point of canning is long term preservation FFS. You can buy cans in the supermarket that have about a month to be used up.

 

[ACEngineering]

Looks like the stuff the council spread on roads

 

[T Hectares]

I keep telling the wife to ignore 'best by' dates on cans, the whole point of canning is long term preservation FFS. You can buy cans in the supermarket that have about a month to be used up.

Our Christmas pudding was one we found in the bottom of the larder, Best before Nov ‘17
it was fine !!

 

[milkloss]

Got given one a couple of years ago..... hadn't the heart to tell them we received a 1.2t dumpy bag a few days before! Wasn't able to return it so it sits in the larder unused, should give it a go really.

 

[vantage]

All I need is a hammer and chisel to hew out blocks from the big bag of salt I have for the cows, £180/t if I recall!

 

[melted welly]

I keep telling the wife to ignore 'best by' dates on cans, the whole point of canning is long term preservation FFS. You can buy cans in the supermarket that have about a month to be used up.

Had a girlfriend once who was obsessed with the best before dates. She would throw out stuff like tomato purée and pasta. It annoyed me so much that one Sunday before she got up, I went round with a marker pen and blacked them all out. Feeling quite smug at beating the system........well she wasn’t happy with this at all, we then had “opened on” dates written on produce and allocated a 3 days use up period before stuff was binned.

That relationship didn’t last.

 

[Sid]

I keep telling the wife to ignore 'best by' dates on cans, the whole point of canning is long term preservation FFS. You can buy cans in the supermarket that have about a month to be used up.

We bought about 50 jars of mincemeat 5 years ago for 10p. Way out of date.

Mince pies still tasting fine to me!

 

[johnspeehs]

Had a girlfriend once who was obsessed with the best before dates. She would throw out stuff like tomato purée and pasta. It annoyed me so much that one Sunday before she got up, I went round with a marker pen and blacked them all out. Feeling quite smug at beating the system........well she wasn’t happy with this at all, we then had “opened on” dates written on produce and allocated a 3 days use up period before stuff was binned.

That relationship didn’t last.

Il introduce her to my mother in law, she will gladly eat anything, blue moulded cheese sour milk , near rotten fruit, stale bread, sweet tasting sausages , ninety years old and fit as a fiddle and puts the rest of us to shame when it comes to work.

 

[Fake it ‘til you make it]

I keep telling the wife to ignore 'best by' dates on cans, the whole point of canning is long term preservation FFS. You can buy cans in the supermarket that have about a month to be used up.

I have eaten 10 year old corned beef, sound as a pound!

 

[Tarw Coch]

We bought about 50 jars of mincemeat 5 years ago for 10p. Way out of date.

Mince pies still tasting fine to me!

A few years back I had some 200 litre barrels of out of date mincemeat from a local feed store, they were selling it for animal feed but don’t think it was shifting well as they gave me 4 to try.
A touch of mould on the top but underneath perfect, I think mother filled every jar she could lay her hands on.

Pig of stuff to empty out though, a screw top lid a couple or three inches narrower than the barrel meant there was no easy way of tipping it out, choke it with a strap and tip it upside down but you couldn’t get it on much more than a 45% angle so it wouldn’t slide out, bouncing resulted in the strap slipping off so much poking with a stick. Unfortunately it was middle of summer and one thing that did like it was wasps, reckon we had every wasp in the parish living here.
Don’t know what the feed value was but it didn’t seem worth the half hour or so fekkin around trying to get it out

 

[Treecreeper]

I have eaten 10 year old corned beef, sound as a pound!

If it looks fine, smells fine and tastes fine probably is fine.

 

[oakleaf]

Gran had two regular sayings
1) lf you lived through the war you'd eat it and
2) lt says best before, not poisonous after.

 

[Highland Mule]

Bought some christmas wrapping paper today (was killing time whilst garage were putting new tyres on my truck). CHap on till tells me "you know Christmas was last week, don't you?" told him no - was only 360-odd days to go.

 

[Breakthru]

If it looks fine, smells fine and tastes fine probably is fine.

Anybody who ate corned beef after the second gulf war has eaten stuff that was decades old. Remember the cheap sliced corned beef in the supermarkets?
There is large underground storage at some military sites and at least one of those was full of 40lb cans of the stuff. War footing meant it could be brought out. Most cans were ok the ones running black goo were dumped. What they did was freeze the contents with liquid Nitrogen then after thawing sliced it up.
Abracadabra!
The first gulf war same story but a hangar locally was full of sugar from the 70's sugar shortage. They took it out had it bagged into little sachets for use in restaurants planes etc etc. No sell by dates then.
When the Ruskies were starving the Yanks sent them food aid. They were chickens stored in a mine in Colorado, the Ruskies sent them back as they had date stamps decades old. Never under estimate the MOD.

 

[Bill dog]

We bought about 50 jars of mincemeat 5 years ago for 10p. Way out of date.

Mince pies still tasting fine to me!

My kids ( 11, and 9) watched me munching a mince pie yesterday, and the younger one asked why are they called mince pies when there is no mince in them !
Such questions are way beyond my pay grade , so any ideas ? Ta

 

[Lili]

Original mince pies contained minced meat plus fruit and spice. Supposed to have been brought to the UK by the crusaders and were oblong shape to represent the manger.