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So I Was just fixing myself some food. a 1lb bag of meatballs and a big jar of sauce. (Im the Yute, yes I always eat like this) While I was cooking the FROZEN bag of metaballs I noticed that expiration date was dec. 9 2005. The sauce's expiration date was from June. Neither of these items had been opened before. Just curious to see if this could kill/seriously harm me. Ive always thought of expiration dates as a "ballpark" thing just looking for some insight...
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If it make you puke, it's too old.
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If it smells good eat it.
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While you're living beyond all your means
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If it kills you it was probably bad.
we should do this every weekend!
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It was frozen couldent really smell anything.
Ive eatin about have of it so far and I havent died yet, looks like Ill be in good shape.
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be sure to have plenty of TP around. You might get a bad case of the green apple splatters.
we should do this every weekend!
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A year out of date, pitch 'em. (that's professional advice - I'm in the restaurant business!) Get food poisioning once and you'd pay $1,000 to get rid of it if you could.
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I work for a place that sells food (Big Lots) alot of which comes to us from other places on a "close out" basis. Once an item reaches it's expiration date, we have to destroy it and discard it. That being said, when I was a Yute, if it didn't grow fuzz and smell funny, it got consumed! Once I caught my little boy in the refrigerator eating something. I asked him what it was and he said it was just some strawberries. Then he told me he especially liked the fuzzy ones! I looked into the tub of berries and saw the nastiest fungus covered mess and realized he had already eaten several! Anyway, he lived. I think people can eat alot more garbage than we realize, with little to no ill effect. Hope the meatballs work out for ya!
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I work for a place that sells food (Big Lots) alot of which comes to us from other places on a "close out" basis. Once an item reaches it's expiration date, we have to destroy it and discard it. That being said, when I was a Yute, if it didn't grow fuzz and smell funny, it got consumed! Once I caught my little boy in the refrigerator eating something. I asked him what it was and he said it was just some strawberries. Then he told me he especially liked the fuzzy ones! I looked into the tub of berries and saw the nastiest fungus covered mess and realized he had already eaten several! Anyway, he lived. I think people can eat alot more garbage than we realize, with little to no ill effect. Hope the meatballs work out for ya!
Honey, what is this?
Whats it look like?
I dunno, could be meat.... Could be cake.... must..be...MEATCAKE.
Contra todo mal, mezcal; contra todo bien, también
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What's an expiration date?
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When I was a youngster taking care of my parents house.Would cut off fuzzy and mouldy part and eat the good part.Never looked at experation dates.With all the preservatives they put in today if it is expired, I would be afraid to eat it.
I was so much older then, I am younger than that now (Wrote By Dylan Sung by the BYRDS,)
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Wish I could help but nothing has ever gotten that old in my house. Generally, If it can't get away on its own power it is consumed before it gets a chance to 'age' and there are never any 'food senority' disputes or issues.
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My grandfather was an Italian immigrant. In his home town the men use to save cheese until it "crawled". The term meant there was little worms/bugs throughout the cheese making it look like it was moving. When one of them had "crawling" cheese they would all meet in town to eat it and celebrate. I had "crawling" cheese a few times. While very moldy on the outside and very intense tasting it never hurt me. Maybe the bugs help?
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While my previous training would say chuck it away.... (I used to cook food on trains....) The skint mode that I'm in now says if it hasn't killed you yet, then it must be ok. If it's been in the freezer all this time, not been defrosted and refrozen, then it should be ok.... but don't blame me if this comes back to haunt you. 
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Maybe I'm just too picky.... but after having food poisoning once - and that was enough - nothing in my house reaches the expiration date. Now my bro-in-law, he will eat anything that doesn't eat him first.
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Had food poising one time in the military. The unit was planning a BBQ, defrosted a boat-load of chicken, weather got bad, so refroze everything for the next day. The ambulance that night took over 120 people to Fort Ord from the Presidio of Monterey. Felt like I ate a pulsating 10" softball. You midwesterners remember the old 10" softball (no stinking gloves needed)? The communal bathrooms couldn't handle the puke, it was everywhere. Never again.
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So Matt, how do you feel today?
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If the frozen stuff stayed frozen and the tinned/jarred stuff was still sealed, and nothing was green or gray and fuzzy, you should be OK. They subtract a considerable safety factor from expiration dates to allow for extreme conditions.
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My grandmother used to can huge amounts of stuff from her garden and orchard. Although she put dates on the jar lids she would only throw it away if the color was off. She said that she'd been doing it since the 1910's and she hadn't killed anyone by the 1960's so her method must have worked. The only lasting effect for me is that I still don't like canned peas
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Soren- Must have been ok. I'm still alive, I made sure to drink some alcohol with it to kill off any possible diseases.
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Just noticed an expiration date on my bottled water. Glad they got it out of the ground before it expired.
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The ambulance that night took over 120 people to Fort Ord from the Presidio of Monterey.
Begs the question - when were you there? I was at DLI-POM from 10/82 - 5/83, and back at the INSCOM detachment on Ord from 6/86 - 9/88, working a project at DLI. All was good fun, wearing slacks and ties, coffee cups in hand, watching the periodic Division runs, until the 7th ID(L)Division Commander asked my RO commander if we could do that, while running 7 miles (thank God we weren't at Ft. Campbell, home of the 101st). 
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...Felt like I ate a pulsating 10" softball. You midwesterners remember the old 10" softball (no stinking gloves needed)? ...
Huh? I grew up playing 16" ball. I know folks that called it mush ball. I introduced them to the game with two new Clinchers being used and let them play 3rd base (my favorite spot). Never, ever heard them call it mush ball again. Lots of guys would be walking around all summer with their fingers taped up due to breaking them while fielding one of those mush balls. That rarely stopped anyone from playing though.
Only when I got out of Chicago did I ever even see somebody use a glove for softball. Then the 12" ball they were using was pretty close in size and hardness of an actual baseball.
As for Matt and expiration dates, well, he'll be alright. He has a hangover when he gets blood in his alcohol system.
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As for Matt and expiration dates, well, he'll be alright. He has a hangover when he gets blood in his alcohol system.
Your mother wears army boots!
There is never blood in my alcohol system. 
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Your mother wears army boots!
You bet she wears army boots but you can be SURE that they are spit shined BIATCH! 
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