Always Check the Date

echoes · 01-03-2008, 12:53

Since I am traveling soon, my decision to eat more salads took me to the market yesterday.
While there, I purchaed a bottle of Ken's Steakhouse ranch dressing, (my favorite brand), along with the required vegetables.
After eating mine last night, my stomach decided it did not approve, and hence was ill.
Got an early start today, and while eating a salad for lunch, saw the expiration date of my new bottle of Ken's...5OCT2007.

Am now kicking myself for not checking the date like is always done on milk and eggs. Just a friendly reminder...always check the date.

Holly

AMP · 01-03-2008, 15:30

It is amazing what stores will put on the shelf. I had similar experience to yours and now I am a freak about checking dates. If I find something that is expired I let the store manager know to get that shit off the shelf.

lksteve · 01-03-2008, 18:42

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Originally Posted by echoes

Am now kicking myself for not checking the date like is always done on milk and eggs. Just a friendly reminder...always check the date.

It helps if you can keep track of the date...a certain woman to whom I have been wed the last umpteen (32) years was being ferried around to various shopping venues in celebration of the 25th anniversary of her 29th birthday...she was checking freshness dates on some organic produce and asked me what day it was...I told her it was Thursday...then she asked me what date it was, I reminded her that it was her birthday...and I know she started to ask "Yes, but what date is it?" before she caught herself and changed the subject...

bricklayer · 01-03-2008, 20:09

My wife sent me out once to grab some milk in a hurry for something cooking on the stove and I did not check the date as I usually do. I got home, opened the milk and discovered chunks in it. So I calmly took the milk back to tedeschi's and tried to return it. The punk kid manager said I had already opened it and it cannot be returned. So after arguing with him for 10 minutes or so I kindly made him wear it, and grabbed my new gallon of milk and left the store. He now calls me the Milk Man!

hunteran · 01-17-2008, 21:27

I've had rotten potato salad once. Anyone who knows what rotten potatoes smell like can only imagine what they taste like. It took a good couple of hours to get that taste out of my mouth.

MVS2 · 02-10-2008, 17:34

When milk warms to room temp, even for a little while, and is then refrigerated, it's over. I learned this during a power outage the other day.

BryanK · 07-30-2008, 14:48

Here's a site that'll let you know how to find the individual dates of your MRE's, which number meal is what, what's on the older menus, etc. Good stuff to know.

http://www.mreinfo.com/us/mre/mre-menus.html

ZonieDiver · 07-30-2008, 14:59

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Originally Posted by echoes

<snip> Got an early start today, and while eating a salad for lunch, saw the expiration date of my new bottle of Ken's...5OCT2007.

Am now kicking myself for not checking the date like is always done on milk and eggs. Just a friendly reminder...always check the date.

Holly

Having put myself through college working in grocery stores, I know that the main reason for this is lazy, or time-challenged stockers. When putting up new stock, they hurry, and fail to rotate the "old stuff" to the front; they just put the "new stuff" in. As a consequence, old stuff just gets older and older. In today's grocery store, some items are "vendor-stocked" - but they are usually more aware about this. Be sure to tell the one of the managers so they can, hopefully, correct this situation!

echoes · 07-30-2008, 15:18

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Originally Posted by ZonieDiver

Having put myself through college working in grocery stores, I know that the main reason for this is lazy, or time-challenged stockers. When putting up new stock, they hurry, and fail to rotate the "old stuff" to the front; they just put the "new stuff" in. As a consequence, old stuff just gets older and older. In today's grocery store, some items are "vendor-stocked" - but they are usually more aware about this. Be sure to tell the one of the managers so they can, hopefully, correct this situation!

This is good info for all.

Thank You, ZD!

Holly

Soft Target · 07-30-2008, 15:48

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Originally Posted by lksteve

It helps if you can keep track of the date...a certain woman to whom I have been wed the last umpteen (32) years was being ferried around to various shopping venues in celebration of the 25th anniversary of her 29th birthday...she was checking freshness dates on some organic produce and asked me what day it was...I told her it was Thursday...then she asked me what date it was, I reminded her that it was her birthday...and I know she started to ask "Yes, but what date is it?" before she caught herself and changed the subject...

Your spouse could be my ex-; oh, wait a minute the math doesn't add up. Nevermind.

lksteve · 07-30-2008, 15:53

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Originally Posted by Soft Target

Your spouse could be my ex-...

She's about to become mine...

**Jack Moroney (RIP)** · 07-30-2008, 18:35

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Originally Posted by BryanK

Here's a site that'll let you know how to find the individual dates of your MRE's, which number meal is what, what's on the older menus, etc. Good stuff to know

We never really had that problem when we had LTs on a team for the team XO. One of their many additional duties was mess officer which entailed the scientific evaluation of the freshness of our Class I stocks. It was a rigorous test which took about five minutes. The XO would be issued the chow and five minutes later after he finished eating if he was still okay we would issue the rest of the chow to the troops

Red Flag 1 · 07-30-2008, 20:24

Applies to meds as well.

Bought some OTC anti-histamines in a drug store in DE. Out dated by two months. My fault for not checking, I know better. Felt like crap when I bought the stuff.

Called the Dist. Mgr. for the chain. He related a policy of pulling outdates three months before outdate. So the stuff I bought was five months out by thier standard. I had to wonder about the non-OTC stuff. We never see those out dates.

I was compensated. I did feel like an idiot for not checking for myself at time of purchase.

RF 1

lksteve · 07-31-2008, 01:08

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Originally Posted by Jack Moroney

The XO would be issued the chow and five minutes later after he finished eating if he was still okay we would issue the rest of the chow to the troops

Did you ever notice how that did not apply to testing whisky, wine, or beer...it did apply doubly when testing dry suits...

**Jack Moroney (RIP)** · 07-31-2008, 05:00

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Originally Posted by lksteve

Did you ever notice how that did not apply to testing whisky, wine, or beer...it did apply doubly when testing dry suits...

Yep, except, of course, when the junior officer had to perform as the vice in a dinning in. Of course, those were serious events in the old Army when everyone was expected to be able to drink their boss under the table, prop blasts were part of the culture, and there were six training days in a week.