"Brooklyn1" <Gravesend1> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 22:44:14 -0500, "dejablues"
> > wrote:
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>>"Brooklyn1" <Gravesend1> wrote in message
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>>> On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:21:23 -0500, "dejablues"
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>>Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>>>>> In article >,
>>>>> Tracy > wrote:
>>>>>> Sorry, I didn't mean to not use common sense with regard to tossing
>>>>>> expired food. However, I don't think it is appropriate to donate
>>>>>> obviously expired food to homeless shelters. "Hey, here's some
>>>>>> expired food I won't eat, but you can have it".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tracy
>>>>>
>>>>> I absolutely agree with that, Tracy. At the food shelf I support,
>>>>> Best By or Use By or Expiration dates are checked when the groceries
>>>>> are received. Past dated stuff does not get distributed to the
>>>>> needy. (I wouldn't be the least bit surprised, though, if it gets
>>>>> distributed among the volunteer workers. I don't know if it does but
>>>>> it would not surprise me.)
>>>>
>>>>From my experience in a few years of working with the Boy Scouts annual
>>>>food
>>>>drive, you'd be amazed at the amount of expired food that gets donated.
>>>>It
>>>>all gets tossed. What a waste of food, labor, and time.
>>>
>>> What I'm amazed at is how ignorant they are to toss perfectly good
>>> food that folks would be happy to receive. Best-used-by dates mean
>>> exactly that, doesn't mean expired/unfit to eat. No one could
>>> possibly tell that a bottle of ketchup was past it's "best used by"
>>> date... even Stan couln't say. I have eaten canned beets way past
>>> their best-used-by date, perfectly wholesome. I don't think anyone is
>>> donating a raw cod fish caught last week and kept in the trunk of
>>> their car in 90º weather... big difference from a can of Bumble Bee
>>> tuna past its best-used-by date. This morning I opened a can of
>>> Carnation Evap, on the bottom of the can it says "Best Used By
>>> 07/17/2011". Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. . . I'll bet it would
>>> still be good by 07/17/2111. ****in' idiots!
>>>
>>> Folks are getting carried away with this use-by nonsense... won't be
>>> long they'll print best used by on a box of salt, like salt is gonna
>>> spoil, it's only been here since this planet was created.
>>
>>Food banks are not allowed to give out expired foods. If you would not eat
>>it, do not donate it.
>
> I eat foods past their "best-by"/"sell-by" date all the time. I have
> a freezer full of meats (and other foods-baked goods) that are all
> past their sell-by date, most by several months. I have foods in my
> freezer I cooked more than a year ago, no use-by dates. I freeze
> fresh veggies from my garden, not cooked at all, not even blanched,
> just used a bag of green beans was harvested in 2008, as good as any
> Birdeye just bought. I buy many canned/jarred goods by the case, most
> get eaten after their best-by date... if the safety seal on a jar is
> not popped it's perfectly wholesome regardless the use-by date.
> Nothing prevents food banks from dispensing items past their use-by
> date other than that they are ****in' idiots, don't possess an ounce
> of common sense... no one ever got sick from eating pasta past its
> best-used-by date, whether eaten raw or boiled to death. I must have
> fifty pounds of variously shaped pasta in my pantry, most well past
> their best-used-by date... I eat them all the time without ever
> considering those dates... there's only one kind of date I examine
> carefully before eating, and I don't care how long past their best-by
> date... I bet you're well past your prime but still have a few more
> good miles left... how'd you like it if you were told you're no longer
> allowed? LOL

Why in the world would you have so much pasta? I thought I had a lot but
certainly not that much. I don't even think I have 20 pounds! And the only
reason I have a lot is that I buy the gluten free kind. I can't always find
the shapes I want in the store so I mail order them. Because postage is
high, I mail order a lot.