#220 – Preserved
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comic
I think what freaks me out more is when I buy something that is really fresh. The date on the package will be years in the future. What will the world be in the future when this box of instant oatmeal will reach its peak flavor? Will there still be humans?
Tags: chemicals, expired, food
In the future, the robot overlords (Did I say overlords? I meant “protectors”. -JoCo) will forbid oatmeal, punishable by death, for the simple oatmeal will be the bane of their existence. They will be unable to resist consuming it, and it’ll get gooey in their insides making them sing folk songs (Futurama reference).
Y’know what’s weird? Right as I was reading your comment, Still Alive came up on my random playlist. I’m listening to it right now.
I recently helped clean out a cousin’s pantry of expired stuff, and some was way past “Best By” by about five years. It was stuff that was waaaaay in the back, though.
I did that a few months ago. I found stuff that was so old it didn’t actually have an expiration date on it.
Yes, I eat a lot of fast food…
What I find ridiculous is the expiry date on salt. Salt is stable. It doesn’t rot, doesn’t break down. If kept in a sealed container it will be just as usable 10,000 years from now as it is today. But the law says that expiry dates can’t be more than 5 years out, so they put a 5 year expiry on something that doesn’t expire.
Have you considered that if it’s from halite, the salt in the package might already have been 9’995 Years old when packaged? So only 5 years later, it’d be past your 10’000-year mark. What then?
Yeah, no kidding. Salt is a rock, literally.
and why is there and expiration date on Sour Cream???
First comes the sour. Then comes the mold. Green, furry, sour cream. I’ve never been brave enough to experience the effects.
You’ve clearly never eaten expired sour cream.