Election 2024

[Solid Air]

I think the really big discounts are a thing of the past now. Damage is already done though.

ah yes but until very recently could be huge bu even now 35% after 3-5 years though the maximum in quite a few areas isn't huge.
Still think it should be scrapped as it is a brake on new social housing and if that happened they could then sell stock they no longer consider vital / required just as they used to prior to the right to buy.

 

[duggie2000]

I think the really big discounts are a thing of the past now. Damage is already done though.

Now Angie has got her two houses lets not allow any working class people have the chance to buy a house because councils no longer see maintaining them as a main priority

 

[Libby]

Yeah, a lot of it is common sense, as I said, something like chips or biscuits, it's probably fine after the printed date on the label... I eat stuff that's past best before date. Veggies, as you say, you can see if it's good or not. Meat- **** no, that's not worth risking... cans... probably actually safe for a while after date, but I wouldn't risk it. Not unless starving and no alternative, and hopefully the food banks arn't THAT desperate.

Most meat will be fine a couple of days after a best before. Shops have to err on the side of caution.

People should be able to assess these things themselves imo as it's fairly simple. Chicken and fish probably the highest risk but also the easiest to tell if it's gone bad.

So much perfectly fine food must get wasted every day. Drives me mental.

 

[Star of David Bardsley]

Most meat will be fine a couple of days after a best before. Shops have to err on the side of caution.

People should be able to assess these things themselves imo as it's fairly simple. Chicken and fish probably the highest risk but also the easiest to tell if it's gone bad.

So much perfectly fine food must get wasted every day. Drives me mental.

I wouldn’t be touching fresh chicken two days after sell-by.

Processed stuff, particularly not from the chilled aisles is sound. Chocolate is fine months after.

Not surprised though. Some **** will get sick (or claim to be) after eating something they got free out of date and make a claim.

 

[brb]

I wouldn’t be touching fresh chicken two days after sell-by.

Processed stuff, particularly not from the chilled aisles is sound. Chocolate is fine months after.

Not surprised though. Some **** will get sick (or claim to be) after eating something they got free out of date and make a claim.

I wouldn't touch fresh chicken a day after use by date....just not worth the risk.

Does chocolate even go off, I thought it just crystallised?

 

[Star of David Bardsley]

I wouldn't touch fresh chicken a day after use by date....just not worth the risk.

Does chocolate even go off, I thought it just crystallised?

Yeah the taste will go but it’s not unsafe unless we’re talking probably years and even then it’s the ****s most likely rather than death.

 

[PINKIE]

I wouldn't touch fresh chicken a day after use by date....just not worth the risk.

Does chocolate even go off, I thought it just crystallised?

The cocoa butter in chocolate will eventually go stale, but it never really 'goes off'

That crystalisation you see on chocolate is when it's exposed to heat and then cools again. It's not strictly crystals, but a process called heat bloom. Where the fats separate from the solids and then resets out of temper. So what you are seeing is the solidified fats, that have becomes separated from the solids.

The chocolate takes on a crumbly, rough texture and often the outside of it looks powdery and dry.

 

[Star of David Bardsley]

The cocoa butter in chocolate will eventually go stale, but it never really 'goes off'

That crystalisation you see on chocolate is when it's exposed to heat and then cools again. It's not strictly crystals, but a process called heat bloom. Where the fats separate from the solids and then resets out of temper. So what you are seeing is the solidified fats, that have becomes separated from the solids.

The chocolate takes on a crumbly, rough texture and often the outside of it looks powdery and dry.

Ok nerd

 

[brb]

The cocoa butter in chocolate will eventually go stale, but it never really 'goes off'

That crystalisation you see on chocolate is when it's exposed to heat and then cools again. It's not strictly crystals, but a process called heat bloom. Where the fats separate from the solids and then resets out of temper. So what you are seeing is the solidified fats, that have becomes separated from the solids.

The chocolate takes on a crumbly, rough texture and often the outside of it looks powdery and dry.

Chocolate in my house is never around long enough to see any of that.

 

[Star of David Bardsley]

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Don’t mention this to Sucky

 

[Libby]

I wouldn't touch fresh chicken a day after use by date....just not worth the risk.

Does chocolate even go off, I thought it just crystallised?

I do one day if it still smells alright.

 

[FosseFilberto]

The cocoa butter in chocolate will eventually go stale, but it never really 'goes off'

That crystalisation you see on chocolate is when it's exposed to heat and then cools again. It's not strictly crystals, but a process called heat bloom. Where the fats separate from the solids and then resets out of temper. So what you are seeing is the solidified fats, that have becomes separated from the solids.

The chocolate takes on a crumbly, rough texture and often the outside of it looks powdery and dry.

^^^^^^^
Ponka Wonka

 

[brb]

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Don’t mention this to Sucky

I can't see what that says, I even tried magnifying it on my phone but just goes blurry. Although my eyesight is not great.

 

[FosseFilberto]

I can't see what that says, I even tried magnifying it on my phone but just goes blurry. Although my eyesight is not great.

Same

 

[Star of David Bardsley]

I can't see what that says, I even tried magnifying it on my phone but just goes blurry. Although my eyesight is not great.

Some MPs have decided we should build an airport in Mirpur, Kashmir. It won’t happen but there’s predictably and in this instance justifiably a lot of froth over it online.

 

[Sucky]

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[brb]

Some MPs have decided we should build an airport in Mirpur, Kashmir. It won’t happen but there’s predictably and in this instance justifiably a lot of froth over it online.

I saw something on the news last night, about Birmingham not having it's rubbish collected, and at some point over the last few years the council went bankrupt or whatever. So I guess local people are just a little pissed off at the mo.

People tend to get very touchy when rubbish is building in the streets, although I expect the local rat populations think it's wonderful.

 

[Star of David Bardsley]

I saw something on the news last night, about Birmingham not having it's rubbish collected, and at some point over the last few years the council went bankrupt or whatever. So I guess local people are just a little pissed off at the mo.

People tend to get very touchy when rubbish is building in the streets, although I expect the local rat populations think it's wonderful.

I think Birmingham is too far gone and just needs to have a wall built around it tbh. Place gets worse every time I see it.

 

[Sucky]

I saw something on the news last night, about Birmingham not having it's rubbish collected, and at some point over the last few years the council went bankrupt or whatever. So I guess local people are just a little pissed off at the mo.

People tend to get very touchy when rubbish is building in the streets, although I expect the local rat populations think it's wonderful.

Who's the mayor of Birmingham I wonder.

 

[brb]

I think Birmingham is too far gone and just needs to have a wall built around it tbh. Place gets worse every time I see it.

I honestly only know about Birmingham what you guys say on here, although a lot of towns let alone cities look like ****holes these days, because councils have stopped seeing them as places to enocourage investment, so they've allowed them to stand still in time and just rot.

Which I find extremely sad because it's destroying a social structure, for want of better words. I think Rochester has tried to keep it's square mile popular against the odds but the rest of Medway just looks a **** tip.

Covid did none of us any favours.