"Beefy's Corner".......For all off Topic threads

Long as it's sealed and kept in a cold place it's fine.

 

The only problem is I don't know what this particular beverage tastes like at its best, so I have no way of knowing how significantly the taste has changed. I need to learn these things so that when I get older I can be one of those pretentious ale snobs.

 

Ales in sealed bottles can only go off if it's left in a too warm or cold a place. That's what I was told anyways when working in a pub.

 

They have to put dates on foodstuff, but it's only the flavour that goes off if sealed in bottle or can. My son is terrible for dates...refused to use my blackpepper because it was out of date!

 

It's in sealed cans, but I have no idea where it's been kept. I'm risking it though because I'm a ballsy motherfucker.

 

Ah...the courage that built an Empire

 

May I just say how impressed I am that you have managed to keep tins of alcoholic beverage in your gaff for so long that the sell by has expired. Unless you found yourself left with them after you hosted a party recently, and are therefore surrounded by Bulgarian red wine and Peardrax, whilst anything half-decent has been guzzled?

 

When I was a kid, my mum used to try and make me sandwiches with mouldy bread, because she legitimately believes mould can do you no harm. I've lectured her so many times, but she won't learn.

But yeah, some things don't exactly "go bad". I've heard flour becomes explosive eventually, which is pretty cool if true.

 

Anyone remember Party Sevens...no one ever drank them...just took them to the next party.

 

I took the very lovely Mrs Godders to Hayling Island on Sunday. We had a walk along the beach and had a return ride on that rather interesting little train and then had some lunch in the "Inn on the Beach" which overlooks Portsmouth. Only a couple of weeks previously we had been to Gunwharf Quay for some shopping and some supper with the grandchildren. Met and chatted to quite a number of people as I am a pretty friendly chap. Everyone seemed quite normal and I have to say I quite enjoyed myself. Nobody was beastly in fact I found the locals very friendly and polite just like my neighbours.

So I am beginning to wonder if there are some myths at work. The local chap at the next table to us in the restaurant ordered fish and when it arrived I told the very lovely Mrs Godders she mustn't look. She asked me why and when I explained she got quite interested. I am a bit worried about her as since that little episode with the handcuffs for she seems to have taken a new and rather surprising interest in all sorts of sexual experimentation and deviation. It has all left me quite exhausted I can tell you but she has been enjoying herself. Needless to say when the blokes fish arrived he tucked into with quite a hungry appetite. The very lovely Mrs Godders turned to me with a disappointed look on her face and told me I had told her a fib and that the bloke had no intention of doing anything rude with the fish as he was just hungry.

 

Even dates on foods are made up so people get scared and throw it away, then buy the item over again.

 

Often the case, yeah, but it's also so that there's no risk of lawsuits if it goes off sooner than they expected.

 

Agreed and Hi **** lips

 

Silly woman...you should always pinch out the green bits.The trouble was that as he got older my son would look suspiciously at any toast with holes.

 

Something most people don't know is that mould doesn't grow on the surface of food. It starts in the middle and works its way out. When you see mould, throw the whole lot out.

 

Party Sevens? Blimey Fran, that really does take me back. Always a laugh when someone had dropped the thing before opening it, and it had to be authentically at slightly above room temperature. Must've been about 3% ABV. The seventies had some horrors, no doubt about it.

I don't think that flour explodes if left beyond it's sell-by date but the flour mites do keep increasing in number, so old flour probably contains more protein. That and flour mite droppings. Yuk!

 

Yep true but many products expire date is marked far shorted then it should be,I use to do it when I worked part time at a Sainsbury's warehouse. My manager also laughed at how customers threw away meat that had turned slightly grey.

 

but where do flour mites come from?

 

Hate to tell you, but all flour contains weevil eggs which hatch out eventually. Most people eat the flour (and eggs) before this happens.

 

They're actually added to some foods on purpose. There are microorganisms on everything we eat, so it's best to just not think about it.