"Sell By" & "Best Before" Dates - Page 3

**Adam** · #21 (**permalink**) 06-06-2008, 03:39 PM

Great post Esca - didn't know that at all.

Sounds like it would keep me amused now let along when I was a small grasshopper!

**Amy-Hols** · #22 (**permalink**) 13-06-2008, 09:11 PM

If anyone is interested the programme I was talking about is on now on ITV1. It is called Past It's Sell By Date, James Maitland is going to eat out of date food every day for two weeks... it has just started now if anyone wants to tune in!

**Jezer** · #23 (**permalink**) 13-06-2008, 10:01 PM

Saw it too late!

Love to know what was said!

Help anyone?

**Amy-Hols** · #24 (**permalink**) 13-06-2008, 10:05 PM

Basically he ate out of date food, getting progressively more out of date, every day for two weeks, culminating in eating green mouldy bread. He actually emptied the bin behind a branch of iceland, took what he found to Anthony Worral Thompson's house and got him to make a meal out of it. He suffered no ill effects whatsoever and questioned whether it was right throwing all that food away when there are people starving and living in poverty. A nutritionist did say however, that a diet such as he followed would not be advisable for those who are elderly, children or pregnant women.

Escafeldia · #25 (**permalink**) 14-06-2008, 09:25 PM

I don't mind eating "out of date" food provided that it still looks edible. Green mouldy bread doesn't come into that category. Pencillin I don't mind when it's wanted but eating it in the raw state doesn't shake my bag at all.

I wonder how the "date ruled foodies" would go on with some of the old fashioed game which was hung until it started producing maggots and, in the case of game birds (not hot young ladies from the local boozer) until the tail feathers fell out.

Fresh unprocessed meat is, in the main, safe to cook and eat after keeping for a few weeks; in the right conditions of course. Once you start adding preservatives and other "fillers", like water in bacon, then the keeping properties suffer. Pork and Chicken I would always be careful about keeping for any extended period.

LIVERBIRD · #26 (**permalink**) 28-09-2008, 08:54 AM

These dates are vital for both Customers and supermarkets. You got 3 types of dates, Useby,Best Before & Sell. Which ever I find which Are short life and reduced I freeze them and Use them later.. You can Freeze anything.