I have a food in a can that expired back in Jan 2013! Can you beat that?

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  1. The granny has those iodine tablets that they gave out back in the day, the date of expiry 11/7/96

  2. I have brown sugar crystals that I bought back in 1990, when I worked in a small shop. I use them every now and again for fancy coffee, and there’s as good as ever.

    I also recently found a tin of tomato soup in my office that I’d bought as an emergency lunch…..back in 2003 lol. It was dated BB 2005, and my father in law said he’d eat. It was fine.

  3. In 2014 my parents renovated their kitchen and found a jar of Oxfam fair trade jam that expired in 1998. I think jam is one of those things that have an expiration date well in the future too

  4. Please don’t open that!!

    We’ve had a pandemic, we don’t need to release the end of the world demon that’s been grown in your dirty manky Lidl Heinz knock off baked baens thank you very much!!

  5. When Windows 10 launched at work years ago, Microsoft sent us a bunch of goodies, including Windows 10 energy drinks.

    I still have an unopened drink can to this day with the label on it. Mine doesn’t beat yours though as it expired June 2017.

  6. My grandmother didn’t drink, so we kept an unopened bottle of Shloer in the house in case she or another teetotaller was up for New Year’s or a birthday party or something (not that we ever actually had parties like that so the justification was a bit baffling.) She passed in 2009. A couple of years later I cleaned out that cupboard and pitched anything that was out of date. Turned out the Shloer had had a best before in the fucking 90s

  7. I have a can of Hoffman’s (brewed in Waterford) that expired in 1993 that I bought in an antique shop.

  8. I once ate a military ration pack that was best before 14 March 1967. That was army issue, still tasted great though the boiled sweets were sticky

  9. The expired food has evolved into highly intelligent life forms with an advanced society featuring ample housing and no inflation. Unlike Ireland. : )

  10. I finally convinced the mother to throw away her collection of bottles of artificial flavours and colours earlier this year.

    They weren’t just pre-best before dates, they were pre-barcode.

    She was still using them whenever she baked cakes (very rarely, thank god).

  11. Last year I found seasoning in my partner’s kitchen dated 1998! I’ll add a pic if I can figure out how

  12. When I was about 9 or 10 years old, I was in my Gran-aunts house where she offered to make me a sandwich. The sandwich she gave me contained extremely watery brown sauce. Myself and my sister went to the kitchen to try and find this bottle of brown sauce, which we successfully did. It had expired one month before I had been born.

    Thankfully I had not taken a bite, or accepted anything that she would make me from then on.

  13. Was cleaning out my mom’s kitchen in 2014 and we found a bottle of food colouring expired as of 1993………..we kept it for the lols…..it’s at least 30 years old now

  14. I’ve some bottles of Guinness in the shed from the early 90’s.

    Still sealed too.

    Who’ll pay me to drink it on that Chinese clock website thing.

  15. I have a can of “cassoulet” that I’ve been dragging with me from house to house… Since uni (15 odd years ago)! I’ll have to check the date on it when I get home…
    At this stage, it is part of the household.

  16. 4 years ago myself and a neighbour were hungry one night so he drove to his grand mothers house and pulled a good fellas pizza out of deep freeze. We were eating it when i noticed the box looked a bit vintage. Margaretha Pizza was 10 years old. Tasted fine and didn’t make us sick.

  17. About four years ago, I found a tin in the cupboard that had expired back in 1992. We moved house in 1994 and in 1999. Somehow that tin survived both moves, and remained shoved to the back of the cupboard until 2018.

  18. I have an unopened bag of Ethiopian coffee that expired in 2011. MRe Steve had some coffee from 1942, and said it was still good, so maybe this stuff is too.

  19. When my brother lost his leg he pretty much just pretended his upstairs never existed after that. Including the food he had up there. When he passed we cleaned everything, to discover he had left all kinds of a mess behind, including a half eaten pie that was likely sitting there nearly a decade untouched. If not for the way it was in the tin, it was unrecognizable.

    I still want to puke thinking about it.

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