Yes, I'm so Happy! 2012

[Maren]

I was once given a tin of genuine London fog. It disappeared.

[Maggi Young]

I was once given a tin of genuine London fog. It disappeared.

A bit of luck that, Maren.... isn't it meant to make  you cough ? 

[johnw]

I was once given a tin of genuine London fog. It disappeared.

In Nova Scotia it's done up in 40 gallon oil drums with no expiration date. Can post.

johnw

[Anthony Darby]

I have a bottle of "h2go" water which I fill up from the tap. The expiry date on it is13/07/13. How can they be so specific? My daughter Lucy found some yoghurt in the fridge with a best before date of December 2011. It's still perfectly edible (she didn't; I did).

[Hoy]

I am enjoying a cheese - the expiry date is a year ago. It is very good! (I also have a glass of red wine )

[David Nicholson]

I am enjoying a cheese - the expiry date is a year ago. It is very good! (I also have a glass of red wine )

Now the wine I can cope with, it's the cheese at this time of night that does for me

[Hoy]

I am enjoying a cheese - the expiry date is a year ago. It is very good! (I also have a glass of red wine )

Now the wine I can cope with, it's the cheese at this time of night that does for me

This time of night? The evening has just begun! BTW, don't you eat very late dinners, and aren't you an hour after me anyway?

[Lesley Cox]

It's still perfectly edible.

Unlike the carton of cottage cheese I found when cleaning out the fridge at the weekend. Expiry date 12 March 2011. It resembled the grey cat from over the road, quite as furry and even smellier. Hate to think how many millions of mould spores I released into the air but we don't seem to have suffered.

[Anthony Darby]

I called on a friend at lunch time once. He was sitting down to lamb chops and asked if I could reach into the cupboard and hand him down the mint sauce. A very dodgy looking bottle it was too, so I suggested he checked the sell by date. He said he would, after he'd finished eating. The best before date was sometime in 1984! He moved into the house he was then living in sometime in 1987, so must have brought it with him when it was already out of date! I suppose vinegar would ensure it would last at least as long as an un-iced Christmas cake?

[maggiepie]

My vegemite has January 2011 expiry date.

[Brian Ellis]

Well I know the cocoa tin said expired January 2012, but I saw it as a perfect opportunity to make chocolate cake

[Maggi Young]

Helen :  should we send an emergency food parcel?   

Brian:An excellent example of the creative and lateral thinking employed by the members of this forum.

[maggiepie]

Thanks Maggi but where would you get vegemite?

When I first came to Canada I could get tiny jars at one of the supermarkets, they stopped selling it about 5 years ago.

Good news is, today I got an emergency food parcel from my ex in Oz.
2 big jars of vegemite, 2 tins of keens curry powder ( comfort food) AND two tubs of Gumption.
I am sooooooooo Happy I am doing the Happy Dance!!!

[Maggi Young]

Glad that Mafeking has been relieved, Helen.

two points :1)  we can buy vegemite here. (Though Ian says since it is already fossilised when it goes into the jar, why would a "best before date" be a worry ?  )

 2) What is "Gumption" in a tin?

[johnw]

Helen

Is marmite the same as vegemite? If so I have seen one or the other at Pete's Frootique in the UK section.

Tell me more about Keen's curry.  Have you found Major Gray has gone into a slide of late?

johnw