Eating expired food

[RoboBlue]

Have you ever eaten something that was expired? How far beyond the expiration date was it?
I thought I'd start this topic to see what the "most expired" food we've all eaten (and not gotten sick from) is, and to talk about foods that are still edible long after the expiration date.
Right now I'm cooking some instant ramen noodles that I found in the cabinet, which expired six years ago.

[Paramultart]

I once ate out an old woman. She was expired.

[RoboBlue]

...I just threw out the ramen, it tastes like sawdust and used condoms. Then again, I think it may have tasted like that when it was fresh. :/

[Paramultart]

it may have tasted like that when it was fresh. :/

Wat? Ramen = Greatest food ever conceived.
It's the one guilty pleasure I simply cannot give up.

What brand was it? Nissin's Top Ramen? Or that Maruchan garg?

[lemm]

Ramen can spoil?

[Grimson]

Raymen?

CKeen, I demand you not to eat more Raymen, you already took one >:

And I don't know, I don't eat expired food, why would I?

[guynietoren]

I was eating cereal with sour milk for a couple of days before I sat and ate it with my wife. I just thought the new cereal we had was a bit odd but am used to putting up with things till we get more money. It was quite embarrassing to find out I was drinking spoiled milk and didn't notice. I think it was just a few weeks old though, not long enough to turn chunky at least.

[tulip]

I was drinking a can of expired cream soda, also a type of food I didn't know had an expiry date as I think it has nothing natural in it except water.
Plus I drank Beer that was a few years over the limit, but nothing taste altering to be experienced on both occasions.
I know of a friend who at the age of 20 to 22, I don't remember exactly was making his breakfast cocoa out of packages that were expired on his birthay (yes on his actual day of birth).

[kuliwil]

I know of a friend who at the age of 20 to 22, I don't remember exactly was making his breakfast cocoa out of packages that were expired on his birthay (yes on his actual day of birth).

WOW! Now THERE is a story!

3 year old chocolate for me, with all its white, crumbly goodness.

[RoboBlue]

I have a whole bunch of four year old mac and cheese boxes that I regularly cook, throwing out the cheese packet and adding decent sauce from a jar (the powdered sauce often comes with worms, even before the expiration date).

[Scarlet]

Hm depends. I remember eating expired cheezit crackers... they tasted the exact same.



I might be wrong but I think that humanitarian food aid is often expired stuff. At least that's what some refugees once told me - they said they were eating stuff decades old. I don't believe that, but who knows, maybe it's true.

[DeathByNeuralStunner]

Some sandwich meat
it was around two days over its expiration


it was still good

[VikingBoyBilly]

The second I put something expired into my mouth, I spit it back out.
You people are all loopy

[Scilicet]

And how would you know that without seeing an expiration date? Those are calculated for the people who are really bad at storing food. For most people, throwing away food a few days past its expiration date is a waste of money and perfectly good food. Taste and texture degrade, but the food seldom is spoiled when the calendar and expiration dates match. I like to shop at a grocery outlet store; it has a lot of close-dated and "expired" food that has not yet made anyone in my family sick because it's still sealed.

[TerminILL]

Lots of stuff is just "best before" and doesn't need to be "used by" the date. Although I almost ate some fermenting marmalade yesterday. That was pretty nasty.