Use By / Best Before dates...

[dickman69]

To those who said yes, what's your position on the 5 second rule?

ill eat food off the floor, but old food is nasty...

everything has bacteria on it, but not everything has mold

[nowaysj]

Have smell checked milk and it passed, when actually tasted so putrid made my tongue tingle.

Tingle!

[Terpit]

Phuck it, old food is good for your immune system, or something, maybe.

[faust.dtc]

To those who said yes, what's your position on the 5 second rule?

I thought it was a 3 second rule. Have I been cheating myself out of an extra 2 seconds this whole time?

[PinUp]

I just cant imagine being hungry enough to eat bread with lumps of removable mold on when you can buy a loaf of bread for about 20p.

I only do it because it's a 7 mile round trip to the nearest shop

[Johnlenham]

I just cant imagine being hungry enough to eat bread with lumps of removable mold on when you can buy a loaf of bread for about 20p.

I only do it because it's a 7 mile round trip to the nearest shop

Ha fuck that id rather go hungry or walk to the shop

[gnome]

I've eaten 1 week out of date chicken and it tasted fine. Same goes for ham and milk and cheese and cream and yoghurt and buns and bread. I thought the UK were abolishing use by dates on dairy products?

[jameshk]

Depends on what it is, i usually eye it up and take a little nibble. If it seems bad then I chuck it.

[magma]

Mouldy cheese gets trimmed and then eaten. I think it was Stephen Fry on QI who had a little rant about cheese best before dates... cheese is already gone off., that's the point of it! As long as you're not eating mould, it's going to be fine and even then, cheese mould is generally pretty edible anyway - we wouldn't have Stilton and Gorgonzola without it!

[tyger]

slightly off milk is actually ok if you're cooking with it. if not cooking it, sniff test.

cheese is essentially milk that's gone off, so what more can happen? it's just whether you like the taste.

[tyger]

oops, posted after only reading the 1st page ...

it's the 3-second rule ... sometimes follow it, but currently no, because ant powder on the kitchen floor recently.

[Johnlenham]

Other than my disgust for viable mold on things Its just milk I have issue with.
I think I must have accidentally had a full on mouth full of gone off milk and cereal as a kid because Im weary now of stuff even within a few days of the date.

[ezza]

To those who said yes, what's your position on the 5 second rule?

I thought it was a 3 second rule. Have I been cheating myself out of an extra 2 seconds this whole time?

Nah its 3, shit kicks off after 3.

[5910]

I just cant imagine being hungry enough to eat bread with lumps of removable mold on when you can buy a loaf of bread for about 20p.

Where exactly do you get bread so cheap?

[tuckerlinen]

dumpster massive?
where y'at?