Comments on: Best Before http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/02/best-before/ Lollards in the high church of low culture Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:54:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/02/best-before/#comment-380121 a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:56:00 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/02/best-before/#comment-380121 i think if it had been found in king tut's tomb dad would be ok about trying it -- he is a war-baby also (i didn't particularly mean to imply that 7-year out-of-date zimbabwean corned beef is actually an obviously risker option than 7-year out-of-date corned beef from anywhere else -- though i think we maybe DID make this argument to dad when trying to dissuade him) (completely irrationally however i do somehow sort of find i feel that corned beef from “canning plant no.7″is going to be a risker option than say corned beef from “canning plant no.587", whatever the country of origin... as if no.7, being built earlier, would have less well-appointed machinery, i don't know) i think if it had been found in king tut’s tomb dad would be ok about trying it — he is a war-baby also

(i didn’t particularly mean to imply that 7-year out-of-date zimbabwean corned beef is actually an obviously risker option than 7-year out-of-date corned beef from anywhere else — though i think we maybe DID make this argument to dad when trying to dissuade him)

(completely irrationally however i do somehow sort of find i feel that corned beef from “canning plant no.7″is going to be a risker option than say corned beef from “canning plant no.587″, whatever the country of origin… as if no.7, being built earlier, would have less well-appointed machinery, i don’t know)

]]> By: Kat but logged out innit http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/02/best-before/#comment-380111 Kat but logged out innit Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:32:46 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/02/best-before/#comment-380111 If it had said "rhodesia packing plant no.7" with a sell-by date of 1996 then it'd probably be good for another 7000 years at least... If it had said “rhodesia packing plant no.7″ with a sell-by date of 1996 then it’d probably be good for another 7000 years at least…

]]> By: a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/02/best-before/#comment-379943 a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:44:46 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/02/best-before/#comment-379943 i: on one hand my sister and i were brought up ounder the threat of the loch maree hotel/picnic BOTULISM EVENT (bad duck pate = 8 dead in 1922) ii: on the other hand, the structure of our kitchen cupboards (low-down, shallowly spaced, far to the back) combined with the structure of mum's stoical must-make-do war-baby mind meant that sell-by was treated with family in-joke hilarity (the best bit of the joke being "oh dad will eat it" bcz he NEARLY ALWAYS DID*) (mum eg argued that furry mould on jam was PROOF that the REST of the jam underneath the mould MUST BE FINE) (or it wd be mouldy too!) (which to be fair is the principle that cheese rind works on) iii: as a result i long ago got in to the habit of ALWAYS EATING CHEESE RIND and declaring it the BEST PART (cf oude goude AND babybel plus) iv: mum's mum in the early 90s made up a rhyme to protest her only daughter's approach to sell-by (i'm sure i've published this on the interwebs several time noes) <i>if i should die think only this of me the yoghurt was outdated it said 1983</i> *one particular holiday in wales in c.2003 we arrived quite late there was no meat in the house -- which we rented off relatives -- EXCEPT for some corned beef canned at "zimbabwe packing plant no.7" with a sell-by of 1996 ---> dad was very gung-ho for this and only dissuuded (despite full-on reference to the 1922 BOTULISM EVENT) when someone drove off to buy some bacon at a nearby garage, which he likes a lot more than corned beef i: on one hand my sister and i were brought up ounder the threat of the loch maree hotel/picnic BOTULISM EVENT (bad duck pate = 8 dead in 1922)
ii: on the other hand, the structure of our kitchen cupboards (low-down, shallowly spaced, far to the back) combined with the structure of mum’s stoical must-make-do war-baby mind meant that sell-by was treated with family in-joke hilarity (the best bit of the joke being “oh dad will eat it” bcz he NEARLY ALWAYS DID*) (mum eg argued that furry mould on jam was PROOF that the REST of the jam underneath the mould MUST BE FINE) (or it wd be mouldy too!) (which to be fair is the principle that cheese rind works on)
iii: as a result i long ago got in to the habit of ALWAYS EATING CHEESE RIND and declaring it the BEST PART (cf oude goude AND babybel plus)
iv: mum’s mum in the early 90s made up a rhyme to protest her only daughter’s approach to sell-by (i’m sure i’ve published this on the interwebs several time noes)
if i should die
think only this of me
the yoghurt was outdated
it said 1983

*one particular holiday in wales in c.2003 we arrived quite late there was no meat in the house — which we rented off relatives — EXCEPT for some corned beef canned at “zimbabwe packing plant no.7″ with a sell-by of 1996 —> dad was very gung-ho for this and only dissuuded (despite full-on reference to the 1922 BOTULISM EVENT) when someone drove off to buy some bacon at a nearby garage, which he likes a lot more than corned beef

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