Seeing the Story about Tesco
reminded me of the same thing. Went to local Asda, they had some nice stuff that had been written down to use that day, chilli prawns, smoked salmon on a stick, that sort of stuff. Normally 3 for £6 but these were down to 35p. RESULT and collect loads. Then through the checkout wondered what the multibuy was. Examined the receipt and couldnt work it out when it suddenly dawned.. we had purchased £2 worth of stuff and then because it was on a multibuy got a credit of £4. so £2 up and lots of free food. Supermarkets are sometimes super!
(scowners shagged his mum on, Mon 14 Jan 2008, 13:08, 9 replies)

Mmmmmmm
nearly out of date sea food.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Mon 14 Jan 2008, 13:13, closed)

Smoked salmon...
...on a STICK?!
(clumsyeloquence is a girl, Mon 14 Jan 2008, 13:36, closed)

Immunity
Can you build up an immunity to E. coli and salmonella? I suppose so, and eating seafood on the cusp of edibility is probably a good way to go about it!

Unless you die in the process of course.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 14 Jan 2008, 13:42, closed)

The greencloud guide...
... to 'bargain' out-of-date foodstuffs.

Fizzy pop - A month or two past it's 4-year shelf-life is nothing. Guzzle away.

Tinned goods - As these goodies also enjoy an extraordinarily long shelf-life, they can be safely consumed way after the 'best before' limit.

Fruit & vegetables - Take no notice! Mankind has been judging the ripeness of produce himself for milleniae. You should know whether it's going to give you the squits by sight/smell.

Bread - Check for green spots, they don't taste nice. Other than that, the only limit is how 'crunchy' you like it!

Other baked goods - Here, things get complicated. Pies and cakes are just as yummy to germs as they are to us. Anything that's sat around for more than a couple of days is likely to be concealing the aftermath of a bacterial orgy and could make you rather unwell.

Fish & Seafood - ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID! If you ever buy this waste, invest the money you save in air freshener and cleaning products, you'll need it!
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Mon 14 Jan 2008, 14:16, closed)

Following on from greencloud
You lucky peeps have been equipped by many many years of evolution/benevolent gods/intelligent design/lizard people with the A1 Acme 'don't get the shits' bit of kit.

It's called your nose.

As greencloud mentioned, tinned stuff lasts forever. Decades in fact. Bread goes hard and you cut the edges off. Ditto hard cheese. Smoked meat such as salami? Smoking preserves the stuff. Dried food? No problem.

However, pre-prepared food. Apart from the possibility that someone has chucked their muck into the mix if it's egg mayo, this stuff is a good route to spending a lovely long time clinging to the Throne of Torment as red-hot acid gushes agonisingly from your tortured, red-raw ringpiece.

If its fishy/chickeny, have a good old sniff. If it smells dodgy, it is. So don't eat it. If you reheat it, nuke the bollocks out of it until it really is hot, not just warm-ish and smelling edible.

(I feel like a public service announcement these days. I'll be dressing as Edwina Currie next)
(osok Rebel without a clue, Mon 14 Jan 2008, 15:47, closed)

Hmmmmmmm
Edwina Currie?! Prrrrrrrrr!!
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Mon 14 Jan 2008, 17:13, closed)

Honestly....
do you really think that food thats "on" the sell by date must be eaten on that day or else it goes off? If it smells off, then it probably is, if it doesnt then its not. It doesnt know its on the sell by date and there is always leeway.
(scowners shagged his mum on, Mon 14 Jan 2008, 17:39, closed)

Sell by dates
As we know are bollocks, especially when stuff gets re-labelled by the evil corporate giants.

However anyone who wants to play 'exploding-sphincter-roulette' with pre-prepared fishy stuff has been warned.....




(plus fish tastes rank when even slightly not fresh so even if you don't fill your plumbing with fishy-smelling napalm...)
(osok Rebel without a clue, Mon 14 Jan 2008, 18:08, closed)

On reheating...
Even if you heat food up hot enough to kill all the bacteria, I believe that some bacterial toxins (I can't recall exactly which, someone correct me if I'm wrong) are not destroyed by heating, so you can still get sick even if the food has been "sterilised".
(oball needs Satan more than he needs me, Tue 15 Jan 2008, 0:29, closed)