never eat from a dented can

[Rumpltzer]

It's a cat. It shouldn't be eating from a can. Let it hunt, and it can eat what it kills.

 

[Rakehellion]

if the can is still sealed, you're fine, in theory.

That's the point. If the can is dented, it likely isn't sealed.

 

[Rakehellion]

What the hell else do you go by for milk? The 'sell by' date means just that: SELL by. The milk can be perfectly good for at at least a week beyond that.

I go for taste more so than safety. I always strive for well before the sell by date and keep leftovers for three days tops.

 

[Rakehellion]

Bread I'll toss if it's on more than 1 slice.

Milk I'll try until it actually starts to taste sour. Dates are meaningless.

Cheese I will just cut off the mold and eat. No way am I throwing away good cheese.

Hard cheeses grow mold during the aging process. It's just a solid block. Chop off the mold and go at it.

I'm not going to eat anything porous or fluid if it has mold on it.

 

[CZroe]

That's the point. If the can is dented, it likely isn't sealed.

"Likely?" You seriously think that? It'd denting on a pop-top can that matters most but if your presumption were true the most of the food from salvage stores would be illegal to consume.

 

[CZroe]

Hard cheeses grow mold during the aging process. It's just a solid block. Chop off the mold and go at it.

I'm not going to eat anything porous or fluid if it has mold on it.

Hard cheese and most other cheeses are made with mold (not just surface mold you can "cut off"). How do you feel about cottage cheese?

 

[jlee]

What the hell else do you go by for milk? The 'sell by' date means just that: SELL by. The milk can be perfectly good for at at least a week beyond that.

Jesus, no wonder everyone thinks they've got food poisoning today. They're fucking scared of their food. If the terrorists don't kill you on the bus in Des Moines, then the milk in your fridge that's a day past the date printed on the carton will do it instead.

We've become the biggest nation of pussies on the planet.

I've also had milk go back days before the date on the jug. I sniff test it frequently.

 

[Carson Dyle]

I've also had milk go back days before the date on the jug. I sniff test it frequently.

Yeah, that happens. Some years ago I shopped at a certain local grocery store and always bought their milk, but began noticing that it sometimes went bad before the sell-by date. So I switched to buying from someone else.

I remembered this thread as I went to have a bowl of cereal today. I don't drink a lot of milk, just on cereal, an occasional glass by itself, a tiny bit in cooking. But it's way cheaper to buy gallon jugs for $1.89 than it is to buy 1/2 gallon cartons, even if I have to throw much of it away. The jug was marked March 15, 2016 and it was perfectly fine. From Walmart, of course. Probably made in China by child prison laborers and comes from tortured cows.

 

[shortylickens]

It's a cat. It shouldn't be eating from a can. Let it hunt, and it can eat what it kills.

 

[BUTCH1]

I always liked this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vEl6Ey8Gdc

Wow....could you imagine someone on a flight opening up a can of that for a snack?. I wonder if they would declare an "in-flight emergency" and land it ASAP.