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What's the oldest food item in your cupboard?

mmntech

mmntech

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So I was rummaging through the kitchen cupboards earlier today and found this.
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It's raspberry gelatin. No idea how old it is. There's no "best before" date on the package. I'm guessing it's from the 90s. The box certainly has that retro look to it. Neilson hasn't sold anything but dairy products for some time. The nutrition label on the back is different for the standardized ones used today.

Anybody else have any ancient food relics lying around? Only from the date it was purchased, so no, 15 year old Scotch doesn't count.
 
A bag of corn chowder to make a soup. It is years past expiry but I am positive it is edible. Every year or so I comment that we should have it for dinner but it hasn't yet happened.
 
I have a can of cloves which expired in 1978. Also a box of Jell-O pudding mix which I believe is from the early '70s.
 
I have some canned goods from the 90s, and some spices from the 80s. I'll decide what to do with them when I need them. Canned goods can go off, and taste like metal after awhile, but everything's different, so it has to be sampled first.

I'd have saved the MREs, especially if they were kept well. Even if the entrees went off, the snacks and accessories should have been fine.
 
lol wow, you guys are ate up. Oldest of anything I would have couldn't be more than a couple months old at best. We actually use/eat whats purchased.
 
HeXen said:
lol wow, you guys are ate up. Oldest of anything I would have couldn't be more than a couple months old at best. We actually use/eat whats purchased.
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Since I actually cook from scratch, rather than open boxes and cans, add water, and mix, I have a lot of things used as ingredients that have very long shelf lives. I don't think I've ever gone through a box of corn starch in "a couple months at best." Ditto baking soda, baking powder, pure vanilla extract,...


Just rummaged through the cupboard - the only thing that's got a date on it that I found was some sort of cool-whip like powder that a cake recipe called for adding. That had a best by date of Jan 2006. But, I'm pretty sure we have several items from my wife's mother - who passed away in 1996.
 
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Best before 1985 chili powder.

It's still ok.

(Not my cupboard tho, relative's. Wouldn't have lasted that long in mine.)
 
Probably something from 2011 when I moved into my current house. My Gramma, on the other hand, has some old food products. We went through her cupboards once at a family gathering, and there were packages that looked like they could have been from the seventies.
 
DrPizza said:
Since I actually cook from scratch, rather than open boxes and cans, add water, and mix, I have a lot of things used as ingredients that have very long shelf lives. I don't think I've ever gone through a box of corn starch in "a couple months at best." Ditto baking soda, baking powder, pure vanilla extract,...


Just rummaged through the cupboard - the only thing that's got a date on it that I found was some sort of cool-whip like powder that a cake recipe called for adding. That had a best by date of Jan 2006. But, I'm pretty sure we have several items from my wife's mother - who passed away in 1996.
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They sell small batches of corn starch as well. Ditto on any of that stuff.
 
I just ran up to Denny's and got a country fried steak dinner. Tastes like it is about 10 years old, if that counts.
 
We had some frozen roast beef that had an expiration of 2008 in our freezer, we cooked it about 6 months ago, it tasted fine. I would guess that it had remained frozen the whole time with the exception of 1 or 2 power outages over the years.
 
mmntech said:
Rule is food items only. :sneaky:
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Heh. In that case, I cleared out my cupboard six months ago and I threw away this white label can that only said "Food" on it. No nutritional information, no date, no idea what was in it. I got it from my parents house like 10 years ago when I was clearing some stuff out of their pantry, and I'm pretty sure I remember seeing it in there over 10 years before that, even.

I think they got it like 30 years ago from some mom and pop grocery store in the middle of nowhere that did their own cannings.
 
i have some sesame oil that is about a year and a half old. i didnt know that oil could go bad, it now tastes plasticky and doesnt smell like its supposed to. a couple years ago i looked in my parents cabinets and there was some black stains. i looks in the back of the cabinet and a tomato sauce can had popped from old ago. i had always though canned food was good for like 100 years. apparently not
 
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