Will my Mt Dew Code Red taste okay? Safe to drink?

[lancestorm]

I found a can of Code Red in the back of a drawer in my cube. Best if consumed by July 7, 2003. Wow, almost a year past the best-to-taste date. Will it still taste like Code Red?

 

[MrScott81]

nope, and if you drink it you will die a miserable death....

but seriously, i wouldn't drink it...those dates are there for a reason...i could understand if it was a few weeks or a month past, but we're goin on 11 months here

 

[ohtwell]

It'll probably taste like liquid crap! You should try it and let us know though. Hope it doesn't make you sick!


: ) Amanda

 

[Ramma2]

It will be nasty!

 

[skace]

Do you really think soda ever goes bad. It is liquid sugar.

 

[AmitPatel]

It'll be fine, I guarantee it. Up until about 10 or so years ago, sodas did not even have "best before" dates...

 

[MacBaine]

Don't you remember the commercials with the aliens who get the soda out of the satellite? It's like 5,000,000 years later and the soda tastes great. Aluminum cans! You'll be fine, soda never goes bad in aluminum cans.

 

[StageLeft]

Should be ok; we've got some cans of schweppes from 18 months ago and they're still proving to be drinkable.

 

[cronos]

try it.. try it...

 

[Nebor]

I've got milk that says the same thing, and it's just fine.

 

[Pudgygiant]

Take one for the team

 

[lancestorm]

Originally posted by: Nebor
I've got milk that says the same thing, and it's just fine.

LOL, that's disgusting.

 

[Azraele]

Don't drink it.

 

[lancestorm]

I'm scurred.

 

[MacBaine]

Drink it you pussy!

 

[mindmaniac]

As long as it isn't Diet it should taste fine. You'll find if you drink a diet Pepsi a year after the expiration date it has no flavor since the half-life of artificial sweeteners is so short. A regular pop shouldn't change at all. I would say drink up and enjoy, I would even save a can in a time capsule in drink it twenty years after Code Red's demise.

 

[Krazy4Real]

I've had soda a couple months past the date and it tasted fine. As long as the aluminum can is intact there's no problem.

 

[raanemaan]

CHUG A LUG, Drink it in a hospital lobby just in case. Wine gets better with age.

 

[lancestorm]

Originally posted by: mindmaniac
As long as it isn't Diet it should taste fine. You'll find if you drink a diet Pepsi a year after the expiration date it has no flavor since the half-life of artificial sweeteners is so short. A regular pop shouldn't change at all. I would say drink up and enjoy, I would even save a can in a time capsule in drink it twenty years after Code Red's demise.

In 20 years the pop will have eaten through the aluminum can...

 

[lancestorm]

OK, I will be drinking it for lunch. I just remembered that on eBay they still sell SURGE pop from like 2000 and people drink that...

 

[Jzero]

It will taste like crap, but that's because it's Code Red, not because it's old.

It's only dated because it has to be.

<-Not brainwashed by the food service dating industry.

 

[MacBaine]

Not brainwashed by the food service dating industry.

Uhhh... k?

 

[Ness]

as long as it is cold it shouldn't taste bad. I think the only reason it would would be psychological.

Look at all the people hoarding the livewire for a year.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: MacBaine

Not brainwashed by the food service dating industry.

Uhhh... k?

99% of those dates are meaningless.
Does a bag of chips magically go stale on the date stamped on the outside of the bag? How do the chips know? Does it have something to do with the half-life of the preservative chemicals?

Milk is the worst offender because so many people believe the "sell by" date is the "consume by" date.

If it passes the sniff test, chances are it's perfectly fine.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: lancestorm

Originally posted by: Nebor
I've got milk that says the same thing, and it's just fine.

LOL, that's disgusting.

Did you "drink" the milk with a spoon? :disgust: