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Don't serve the Gold Blend to a wokman unless you want to ensure that they never 'darken your door' again! I have been given the congealed Gold Blend and it's truly revolting. (I like it when in good condition!)
100andthirty | 07.06.15 - 7:50 a.m. | #
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Do Tesco still make their own Jelly? I thought Hartley's had complete market dominance now. In fact, I'm visiting soon and am on the lookout for good jelly cubes / crystals, so other than Hartley's, any suggestions welcome.
Didn't you mention the bubbly before, many years ago, DG? Or was that when you cleaned out your fridge?
Antipodean | 07.06.15 - 8:09 a.m. | #
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... yes I was right. You did a cupboard cleanout on November 21 2010 and you mentioned the champagne then, along with a lot of the other items you mentioned in this more recent post.
An update, please, on items mentioned on your 2010 list and consumed since, with a report on condition, taste and toxicity...
Antipodean | 07.06.15 - 8:14 a.m. | #
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Don't be too blasé about the edibility of your out of date food. I shared your assumption until I opened a can of Heinz Tomato Soup dating from 2002 recently... it was absolutely disgusting and I had to pour it down the sink!
Richard | 07.06.15 - 8:23 a.m. | #
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....and don't rely too much on your memory, or folk memory, when guessing how long beyond BBD food will keep. Since can-dating became widespread, manufacturers have used much less preservative, partly because they can (!), and partly because rules on suspected nasty stuff have tightened.
Malcolm | 07.06.15 - 8:49 a.m. | #
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Someone call Robert Opie.
Richard M | 07.06.15 - 9:12 a.m. | #
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That's a new one on me.
I never knew that Bisto made champagne. Fizzy gravy - Mmmmm (not!).
petras409 | 07.06.15 - 9:17 a.m. | #
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In our household we reckon that at long as the price label isn't in 'old money' it should be all right.
Don | 07.06.15 - 9:46 a.m. | #
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I'm looking forward to the blog about the contents of your sock & underwear drawers ... I've got a pair of tights, unworn, that moved with me into this flat 12 years ago
Caroline | 07.06.15 - 10:14 a.m. | #
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Lemon juice lasts opened and refrigerated for more like 4 years in our household, as it only ever makes an appearance on Pancake Day!
Currently I've got 2 packets of fruit pie filling, 2 packets of couscous and a unopened box of yeast (from when a baking inspiration once took hold and died shortly afterwards) from last year, and a jar of mincemeat that was on sale for 5p back in 2013. They're sitting on my counter to try to remind me to use them up.
I sent the pot of double cream I'd bought for a cookery lesson in with the child a month past its use-by date, as he missed the original lesson and a later one came up that also needed cream! A good opportunity to teach the 'look and sniff (and then remove any obvious green bits)' test!
Otherwise I try very hard not to impulse buy, and will eat fresh stuff well past its date if it still looks/smells ok. Very little gets thrown out here.
Cornish Cockney | 07.06.15 - 10:47 a.m. | #
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The other day, I found mincemeat best before dated 1989 in my parents cupboard. Disorientating when you were born in 1996!!
the orange one | 07.06.15 - 11:04 a.m. | #
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Just looks like the average Harvest Festival offering to me.
John DLC | 07.06.15 - 12:48 p.m. | #
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It's fascinating to look at the contents of someone else's kitchen cupboard!
Lemon juice could be used for cleaning purposes even if it became unsafe to consume.
Bob Lindsay-Smith | 07.06.15 - 1:01 p.m. | #
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There was a tin of Heinz Mushroom soup hanging around here for several years, but I can't locate it now.... Oh, I remember, I did some cleaning out this spring! It must have disappeared then! I don't recall that I ate it though.
Leuconoe | 07.06.15 - 2:16 p.m. | #
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Where's the cans of Mushy Peas ?
And congratulations on how clean everything looks - do you polish tins annually ?
I have just eaten a Fray Bentos Steak & Ale pie - dated 2013
Little Egret in Walton-on-Thames
Mike D | 07.06.15 - 2:32 p.m. | #
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Cornish Cockney - those groceries you list look like a list of ingredients brought by the contestants in Ready Steady Cook! Wouldn't you just love to see the three course banquet that one of the chefs might have produced!😂
Jo W | 07.06.15 - 2:32 p.m. | #
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I can confirm 130's comment. You can safely chuck out the Nescafe. I was given a cup made of that out of date stuff - fair choked on it I did. It seems to take no time at all to go off - cf workplace tins of the stuff.
I'd chuck the whole lot out. You haven't consumed any of it and you're not going to so why are you keeping your cupboards cluttered with it?
B | 07.06.15 - 4:07 p.m. | #
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What a wasteful society "we" have grown-up in. I can understand having some "provisions" in cupboards...but to "forget" about it and let it go way past the date one would dare try eat/drink it is shameful...but that freedom of choice for some. Given that in the current climate many people use food banks and in other parts of the world many go hungry this "display" is a small sign of what wrong in the world...
Working Class Hero | 07.06.15 - 5:22 p.m. | #
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Ah, more exhibits for the Museum of Packaging.
Chuck the coffee. It's undrinkable. Workmen are fussier these days.
Chuck the herring: it's probably the only thing amongst that lot that could kill you.
I'll take the Stella off your hands to use to make wasp traps.
Blue Witch | Homepage | 07.06.15 - 6:56 p.m. | #
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Yes, chuck the Nescafé. I remember a conversation a few years ago with someone who worked for an instant coffee company. May even have been Nestlé. Basically, instant coffee oxidises within a few days of opening. After that it's as ghastly as we all know it is.
Alan Burkitt-Gray | 07.06.15 - 8:03 p.m. | #
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Why not take it all to a food bank and hopefully finish off all the lower ends of society?
Tory Bastard | 07.06.15 - 11:03 p.m. | #
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Tinned food isn't big and it isn't clever? Nonsense - there is much joy to be had in tinned food - see my blog for more details:
http://thetincannoisseur.blogspot.co.uk
If you haven't got rid of the Apple and Cinnamon sponge pudding I would happily purchase it from you...seriously!
David | Homepage | 07.06.15 - 11:08 p.m. | #
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Most of my 'oldies' were gifts by well-meaning friends, but really, I will never develop a taste for guava jelly, even though I am sure it was well meant. But being a gift, I have a hard time chucking it out, you know?
Cynthia Booker | 08.06.15 - 6:14 a.m. | #
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If you really won't drink the coffee yourself, you might do better to chuck the jar get some one-person sachets for the few times you need it.
Andrew | 08.06.15 - 7:55 a.m. | #
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'Microwavable' Apple and Cinnamon pudding, in a tin? Srsly?
Mind you, I suppose it'd be easier to deal with than those 'boil in the tin' steak and kidney puddings in their 'pudding shaped', ie: narrower at the bottom, tins. You had to boil them in the tin, then try to open them with a tin opener!
This got to be great fun if the only tin opener you had was a really old fashioned 'stab and heft' one.
Bronchitikat | Homepage | 08.06.15 - 1:05 p.m. | #
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You sound a little embarrassed - apologetic, even - about the number of items that were from Tesco's.
Apart from some friends near Dartford who hold a (completely valid) grudge against them for the desolation they left behind on Lowfield Street, I find it all a bit odd how there now seems to be some sort of stigma about shopping in a supermarket :(
RogerW | 08.06.15 - 1:30 p.m. | #
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I see you've done some daring revealing of your physical manifestation via the reflection on the background TV. STOP PRESS: diamond geezer has two hands and a light-coloured phone [cover]!
Wayne | 08.06.15 - 6:14 p.m. | #
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DG...... if you haven't been here, you really should. xx
http://www.museumofbrands.com/
Auntie Doris | 09.06.15 - 12:33 p.m. | #
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Later edit - you went in 2006. Of course you did! I would expect no less of you :)
Auntie Doris | 09.06.15 - 12:36 p.m. | #
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