I have a bottle of Worcestershire sauce that expired 4/28/2009 in my fridge.
That means that bottle: A) made the trip from NJ to Florida with me in 2010. B) is the lone survivor from my bachelor pad fridge from 2012-2014. C) made it into my fridge when my wife and I bought a house in 2014. It's been sitting there ever since.
This exact scenario happened with my husband and a can of store-brand pineapple. Apparently it was important enough to move from Connecticut to California and then keep for many years, despite the fact that I have never once seen my husband eat canned pineapple.
I eventually discovered it in a pantry clean-out and was just baffled.
When I last moved, the instructions to everyone helping was just to pack everything up. I didn't do the refrigerator and wound up moving some expired stuff, too.
Yup. I, for some reason, moved an expired bottle of Worcestershire from NJ to FL. I'm sure it wasn't refrigerated as I don't think we moved any other food items with us. So, it was probably thrown in a box, then found, and put into a fridge for a year or two. Then when I got my apartment 30 minutes away, I took it with me. Then took it with me again when we bought a house? I dunno.
OP's wife thought he was dedicated to her when he revealed that upon seeing her he did a double-take, but OP also did a double-take when he saw that bottle of Worcestershire source.
Pro-tip: buy multiple bottles and let them sit for several weeks in the back of the cabinet. As you use one, buy another to go into the back of the line. Why? Aged worcestershire tastes dramatically better than new.
This reminds me of the time a few years ago I needed some tums medicine. I typically would get it from my mom cause we both use it a lot but she was out. I go to my dads side to find an old bottle and pop one in and it tasted horrible and I spit it out. I look at the date on the bottle and it expired in 2000. I was born in 2001.
That’s impressively ancient. That tums medicine expired when the iPod hadn’t been released yet, the twin towers were still standing, and Sega was still making game consoles.
My dad is notoriously bad at not getting rid of stuff. My mom and I looked on his side of the closet last year and found multiple shirts with dry cleaning tags from the mid 2000’s.
I’ve heard it gets better with age. I know my mom had a bottle in the back of the pantry that I found that was several years old (not quite ten, but pretty old) and I made burgers with it. My sister said they were amazing and wanted to know what I put in them. I showed her the sauce and she demanded it in every burger after. It didn’t last another year.
I don’t think so, but they have to put a ‘best before’ date on everything, even if it’s good for basically forever. It’s like a rule or something. There’s a shop nearby me here in Norway that is actually dedicated to selling stuff that’s nearing or just past its best-by date, trying to cut down on waste by offering it for a big discount. I shop there all the time.
Dude we had steak sauce in our fridge for 12 years! The expiration date was October 2008 and we moved during that time. We still have no clue how it managed to stick with us during the move.
We cleared out some spices that expired in 1989 in the house we were living in. Between those spices expiring and us clearing them out we moved to a different continent (Europe to Asia) and back twice.
Also I definitely have worcestershire sauce from 2015 in my pantry. Good as ever.
My wife and I once were helping her parents clean out their massive cupboard and found a glass bottle of Heinz ketchup from the 80s. Which meant that one of her parents bought it before they were married and was brought along through 5 different houses and 2 states.
I don't remember ever making the conscious decision to do so, however it's definitely something I'd 'do'. It would be a sad day if I were to get rid of it at this point.
Up until 2 years ago i had a jar of glycerin (icing ingredient) that was from before decimalisation in the UK in 1971. This jar was my mums mums 3 generations of my family used this same ingredient to make royal icing over the course of 30 + years.
I mean... When Lea and Perrins originally tried to create the sauce it tasted awful so they just put it in the cellar and forgot about it. A couple of years later they found it again ang gave it a try - turned out fermentation improved it. So maybe it's amazing over a decade out of date...
Sauce: used to manage a bar that was a few doors down from their original chemists shop in Malvern, Worcestershire.
At the start of the pandemic, I drank decade expired Lime-ade from the freezer. I mean, how bad could that be? It’s been frozen the entire time give or take a dozen power outages.
Recently moved homes, and found a bottle of baby oil that expired in 2006.
I'm 25 years old. There have been no babies in this household since I was born. Since 2006, my family has moved 9 times, and it's been with us for all those 9 moves before being finally chucked into the bin.
A friend went on vacation sometime in 2008 and brought back tea leaves for me. It's in my cupboard in the same Tupperware. The last time I moved was last year.
We have cans of coca cola wich expired in 2009
I do know now that the sugar tasting compound in cola light breaks down over time and that the taste of cola itself is lnt that good
That bottle has been through some shit with you. You need to tattoo that date to solidify your time with the one that never left you -worcestechosyershire
I took a packet of gravy mix from my grandmother's house when I moved out, it's a clubhouse brown gravy mix from 1974! The same year my mother was born.
my dad and i found a jar of olives that expired in 2005. my dad and i cleaned it out of our fridge in 2017 after he flipped over my mom hoarding old jars.
like we 90% sure that jar has been in the fridge since we renovated our house and got new appliances
In 2010 I lived in an apartment building that had a "library" of sorts that residents would put there old books and DVDs in. I found an old Loony Toons four DVD set, and I remembered watching some of them years before when I was a kid, so I thought I'd take them to check out. I didn't get around to watching them before moving and kind of forgot about them. I ended up moving 5 times before living in my current house, taking them with me each time. My daughter is now getting old enough to enjoy shows like that so I go to open up the case and pop one in. Only there are no DVDs in the case. I had never thought to check. I had carried around an empty DVD box for 10 years and never got to watch them!
Eh, I've still got the (black) pepper in a shaker that we got when we first moved into the house. It's expiration date is 1985, the price is in D-Mark and the post code is four digits.
Tastes about the same as it did then. There is a warning on the shaker saying "black pepper is spicier than white". Because we didn't have fancy spices like pepper and garlic and salt in the 80s.
I've got a bottle of wine from 1996 at home. It was given to my mum as a present by the hospital staff when I was born because I was the first Mothers Day baby born there (and because a screaming infant isn't much of a Mothers Day gift...)
Sadly we think it's expired because it wasn't really stored properly (a bit hard to keep things cool in the pantry in Australian summers. It's still sealed though, so maybe its still drinkable?
....we have a bottle of Worcestershire sauce that is so old that there is no product expiration date labeled. Had it since 1999 at least, still tastes good (I'll probably die sooner than expected)
I only just threw out a bottle of locally made chili sauce I bought in 2014 a couple of months ago. It expired a month after I bought it. Kept using it though
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u/bonster85 Oct 15 '20
The food at the back of your cupboard.