Quote: David Bussell @ April 17 2009, 8:00 AM BSTI once ate some out of date cake, the double whammy being that it was sugared with ant poison. Thanks granddad!
Yep I think it's obligatory that when you reach a certain age expiry dates mean nothing anymore. You've beaten the odds so far, who needs rules? The ant poison must have been a surprise though!
Crocodile
Kangaroo
Snake
Locust
Locust are nice just really really expensive in the UK.
http://faculty.clintoncc.suny.edu/faculty/michael.gregory/files/Bio%20102/Bio%20102%20lectures/Animal%20Diversity/Protostomes/Ecdysozoans/tarantula.jpg
now that'd be a challenge
N.B. how do I resize this?
Quote: Jane P @ April 17 2009, 7:56 AM BSTI'm the same but sometimes I live dangerously and eat a microwave meal without leaving it to 'rest' for the full 1 or 2 minutes stated. Then I worry about what the consequences might be - are there microwaves zapping around inside me like Star Wars or something?
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Yes Jane, by not letting that vegetable lasagne 'rest' for 1 minute and allowing all the evil microwaves to escape, you've pretty much lasered your ovaries and will now give birth to cyborgs and / or mutoids.
What's your view on 'border' foods - like when you open an old tub of Philidelphia Cream Cheese and one end looks okay, but the open end looks like biological germ warfare. Do you throw out the entire tub or do you risk taking some from the good end?
Quote: Jane P @ April 17 2009, 8:35 AM BST
Yep I think it's obligatory that when you reach a certain age expiry dates mean nothing anymore. You've beaten the odds so far, who needs rules? The ant poison must have been a surprise though!
I was only a kid. Apparently he covered the cake in ant poison to use it as bait. Then left it on top of the fridge for my nan to serve to me. This is the same guy who gave me a blow torch to play with when I was eight. I didn't have fingerprints for weeks.
I hate it when you pour milk on your cereal to find out it's gone off when you take a mouthful. 
Bleurgh.
Cheap scotch eggs reduced to clear. I ate some in London the other day and soon came to regret it.
Scotch eggs how do they always disapoint me when I know they will in advance.
There's something else that I've found in the cupboard, Peanut Butter M'n'Ms, from the same trip as the Twinkies, eating now. The sugar coated shell is not so crisp but they still taste okay to me.
Quote: sootyj @ April 17 2009, 9:25 AM BSTN.B. how do I resize this?
I can't remember how to resize (as usual!)
But I've changed it to a link for now.
Quote: chipolata @ April 17 2009, 9:54 AM BSTCheap scotch eggs reduced to clear. I ate some in London the other day and soon came to regret it.
Has anyone dared to buy the sandwiches on a newsagent's shelf?
My missus manages to go in Holland and Barret each week and get given loads of free, slightly out-of-date sausage rolls and pasties or at least that's what she tells me...
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ April 17 2009, 4:37 PM BSTHas anyone dared to buy the sandwiches on a newsagent's shelf?
I have - I used to like this tuna pitta bread thing my local corner shop did... I'm surprised I'm still alive.
Quote: Paul W @ April 17 2009, 4:44 PM BSTI have
It's a miracle you're still alive. When I look at those sarnies in the local shop, usually sat on an unrefridgerated shelf, the term 'sweaty meat' springs to mind.
Ew, and indeed, gross.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ April 17 2009, 6:29 PM BSTIt's a miracle you're still alive. When I look at those sarnies in the local shop, usually sat on an unrefridgerated shelf, the term 'sweaty meat' springs to mind.
Ew, and indeed, gross.
mine were in a fridge of some variety the worry fact was the "Film" that covered the sandwiches was very loose and flimsy.
I'm going to the doctors...