Pickled by the pickles expiration date....

Keep them. One never knows what will become valuable to a collector at some future date.

Me, I'd keep them.

I'd more interested in eating them. Not the act of keeping them. After all, he drinks my beer and ginger beer (with my permission of course).

I wonder when the Antiques Roadshow will be coming back to NYC....

I pickled ginger today. Lots of people don't like it, but if you like ginger, you might. Easy, and way cheaper than store stuff.

I love ginger beer. I guess if I knew what to do with pickled ginger then it might be worth the effort of at least finding it at Whole Foods. Is that the ginger that comes with sushi?

The expiration date is usually the sell-by date.

I'd eat the pickles.

Hold out for Antiques Roadkill.

yes, though that is often pink with some beet juice innit, not by me.

Eat them, they'll be fine, and so will you.

Ate a pickle. Tasted fine. If I turn into a werepickle, I'll let you know afterwards.

Expiration dates aren't written in blood. If you have a good cold fridge, just smell to see if it's ok. Not too far beyond the ex date though.

I was at the grocery store last Wednesday, in the middle of the day. In the produce dept. I stood next to a woman with a toddler, looking at those expensive already cut up vegetable and fruit trays.

I saw that there were a few packages of cut up vegetables on kabob sticks (mushroom, red onion, zuchinni, red and green pepper) that were at the "sell by" date and going for a dollar a piece. I picked up one to check it out, and the woman saw me do that, picked up one too, then put it down with a disgusted sniff and pointed glance at me.

They were perfectly fine.
I cut up the veggies from 1 package that night and serve w/ rice and soy sauce, and used the other one the next day in some chili (except for the mushrooms, they went into eggs)

People get overly weirded out.

I picked two cucumbers from my garden yesterday, and ate one then, and one today.

I can still remember the death screams of the one eaten within 5 minutes of picking.

What a rush.

Wait a minute.

Weren't you the one who posted the article about a woman using a park drinking fountain as a bidet to clean her dogs ass?

Yes. That was me. Though I didn't see it personally happen. I just get the Gothamist newsletter and stumbled onto that story.

I saw that.

Brilliant idea.

I wish we had doggie bidets up here.

I tried to look your simple question up.

eh!

The ‘sell-by’ dates on your groceries are useless. Here’s why.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/28/heres-why-the-sell-by-dates-on-your-groceries-are-so-worthless/

I always thought those expiry/best by dates were used to indemnify the manufacturer/seller.

As for the pickles, I'd probably eat them if they still had good colour and weren't rubbery.