On Sat, 09 Nov 2019 10:32:39 -0800, spuorgelgoog wrote:

On Saturday, 9 November 2019 17:31:41 UTC, Graeme wrote:
I'm not sure why dates are printed on tins. How did we survive before
the dates were printed?

We checked whether they were bulgy or putrifying, but occasionally we
got it wrong.

I have a Big Book of Food Safety showing bulgy tins, mouldy yoghurts,
decomposing chickens etc, from about the 1970s. Such things were quite
common then. Food manufacturing has improved a lot and now it's quite
rare to find actually defective food. Modern food might not have much
taste or nutrition but it's less likely to kill you.

I was reading today about someone who was asked what he'd like in a
Secret Santa gift, and he just said "Something cool".

What he got was a can of Coke, and "Put me in the fridge, and I'll be
cool. And - hint - I'm nearly twice as old as you". He used that clue to
try and find which of the older people in the office had given it - no
luck.

He did drink it - not a Coke fan, normally. Thought it tasted odd but he
wasn't an expert. A colleague saw the empty can and went ballistic: "You
DRANK it?"

Turned out he was the Secret Santa, and his hobby was collecting sealed
old cans of stuff. He'd donated one of his prize cans - an unopened 35
year old can of Coke.

The victim survived with no ill effects.



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