One thing that I heard (though I don't remember where) is that milk smells and tastes bad before it will actually make you sick, which made me completely comfortable to be a sniffer.
Time for some thrilling heroics.
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DebetEsse - Jan 11, 2009 12:20:06 pm PST #7598 of 10000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Cashmere - Jan 11, 2009 3:28:34 pm PST #7599 of 10000
Now tagless for your comfort.
I'll give it a few days after the sell-by date. I'm a sniffer. Unless it's butter milk. I can never tell so I just dump that on the sell-by date.
meara - Jan 11, 2009 4:05:59 pm PST #7600 of 10000
I tend to only go a couple days after the sell-by date, because milk ALWAYS smells bad to me, so I don't trust. If it's more than like, two days after, I tend to just assume it's bad. Because I can't TELL, otherwise, and I'd rather be out money than be wrong.
The only thing I really tend to assume is good long past the "sell by" date is eggs. ....reading up on that, apparently I should look at the "pack date" rather than the "sell by" date, and get an accurate answer that way. But I normally don't crack them straight into whatever I'm making, so I figure I can tell if they're bad.
Hil R. - Jan 11, 2009 4:19:59 pm PST #7601 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
The way to tell if eggs are bad before cracking them is to put one into a glass of water. If it sinks to the bottom it's good, and if it floats at the top it's rotten.
Trudy Booth - Jan 11, 2009 5:02:10 pm PST #7602 of 10000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Rotten, or just not real fresh fresh? A rotten egg is a pretty dramatic thing.
In broker times I've eaten many a hard-boiled floaty egg and never had a problem.
Burrell - Jan 11, 2009 5:38:46 pm PST #7603 of 10000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I usually sniff milk first anyway. With the kids around it's not like we've had a lot of opportunity for it to go bad, or even meet it's date. Well okay, sometimes the buttermilk gets a bit long in the tooth.
Hil R. - Jan 11, 2009 6:03:10 pm PST #7604 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm trying to figure out my cable lineup, because I'm just really sick of Comcast not having TCM or AMC on the regular cable lineup. The cheapest digital plan looks like it costs the same as the regular non-digital, which can't be right, right? Googling came up with some complaining that, if you get digital, they also charge $18 a month for the cable box. Why can't they just tell how much each thing costs? I just want two more channels than what I'm currently getting! Why should I have to pay for an upgrade to digital plus a zillion channels that I'll never watch, just to get channels that every other cable company offers on regular cable?
Hil R. - Jan 11, 2009 6:30:51 pm PST #7605 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Gronk. I'm exhausted, yet not quite tired enough to fall asleep. Too tired to concentrate on a book or TV show for more than about five minutes. And my knee is being wobbly, and I don't know why.
Shir - Jan 11, 2009 7:45:52 pm PST #7606 of 10000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
(x-posted with Natter)
We're interrupting this with a (hopeful?) newscast:
Barak and Livni disagree with Olmert, want quick end to Gaza fighting.
C'mon, brain-of-Olmert. For once in this term, work.
Hil R. - Jan 11, 2009 7:55:03 pm PST #7607 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
In NYC this afternoon, there were three rallies -- a pro-Israel rally, a pro-Palestine rally, and a "third way" pro-peace rally. I haven't found the numbers for the pro-Palestine rally yet, but it looks like the pro-Israel one got about 10,000 people, and the pro-peace one got about 40. (Granted, the pro-Israel one had a bunch of high-profile people behind it and has been being organized for a little while, and the pro-peace one was organized by a blogger three days ago and organization was mostly by word of mouth.) [link]