What's the oldest thing in your food store?

[Sue]

Just had a clear out.

Apart from realising what a very odd collection of food I have (kombu seaweed? Relatively young with a sell by date of May 2005), the oldest thing was one of those squeezy containers of Heinz Tomato Ketchup - sell by December 2004 :-$

I don't even like tomato ketchup :))

Poured it down the sink and it looked like I was trying to dispose of the evidence of a murder.

[SimonM]

You could have composted it :-)

I have a bottle of sweet white wine that's at least 30 years old....I cannot imagine ever drinking it. It sits glumly in the cellar looking decidedly middle-aged...

[giggirl]

Some of my spices are at least a decade old. I have cloves from Zanzibar and they are 12 years old. They age well (just like me).

[mothernature]

At our marriage back in 1990 our Best Man gave us a bottle of Champagne with with the instructions that 'when things get that bad betwen you, open it and remember this day'.

Fnck me there have been times ,but it is still there in the food store.

MN

[KidKruger]

A selection of cardomoms and cardomom seeds from Delhi, 1996.

White peppercorns from Sachaburi, Thailand, 1995, still use 'em tho.

Hing from Delhi, 2002.

Palm sugar, 1998.

Mates Condoms, several, 1999 - been a slow decade.

[Sue]

giggirl Wrote:

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> Some of my spices are at least a decade old. I

> have cloves from Zanzibar and they are 12 years

> old. They age well (just like me).

xxxxxxx

Spices surely don't keep that long?

I chucked out loads last night because they had lost their smell.

If you try and make something with old spices it tastes disgusting.

Maybe cloves are different though.

[giggirl]

My friend, with whom I stayed on Zanzibar, still had some cloves that his mother had had before she met his father. I don't cook with them to be honest but sometimes I will agitate them and then take the lid off and inhale the scent. It's one of my favourite smells; cloves, gardenia and lavender.

[Narnia]

I'd say no more than 24 hours.....if that.

[Sue]

giggirl Wrote:

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> It's one

> of my favourite smells; cloves, gardenia and

> lavender.

xxxxxxx

Reminds me of my gran's pot pourri :)

[flapjackdavey]

eeek .... a bottle of Hendersons Relish best before the end of March 2002

in the bin with it.

[woofmarkthedog]

KidKruger Wrote:

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> A selection of cardomoms and cardomom seeds from

> Delhi, 1996.

> White peppercorns from Sachaburi, Thailand, 1995,

> still use 'em tho.

> Hing from Delhi, 2002.

> Palm sugar, 1998.

> Mates Condoms, several, 1999 - been a slow decade.

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REALLY ?

Do you have a recipe ?

W**F

[daizie]

a couple of maggots .

[SimonM]

If you try and make something with old spices it tastes disgusting.

You're supposed to slap it on your cheeks and chin, not drink it!

[ryedalema]

I'd love to say that the oldest thing in our kitchen is my husband - but he doesn't go in there much!

[*Bob*]

My collection of severed heads, stored in brine-filled jars.

[????]

Sean keeps his in his fridge freezer *Bob*

[The Minkey]

"Mates Condoms, several, 1999 - been a slow decade."

Ah, the missing ingredient.

[daizie]

No, for 'having it off' where you store your food silly

[????]

Having it off in my fridge!!! Only once I tell you.

[woofmarkthedog]

ryedalema Wrote:

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> I'd love to say that the oldest thing in our

> kitchen is my husband - but he doesn't go in there

> much!

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Oh Dear..

So that leaves you then ?

Looked in the mirror lately ?

Happy Easter BTW

W**F

[firstchoicegary]

macaroni cheese, everyone must have bought and never ate a tin of it???

[SeanMacGabhann]

new policy this year: wall mounting

[PeckhamRose]

A spray can of 1 cal frying spray. It's use by date was 2004.

However, I know for a fact I only bought it last year!

Heinz Macaroni cheese is delicious by the way. Specially when you're poorly.

[Andystar]

My dear old dad is the king of 'past its sell by date' foods. The majority of anything in his cupboards was a few years out- shame he didn't have an original Wispa, I reckon that it would have fetched a bit on ebay.

[BelowtheBelt]

Me :))