Kathleen wrote:
>
> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>
> > On Sat 13 Dec 2008 05:20:45p, SteveB told us...
> >
> >
> >>My wife and mother in law (I see where my wife got it) have the idea
> >>that if you put something in the refrigerator, there is no such thing as
> >>shelf life.
> >>
> >>"Well, it's been in the refrigerator," is the common answer to "Is this
> >>good?"
> >>
> >>I finally made a rule that if you can't tell me when it was cooked, I
> >>won't eat it................ Oh, I cooked that last week some time
> >>.............. Was it Thursday, or the Thursday before .........
> >>
> >>I'm telling you, we went through the Clorox wipes thing after she saw it
> >>on Oprah, and wiped down everything in the kitchen if so much as a fly
> >>landed on anything in the kitchen including the ceiling, but she will
> >>leave chicken to thaw from 7 AM to 4 PM in the sink at 70 F.
> >>
> >>I need to get ahold of Oprah and have her do a show on shelf life and
> >>kitchen safety foods.
> >>
> >>I mean, it can have brown mold on it, be unrecognizable, and she will
> >>still say, "I don't understand it. It's been in the refrigerator."
> >>
> >>Help me out. I've tried explaining it. Some good sites that I could
> >>send to her friends, and they could forward to her (she won't believe it
> >>if it comes from me, but her friends and Oprah are Goddesses).
> >>
> >>Steve
> >
> >
> > Perhaps if you can't convince your wife that virtually foods have a shelf
> > life, refrigerated or not, that you will have to assign *her* a shelf life.
> > :-)
> >
>
> Either that or stage midnight command raids on the fridge, eliminating
> suspect foods.
>
> I'll never forget being invited to dinner at my future parent-in-laws
> house and being offered previously opened bottled salad dressings that
> were FIVE YEARS out of date.
>
> That was just the tip of the extremely disgusting iceberg.
>
> And years later, my MIL, a prime example of Darwin's Hammer, was
> offended when I declined to leave our infant daughter with her for
> overnight visits.

Realize that many of those a "best by" dates, not expiration or safety
related dates, particularly for stuff like salad dressing.