On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:14:23 -0600, gloria.p wrote:

> Dave Smith wrote:
>> Goomba wrote:
>>>
>>> Geesh who obsesses about expiration dates?
>>> My food doesn't seem to know how to read a calendar. A jar of mayo
>>> four months past a sell by date would be used with nary a blink.
>>
>> Expiry dates are the way I figure what to donate to the food bank ;-)
>
> I took back a case of tomato sauce because it was a month past the
> expiration date and the food bank wouldn't take it. We used it for
> spaghetti sauce and other cooked meals, no problem.

But...but... canned goods don't expire. And a month past for canned goods
is still perfectly usable. For somebody who doesn't have anything else.

-sw