"Dan Abel" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> "Julie Bove" > wrote:
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>
>> The person narrating the show said mustard never goes bad. I beg to
>> differ!
>> This was prepared mustard. It has an expiration date on it. And I know
>> from experience that if it is really old it gets a watery part and a
>> solid
>> part. Not good! I also know from both MIL and mother's cupboards that
>> really old dry mustard hasn't got much flavor. So I would think the
>> prepared would lose its flavor after time too. Oh and the husband had to
>> remind her that he doesn't even LIKE mustard. She just laughed.
>
> Many decades ago we went to my mother-in-laws's for a visit. She made a
> meatloaf disaster one night. It was raw in the middle after 1.5 hours
> in the oven! A couple of days later she tried to rescue it as
> sandwiches, cutting the meatloaf into slices and frying them in a pan.
> It was not good. I asked if there was any mustard. My wife just
> laughed. She said there had never been mustard in the house, ever. My
> MIL looked confused, and said she thought there was mustard in the
> fridge. So my wife and I went to the fridge, and sure enough, there was
> a small jar of prepared mustard. I put some on my sandwich and it
> helped. My wife asked her mother why she had bought it and when. Her
> mother had no idea. I flipped over the jar, and the date on the bottom
> was over ten years prior!

I sent my MIL a jar of cranberry mustard when we were living on Cape Cod.
Then we went to visit a year or so later and it was still in her fridge,
unopened. I was making lunch that day so I put it on turkey sandwiches.
Man was that spicy! Everyone ate it but with lowered eyes and not saying
much. I think they were just trying to be polite.